VV (3) - The Party
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 31 18:35:59 CST 2000
The party of The Whole Sick Crew (TWSC) is described as an expanding
universe or a clock-spring undwinding, with Rachel "near" it's center.
Rachel is described as an object of great mass with her own gravitational
pull, specifically holding on to smoke as if it were her own atmosphere, and
it becomes her.
Would she thus be inanimate or the thing which animates? The implication is
the later. She would seem to embody a great force which is possibly unaware
of its own influence. The general direction of her force, though would be
outward, centripetal? If she were the center of the Big Bang she would be
our history, viewable through a telescope. The latest observations and
theories say we aren't every going to end our expansion and start yo-yoing
back to the center.
Is that which sets the inanimate in motion animate? Are WE animate? He
that winds the clock may be only unconsciously setting in play the inanimate
Actor portraying the story of "The Great Unwinding."
David Morris
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