Sunday, January 28, 2007

There's always a reason for seagulls

There's always a reason for seagulls
What happens to seagull reasons if a man carrying a rope ladder walks calmly and purposefully into the depths of an ancient forest, far from any borders, in the heart of an old, landlocked country, and stumbles across a deep, dry well? What happens to seagull reasons if he secures the ladder to the rusted but thick and still firm iron fittings on the side of the well and, confident that though the iron bears the marks of centuries of neglect, reflecting the despondent, isolated gloom of the clearing in which the well makes its home, it will stand proud, strong, unflinching against the fleeting, transient, meaningless force of his tiny weight, climbs down into the darkness, turning his attention from the dank dampness around and inward toward his self, making his ‘I’ its own focus? What happens to seagull reasons if, by the time his foot brushes gently on the soft, mulchy mud of the bottom of the well, his conscious mind is so abstracted from his surroundings, so absorbed in self-contemplation that his body functions merely mechanically, allowing his manifestation in the by now illusory physical plane to fold itself, to scrunch up its stretch into compact, encapsulated compression so that those surroundings absorb him, and his presence becomes one with the universe, his being disappears, his ‘him’ transforms into ‘all’?

Nothing! Ha.

Comments

  • Weedy made the following comment at 5:54am on January 31st 2007:
    I fear you may have missed the central point of the photograph. Whilst your narrative allows the reader to idle a few moments away, the underlying message of the graphic is that West Ham football fans will always enjoy giving Brighton fans (known as "Seagulls") a good kicking. You will notice a small drawing to the right of the word "FOR", which closely resembles the club crest of West Ham United, the football team based in East London, not a million miles from where you live or, I suspect, from where this photo was taken. The two teams happened to play each other in the FA Cup on 5 Jan 2007 - a rare meeting as they play in different divisions in the League. Please do your research properly next time or I will be forced to cancel my subscription.
  • Igor Clark made the following comment at 2:23pm on January 31st 2007:
    Your football nonsense affects my metaphysic not a jot. Begone.
  • “Morgan” made the following comment at 8:49pm on October 24th 2007:
    Nicely put.

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