Three attempts to describe my
Dec 08 2001
Three attempts to describe my week:
nope, that cannot be right. It was more like…
no, more generally…
There are few funks so bad as unmotivated idleness. Days just seem to flicker
on and off; I completely missed Tuesday this week. I cannot say with certainly
that I didn't sleep through until Wednesday. I sit down to write at night and
feel as if I'm trying to write for the first time in my life. Nothing is
distinguishable; it's all perpetual state vacillation.
nope, that cannot be right. It was more like…
perpetual string of 4'o clock devaluations, which began when I unintentionally
let a day slip by unnoticed. I suspect it was Tuesday got away, but the labels
may have been switched. It was Thorsday when I noticed the discrepancy, but by
this time, there was a throng of interrogators demanding an account of that
lost time. I plead no contest, and took a sentence of labor; they were
dubious.
no, more generally…
I once lost two pages from a book while trying to free it from its ignoble job
as a door stop. As soon as I was able to wrest the book from where it was
bound, the papers had found flight on a sudden breeze brought in by the Gulf
Stream, as part of an unlikely state referred to lovingly as a "dip"
by meteorologist P. Boyle. The pages of the book numbering over a thousand
were reduced only slightly, but had been so efficiently plucked by chance that
the book as a while lost all readability. The character introduction of Rodey
Kickham, and the moment when the hero is killed before his mighty friend were
both gone. In this new book, for it was so irreparably harmed that it could
not be referred to by its original title, a mysterious Rodey Kickham walks the
length of the book with an unexplained limp, and the hero goes missing having
received not so much as a scratch while fighting before a bank in Troy,
Alabama. I have, from that moment, felt compelled to bring dignity back to
that deficient book and substitute two pages of my own wording. I have
appealed to the courts and I have petitioned a man named Bygmester, but I am
still unsure if I am qualified for book repair.