A few longer zuckerisms from “The Problem IS the Solution” section of New Cliches:
* In the 1980s, the great threat to the airlines was cheap long distance calling. The airlines have since recovered, thanks to the torturous ‘on-hold’ button.
* I once ran into a patient with severe malingeritis. He required two years off work to allow the situation to resolve itself.
* Parallels:
Artists use negative space as a powerful force to define the object of a painting. The greater the negative space,
the more striking the definition.
In music, the pause, or the absence of sound, parallels the negative space in art and intensifies the sound’s effect.
The ‘silent treatment’ in marriage also parallels this concept. What can one do in the absence of response but eventually look at oneself ?
Thus, I credit my ex-wife (who is an artist) with being my mistress of negative space. Without her, I never would have discovered myself.
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Stephen Zuckerman 