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2006-01-24

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
B. 3.13.1911 Tilden, Nebraska / D. 1.24.1996 Creston, California
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Trivial is trivial but what is too trivial must be something else. Not meaningless, meaningless is what�s beyond the outer extreme of �too trivial,� whatever that is: the intermediate term, a fat gray ring on the concentric zone chart. Between trivial and meaningless lies. . .not the inconsequential. Who can picture the inconsequential out of disguise? If it weren�t plying some ruse to conceal its weightiness and confound its keepers, if it were trimmed of its mandarin fingernails, the inconsequential would only be trivial�or too trivial. Which is also not to say unimportant, a mottled term for a massy disorganized mixture of matters that looks and sets like concrete. Too trivial has never paved a sidewalk. It�s closer in substance to window reflections of the windows across the way; whereas trivial would be the reflections of everything passing between them: a taxi out-of-service light, a sooty swoop of wing. Absurd isn�t it either: while too trivial can be absurd it neither possesses nor claims any comic potential in general. Similarly, delusional. There�s no call for histrionics. What must be got at with a word for �too trivial� is its immediate quality of being mildly irksome. (But �mildly irksome� won�t do at all except to denote this quality, which must be further qualified by its immediacy.) Crap comes closest, onomatopoeically, to the muffled �blaaat� that issues from the headlands of the forebrain at too trivial�s sighting, the sound of an alarm on a movie spaceship:
Disengage.

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