Recognizable conscience
Jan. 2nd, 2007 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progOver Xmas I told Ricky that I sometimes blog things that he says, and he likes this. Just now, he asked specifically that I post this, recited to me over the phone:
Once a captain, once an officer. Once a recognizable conscience, always a captain.
This is bouncing around in his brain after he listened to an audiobook about naval officers. I really don't know what he means by it.
The phrase "recognizable conscience" has been a major point of obsession with him for a couple of years, and he's been struggling to define it verbally for others' benefit. He knows what it means but can never put it into words. When he tries he inevitably gets lost in a labyrinth of half-constructed metaphors, one fitted to the next. People who know this habit tell him that it's cool, he can try again later, and he'll say OK.
Once a captain, once an officer. Once a recognizable conscience, always a captain.
This is bouncing around in his brain after he listened to an audiobook about naval officers. I really don't know what he means by it.
The phrase "recognizable conscience" has been a major point of obsession with him for a couple of years, and he's been struggling to define it verbally for others' benefit. He knows what it means but can never put it into words. When he tries he inevitably gets lost in a labyrinth of half-constructed metaphors, one fitted to the next. People who know this habit tell him that it's cool, he can try again later, and he'll say OK.