It has been a different sort of week. Not inherently good or bad. I guess each of the situations and scenarios would depend upon the point of view you wished to take as to whether or not it would be considered good or bad. The sort of labels which leave no room for subjective interpretation really don't sit well with my soul.

I need to find another copy of The Image of the Beast. Marvelous book. Authored by Philip Jose Farmer. Originally published in the 1960s. For some reason 1963 sticks in my brain... OK, being the somewhat neurotic perfectionist that I am, I had to google for a publication date. It was published in 1968. When the book was first published, it was labeled as pornographic. As I was seven years old and in the middle of the corn fields when the book was first published, I did not come across it until it was reprinted in the mid-1980s. In the edition which I had, the forward was authored by Theodore Sturgeon. In the forward, Sturgeon wrote of the "labelers," those people who can quite readily define abstract concepts.

I am certain that I have mentioned this book and the forward in some previous blog entry. It is well worth referencing again, however.

Labels bother me. They are never thorough or complete. They do not provide you with background details. They are often applied in order to generate a specific type of response to them.