Time and darkness, the greatest equalizers. One takes everything to the same form, while the other makes form irrelevant. Lost are we the children of electricity. We go to sleep in our impure darknesses clothed in flickering electronic lights, our silent digital sentinels watching through the fake night. For this is not the pure night …
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The Death of Consciousness
Up until a couple of years ago, I had a pretty strong conviction that some grand, strange things happen after we die. A sort of ultimate union with the source in which all consciousness become one and individuality and identity are lost forever. I used to imagine it as a grandiose play of bright flowing …
Edward’s Death
‘I’m going away.’ This text reached seven people within a few minutes of half past two in the night of the last Tuesday of September, 1999. All of them had been sent simultaneously from a cell phone number that switched off two minutes later. With that, Edward commenced the process of witnessing his own death. …
The Death of a Dirty Little Sewer Rat
There was a dirty little rat that fell down a sewer pipe once. This happened because it was a sewer rat. In the beginning the pipe was wide and it fell straight down. Then it bent into a horizontal bit. The rat couldn’t climb back up, so it kept crawling on its dirty little feet …
Dawn
So I was thinking, when dawn breaks, what really happens? There's a blueness before dawn, on some days. Everything, the streets, trees, the pavement, is blue. Take a deep breath, it's like inhaling life. And night, I wanna talk about night, and perhaps darkness. Isn't it magic, and how thoroughly strange, that there was a …
One Life 