Bad for DU.
As far as Skimmer goes, it's better to contain the nut that you do know as opposed to trying to figure out the one you don't.
The next drama queen could be a stark raving lunatic.
You know, sir, last night I consulted my spirit guide, TheHollywoodNeoCon.
(You know I'm being facetious, but the lurking primitives, who can't see beyond the surface of things, don't, and so I'm compelled to say it for them: I'm being facetious.)
I told him I needed to see Skins's island, and the primitives, in a new way, a new perspective, from a new angle.
TheHollywoodNeoCon was lounging by the swimming pool, chomping on a big fat cigar and drinking a martini.
He said simply, "Family; think of it as family."
"Whoa," I said, "for a family, the primitives are sure a rather, uh, unfamilial family."
TheHollywoodNeoCon blew circles of smoke into the air, sipped some of his martini, and getting bored with me, turned to talk to someone else.
Since franksolich's spirit guide is so insightful, so full of wisdom and vision, I figured the problem with "getting the message" was with the receiver, not the sender, and so thought for a while.
Then it all came to me as a great flash of light, as it had to Saul on the road to Damascus.
Hot damn. No wonder I seem to know the primitives so well. I had thought it was because I carefully researched and analyzed them, but no, it wasn't.
As you know, I was the second-to-the-last child in a big family, six brothers and sisters preceding me, and one brother following me, there being a substantial gap between the sixth and myself.
Damn. The primitives are exactly, precisely, as the older brothers and sisters had been.
And the primitives are even of the same ages the older brothers and sisters would be, if they were still in this time and place. All of them, beginning with the ancient CalPig primitive, are the same ages as my own older siblings would be.
Whatshisname reminds me of one older brother, Pedro Picasso of an older sister.
The older brothers and sisters had been the Kennedyites of 1960, the Lyndonites of 1964, the Bobbyites of 1968, and the McGovernites of 1972 (despite their Republican upbringing).
franksolich knows the primitives so well because the primitives are like his own family had been.
Someone once asked why there was such a big difference between the older six, and the younger two, and they weren't talking about my deafness, or my younger brother's frailties. Such people insisted it was as if the older six had been raised by different parents, than the younger two.
It was not until years later, when I was going through the family archives, that I divined the answer. The older six had been raised by Dr. Benjamin Spock's books on child-rearing, after which the parents tossed those books away, figuring they didn't need them any more.
And then some years later franksolich and his younger brother came along.
Not having the Spock books any more, the parents had to raise us by parental instinct and intuition.
