Walking through the parking lot with two six-packs,
we see a boy climbing into his mother's car through
the driver's side. Adam says, "Now we know
exactly what's going to happen." He's right.
I climb in through the driver's side too. There
is no other way. The beers get shaken as I stumble
getting in.
It's his obsession and I get annoyed--he's so
in the middle of the lane, he sets his watch for
ten-oh-nine and thirty seconds and doesn't wind
it.
Both hands of the wheel, he says, "We're
almost halfway there and we're almost at some large
ewe and we're almost halfway there."
A car gets in front of us and he slams on the
brakes. I hear the beers fall from the back seat.
He says, "See, there it is."
* * * * *
(Time's line is a clothesline hung between the
end-walls of Infinity's back yard. When little
boy god chases his dog and accidentally gets tangled
in mother Infinity's drying bra, he causes all
objects on the line to move. Events occur, the
Big bangs, all particles vibrate and--even as we
finally come around to notice--the seasons turn
and turn, hearts beat and beat.)
The vibration of the objects causes the very rope
of time to oscillate along certain maximum positive
and negative positions (antinodes) away from-mid
zero positions (nodes). The magnitude of the antinodes
is in direct proportion to the importance of the
event in which the vibrating objects participate. |