Monday, November 11, 2002

"And you may find yourself in another part of the world"

So I was sitting down, thinking about Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. I was specifically thinking about Leontes and Polixenes, and the onset of jealously in the first act. Would it really be so quick and violent? He even doubt's his own son. Over a few mis-interpreted words? And Hermione was instructed to flirt with Polixenes, could he forget so quickly? Then my eyes slowly came into focus, I could see a white square box, with some writing on it, that didn't quite make sense.

"And you may ask yourself: How do I work this?"

I blinked. Then a second later, everything became sharp and focused. I was staring at the file I opened to deal with the statistics table in the RAM database. I didn't understand what it said because it was written in C, a computer language I have little experience in.

"And you may ask yourself: How did I get here?"

I had drifted off for about 15 minutes and thought about something my English teacher said about 5 years ago.

"Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground " - David Byrne.

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