LETTING GO IS ALL WE HAVE TO HOLD ONTO "An ideal gift for people who don't read books.""Modern Zen koans for Buddhists on-the-go!""The book about quieting the mind that everyone is talking about.""For people in no shape for the human condition." ---It's rare to find a trifecta of thought streams and modalities as unexpectedly intertwined as what we find in this one-of-a-kind collection of original jokes, known as The Eisenberg Principles. In these one-sentence vignettes, the fields of philosophy, physics, and psychology marry into uproariously funny trysts of paradoxical play, each one like a piece of deluxe brain-candy which is no less serious in its treatment of the human condition as it is absurd. We are not only afforded a chance to glimpse into the thoughts of this wondrously twisted thinker, we are challenged to follow him into the surprising and impossible rabbit holes of language he unearths on every page. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time -- and still retain the ability to function." This catalogue of jokes, like a set of modern Zen koans, puts you through this test, playing with the principles of paradox, polarity, and incongruity to take you from the comforts of cliché to the chasms of contradiction with just a few strokes of a pen.Eisenberg uses his own contortion techniques and verbal gymnastics to twist and stretch the boundaries of logic, throwing the semantics of everyday expressions into question -- and hopefully stirring our collective conversation about meaning and consciousness forward. As Eisenberg, the founder of Curved-Space Comedy and creator of the science-comedy show Even the Earth is Bipolar and stage-piece Follow Your Bris writes: "Dualism does work for me, but only about half the time."----