Scuttling and Scurrying

[fiat_knox]

To the Mundanes I see all around me.

I see you all.

I watch you as you scuttle to work, and scuttle back and forth to lunch and back to work, and scurry back home or down to the pub.

I observe you as you scurry directly home from work, straight to work from home; and I watch the worst of you as you get out of the house in the morning to stumble onto the bus and, once you arrive in town, lurch straight into the JD Wetherspoons to begin the day's hard drinking regimen that has become the sole focus of your lives.

I see you chasing the pounds, chasing your own tails, chasing after oblivion.

I see it all, and I can hear the voices inside your heads.

I hear them all, screaming.

I am not surprised. If I lived a life as pitiful as this, I'd be screaming, too.

Comments

Another 15 minutes

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Cool. And it looks like it's freaking out the Mundanes on the forum you posted the link to.

I wonder. If I fed them a line from the Tao Teh Ching, would they call it "crappy school poetry" too? Probably so.

Re: Another 15 minutes

[scifitwin.livejournal.com]

it's amazing, right? i bet your life must be really magical. i bet everyone who even sees you just freaks out. squares! we'll show them. i'm going to go put on my jester hat and blow bubbles at my grandma now. that'll freak her out for sure!

Re: Another 15 minutes

[hyper-ion.livejournal.com]

It's Daodeching, by the far less cumbersome pinyin romanization. Just so you know, you're using the outdated Wade-Giles method.

Re: Another 15 minutes

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

To the Chinese, that book is just a pamphlet they hand out at the Taoist temples, rather than the vast, scholarly tome it is over here.

And you did not respond to the question about whether or not people would respond that a line from that book would be considered nothing more than rancid schoolboy doggerel.

Fair enough, because my question was, in the first place, rhetorical.

Re: Another 15 minutes

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Here via metafilter -

I hope that I am witnessing one of the best troll-jobs ever, but, if not, just give me a minute here to find you a ladder so that you can get over your pretentious, faux-thoughtful, special-snowflake self.

(The fact that you completely miss the point of the xkcd cartoon makes me think it's Ladder Time.)

Re: Another 15 minutes

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get the XKCD cartoon.

But it's still just a cartoon. It's entertainment, not Gospel.

I mean, XKCD's just this decade's Garfield / Gary Larson.