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About 20 years ago, I was renovating an old cottage that had been infested with mice and squirrels. I gutted the entire place down to the studs and rebuilt everything. While I was at it, I removed all the wiring to the build and redid it all too. As I worked around the main electrical panel, the panel was separated in two partitions. The first partition was where all the house wiring went to ... the other side was for servicing by the electrical company to install or reinstall or service the panel ... I never needed to go in there. So I worked on the place for about a month until I had to get behind the panel to remove a few screws. and adjust a few things.
I opened the never opened panel ...... I couldn't see any wires ..... the whole section of that panel was completely blocked by a recently deceased squirrel that was completely spread out, all limbs stretching as far as they could go in four directions and its tail completely ballooned up with fur. I took the out the squirrel as one solid stiff piece. It had entered in through a punch out that shouldn't have been removed and crawled in and touched things it shouldn't have touched.
I just didn't expect to find that when I went to open the metal box panel.
I wish I had taken a picture but it was just before the period when people started to get camera phones to take pictures of everything.
I gutted a room and inside a wall cavity found a fully intact mouse skeleton with a wire cap stuck in it's mouth
Reminds me of that picture I saw going around of two snakes and some wires.
The first snake bit a wire and electrocuted itself, and the second snake bit the first snake and electrocuted itself.
And I always thought, that first snake was an idiot and probably thought he was biting another snake, and he paid the price for it. But the second snake had the exact same thought, only he was right. He really was biting another snake, but he still suffered the same fate.
Maybe it happened in reverse and the first snake was like “that’s it. I’m taking you down with me”
You can do everything right, and still lose.
I was curious so I found the picture
Thanks! That's the one.
Bro this is thought provoking
At least it was quick.
And thus the eldritch horror that is existence pulled yet another drip of unnoticed life into its gravity
Me choking on a grape and doing random noises I thought they had no meaning:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Wait, this wouldn't by any chance have been late 2024 would it? SO YOU ARE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT THIS UPON US ALL!?!?
I wonder which one you summoned...
We are such small and limited things that this is no great surprise. We do not wander through life blind, more we drift through life bereft of senses (and indeed, sense!).
The world we see is an echo of an illusion concocted by crude senses, and guided by a thought process that (while beautiful) is limited in what it can conceive.
Still, like a flower anchored to earth and at the mercy of all around it, we bloom and blossom to the delight of much around us - we play our part in the chaotic heartbeat of all around us.
So it's not all cosmic apathy and horror, more blissful optimism with a hint of cosmic humour.
"Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing— irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default."
~Blindsight
BTW, I'll not read better poetry than you post this day!
I've not read blindsight, now I feel I need to!
Thanks for the quote ^_^
You've activated my trap card! Read the book 14 times or so, and it's not a long read. Finally feel I've caught most of the thing. Caveat: I'm not that bright.
Here's another taste to whet your appetite:
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a pre-copulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.”
(The character quoted had half his brain dug out as a child, some sort of viral epilepsy, replaced with some sort of electronics. He's basically hyper-autistic. He's also the unreliable narrator.)
Blindsight is hard science fiction. The spaceship captain is a vampire, an obligate carnivore from the Pleistocene era, our ancient enemy. Yes, it works.
Those bolt heads were probably the perfect size and shape for it's little grabbies, and if it had chosen the pair to the left or right it would have been fine and still oblivious to the danger.
I need more of this
Almost no one even noticed he was gone, and the few who did would also vanish along with any memory of his existence.
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