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A lady finally got to the front of a security checkpoint after arriving at her travel destination. When asked “how long will you be staying?” She very politely replied “two weeks”. The checkpoint officer followed up with “Have you brought any fresh fruit or vegetables?” Again, she courteously replied “two weeks”. Then she proceeded to deliriously rant “two weeks”. Naturally, an upset caused by inquiring about fresh fruit and vegetables and the mention of some length of time made it necessary for her to remove his — turns out she was a man head and use it as a bomb. Watch it HERE if you don’t believe me.
I jest. I rediscovered this video as I sought out another scene from the 1990 scifi classic “Total Recall”. The scene I was looking for contained the first appearance of Kuato when he emerged like a baby-shaped pimple from George’s (Marshall Bell) abdomen. In the clip the baby growth says “you are what you do”. Which got at a central theme of Aurora Eliam, CMP’s INTRODUCTION STORY. The theme being that so often, we don’t stop to think about who we are, because we’re too busy doing something.
I like to refer to what I’m doing when I comment on another’s story as “connecting”. Connecting with people and connecting ideas and such. For instance, the lady-man in the video keeps saying “two weeks”. She could easily work as a physician in these troubled times. “doctor, how long do I have to self-isolate?” S/he will invariably report “two weeks” with that sublime old lady voice.
Are these two events related? No, not really. But that’s kind of the point. Fabricating these connections/coincidences inspires me to spin these yarns, like THIS ONE — where I learned the ~2,000-year-old connection between the width of a choo-choo train and a horse-drawn chariot. When such an occurrence gets this big, I call it a “singularity” — another example can be found HERE .
This short read is the first in a series where I attempt to weave relevance into seemingly unrelated occurrences and such. A bit like six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with more railroads, polish immigrants and “MEH-linneals”.
Stay tuned!
