The Sim/Fetch Dialogue

Part One: "Further In and Further Up"

3/24/04 Letter #6.
Dave's response to Toc's letter of 3/18/04 (Letter #4)

Dear Toc:

Spectacular (in the romance language sense?) I may have been in my assessment, but the hard ball never arrives polite. The sting is in the hand, not the glove. 98 mph fastball in the early innings. I'm a starting pitcher, not a reliever or a closer. got my control, all you have to do is backstop. It's coming right down the middle. Pure heat. You have to get out of the way to miss it. So don't.

Doves say: We're doves. Not only do we not know how the trick is done we don't even know what a trick is.
Sleeve say: I'm an inanimate object. I can't even tell Toc to say try me on.
Toc: So who's doing it?
Me: If not you?

Just understand money the way you understand the image. Buy low sell high. They're your doves and your sleeve unless and until you give them to someone else. How much are you going to charge for a bottle of your own sweat?

Me: It isn't a rhetorical question.
Toc: It isn't?
Me: Picture money as reality even though it isn't.
Toc: It is?
Me: Now you've got it.

It's just sideways from what you're actually looking for. The problem starts if you're not actually looking, if you're actually not looking or

Me: See, you're not looking, actually. I told you. You have to get out of the way to miss it. So don't.
Toc: I'm trying.
Me: Yes. Very.
Toc: To trust life, to trust in the luck that opens to awareness is all I have/had.
Me: I have always relied on the kindness of strangers. The back of your hand nailed to your forehead (Howard Chaykin) is no way to go through life. You are your own best grown-up.
Toc: Please, sleeve. Please, doves. Teach me how.
Me: If you keep getting out of the way you're going to keep missing it.

Yes, Leonardo da Vinci's twilight.
You should have been there - Dr. Winston O'Boogie.

Let's try shorter letters like this. So you stop getting out of the way.

Sincerely,
Dave Sim

PS. Using "pointless-to-silly" in proximity to the Name of God is a big reason you're not there. Right down the middle, Toc. The sting is in the hand, not the glove.