Saturday, September 16, 2006
A psychotic break?
It is with all due gravity that I must announce that the man formally known as ‘mouse appears to have suffered some sort of psychotic break. He awoke Saturday morning after eight hours of comfortable sleep. Sometime during the night his ability to take life in modern American society in the year 2006 completely disappeared.
Last seen he was walking about chuckling gently at folks being walked by their designer dogs. He almost fell down laughing at the sight of two people earnestly negotiating over who would next be owned by an ugly, surly, stinking mechanical contraption made by the Bavarian Motor Works. Strangely the man who was receiving his freedom also received a stack of little green bills, which had he any sense at all, he would have thrown away, but which he instead petted with affection.
Continuing his walk he observed several people who had allowed small appliances to attach themselves to their ears. Apparently affected by advertising images, insecurity or lack of creativity, these people talked constantly. Rarely listening. Never being alone with their thoughts.
And on an on he wandered, lost in a crazy, alien, mixed-up landscape.
While we suspect that by Monday morning, when the crush of the workaday world may well re-exert its proper somnabulatory effect, it is possible that ‘mouse may be a lost cause. Worse yet, he may be developing into a dangerous revolutionary.