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Egon the rabbit and me

``Do you have a voice?'', I spontaneously asked a rabbit, when I was reading a economy book. ``It seems people's productivity is increasing, the world population is saturating, why does the world still have a lot of problems?'' The rabbit was looking at me. His name is Egon. Today is Stig's first day of school. ``You don't know why?'' Egon said so, or maybe a part of me told me as Egod told me. I answered, ``Yes, I don't know. I can say human being is stupid, but, that answer doesn't help me even if it is true.'' Egon kept silence, so I thought it was some audible hallucination. Egon I looked at the cage. ``Is your cage too small for you?'' I asked Egon. Egon: ``It's small. I rather want to have large one. How is yours?'' I: ``... Mine? I don't have one.'' Egon: ``Don't you see yours? You made it yourself, and you put yourself in it. As far as I know, only human being does that.'...

Why it's secret? That's secret, too.

Thomasbrötchen

Heute Morgen fragte Kerstin mich: ,,Kannst du zur Bäckerei gehen und 10 Franzbrötchen kaufen?'' Ich antwortete: ,,OK. Aber wie heißen die nochmal?'' ,,Franzbrötchen, wie ein Name, Franz.'' ,,OK.'' Ich ging die Straße entlang und ich sagte den Namen immer wieder um ihn nicht zu vergessen. ,,Franzbrötchen, Franz--bröt--chen, eins, zwei, drei. Franzbrötchen, Franz--bröt--chen, eins, zwei, drei...'' Um die Ecke traf ich einen Freund. ,,Hallo Hitoshi. Schöne Ostern.'' ,,Hallo Thomas. Schöne Ostern.'' Ich ging weiter. ,,Thomasbrötchen, Thomas--bröt--chen, eins, zwei, drei. Thomas--brötchen.'' In der Bäckerei sagte ich der Verkäuferin: ,,Hallo, schönen Tag. Ich möchte 10 Thomasbrötchen, bitte.'' ,,Wie bitte?'' ,,Thomasbrötchen, 10 Stück.'' Sie fragte ihren Mann. ,,Franz, was sind Thomasbrötchen?'' ,,Ach ja'', sagte ich, ,,Franzbötchen, 10 Stück, bitte.'' Franzb...

Carpe diem for Billy

An author, Kilgore Trout, uses star system in his novels. Therefore, the same person shows up in the different stories. One of them are Billy. Billy's story is impressive for me, so I will write it here. In a certain Billy's story, Billy confronted a problem in his life. He lost the meaning of his life. He tried to re-invent it by reading science fictions. Since he tried other literatures, but they could not give him the meaning of his life. It was the last his hope.  But since his problem was in the fourth dimensional space in this world, he cannot recognize it. He asked for a help to a physiologist. One day, he saw a talk video of a famous person who recently passed away. He told people: every morning, he asked himself in the mirror, ``If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?'' and whenever the answer has been 'no' too many days in a row, he knew he needed a change.  Although Billy heard this idea before, he w...

Rational shit by Kilgore Trout

One of the Kilgore Trout's story is called "Rational shit". Se-Cluger people are rational species, they are perfectionist and always act after think, although they don't have a time travel technology.  Each of them usually think about their comfortable houses and happiness. Everything is resolved by discussion, most of them are logical, therefore, there usually no objection to the conclusions. If the problem is not solved, some people just left to the other planets. Killing each other is not a rational solution for them. They can agree that point, that shows they are intelligent. They looked for the perfect rationality, they finally have a technology to change themselves. One day, they have perfect rationality. Energy of the planet is never wasted, all the disease were solved. The future is planned, they care their descendant. However,  they found out they will extinct one day because they are still a life form. The extinction day is far future, however, all the ...