This Is This

Yeah, it is. But anyone who says that is breaking it down to its basic form.

It’s the World Cup, it’s a big deal.

“But it’s just 22 men chasing around an inflated cowhide,” I hear you say.

I agree with you, but it’s the emotion around it that matters more and that makes it a big deal. It’s bigger than the sum of its one part.

The second movement of Bach’s Concerto for Oboe BWV 1059a? That’s twelve notes played in over different order over several octaves on a bunch on different instruments to a set tempo.

Sex? That’s just a physical manifestation of love and the act of procreation.

The Internet? That’s just a bunch of words and pictures on computers.

Medicine? That’s just a bunch of molecules put together in a certain way to help our bodies cope with symptoms and fight of disease.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. But no.

In this case, I break all my own rules, because here you have something that is more about what it means than what it is.

What it is can be very boring and mundane. What it means is another thing.

This ain’t this. This is something else.

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Judge: “Answer the question Mr Jackson.”
Jackson: “Thunder, you honour.”
Judge: “Let the record state Mr Jackson felt ‘thunder’.”
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