The Fever Diaries
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A while back I caught a cold and went through one of those half-delirious fever periods getting over it, the kind where weird dream-like thoughts occur to you as you loll on the tidal plain of consciousness between the ocean of sleep and the firm land of wakefulness.
Here are some scribbles from my notebook of that time:
Did you know: It takes 27 muscles to frown, but only 3 to pull a trigger.
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Could people consume so much residual detergent off their plates and cutlery that their shit starts frothing at the sewage treatment plant?
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Crime and Punishment: The Musical
Raskolnikov’s big number. In his room. Music swells. He moves downstage into a spotlight and sings:Oh, I don’t want to go to the slammer
‘cause I killed that old dame with a hammer.
They must let me off — I’m Raskolnikov!
Prince of existential glamour……
Somewhere on the eastern edge of my knowledge of the place we crossed a river [note to remember a dream in which robots that looked like models from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue invaded Central Europe]
Aren’t you glad I recovered?
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.08.12 (Tue) • 11:43
Comments
Posted by Kit 2003.08.12, 14:47
Well, you’re interesting to read now, but imagine the possibilities if you’d never recovered? no, I really am glad that you did recover, though I enjoyed reading your half-conscious rants, especially the part about the Abercrombie and Fitch models invading Central Europe. [oh, the humanity!]
Posted by lago 2003.08.12, 17:11
It reads like Chicken Soup for the Something Something. You feel that it makes sense, but that the deeper meaning is just beyond your reach…
Posted by Dee 2005.01.08, 22:26
Hey! (okay, must admit, this popped up on a google search when i was checking if mild delirium during colds and light fever is normal. still, woo hoo!) I think Crime and Punsihment: The Musical sounds like a phenomenal idea. Course, you can’t really take my opinion as something of any value right now. I have a cold (see above.) Can I whack the idea and the refrain as something fun to work wi’? Please? Huh? Can I? Can I? cheers! D
Posted by jh 2005.01.15, 22:03
Dee —- I was hoping to get Thomas Pynchon interesting in doing the libretto, but not sure if scheduling conflicts will get in the way. So sure, go ahead. Interested to see what you come up with.
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