EPISODE · Jul 10, 2018 · 5 MIN
Hypnotist Blue Jay
from fieldnotes62 · host fieldnotes62
Blue Jay. Sunday, June 26, 2016. North Mountain in front of the run down Victorian house with the porch. Hit by a car. Wild manicures. At the count of three you will forget any of this happened. We are robbed daily. Cosmology and the foundations of the scientific process. Who notices us? What would I have made of life and death 500 years ago? Would I have thought about these animals at all? The constant breeze through the trees makes it sound like a cassette recording of scratchy LP. All our attempts at preservation add up to a confusing, obsolete and noisy loss. The libraries are burned. The texts are placed inside clay jars and hidden in forgotten caves. What is it like to know so much and to wait, and wait, and wonder if you’ll ever get to tell anyone? Will you ever find anyone who even speaks your language? Nobody will ever know what it’s like to fly. Is this why we’ve given up? Is it why we feel different than the world around us? We plod the earth knowing it’s our grave. Give thanks to the Blue Jays, after the last glacial period they helped spread oak trees. What have you done?
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Blue Jay. Sunday, June 26, 2016. North Mountain in front of the run down Victorian house with the porch. Hit by a car. Wild manicures. At the count of three you will forget any of this happened. We are robbed daily. Cosmology and the foundations of the scientific process. Who notices us? What would I have made of life and death 500 years ago? Would I have thought about these animals at all? The constant breeze through the trees makes it sound like a cassette recording of scratchy LP. All our attempts at preservation add up to a confusing, obsolete and noisy loss. The libraries are burned. The texts are placed inside clay jars and hidden in forgotten caves. What is it like to know so much and to wait, and wait, and wonder if you’ll ever get to tell anyone? Will you ever find anyone who even speaks your language? Nobody will ever know what it’s like to fly. Is this why we’ve given up? Is it why we feel different than the world around us? We plod the earth knowing it’s our grave. Give thanks to the Blue Jays, after the last glacial period they helped spread oak trees. What have you done?
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