For example, “talk about strange things”; “do strange things”; (Colombia) “who are those strange people”; “there they have their strange thing.”
Thing
Noun. It names people, animals, plants, stones, clouds, bonfires, parties, and everything we think or imagine has substance.
Strange
Adjective. It’s ‘like’ saying a characteristic of a thing. For example, “beautiful thing”; “Oh, lovely little thing, Mom”; “What a big thing, sir.” An adjective is saying things about things.
So, a thing is a thing, a thing is a noun; a noun is a thing. But, a thing is a thing and another thing is another thing. That is, everything can be a thing, but between one thing and another thing, there’s a difference. One thing is one thing and another very different thing is another thing, say, anything.
Am I right or not? See also that one thing is a single thing and another is adorned. For example, house and beautiful house. They are two different houses. A house is a thing, a noun, that when you add a characteristic to it; beautiful; then it does change the thing.
A strange thing happens when we talk about all those “strange things” that people talk about. Strange, because “thing” is a thing, but when someone says “thing” to you, you don’t imagine any particular thing; unlike when someone says: “imagine a soup serving bowl”; a bowl is a thing and although a soup serving bowl is different from a simple bowl; a bowl is a bowl and a bowl is a thing. Now: “imagine a thing.”
A thing is a thing, but a thing is anything. A thing is a strange thing, and “strange” is something that can be said about a thing, an adjective; “strange” is a characteristic. So, if a thing is a thing; in this case, a “strange thing,” and on the other hand, strange is a “strange thing,” then what do you get when you combine two strange things? When you say: “thing” and “strange.”
Doesn’t that seem strange to you? Let’s say, there are strange people and strange houses, strange music… strange things, but what stranger thing can there be than all those “strange things”? I’ve thought about this thing at night during dreams, in the morning I’ve put my mind to it and started writing; you might think it’s the lack of television. You’re absolutely right.
In Colombia, all the things that don’t appear on television are strange. Reality is one thing, and when we see it appear here and there, it becomes a normal thing, otherwise, it’s a strange thing; look at how people dress on TV; people dress, clothes are a thing, but people’s clothes are not strange, moreover, the strange things that appear on TV, you know they are strange and won’t appear on TV for more than a while, after that everything returns to normal.
This seems stranger to me than the matter of strange things, because on television nothing that happens around me ever happens, yet around me, what happens on TV does happen. As if images were more important than things, appearances more important than reality, as if what mattered was not being but appearing. What a strange thing.
