RE: [Lone Wolves and Cubs]
A Triptych that I Have Been Thinking About
From: Travis
March 18, 2023
"'Everything comes in threes.' Not true. In reality, everything comes in ones. Sometimes, when three 'ones' come in a row, it seems like everything comes in threes. By the way, in medieval times it was widely believed that everything came in twenty-sixes. They were wrong too. It just took them longer to recognize a pattern."
- George Carlin
I debated even going over this, since I think this new format I'm trying out is pretty self-explanatory. But I've never been one to pass up on a digression (nor a chance to say something parenthetically), so here is it anyway:
Have you ever been out somewhere, getting a coffee or whatever, and walked past some people and realized that they individually and accidentally made up a set? For instance:
-A group was all wearing slip on Vans but in different colors.
-Or half of them all got a text and looked down at their phone the same way, at the same time.
-Or there was a mother in line with her daughter, and a woman there with her mother, and a grandmother waiting with her granddaughter.
Every so often, thanks to consuming a lot of different types of entertainment at the same time, I'll run into similar kinds of accidental sets; the book I'm reading has a theme that is also picked up in a TV show my wife and I are watching, which also features an event that reminds me of the video game I've been playing. That kind of thing.
That's what I'm trying to talk about in these 'Triptych' blog posts; things that make up a rough kind of(...)