Smiley Face

Despite "my heavy tear" on current state of affairs, I decided to devote a brief post to the smiley. I'm afraid I started misusing them myself.
Now, these indicate a general tone of my sentences - but merely because I cannot express myself. Consider the following:

I feel like I'd better sleep this day through - news are too much :)
vs.
I feel sleeping is a sound alternative to reading news which in turn make me feel like vomiting but I'm not letting this get to me. I'll make a joke of this and vomit some other day. Come to think of it, even though I won't sleep, I might actually be more productive if I did.

But then again, the whole post might be redundant. First of all, the "C students" caught on the spirit of the times and now write books on the unreality, the persistent image quality of our civilisation and fast changes that result in strangeness. Just the other day, one went that far to claim this world craves a pill of ecstasy only.

Literature will of course not surrender; it's just that we are inundated with would be net writers that literally explain their "brain was muddled as [brand of chewing gum]."

All in all, I think I'm by now rather qualified to prepare a lecture on benefits and drawbacks of humanist education, that I believe should be part and parcel of any university welcome speech.

"You shall experience much through books: the aesthetic, condensed experience of generations. You will receive this sense of class that exists even without money and that even the uninitiated can physically spot. We shall also instill modesty in you, if only you persevere. Some disadvantages are that you might forever be unsure or wonder why everyone, you included, is so mean."

Or something of the sort. My vernacular has a phatic statement which literally translates as "I'm not wise." "However, what I can promise you for sure - you will develop a strange dislike for smileys. You will argue they falsify things."