THE TENTH MAN : 19




Boomerang


I am confused....
About what?

The doctrine.
Inevitably: there isn't any.

I mean about how things work....
They don't.

Well, then, about how and what we are?
There can be no how or what: we aren't.

Then I am and I am not....
I neither am nor am not.

You neither are nor are not?
I; you simply are not.

All right, then, this which I neither am nor am not, and that which you simply are not.
What is there left to be confused about?

So that is it?
There is no 'it'.

Then what is the use of words?
They are perfect.

As what?
A boomerang.


(© HKU Press, 1966)
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