Alan,
I absolutely lived every moment of this. I was just thinking 'Every
single traffic light is against them' when you said it out loud - and
then Azure shot the last one before the freeway, turning from amber to
red as you reached it, which seemed really dangerous and reckless but
also like some kind of symbolic victory over the system. At first I
couldn't work out if you were on your way to the hospital or going home
afterwards, but your remark that this could be the start of a
cross-country trip had such a note of wishful thinking that I realized
you must be on your way. With that in mind the satnav instructions
started to sound more and more ominous, and when they announced that you
were arriving at your destination, and as you drove into the car park
you confessed that you were starting to get nervous, the tension was
palpable. After watching the video I found myself having to read Philip
Larkin's poem The Hospital: 'O world, /Your loves, your chances, are
beyond the stretch /Of any hand from here!' That terrible sense that the
hospital/medical world, the world of illness and mortality and fate, is
the underlying reality we spend our lives trying to ignore, and that
'normal' life is just a dream. Very appropriate to the Covid crisis.
Edward
On 23/07/2020 01:38, Alan Sondheim wrote:
medical, vector
on the way to the lab for a series of medical tests
http://www.alansondheim.org/medical.jpg
https://youtu.be/UrcsXQKHiOk VIDEO
went to sleep around 3, up @ 7 to get there early.
about a 12 minute drive.
Azure drives, Dr. said I'm not to drive for 6 mo.
we'll see.
a kind of dawn breaking, then some other stuff
rain when we came out, umbrellas.
reading an old book, Sal Restivo, The social relations
of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics.
lots of David Bohm. Reidel, 1983. I was too nervous to
read in the hallway. 3 separated chairs in the hallway,
3 in the office. everything makes me nervous. medical
makes me nervous but don't think for a moment avoiding
tests. that's all we have, tests.
the camera does poorly in poor light. once out of the
garage, everything adjusts properly. sound is 5.1.
lost in car noise, 2013 Honda Fit. huddled inside now.
again. no cloud formations are alike. my dreams aren't
good. it's worse when i remember them. what's about
this, it's normal. it's normal one way or another.
take a bus. walk. get a ride. drive. keep on going
across America. Keep crossing America, America!
Keep on going, America!
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