Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Gamelan

Maybe the US is one. Then each state another. Then each city. Then each family. You. Then cells in your body. Then molecules. Then then then other way. Each country. Each planet. Each star system. Each galaxy. Each manifest creation.

Sans the Indonesian context.

Discordia and harmony may result. Sin cera. Nos amigos.

2 comments:

Ole Bald Angus the Monk said...

First the Zen Masters realized that misery came from not understanding things.

Or mebbe it was somebody before them, like the guys that were old when Egypt was young or something.

Anyways then the Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance guy said all that stuff about being conscious of your "Analytical Knife," y'know, like where a Motorcyle can be broken down in lots of different ways, by the materials its made out of, by the mechanical systems that make it operational, whatever, and all those breakdowns may be true but no one of those things is what a motorcyle really is.

And then there's my digital and discrete understanding of things, where there's no such thing as magic and mystery and systems that operate in the smooth curves of the poetic mind, no matter how much the guys who love record players might wish I was wrong, time operates in immaculate steps, the ear can only hear at a certain rate, the brain is a slow liquid chemical processor that squirts its information through tubes and has to vacuum the mess up between transmissions, and the multiverse works like a rolodex, if you keep flipping through it any direction long enough you'll eventually end up right back where you started.

Anyways what all that boils down to is that basically its fun to drink too much coffee and shake your booty.

Although everybody already knew that so I dunno why I had to take a trip around the entire multiverse to prove it.

I guess folks just tend to be sorta insecure about the booty-shaking bit and they want the expert opinion of a Time Lord or something, even though the coffee bit shoulda made 'em adventurous enough to do it on their own, I mean, that's the whole reason we put the coffee bit in there.

So mebbe we can take the coffee bit out, since it ain't working anyways.

Sundry Chicken said...

What did the zen master say to the time lord?

Can you see me now?

"I don't much care where –" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"– so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."