EPISODE · Aug 8, 2019 · 8 MIN
Groundhog or Fox
from fieldnotes62 · host fieldnotes62
Groundhog or fox. Monday, July 4, 2016. Valley under the highway overpass. Hit by a car. Does death make us malleable or indistinct? Is it the great equalizer? A waiting room in Hell. Where have you been my bonnie young one? The ass end of modern infrastructure in decay. Who would choose to build a world in this image? What you do for the least of these. We go through this world with a pretty shaky understanding of various animal genus and families. A sound recording isn't like a photograph any more than a beaver is like a sparrow, but still the desire to see the universal in the individual is persistent. But there’s no point in arguing with what people like. You can’t convince anyone to pay attention and love something. All the time you’ve wasted on those who weren't worth the bother. Addition and subtraction don’t mean anything until you finish the equation. You call this hair? Is it any wonder we wrap ourselves in clothes? It’s hard to keep looking. It’s difficult to balance the notion that I’m no different than any of these creatures, with the awareness that I’m not them- I don’t know what the world looked like to them, what their consciousness of the world felt like; what they would have seen when they looked at me. I have an animal stubbornness. I am a nervous animal. I’m getting tired. Stay focused- that’s a lesson you used to learn in the days of film photography. You’d have a roll of film and develop it and realize nothing was in focus. None of the pictures you had were the ones you thought you were taking. Is that the allure of a photograph? It’s an answer without the limitations of a question. A garbled hypothesis before the benediction. I can hear those church bells ringing. I can hear that lonesome train a crying. I can hear the highway roaring. All up and down the line it’s Independence Day.
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Groundhog or fox. Monday, July 4, 2016. Valley under the highway overpass. Hit by a car. Does death make us malleable or indistinct? Is it the great equalizer? A waiting room in Hell. Where have you been my bonnie young one? The ass end of modern infrastructure in decay. Who would choose to build a world in this image? What you do for the least of these. We go through this world with a pretty shaky understanding of various animal genus and families. A sound recording isn't like a photograph any more than a beaver is like a sparrow, but still the desire to see the universal in the individual is persistent. But there’s no point in arguing with what people like. You can’t convince anyone to pay attention and love something. All the time you’ve wasted on those who weren't worth the bother. Addition and subtraction don’t mean anything until you finish the equation. You call this hair? Is it any wonder we wrap ourselves in clothes? It’s hard to keep looking. It’s difficult to balance the notion that I’m no different than any of these creatures, with the awareness that I’m not them- I don’t know what the world looked like to them, what their consciousness of the world felt like; what they would have seen when they looked at me. I have an animal stubbornness. I am a nervous animal. I’m getting tired. Stay focused- that’s a lesson you used to learn in the days of film photography. You’d have a roll of film and develop it and realize nothing was in focus. None of the pictures you had were the ones you thought you were taking. Is that the allure of a photograph? It’s an answer without the limitations of a question. A garbled hypothesis before the benediction. I can hear those church bells ringing. I can hear that lonesome train a crying. I can hear the highway roaring. All up and down the line it’s Independence Day.
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