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I seem to have reached the point where I can dream just anything! (Dream) My friend Paul and I relax out on a white couch on the porch, and the girls are hot for him! There's all this business about his current love and past love, and when one of the girls comes out, she's with him. Then another girl comes out, and wants to be with him, too! He's the ladies' guy! I go back inside and see if I can develop a system of artwork to represent Paul's popularity with girls, maybe a system of flags over his name. Yeah. A popularity bar, with colors! (Fin) Yesterday's (Dream) We're on our bikes, not far from the bridge. I have to leave my friends to go to class, a real drag. I don't know. Maybe I'll stop cutting one of my classes, that's somewhere down by the foot of the bridge, so I ride my bike, first cutting across a lane of traffic – very carefully! – get across safely and find the class, actually showing up there! So I lived through it. It was kind of interesting, after all. Once. When I get back home ... Oh, my God! ... My stepfather has dismantled my computer. He left the chassis out of spite, doing who knows what with the components. All that's left is the circuit board frames! You know, this time I'm really angry. I don't care if he's old and about to die. I'm going to go and get my fucking Kimber and shoot the guy. (Fin) |
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According to The New York Times (James Gorman: June 27, 2006), the journal Cognitive Science has run a 50-page article, "With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time," (Rafael E. Núñez and Eve Sweetser) describing a culture in the high Andes where the future is behind you, and the past is in front of you! In the Aymaran language that that is known is in front of you, and that that is unknown is behind you. According to the NYT article, their word for "past," nayra, also means "eye," and "sight," as well as "front," and yesterday, walking around the airport, and later as I was getting out of my car before yesterday's early meeting, I realized whatever I was seeing in front of me was in fact, something familiar, and what I've seen before – through the eyes of my past experiences. My entire chest and anterior torso began to see the past ahead of me, with an interesting side effect: There was no room whatsoever for fear! If the past is in front of me, I walk tall and confident, knowing whatever I'm about to see, I've literally seen before, and nothing was that bad. As a matter of fact, most of what I've seen in life is pretty good! I've also finally figured out, you can write just about anything, just for the fun of it ... and for the revolution! |
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"The Aymara call the future qhipa pacha/timpu, meaning back or behind time, and the past nayra pacha/timplu, meaning front time. And they gesture ahead of them when remembering things past, and backward when talking about the future." According to the article, "these are not mere mannerisms. They are windows into the minds of Aymara speakers." And also mine. |
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