Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Machines


An idea I read recently, like the sad, ultra-realist antonym of cartoon belief:

Maybe inanimate objects become much more inanimate at night, when no one's looking at them.

Of course they do. When I'm not there, talking to my bike, it's just a bike. Metal, rubber, cold.

(Phenomenologists among you could expand this idea towards humanity...or just stick with the cartoon idea. Either way.)

3 comments:

tori said...

that hurts my brain

erin k h said...

oh emma... i've put a special something on my blog for you...

erin k h said...

oh. and the inanimate, flocked, nodding cat says 'meow!' which, of course means 'hi! i wonder if i meow when erin isn't here?'