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misterblackbird) wrote2010-06-04 07:12 pm
misterblackbird) wrote2010-06-04 07:12 pm
Entry 406; Day 532
Yesterday, I saw a man sitting the cafe for the whole of the afternoon, putting milk into his tea over and over and over. The cup never overflowed, and he never stopped adding the milk. He was hardly the first person I saw doing something over and over, unceasing--and not in any sort of peculiar way, the way I've know some people to check the locks at their doors far too many times. It was rather like seeing something in a recording on the Network being played over and over again. It must have been maddening for the people caught in those cycles, and I'll count myself fortunate not to have been one of them. It was eerie enough to see them--on the Network, of course, but moreso in person.
Yes, it was a curse, but it suggests something that we've already suspected: the 'deities' seem quite content and quite able to control time and our actions in it. I remember Merry coming into the City from an 'earlier' time--there's no better way to put it--than Riff and I. I know others have seen the same thing happen. Of course it would make sense that the 'deities' could snatch us from any time in our lives that they pleased--which means we'll never really be free of this place, even if we don't remember it in between the times that we spend here.
But to be able to set us on a circuit like that, to force us into repeating useless motions over and over until it drove us mad--that proves something more, I daresay.
Is it reason to fear them? I say no, but then I'm the one who refuses to even call them gods, because I say there's an explanation for it all, if it can be found. But they've some ability or skill to make these things happen, even maddening nightmares like that: to be putting milk into one's tea forever.
It's rather like it always being teatime, isn't it? Isn't that how it followed, that mad tea party? It was always teatime, forever, ever since the clock had stopped.
And, yes, I do see the strains of irony in all that. I won't give them credit or power over time. But it is interesting.
That hardly seems to matter now, though, since there seemed to be far more interesting things going on last night, and no sooner than the curse had ended.
What happened last night? I'm quite aware that there was something like a declaration of war--that's hardly the first time I've seen such a thing thrown on the Network. I suppose that proves the one responsible, and he hardly seems to care.
Another one, I suppose, who hates humans and would kill himself if it meant destroying us as well.
I certainly heard a great deal going on in the streets, and saw a few flashes of light--a few, since it seemed like the lights went out in that part of the City shortly thereafter. What the fight was, I couldn't see, though I tried for it. And nothing turned up on the Network thereafter either. I suppose the police found out about it soon enough.
I suppose the first question is whether anyone is hurt. The second question is what happened?
Can anyone answer me that?
[Private to Megumi || Unhackable]
Of course I felt some of what was going on. Are you all right? I know you were there somewhere--and I know it was nearby the hospital. What was going on?
[//end private filter]
Miss Reinette, I have not forgotten my promise to you, but this hardly seems like the time to discuss plans in that regard.
Rosella, I hope you're still bearing up as well as possible.
~C.
[ooc: Geeze--haven't posted in an age. Yeah, Alice-y types, he's referencing your mad tea party--it's basically canon that he knows it. lol, I'd wanted this to be a short post. Fail. Also, let's talk war~]
Yes, it was a curse, but it suggests something that we've already suspected: the 'deities' seem quite content and quite able to control time and our actions in it. I remember Merry coming into the City from an 'earlier' time--there's no better way to put it--than Riff and I. I know others have seen the same thing happen. Of course it would make sense that the 'deities' could snatch us from any time in our lives that they pleased--which means we'll never really be free of this place, even if we don't remember it in between the times that we spend here.
But to be able to set us on a circuit like that, to force us into repeating useless motions over and over until it drove us mad--that proves something more, I daresay.
Is it reason to fear them? I say no, but then I'm the one who refuses to even call them gods, because I say there's an explanation for it all, if it can be found. But they've some ability or skill to make these things happen, even maddening nightmares like that: to be putting milk into one's tea forever.
It's rather like it always being teatime, isn't it? Isn't that how it followed, that mad tea party? It was always teatime, forever, ever since the clock had stopped.
And, yes, I do see the strains of irony in all that. I won't give them credit or power over time. But it is interesting.
That hardly seems to matter now, though, since there seemed to be far more interesting things going on last night, and no sooner than the curse had ended.
What happened last night? I'm quite aware that there was something like a declaration of war--that's hardly the first time I've seen such a thing thrown on the Network. I suppose that proves the one responsible, and he hardly seems to care.
Another one, I suppose, who hates humans and would kill himself if it meant destroying us as well.
I certainly heard a great deal going on in the streets, and saw a few flashes of light--a few, since it seemed like the lights went out in that part of the City shortly thereafter. What the fight was, I couldn't see, though I tried for it. And nothing turned up on the Network thereafter either. I suppose the police found out about it soon enough.
I suppose the first question is whether anyone is hurt. The second question is what happened?
Can anyone answer me that?
[Private to Megumi || Unhackable]
Of course I felt some of what was going on. Are you all right? I know you were there somewhere--and I know it was nearby the hospital. What was going on?
[//end private filter]
Miss Reinette, I have not forgotten my promise to you, but this hardly seems like the time to discuss plans in that regard.
Rosella, I hope you're still bearing up as well as possible.
~C.
[ooc: Geeze--haven't posted in an age. Yeah, Alice-y types, he's referencing your mad tea party--it's basically canon that he knows it. lol, I'd wanted this to be a short post. Fail. Also, let's talk war~]
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