They will be heard!

The more you push them down, the more they shout in different voices. There are no such things as accidents. There are things we seek to explain by not explaining them. Why forget one thing on one particular day in a particular place and context, and not another? 'Let us contemplate without fear the extent of our innocence ...' (Rimbaud). What is really extraordinary is when the glass of wine fails to be knocked over and spill onto a particular person, an example of uncommon restraint (rarely tolerance). Or if it is knocked but misses its target due to some freak positioning or quality of the table, or character of the glass. Usually, one way or another, we find a form to say and do what we want to mean. So many injuries are self inflicted - the housewife who cuts her finger preparing dinner, the husband who stubs his toe on the bed - these are the babies that cry because someone is watching, or because they want someone to watch. Little accidents happen when we are largely safe. Always be suspicious of people who discount interpretations. Car accidents are the result of a calculated carelessness, just as non-accidents are the product of concentrated care. Misfortunes feed into themselves, because the misfortunate are prone to misfortune, as they seek to prove their unfortunateness and snowball into the safe realm of the undeniably deserving of sympathy. What a coincidence! That we are least able to look at what means most. The relationship of anger and pain. We cannot look round our own corner, but we can catch ourselves turning it. And examine that step. We know how to make ourselves heard, and hurt.