21 May 2008
Patchwork Writing: @ this point in time
)Published on May 21st, 2008 @ 10:04:23 pm, using 341 words, 27 views
On my way from point A to point B, I got stuck here. In a pool of question marks, like the ball pools I loved to dive in as a child.
Question marks don’t have the same effect, though.
Balls are made to roll. Whatever comes in contact with them tends to roll right along. Roll and slide. Roll or slide. Both of those types of motion, of course, hinting at acceptance… carefreeness…
Question marks are of an entirely different nature. They elicit an entirely different set of consequences. Their hook shape either slides itself snake-like around you, seductively, like an arm around a waist pulling you close, or hangs you impersonally by your clothes on a wall where you remain suspended indefinitely… ridiculously…
Both of those promoting stillness… preventing movement…
One way or the other, question marks take the lead and subject your behavior to the whim of hands on a steering wheel. They quite simply conduct you.
What’s worse: question marks are by nature self-renewing.
Man… probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of unanswered questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we think we know? Why do we believe anything at all? Countless questions in search of an answer… an answer that will give rise to a new question… and the next answer will give rise to the next question and so on. But, in the end, isn’t it always fhe same question? And always the same answer?
- The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. That’s a fact. Everything else is pure theory.
(Run Lola Run)
Question marks spring from the ground up like a geyser on slow motion and then, once in the air, become one by one subject to zero gravity - giving you enough time to scrutinize every miniscule drop-like aspect, each zoomed in misty spray of doubt.
This post is the creative work of Iris Watts Hirideyo and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Questions, doubts, ball, pool, movement, motion, stillness, geyser, snake, seductive, hover, slow motion, scrutinize, Run Lola Run
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