Me: I was watching Jackie Chan on television the other day and I thought to myself he's speaking English inarticulately. And then I thought, he could be like the Chinese Ben Stein and I would never know because I don't speak Chinese.
Michael: Unless someone who fluently speaks Chinese and English said to you, "You know Jackie Chan is like the Chinese Ben Stein."
Me: Well wouldn't they say Ben Stein is like the American Song Yingxing.
Michael: One of Kelsey Grammer's daughters has just been crowned Miss Teen Malibu and the other is starring in the ABC college dramedy Greek. I think that's salient. When I heard about the latter daughter I thought I wouldn't mind being Kelsey Grammer's son-in-law. His daughter is attractive and all but it's Frasier: he's my dream father-in-law.
Me: ...hmm.
Michael: Not that I put a lot of thought into it...You know, I think marriage is generally absurd and immiserates those who engage in it but it's...
Me: Kelsey Grammer.
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Michael: I'm reading Crime and Punishment but I had to stop to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Me: You could of finished Crime and Punishment first.
Michael: Yeah, but I don't think anyone going to yell out the ending to Crime and Punishment in public area. And if they did, I don't think it would ruin the experience.
Michael: You know, ___________, I think nuance should be lauded above all else. I think if people thought of me as merely "nuanced," not good, bad, noble, or ignominious, they would pay me the highest compliment of all. Forget this ubermensh of Nietzsche.
Me: Odd desire.
Michael: There are moments when nuance guides us well, when explicitness is vulgar. For example there was a time when I desired to say, "I had you didn't I, for a moment in time, I moved in you." However, I realized that it was nuanced to the extent it was vulgar and this person's vulgarities possessed explicitness, to repay one seemed...
Me: Vulgar?
Michael: No. Futile. Explicitness like I had never experienced. They claimed to know you and in so many words to proffer and assert your salience. And in a separate encounter, that resonated with the aforementioned one, they used your name which struck me as the worse vulgarity. However, we were in such a winsome mood, I perverted the meaning of your name in such a way that still makes me shudder. However, you know I guard your name and more importantly the meaning above all else.
Me: But this person seemed to know the meaning in a way that that caused you trepidation.
Michael: Yes, but they did not the appreciate the nuances and to not appreciate the nuances of it is like copying a sentence repeatedly without knowing what it's definition, and more importantly it's intentions.
Michael: I watched too many movies when I was younger because I think of life like a movie script. I keep expecting for months, years, and moods to be summed up in a musical montage. At pivotal, climactic moments, I expect the camera to slowly pan out, and to find myself three years older in some mundane situation with the audience pondering how that moment so long ago has changed me...perhaps I am "three years later" right now...or a lengthier period of time.
Me: Alas life isn't like that, you will live everyday until one day in an undisclosed period of time you realize you have betrayed everything you once were.
