Is it better to offer your heart to the wolfor wait for the wolf to tear it out of you?It’s hard to know which is worse,the nightmare of approaching tornadoesor waking from the dream your parents were alive in.Enter the ominous music announcing the shark.It is best to disappear into one’s work.Best to be ceaselessly drunk, Baudelaire suggested,mentioning other things besides wine but most peopleignored that part, because who wants to be drunk on virtue?Misreadings are best. Misunderstandings are also bestbut to be misunderstood is not the goal.I don’t need drugs, I am drugs, Dali famously said,and drew his wife’s face exploding into spheres.What do all these wildflowers mean? Just look,said a famous American painter who, drunk, drove his convertibleoff the road into the trees and flew headfirst into an oak.We’re all afloat in the same solution.Would you like to trade some molecules with me?Better to sketch a few atoms than fire neutrons at themto create a chain reaction. The adult human body contains7 octillion atoms and one picnic table. Is it time to go?Not yet, not yet. Let’s meet for an aperitivo.Let’s build a pineapple from all this fresh snow.