THE FAR END

The trip back to the city passed into fog a few miles before the bridge. Not cold fog. Room temperature fog. That means that somewhere inland it was hot as blazes. There were poor lost souls wandering around at the last stop before the bridge. Not freezing, but not happy. The famous sight was yet to be seen. How beastly and depressing! No visibility! Just fog.

Well, if you really want to see the bridge, you should come during Summer.
Which will be next year, I should think.

The coldest July in ober thirty years has segued seemlessly into the most lukewarm August in three decades. Quite nice.

Just for times like these there should be a coffeeshop at the northern end, with a terrace where there are tables and ashtrays. So that the pipe smokers can lurk in the Dickensian fog drifts. And let us tell no one else about it, we don't want them shutting it down because of smoking on the premises.

Tofu-snarfing wheatgerm freaks. Anti-tobacco fiends. Damned hippies.

Sadly, it must remain an unfeasable fantasy, though immensely appealing.


"Oh driver, please let me off at the forbidden café, as I must talk to an associate about cryptids."


In his groundbreaking work 'The Phenomenology of Selfness", famous Polish philosopher Wroclaw Chestenisko specifically refered to imaginary literature as a manifestation of existential angst: "to be or to be fictional is the paradigm of modern fearfulness."

All ego, he postulates, is inverted self-doubt (selbstzweifel).


I have just the pipe for that. Perfect for die vielen tiefgründigen philosophischen diskussionen as well as negotiating the purchase of a tauntaun to get me through the wastes.

According to my apartment mate, clearly humans are bound to go extinct, because they cannot deal with reality, and are a bit strange.

You know, she may be right.



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