something random
by andrew@JijniMarkets - Fri 18 Jul 2008
There are nine levels of insanity. Most people hover around the middle three and given their sheer number and the implicit democracy through which such matters are decided, refer to themselves as normal. This naming of an entire band of three levels with one name is behind the assumption that there are only three levels: genius, normal and insane. Often this is further simplified to normal and abnormal with genius being grouped with normal. But nine is the actual number. Nomenclature may have blurred the lines but they are there to the observant eye.
They are ordered in a circular formation in which the last (or lowest, or farthest) is adjacent to the first (or highest, or nearest), forming a continuous loop with no discernible beginning or end. Any given level could just as easily be the first or the last. Given this proximity of the extremes, even with three simplified levels, it is easy to see how genius can be confused with insanity. Or how normal could be mistaken for genius or insane. Throw in the old one-man's-meat (genius)-is-another-man's-poison (madman) and you have any given level being considered genius to some, normal to others and insanity to others.
And from language and perception the confusion stems. Each generation adding it's own blurring of the lines, changing of the names, shifting of the boundaries, expanding of the bands. The damage done by language not withstanding, there are nine levels of only insanity. Different levels, yes, but insanity all the same.
Perhaps this is the reason they struck such a close friendship and the reason it lasted as long as it did. It is often the characteristic of Nature that opposites attract under the illusion that they are alike. Although it is not really as much an illusion as it seems. In their case they were opposites adjacent to one another on the insanity loop. The end of a circle adjacent to the beginning with the two appearing to be one point.
It all began to unravel on the morning of a cold April day, when the weather was expected to be sunny but turned out to be gloomy. As was the custom, they kicked it off with a game of Chess in the park across the road. Both men were wrapped in overcoats, hats pulled down and staring intently at their pieces on the board, visualizing different scenarios and quickly calculating their possibilities by trying to guess the moves the other would make.
... (to be continued at some point).
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