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Alibi

The ideas, activities and people are too many; the directions into which to turn and the alternatives to choose from are too many, just as the advice to listen to. There are too many recommendations, too many parties. In short, there are too many dimensions for us, too many dimensions to look at. But at the end, is it a matter of too much intended as a “number” or as a “dimension”?

Yet again a first surprising answer is given by the Beatles (It’s All Too Much by G. Harrison): All the word is a birthday cake/So take a piece but not too much.

 

All this excess to handle often offers us the possibility of creating great alibis, that give us the possibility of 00065.jpg

releasing failure, lack of decisions, non-appearances. There is always an alibi ready: distance, misfortune, excess – as it were.

Also passing time hiding rather than facing reality is an alibi which afterwards lets you

celebrate the peril you escaped, that which Dante in the first part of
Hell describes with the
subsequent words: It is like