This is all reminding me of a moment when I was a senior in high school (my mind was pretty limber) and was driving along and saw a boy on a flying carpet flying in front of a warehouse. As I approached it I knew rationally it couldn't really be a boy on a flying carpet (though I was delighted by the image), but as I got nearer that image held for a long moment, until - it switched! And I saw it was a big piece of cardboard flying about in an updraft caused by the building. I figured at the time that a boy on a magic carpet made more sense to the part of me that imagines than a flying/floating 3x3 hunk of cardboard.
Awesome piece! and full of insights -- "We find patterns and the patterns repeat. Which isn’t much different than religion" ! .... I'm also reminded of the Oscar Wilde quote (supposedly his last words before he died) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do."
This is all reminding me of a moment when I was a senior in high school (my mind was pretty limber) and was driving along and saw a boy on a flying carpet flying in front of a warehouse. As I approached it I knew rationally it couldn't really be a boy on a flying carpet (though I was delighted by the image), but as I got nearer that image held for a long moment, until - it switched! And I saw it was a big piece of cardboard flying about in an updraft caused by the building. I figured at the time that a boy on a magic carpet made more sense to the part of me that imagines than a flying/floating 3x3 hunk of cardboard.
It was definitely a boy on a carpet! We can keep that one.
Awesome piece! and full of insights -- "We find patterns and the patterns repeat. Which isn’t much different than religion" ! .... I'm also reminded of the Oscar Wilde quote (supposedly his last words before he died) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do."
Love that quote! I’ve experienced this sort of wallpaper in my grandmother’s house growing up and it honestly kept me awake at night.
I loved this article!
Thank you Margaret!