the alchemist's apprentice



"In laughter we transcend not only the animals but also ourselves and our circumstances. We transcend disappointment and suffering. We transcend the jumbled contradictions of our lives. We transcend even the self-imposed requirement that life always make sense, conform to a plan, work out, give us our due, or be equitable and just."
The Comic Vision & the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter, M. Conrad Hyers
 

 


" This [comedy] is the ultimate human transubstantiation, the true test of the alchemy of the human spirit...It is as though in some sacred sense this world for all its inequalities and this body for all its frailties and this time for all its inconsequentia is where one ought to be. It is as though life were intrinsically holy, and that to fail to savor it, rejoice in it, and be humored by it would be a great sacrilege."
M. Conrad Hyers




Transcendence, alchemy - no big thing.

  I like that, " the self-imposed requirement that life always make sense." that's funny all on its own. You mean its not reasonable to expect that? What? But my plan was a good one. I worked hard to make it happen. Give me some credit.

 Hahahahaha. 

 There goes my apprenticeship. 



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