Re: Jumping in

Robbie Taggart (imwithstupid@juno.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:07:11 -0600 

"Fightin' don't help, Jimmy. Lord knows nobody ever brought any more
sunshine into the world by bloodyin' somebody's nose, or by having his
own nose bloodied."
"I know- but he said my I.Q. was 59, Ma!  And he said Pop was a 53!"
"Now now, that's just child's talk. Don't you pay it no mind, Jimmy." 
"But it's true. Ma, it's true. I went down to the police station and
looked it up! Fifty-nine, Ma! and poor Pop with a 53. And you with a 47,
Ma. A 47." 
"Jimmy, look at your mother... Jimmy, I.Q. isn't everything. Some of the
unhappiest people in this world are the smartest ones. Jimmy, boy, son-
I.Q. won't get you happiness, and Saint Peter don't give I.Q. tests
before he lets you in those Pearly Gates. The wickedest people that ever
lived was the smartest." 
"You mean- a plain fellow like me, just another guy, folks like us, Ma,
you mean we're as good as, as, as, well, Doctor Garson, the Works
Manager?"
"Doctor Garson, with his 169 I.Q.? Doctor Garson, with his Ph.D., D.Sc.,
and his Ph. and D. I-don't-know-what-else? Him?"
"Yeah, Ma. Him."
"Him? Doctor Garson? Jimmy, son, boy- have you seen the bags under his
eyes? Have you seen the lines in his face? He's carryin' the world around
on his shoulders, Jimmy. That's what a high I.Q. got him, Doctor Garson.
Do you know how old he is?"
"An awful old man, Ma."
"He's ten years younger than your Pa, Jimmy. That's what brains got him."
Kurt Vonnegut wrote it, maybe it's utterly irrelevant, maybe not.
Intelligence makes you old and tired. Must be horrible being smart, huh? 
  -robbie

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:33:01 -0600 Wes Temby <tembywd@student.adams.edu>
writes:
> Intelligence alienates. That's almost a given. Think about it, if 
> you're
> more intelligent than the average person, how can you be comsidered 
> able to
> fit in with them just as well as one of them? I don't mean to look 
> down my
> nose or anything, the math just speaks for itself really. (I'm not 
> really a
> math wizard either)
> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 

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