Hello?

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

That's going good. How are you going?

Oh, pretty good. Pretty good.

Pretty good.

Pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm fine. You know.

Yeah.

I'm not sure it would matter that much one way or another. I mean, except, well, I mean, interpersonally, we, you know, concern about those things. But, you know, I'm at that age. Are you talking about in the world? You're talking about in the world, the broader, the broader landscape, you know, yeah. No, but no, I'm fine. And, you know, I'm, uh, the

soul is self-satisfying. That's what they say. I've never heard that. And what does it mean?

I don't know. Um, um, um, but I, it might be Walt Whitman. The soul is self-satisfying. That

sounds Walt Whitmany. Yeah, I've got others. They only help so much. Did you learn, like, parts of leaves of grass? I read leaves of grass. But you can't, like, say them out loud. It's not like a... I mean, just the quotes everybody knows. But, like, you know, I don't... No, I don't have, like, you know, a song of myself memorized or anything like that.

Wouldn't that be something?

I did quote Alan Ginsberg.

Wow, this is an obscure double bounce.

I think what you might in Snooker, you might call it a bank shot.

I did make an Alan Ginsberg reference this morning, which I only think of

because he's got that lost in the supermarket poem. Maybe that's the clash. He's got that

poem that's kind of, you know, where he sees Walt Whitman at the grocery store, and you know,

Walt Whitman was a big influence on Alan Ginsburg. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

But I referred to my family as angel-headed hipsters. And did they, did they, like, smile broadly and? No, no, they, great reference. I think they know better than to acknowledge because, you know, I think that, you know, I feel like it helps improve the algorithm for them, but it might be then pretty soon, you know, I'm quoting everybody. I'm quoting all kinds of things and I'm, you know, calling all kinds of. No, it's SEO optimization. It's, uh, that's, uh, what's the, what would it be? It would be, yeah, yeah, it would be search engine optimization, but for the human mind or soul. or vis-a-vis relationship.

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