Today does not exist.
Feb. 29th, 2004 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaLeapyears are such a strange thing. But not as strange as the occurrence that confronted me on my way back to Casa Pegritz today....
I was tooling down Route 43, enjoying the lovely sunshine and the breeze whipping in the window and the Camouflage album I had bumpin' in the CD player...when suddenly, I observed, in the distance but approaching rapidly, a strange dark cubicle shape lying right in the middle of the lane I was travelling down. So, I immediately started to slow down in order to slide into the passing lane and go around the obstruction. As I did so, I got a good look at it.
It was a dark green leather recliner. Not damaged, not scraped up and hammered around as one would expect from, say, a recliner that fell out of the back of someone's pickup as they were moving it. No...this chair was perfectly intact. One would not be surprised to find such a chair chillin' in somebody's livingroom. But here it was, sitting in the middle of the highway.
It was such a surreal experience, I almost felt as though it was of supernatural, or perhaps, paranatural occurrence--as though I was undergoing a bargain-basement religious experience produced by the Coen Brothers. Which has inspired me to perform a multiplexing of mind states in order to view this experience from POVs unique to several of the world religions I am most familiar with. So here goes:
Roman Catholicism: The chair was placed there by God to test my faith.
Fundamentalist Christiniaty: The devil put that chair there to keep me from going to church!
Buddhism: The Powers That Be have provided that chair for me to relax on and think about Enlightenment.
Taoism: There is no chair. But I think I will still pull over and take a break in it, because it looks comfortable.
Right now, I like the Taoist approach the best. :)
(Addendum: The new Kylie Minogue album, Body Language, is probably the best electropop album I've heard in YEARS. It's so 1983 it hurts....All the synths sound like old Nords and Moogs. It is All That.)
I was tooling down Route 43, enjoying the lovely sunshine and the breeze whipping in the window and the Camouflage album I had bumpin' in the CD player...when suddenly, I observed, in the distance but approaching rapidly, a strange dark cubicle shape lying right in the middle of the lane I was travelling down. So, I immediately started to slow down in order to slide into the passing lane and go around the obstruction. As I did so, I got a good look at it.
It was a dark green leather recliner. Not damaged, not scraped up and hammered around as one would expect from, say, a recliner that fell out of the back of someone's pickup as they were moving it. No...this chair was perfectly intact. One would not be surprised to find such a chair chillin' in somebody's livingroom. But here it was, sitting in the middle of the highway.
It was such a surreal experience, I almost felt as though it was of supernatural, or perhaps, paranatural occurrence--as though I was undergoing a bargain-basement religious experience produced by the Coen Brothers. Which has inspired me to perform a multiplexing of mind states in order to view this experience from POVs unique to several of the world religions I am most familiar with. So here goes:
Roman Catholicism: The chair was placed there by God to test my faith.
Fundamentalist Christiniaty: The devil put that chair there to keep me from going to church!
Buddhism: The Powers That Be have provided that chair for me to relax on and think about Enlightenment.
Taoism: There is no chair. But I think I will still pull over and take a break in it, because it looks comfortable.
Right now, I like the Taoist approach the best. :)
(Addendum: The new Kylie Minogue album, Body Language, is probably the best electropop album I've heard in YEARS. It's so 1983 it hurts....All the synths sound like old Nords and Moogs. It is All That.)
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Date: 2004-03-01 04:56 pm (UTC)"Today does not exist"
i almost wish it hadnt existed... this weekend has been hell and i feel dead inside
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Date: 2004-03-01 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 05:54 pm (UTC)