Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What is that?

What is that desire, when having an experience, to have a particular person there who you can show it to?

This used to happen with my sister - I'd move to a new place but felt like it wasn't actually real until she came to visit me and saw it too.

Maybe it's just the desire for some small acknowledgment that you're not the only human being left alive on the planet and everyone else is just a hologram.

But we know the trick of that, which is that even when you get the person there beside you and you show them the thing and you experience it together, there's still no way to prove that they're not a hologram, and that you are in fact the only human being left alive on the planet.

Cue the Police, "Message in a Bottle"....

p.s. for my logic friends - if you put parentheses around everything after the "not", it works out

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