PREFACE (257 words)

(Picking up, by popular demand, where the last paper left off ...)

... and everything was just fine, UNTIL the second paper got assigned.

Unlike my first paper, I wasn't stuck at "man's search for a paper topic" -- this time I had two paper ideas -- but now I couldn't decide which to put in this thread, and which to save for the other exercise (for which, if I recall, we'll be Graded as Uniforms, i.e. not we'll get a Uniform Grade):

• Idea 1 would be exactly one thousand words, which fall slightly short of depicting of how I see the world.
  
• Idea 2 would be a picture: which, although poorly-drawn (i.e. worth a mere 583 words), it perfectly explains how I see the world when preceded by a 161-word CAPTION: which, however, when following this 257-word PREFACE, brings me up to 1001 words.

I confess: for a while, I wallowed in self-pity, blaming the world that gave me this Hobson's Choice (i.e. a Catch-22 whose options are equally bad, rather than just plain equal).

Finally, however, I did the manly thing, and confessed to myself that I was the one to blame -- I was just behaving like Buridan's Ass -- which empowered me to do exactly the same thing I did in my first paper: i.e. to take a hoofstep. (Which is NOT a nonsense word, dummy: it means, in this context, "calculating that the penalty I would incur, by going one word over Eben's limit, would be SMALL ENOUGH that I ought to postpone my inferior, one-thousand-word, collage, and use the remaining space here (see below) to explain my inferior, 588-word, collage. ")

CAPTION (161 words)

Title: Centrifightal Forces Must Meet Somewhere

(Plato = Freud + Socrates)

Explanation: In order to define the place and time distinguishing a Centrifugal from a Centripetal force,

1) Locate the center, e.g., that coordinate at which an interpreter of dreams witnesses Socrates making up alibis for his strange attraction--

• Ariston: "Hey Socrates, why are you attracted to little boys?"
  
• Socrates: "Dummy, that's the opposite of the truth -- I'm satisfying my desires with precisely those people that I find UNATTRACTIVE, so that I know that what attracted me to them, was not their beauty, but their sense of justice. I'm controlling a variable."
  
• Ariston: "Justice? What's that?"
  
• Socrates: "It's an idea."
• Ariston: "And idea? You mean, like beauty, and truth?"
• Socrates: "Truth, justice, beauty, they're all ideas -- but they're all DIFFERENT ideas. Let me tell you how the muse explained it to me ..."

2) Define as centrifugal, all that follows.