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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Athesim

Is demonetized (antler tip to you colonials)- there’s no money in it. Butt seriously (don’t ass me a question without serious intent) - what? You believe magic-man-in-the-sky make you and all his wonders to behold?

Crutch - morals subordinated to supreme being so you don’t have to. Be disconsolate if your only consolation is irrational belief in powers beyond your ken (my ken lives up the road, and beyond him is a mini-roundabout).

Shut up.

Plus I went to the entrails temple-wise of three major world religions whilst away in foreign land (see previous bloggage about near death experience so be-brought): a dead mosque, a current shrine of super-ascetic religion on the border of its antithesis (shabby and decaying, showing the entropy under its tinsel skirt), and the white sixties architecture (also entrophied) of a modern mysticism wholeheartedly embraced by the sanctimonious hippy middle classes of my own fucked up westerly civilisation. At none was I consumed by religious passion, epiphanied or else wise nirvanaed in the spirit - no, I'm still a bitter atheist.

All I saw was dirty, littered and paint-peeling buildings, bullet-holed, with no sense of place, the genius loci fucked off long ago. Just dead space with history piled up with the dust in the corners, weary humanity limping through the corridors.

The rivers smell of fresh shit, the streets smell of hour-old piss, the curbs are a foot high, and everywhere is slick with used oil or ground in fumes. The smog descends from sunrise, is burnt in and printed on the walls by noon. But everything is building fast, new roads on bridges are up and concreted around their rusting steel skeletons.

It's fantastic.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:27 pm

    You write like a friend of mine. Is it also how you talk (he doesn't)?

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  2. I talk like an Englishman: understated; correctly spelt and repressed.

    Other than that I am completely norman.

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