So my English redaction skills are waning. So it seems. It''s been an awful while since I've written in English so, naturally, the skill gets a little rusty. I'ts about darn time i brought out this neglected side of me once more.
So i live in Japan now. I attend classes regularly from 1 to 5 in the afternoon in a place called Nihongo Center. It is not bad at all, as it vouches for full immersion and actually has a decent teaching method. It is a congruent school.
I've grown quite fond of congruence in the past month after having read quite extensively about the secret PUA (PickUp Artist) society. See, for me congruence was merely a mathematical term a year ago. Two triangles with sides of different lengths but same angles? Congruent triangles.
A person whose stories and anecdotes correlate with the image this person has of itself and thus, correlates with the image the people around this person have? Social congruence. Put in simple terms, someone might stretch the truth a little while telling stories at a bar, or trying to get the cute girl's number. I've done it, you've done it, the girl in the bar has done it.
One has to look at the angles, not the sides of the triangle (or, well, if you wanna get technical, you can also check the ratios of the sides between two triangles, but eh) to test for congruence. So a girl talks a lot about her literature major? Ask her about her favorite books and their plot, in detail. So a guy talks a lot about, say, hunting deer with guns that shoot bullets? Ask how the gun works, in detail. There's another way to put this; testing for hypocrisy.
Somehow, i like the term "Social Congruence" better.
I'd say i digress, but there's no general idea here. Maybe congruence. I'm about to throw that out the window and change subjects anyway, because this here is just stringing ideas in an effort to thwart writers' block.
There's a cure to one such block. It's called getting into "absurd mode". It works for writing, composing, social anxiety, cancer, and the common cold. You just get yourself in a mental state in which absurd and illogical ideas spurt out of nothing. You get into a creative state, a state of flow.
That's where I'm trying to get at the moment. Exponential buildup and BAM! Absurd mode. All kinds of crazy shit starts pouring out of my mind and into this post. (Very cold right now, and it's not even full blast winter) Anyway, i think i'm ready now. Next post will be a story.
