Blimey

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

What happened to today?

I can cope with being away for a while. I'm used to other people of my lot coming out to bat for me when needed.

It doesn't normally happen at work, though.

Wonder if anyone noticed?

Actually, I've noticed. Normally, we potter along pretty well in our little anarcho-syndicalist collective and don't get in each others' way too much; we've evolved a routine and we're fairly well used to it.

But a dear friend -- who I won't name; they're reading and can identify themself publicly if they want -- has been talking to me about the whole multiple thing, and all the thinking we've been doing on that topic seems to have thrown us off balance quite badly.

Rather like the centipede in the poem who was asked:

"...pray which leg goes after which?"/which set his mind in such a pitch/he lay distracted in a ditch/considering how to run".

Anyone else find they can survive easily from day to day only if they don't think about how to do it?

Hazel

Comments

[36.livejournal.com]

We're certainly more aware of memory oddities and more likely to forget something important if we're taking an individualistic approach...

We've described ourself as an anarcho-communist collective before too :)

[soresoroar.livejournal.com]

yes. like a whole train of boxcars. don't matter which one gets hooked up as engine: drive's not in the thinking/switching cars.. the drive is in the will. the doing... here and now.

here and now exists (more for me than any thing/time else). when i think of the past or the future, it can stop the whole train: it IS indeed an impossibillity that this thing contained in a single body can function at all. but the spirit of the moment overcomes the death of reality.

chugga chugga choo chooooooooooo cha cha cha