Thursday, April 24, 2008

emancipate yourself from particulate matter.

I've been thinking a bit about economies of scale. First, in regards to time: taking a moment and saying, "this is just one moment," and letting the one outlast the other. Second, in regards to sheer geographic scale and how difficult it makes the concept of co-temporaneousness: me here typing, some hours or days or weeks later you reading what gets typed, with me - presumably - off somewhere that is not ether but for all intents and purposes may as well be. I think I was in college when I realized that "for all intensive purposes" was not right.

I visited, as a visitor, crestfallen-like, an emergency room two days ago. The Coke machine was a locus of activity and the automatic doors made a sweeping sound that was neither natural nor un-. Styrofoam cups of coffee were all the rage, as was shoe-gazing. someone told me upwards of five inches of snow is at this moment converging on the part of the Northern Plains I occupy. I am not surprised. Not one bit.

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