diffraction

And it’s as if a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. Fuck yeah.

We’ll see if this continues to be a positive development, but I already feel good about the shape of things to come.

An experience of flying through the night-time

I awoke from sleep   to find my feet no longer on solid ground

I was being carried through the air

Beneath me, I gazed upon

hilly, glowing cities half-clothed in clouds of mist

an almost ethereal quality

And with a turn of the neck upwards,

my eyes found a still-richer city: the city of stars in the sky, more numerous than I’d ever dreamt.

Those seemingly immortal beacons of light that outline Orion;

the familiar angles of his hunting dog

the meandering but determined river of light, steadfast in its self-same, looping course

The stars told me I was still on my own world, but the experience suggested otherwise.

Until I dare return to this realm of the sky, I can only dream of what wonders it holds.

The Ship of Theseus

When I had my wisdom teeth extracted three summers ago, I specifically requested that they be given back to me in a jar. I still have those teeth at my house.

This past summer I got a root canal and a crown for one of my molars. Now I have a perfect, decay-proof, pain-immune tooth. I begin to wonder how feasible it would be to replace most or all of the human body with superior artificial prosthetic parts, and whether I’ll see this starting to happen within my own lifetime.

I’m developing a new fantasy: as I grow older, I think it would be fascinating to have my bones replaced with artificial substitutes, one at a time. I’d keep my bones in a safe collection, until one day I could assemble them. I would then be able to show people my own skeleton.

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Lord, let me be speculative again.

My sophomore year of college was characterized by an outward-looking-ness, an intense, conscious questioning of myself and the world and my future and my goals and my failures.
And as I’ve noted on this blog (in the drafts, if nowhere else), this property was drained out of me (at times painfully) over the course of the past year and a half.
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gee-tar

I’m planning to buy a guitar! I’d like to learn classical guitar, so I think I’ll take lessons and pick up a classical axe this week. Probably a student Yamaha classical model.

The end goal, of course, is to play like this:

Stairway on classical guitar

My hair is clearly too long for me to not know how to play guitar.