thinks for no appreciable reason

"Thinks For No Appreciable Reason," May 20, 2022 (#140)

title from Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (2001)

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor (2020)

Breathless by Dean Koontz (2009)

penultimate line from Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (2007)

Thinks For No Appreciable Reason

None of this should come as a surprise. When

lies were the universal lubricant of the culture

to help boost physical and spiritual health and

the overhead light with the switch by the door,

something was wrong inside their brains. They

must be visible only by indirection, only from the

best possible explanation I could find of what the

one of the two loft doors hung open several inches

off medications they’d been on for years. They kept

that order, but mere assumptions do not qualify as

the truths we can know just by lying in bed and quietly

breathing problems. This condition is so common.

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