Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Notes on The Nice-to-Know-You Scene from Our Lives

This is the scene where all the living people (anyone you can think of) go around and introduce themselves and congratulate each other on being here and are overwhelmed by the realization that everyone really is here. Amazing! And because everyone is here, the atmosphere is utterly awash with sound, just one big roar of unity. Hey you there! And you! You made it! Isn't this something? LITERALLY EVERYONE IS HERE!

And then we split back into God's Little Shards and resurface in our own experience and wait again for the day when we will all fall into that wall of sound and (wide-eyed and willingly) tell each other "what a fucking universe this is!"

But until then I will pretend this language is effective and these words do justice, pretend you are listening and pretend what I say is worth saying. I will pretend I am you, a piece of gravel washed up on the shore of Infinity with a mouth moving like a motherfucker from Hell.