Remember Mr. Sarno, my English lecturer?
Here's another interesting SMS discussion between us:

S(brief for Sarno): By the way, what is time?

M(brief for me): The constant speculation regarding the position of mechanical hands on an arbitrary dial which is a symptom of mind-function*. Happy?
[* A quote from the novel the Sound and the Fury that I'm analysing as assignment.]

S: What a load of hooey. Typical of the scientific mind to never admit defeat and ignorance*.
[*He obviously thinks that it was my own definition of time]

M: That's the mind of the cultured dipsomaniac, which is one of the reasons of Compson's* downfall.
[*A family in the Sound and the Fury]

S: Dipsomania glitters brightly beside megalomania and unadulterated narcissism.

M: And beside addiction of smoking and the misconception that it is cool*.
[*See my earlier post titled "Meaningless chatter" ]

S: Hawking notes that we have had to change our ideas abt space and time because they "don't work at all for things moving at or near the speed of light". I remember that every "time" i "light" a smoke and gaze off into space.

M: I seed de first en de last^! You are trying to escape time* by lighting your way to dusty death. Out! out!'
[^A quote from The Sound and the Fury]
[*A major theme in the Sound and the Fury]
['A quote from Shakespeare's "Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow", or more accurately, from "Macbeth"]

S: In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down... So maybe what we call imaginary timeis really more basic, and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like. Hawking. Bounce that off mr augustine.

S: Shine on.

M: Wow. You're really the legendary smokespeare - combining science and literature, yet consciously proceeds toward doom*
[*He is doomed because he smokes]

S: Science, lit., and cigarettes

S: And kickboxing*
[*He is learning kickboxing now...He used to be the leader of wrestling club in his high school days]

M: That's like taking a medicine and a poison at the same time.
[I mean kickboxing is good for his health, but smoking's gonna kill him]

S: You're right - the kickboxing is killing me
[Apparently he has mistaken what I mean, I'm not sure deliberately or not]

M: ...*
[*Actually I forgot what I messaged him because the "sent items" in my cell phone was overwritten]

S: A man is no more than the sum of his contradictions, to be mathematical. Now a woman, once a bitch always a bitch, that's what I say*
[*Now THIS is beyond my understanding...]

Enjoy!