Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.angst Path:!rone From: (achille lauro) Subject: Pain, and definitely not pleasure Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Keywords: Fail to suck. Organization: Prels Dental Supply, Miami, FL Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 04:27:46 GMT Pain is funny. Perhaps less in the weird sense than in the humorous sense. Pain can make you laugh, when someone takes that tender spot and squeezes it and gives you that special smile, and your suffering suddenly becomes amusing as all hell and you laugh and shake and the pressure on your bruise turns into shearing stress and the pain goes through a tonal change and you see stars, whole galaxies before your eyes and the laughter paralyzes your diaphragm and you hurt SO much. Pain is a remembrance, a sign: "A battle here was once fought." Ow. As your flesh or your soul changes colors, so does the memory of the incident; how badly were you hurt? It's ok, i'm fine now. But deep down, the tissue beneath the surface has scarred; the callus will be there and will not let you forget that you were battered. Your pain will not have been in vain. Recall, and learn: it may not hurt less the next time it occurs but the pain will most certainly be funnier. 5150 "this won't hurt a bit" -- Way before I came to rule this place I was king of an island I only needed someone else to rule Now my mind is an island