Oh dear I’m feeling unwell Mary said to her friend Annie as they drank coffee after breakfast.
It’s January when everybody begins to feel unwell even before they catch flu
Annie I don’t know why you make wild generalisations like that.
You are taking it too seriously. When I look at my bank statement ot my credit card bill and look out of the window to see the heavy pouring rain I could say I feel slightly ill but in a metaphorical sense.
My goodness Annie whatever has happened to you? You sound very intelligent Have you been taking an open university course without telling me!?
Yes I’ve been taking great books of Russia and I really like Tolstoy very much.
You sound like a different person completely almost as if you were turning into me!
I hope not because I don’t like your dress sense nor your lack of makeup and perfume. And don’t think that you can turn into me just by wearing makeup because it took me a lifetime to become who I am.
Well I’ve been reading about projection the psychological type of projection and something that you don’t like in yourself you can project it into your friend and then you see it in her and she gets blamed for it all gets criticized for it and you feel totally innocent and wonderful
Blimey if we are both going to be very intelligent and literate it’s going to sound like something off that Melvyn Bragg programme In our time.
That’s an exaggeration.
Well Mary are you going to call the doctor?
Why would I want to call the doctor?
You said you were feeling ill.
I do feel ill with I’m not sure why I don’t have a cough or a cold I have no pain in my chest but i seem to be going to the toilet a lot . It might be the coffee.
No I don’t think that’s the coffee I think you’ve got one of your infections. You keep crying and you see a little bit confused about your appointments it’s in your brain rmmm. How can an infection in the bladder be in the brain?
Oh it’s all to do with inflammation . Mary was amazed at her friend’s observations
Honey are you sure that you are Annie?
Of course I am Annie why ask the cat he will tell you.
Emile looked at them with one eye open and one closed
Yes it is Annie alright
She is not any more intelligent it’s just that you are more stupid then you used to be..
Emile you are a very wicked cat why have you got no tact and courtesy?
Well you have often told me Mary that in an academic discussion it’s only truth that matters.
Well you sound like the Pope to me. But ut you’re not infallible
Now even the cat sounds more intelligent
What is the secret to this increase in the IQ and the general intelligence of everybody in the room?
Even when Mary is ill she is still very intelligent but not as much as she would be when she was well because without energy the brain cannot work abd the heart cannot work to feel the feelings that we need to combine with our thoughts before we can come to a conclusion about anything
Yes as someone once said
Energy is eternal delight
I think it was a poet William Blake who uttered this beautiful sentence many years ago but it is still true today.
And so say all of us
How my heart sings 