Mr Mascellani's Musings

Being

How beautiful it is do nothing and then rest afterwards- Spanish proverb


Wise people, the Spanish. I decided to take heed of their proverb and I spent a day doing

nothing. No work, no reading no writing, not anything. Just lazing about doing nothing. I'll

probably live to regret it but what the hey, it was enjoyable. But I guess you don't want

to hear me rabbiting on about how I did nothing.



And, really, can one actually do nothing? What is nothing? What is the nature of

nothing? Is lying in bed staring at the ceiling doing nothing? Can one truly be doing

nothing if one is thinking? Is thinking something? Can one think about nothing? Can

one think of nothing. But I guess you don't to hear me going on about the philosophy

of nothing either. But it is good to “do nothing" sometimes. Just as it is good to write

a journal entry that is really about nothing. Just writing to write- to keep in the practice

of writing. Of course, there are those that would say that such a practice isn't writing

but rather,' typing'. That's what Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac's writing.

I prefer Capote's writing to Kerouac's. But sometimes typing can become writing.



How did I get from nothing to Capote and Kerouac? What is the capital of Nebraska?

Can a three-legged rabbit ski? I don't know Oh that’s right; I had alluded to the fact that

thisentry is really about nothing- in more ways than one. Man, I hope this 'free writing'

bullshit kicks in soon and I actually start writing something decent.


Still, like the camel said to the whale, 'a wave that washes away volcanoes is a thing of

rare something- or- otherness. I guess what I am trying to do, what I am trying to say

is - well, I don’t have to explain anything to you. . You're smart you'll figure it out. And

when you do won't you be please with yourself? You'll probably put on your party hat and

with noisemaker in you'll venture out to the streets and make your presence known via a

series of yells and yelps. But then again, maybe not. But it is a possibility, isn't it? It could

happen. It won't happen over night but it will happen. Ahhhhhh,yep, yep, yep. Car 54, where

are you? Do you exist or are you just another absent signifier signifying absence? An absent

absence that is absent of absence. This sentence finishes with a full stop.