Hippopotamus
Mar. 15th, 2006 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kate_schaeferYou know the bit about the medieval alchemist who could change lead to gold, as long as he didn't think about a hippopotamus during the process? For many months now, I've had a hippopotamus on my mind. Yesterday, for the first time since the hippopotamus first showed up, I didn't think about the hippopotamus at all.
Today I felt slightly guilty that I had forgotten the hippopotamus for a bit, but damn, it took up a lot of space in my head, and it's not like I don't still care about the hippopotamus; it's just that I'm not thinking about it all the time any more. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll look at turning lead to gold.
Today I felt slightly guilty that I had forgotten the hippopotamus for a bit, but damn, it took up a lot of space in my head, and it's not like I don't still care about the hippopotamus; it's just that I'm not thinking about it all the time any more. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll look at turning lead to gold.
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Date: 2006-03-16 07:19 am (UTC)B) The first time I glanced at my entry after reading your comment, I read "hippopotamus" as "hippocampus." There is too a hippocampus, and it has an influence out of proportion to its presence. From this I try to get to "big hippo on campus," but it's a leap I can't quite make, which brings to mind the Fantasia hippo ballerinas.
C) It's now going to be days and days of thinking about a hippopotamus for me, but it will no longer be metaphorical.