»No,
don't put your head in there!«
he
said, »put
it back on your neck or you'll frighten people.« Reluctantly
I pulled my head out from a big bosomed Bavarian beer tank wielding
woman's cleavage and adopted an air of seriousness (not
without a 'yodelai-ii-oo' as farewell; she
smiled, I'm sure) as
we walked through the enormous and hugely populated tent just outside
the doomed town; or perhaps it was post-doomed as it was really
nothing but smoking rubble and was about to again become part of the
mountain from whence it once rose stone by stone taken from the
mountain's body. So to speak. What
comes from the mountain returns to the mountain. Or something like
that.
one window apart the
Theotokos and Vishnu
As
it is with human beings who aren't aware whether they're dead or not,
the crowd – or the gathering of crowds or how it is, seeing that
it's impossible to feel at home in gatherings of more than 154 people
(according to Nicodemus
the Elder of Mt. Rectum), spent
what it had or didn't have left of time partying without celebrating
anything and was uninhibitedly gulping down beer, wine and spirits no
matter what their respective god(s) might have said about that and of
course that made them lose whatever constraints their cortex – or
cortexes - may have held
of morally-socially-religiously regulations of behaviour and people
were gradually regressing to a lizard state first becoming dogs, then
rats and then lizards, geckos
and skinks and so on
hurrying out into the
relentlessly sun drenched desert where they would probably perish in
solitude having lost all sense of being a social being;
or be eaten by snakes and jinns. What do I really know? The
Lord really do move mysteriously.
outwardly
unimpressed by winter vine
Having
made it to the far end of the tent away from the town we went down a
long flight of stairs to the omnipresent ocean surrounding the known
Earth and onto a huge ship.
»There's
nothing we can do about it,«
he said in a neutral voice. »Now
it has to run its own course. In the meantime we'll reside here on
this safe ship till the fires of the land and humanity has died
down.«
dusting a porcelain bear
winter solstice gets closer
Now
we're travelling the waters that surround the known for as long as
it'll take and things take the time they take (which can be
understood in two ways,
but that's beyond my authority to say anything about) and
occasionally feeding Leviathan or Jörmungandr
or
what it's called with bread crumbs and milk. Time would indeed seem
long and the waiting unbearable if it wasn't for the very up-beat
Activity Director on board; he is pretty good at organising games and
cocktail parties, but that's another story.
here
again it's nothing and a few neutrinos wind
»Nej,
la' vær' med at putte dit hoved
derned!«
sagde
han, »sæt det tilbage
på din hals, ellers skræmmer du bare folk!« Modvilligt trak jeg
mit hoved tilbage fra en storbarmet bayersk ølkrussvingende kvindes
kavalergang og anlagde en air af alvor (ikke uden et 'jodelæ-ii-uu'
til afsked; jeg er sikker på, at hun smilede), mens vi gik gennem
det gigantiske og voldsomt befolkede telt lige udenfor den fordømte
by; eller måske var den post-fordømt eftersom den ikke var andet
end rygende murbrokker og var på vej til igen at blive del af
bjerget, hvorfra den havde rejst sig sten for sten taget fra bjergets
krop. Så at sige. Hvad der kommer fra bjerget vender tilbage til
bjerget. Eller noget i den dur.
adskilt
af eet vindue Gudsfødersken og Vishnu
Som
det er
med mennesker, der
ikke er klar over, om de er døde eller ej tilbragte gruppen –
eller gruppen af grupper eller hvordan det nu forholder sig, idet det
er umuligt at føle sig hjemme i forsamlinger på mere end 154
mennesker (iflg. Nicodemus den Ældre fra Rektumbjerget) hvad den
havde eller ikke havde tilbage af tid med at fest uden at fejre noget
og uhæmmet nedbælle øl, vin og spiritus uanfægtet af, hvad deres
gud(er) end måtte
have sagt om dette, og det fik dem i sin tur til at miste de
begrænsninger, hæmninger om De vil, som deres cortex – eller
cortexer – måtte have indeholdt af moralsk-sociale-religiøse
reguleringer af opførsel og folk regrederede gradvist til et
øglestadie idet de først blev hunde, siden rotter og endelig øgler
- firben, gekkoer og skinker og
så videre – der skyndte sig ud i den af solen nådeløst brændte
ørken, hvor de sandsynligvis ville gå til i ensomhed uden erindring
om, at de engang var sociale væsener; eller blive spist af slanger
og djinner. Hvad véd jeg egentlig? Herrens
veje er sandelig ...
udadtil
uimponeret af vinteren efeu
Efter
at have banet os vej til den fjerne ende af teltet, den der vendte
bort fra byen, gik vi ned ad en lang trappe til det
allestedsnærværende hav, der omgiver den kendte Jord og ombord på
et gigantisk skib. »Der er intet vi kan gøre ved det,« sagde han i
et neutralt toneleje. »Nu må det gå sin egen skæve gang. Imens
vil vi tage ophold på dette sikre skib indtil
ilden i landet og menneskeheden er døet ud.«
mens
jeg støver en porcelænsbjørn af kommer vintersolhverv tættere
Nu
berejser vi vandene, der omgiver det kendte og det vil tage den tid,
det tager, for ting tager nu engang den tid, de tager (og det kan
forstås på to måder, men det ligger udenfor min bemyndigelse at
forklare dette) og indimellem fodrer vi Livjatan eller Jörmungandr
eller hvad den nu kaldes med brødkrummer og mælk. Tiden ville
uvægerligt føles lang og ventetiden ubærlig, hvis det ikke havde
været for den noget oppe-på-dupperne Aktivitetsinstruktør om bord;
han er god til at finde på lege og konkurrencer og arrangere
cocktail parties, men det er en anden historie.
her
igen
er
den ingenting og nogle få neutrinoer vinden
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