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Song | Jun 25 2003

My thoughts divide roughly into memories, observations, and fantasies.

Fantasies include desires.

Probably there’s a better word here than fantasies, one that encompasses both fantasies and desires, but what would it be?

Also, what is a word for what happens in my head when I read? I want to call this mastication, but that seems a different sort of thing from the things above.

Anyway, right now an ice cream truck in the street outside my window is playing that insipid ice cream truck song over and over. You know the one. If I could, I would gladly and without remorse smash the truck’s speaker into a useless and possibly smoking heap of metal and wire. This is both an observation and a fantasy.

Also, had I previously seen someone else do this, or had once done it myself, or had once simply fantasied about doing it and had now, hearing the song again, remembered my fantasy, it would also be a memory.