Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: I don't know.
TRIP: Do you ever find yourself wanting to package up what you
know into sentences and then share them with people because
they're particularly delicious ways of saying this ineffable thing?
You don’t do that thing, do you?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Well I do, I write all the time, and I sit on
Facebook, and I make things available on my website, and there
are ways that people can reach what I write. But I don't stay inside
one arena, I'll get on this ball, then get on that one, and then get
on this horse, and then ride the Llama, and then get on a peacock,
like I'll try playing on everything because language narratives are
just language narratives. There's all different ways to play inside
of the playground of possibility. And seemingly the possibilities
are endless, because that's all there are. It's like that old story, like
they go into a dark room and everybody grabs a different part of
the elephant. Well the elephant is all there is, so it's okay to play
and scratch its belly, and jump on its nose, and ride its back, and
look into its eyes, and brush its teeth, and just keep playing and
playing, and playing, and playing.
TRIP: I want some of what he's got. [Laughs] You selling any of
that, how much is that an ounce?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: It's you.
TRIP: I know.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: I know you do. But that's the hard part,
because it sounds like there's something to somehow get. I just let
myself make a lot of mistakes I guess is a way to say it, and I don't
have any problem with that. I'm okay with being a fool I guess.
TRIP: Did you want to say something?
TEALA: Yes. I just wanted to say to what you just said is that
when I was getting ready for Benjamin to come, it really came
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