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Moss: Reflection

(Note: These columns are best read while listening to the song “Reflections” by Atmosphere.)

I know, I know. I have more than one column today. But that doesn’t matter because they’re exactly the same. What you see here is what you’ll see in the others, so do yourself a favor and only read one. Reading the others would be like watching “Speed 2” twice in a row to see what you missed the first time. It would be like re-opening a friend’s door after walking in on him in bed with his 60-year-old stats professor: Once you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. You wont get anything but selective memory loss if you look again. So don’t read the other columns.

They’re all identical. They even have essentially the same title. It would take someone with a keen eye and far too much respect for The Daily to notice the two-letter difference and assume it was anything more than a typo. And that’s the way it should be. Things are always the way they appear, and there’s never a reason to dig deeper than the first impression. My first impression of these columns is they’re all the same. So there’s no reason to read the others.

The point is, people read into things way too much when there’s rarely a lot there. Some people see all this deep meaning in a book like “Catcher in the Rye” when it’s clearly just a story about some guy in a red hat who wants to play with birds. If you see a movie, novel or Lil Wayne song that seems to have nothing to say, it probably doesn’t. Otherwise it would say it outright.

So just skim the surface, and judge a book by its SparkNotes plot overview. Don’t waste your time looking for meaning that doesn’t exist. And whatever you do, don’t read the other columns.Weinberg senior David Moss can be reached at [email protected].

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