There
is a land, far away from here although
it's difficult to say how far it is, for it is
even more difficult to indicate where „from here”
is where people love to classify
everything. For example they have classified,
segregated, catalogued, grouped and named precisely
all rhythms, scales, sounds they play and connected
them with parts of a day and seasons, so now
everybody knows what can be played at noon and what
can not. Every sphere of their live is arranged in
that way – maybe this is the reason why an awful
mess is the very first thing we can notice having
arrived to this country. Of course, this can be but
an appearance, a bad impression caused by a variety
of different, unknown smells, shapes, colours.....
Their personal lives are well arranged, too, meaning
a life is composed of five stages I
don't know if there are any substages or
subsubstages, but they are quite probable.
The first three stages seem quite obvious and can be
met almost everywhere – they refer to childhood,
youth and maturity. The banality of these stages is
not interesting. The fourth stage is not so banal
though can't be called a revolutionary one, and it
is described more or less in this way: when you can
see the children of your children, it means the time
has come to get rid of family life, go to a forest,
build a shack over there, take what the forest can
offer you and devote yourself to peaceful
meditation. But really fascinating is the fifth
stage, the last one: and when the right moment
comes, you have to quit your shelter and go, turn
into a dried, wind-tossed leaf ......
Amazing! Although this is an ideal too ideal for
too many, so forests in this distant country are
rather full of tigers than of meditating old men.
This is what I
thought, when I had learnt about this land. And I
thought also: it would be nice to go away and
disappear. When did I think like
that: before or after I read about this country? I
don't know. I was feeling as if this thought, this
vision, had been in my head for very long, it had
been lying somewhere on a shelf, too high to reach
it, all the time it had been lying there, and
finally it fell down due to some shakes, quakes,
blows and draughts.
It's so easy to
write. It's so easy to imagine. It' really easy to
squander metaphors and unbridled visions.
How my disappearance
might look like? Where would I go? To a white desert
or to a yellow one? On a white desert I would
inevitable turn into an ice-cube, sooner than
disappear. On a yellow desert I would die of hunger
and thirst, then I would get dried like a mummy,
unless something devoured me before.... Is this the
disappearing I'm thinking about? And
how can I reach a desert: just leave the house and
go straight THERE? but this is the distance of
several thousand kilometres – what will happen on
the road and by the way? better not to think of
it..... Each version assume I will be
sufficiently fit to march vividly and bravely. And
if I get a stroke before I decide to go, and I will
not be able to command my legs or maybe even change
into a vegetable? So I would have to go early
enough. Now? Does it mean right now? Well, it seems
a bit too early.... Well, but a bit later can be too
late....
And another vision:
a desert full of vanishing old people – everywhere I
go there are crowds of disappearing old men and old
women..... To disappear in the crowd of the
disappearing? It doesn't look like fun....
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