September 2012
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Night thoughts are the right thoughts (Page 2)
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...continued from this page.
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Frank Cotolo
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Though many thoughts slip away I find that every thought I develop into an idea turns out to be
something true, something honest in nature, something heroic in cause, something that can be
memorized if necessary and used in mixed company, maybe even in a speech or a lecture. It is as
if the night thoughts are the right thoughts, meaning that during the day I get a lot of wrong
thoughts, which is why I don't trust my day thoughts.
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Day thoughts don't even come that often and when they do they are usually uninteresting, like,
"I should go to the bathroom," and "Time to check the mailbox for today's mail," and, "Is that
the phone ringing and do I feel like talking to anyone?" Thoughts like that are impossible to make
into ideas. After all, most people go to the bathroom, check the mail and hear the phone when it
rings so what could be right about those ideas?
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This is why I think it best to spend a lot of day hours sleeping. That way when it becomes dark
out and it becomes late to others my mind can be free to shoot out thoughts like worms from a
garden hose. And they will begin to shoot out, these thoughts, because they seem to need to escape
my consciousness. It is as if these thoughts brew during the day and are ready to percolate at
night and fire through my brain like herds of wild geese gliding through plutonium clouds.
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In fact, I see it is dark out now so I will stop writing and begin receiving all of the right
thoughts, the new thoughts, the building-block thoughts, the foundation thoughts, the stuff of
which ideas are made.
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Besides, I think I hear the phone ringing and I should take the call.
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Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles.
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