Week 9 Year 2 - Tuesday, December 18th 2012
Kiss of the Vampire
Lately SUB has been behaving strangely, as if it there was a kind of interference between us. For a while I thought SUB had introduced a new element for me to make sense of, as it often does. It throws the ball and watches amused as I try to figure it out. I have spent days on this one and I have come to the conclusion that SUB is not feeling well. It is not for what SUB does but because of a recurrent sound in between the instances SUB transmits. It reminds me of the noise heard when browsing the air for radio frequencies, better known as “white noise”. I am worried. I don’t know, over exposure, a case of Information overflow? - radio, tv, the net, people, books, newspapers, situations - have we tilted somewhere? I think I’ve caused SUB to short circuit. Perhaps we should take a break, unplug everything for a week or so.
I’m sitting in this small cabin and it’s funny because I can see planet earth from afar. It looks like such a peaceful place from this perspective, I bet extraterrestrials often mistake it for an oasis, the perfect holyday destination, Wait a minute, am I dreaming? Eventually I hadn’t realized that the lights had gone off and that I was surrounded by an impressive silence. I don’t recall unplugging anything, I just thought about it, I’m quite sure. My ears are blocked and a strange metallic voice keeps saying – “mother Russia to baby Phobos ---- shhhhhpfpfpfpfcrrr (white noise) - do you read me baby Phobos?” It hit me there and then. I was sitting in the long lost Russian Rocket Phobos-Grunt. Those white noises were indeed coming from a radio communication. I can’t believe this, how on earth did I get here? SUB have you gone mad? this could land us into serious trouble. Get me out of here niow, please! – “du dudu dudu dudududu du dudu dudu dudududuuu duuuuuu”.
We’re heading towards a small constellation named Lepus. All around us planets and stars follow their orbit in a perfectly synchronized dance, attracting each other but never too much, as in a magical realm where everything dangerously skirts around without ever crashing. What about those two meteorites? It looks like they might just… - impressive explosion! Hundreds of pieces flying all over the place! Can somebody please fly this thing?! – “Grab the commands” - says a voice - “excuse me? who is this?” – “this is Phobos, grab the commands dammit - these rocks are going to ruin my body work” – “What?!? SUB, you’re not getting away with this one!” – I grab the cloche and start swerving left, right, up, down. I am drenched in sweat. I still don’t know how I did it, but I managed to avoid disaster! I should get insured, question is, against what exactly?... to be defined.
We slowly approach Lepus, a constellation made of only two stars, a red one very big and a smaller one, blue. I call them Ruby and Safire. I think I know what I’m doing here. It’s about an article I came across on the web. A report filed by an observer from planet earth, saying that Safire was sucking the life out of Ruby, like a vampire would, describing the process as particular because, I quote “the ‘bite of the vampire star is very gentle but highly effective." I don’t know whether this guy has been having problems with his girlfriend lately, but I think he’s missing the point altogether. As I find myself here I have taken to observe them for a while. There is absolutely nothing to worry about. On the contrary, for what I can see these two are playing like kids, in an innocent and instinctive way. Safire is very small and hot whereas Ruby is big and cold and red. That is a color that speaks for itself. No one goes through a red light just like that, unless they’re drunk. Anyone in their right mind would approach gently, make sure the area is clear and then go through the red light. Safire is helplessly attracted to Ruby, doesn’t know why it cannot get out of its orbit, but, at the same time it is also a little scared, so it is gently and carefully biting off Ruby’s freezing cold armor. I have also noted that Safire is slowly moving in circles around Ruby which I believe is part of its softening strategy. “No SUB we cannot stay till the end”. It really looks as if Safire is in control of the situation. In fact I can denote a hidden grin behind Ruby’s cold appearance, a sweet grin. That is probably because we all, including Safire, believe it is Safire who leads the game. Safire, the seducing vampire. The truth of the matter is that it is Ruby who locked Safire into its huge magnetic field. Meanwhile they seem happily taken by each other’s orbit. I hope I have contributed to settling the matter. It isn’t a vampire’s bite, it’s a love bite.
“Let’s go home now SUB – What? parking…. lion? What are you talking about? next time SUB. I just want go home and feed the cat“.
by lalitwist
Note 1 - about SUB ref. Monday, December the 5th 2011 "About a Druid and his mushrooms"
