in the words below, carter touches upon a phenomenon on the connection between the rational mind and the body's sensory equipment. how many times has this situation happened to you? where you drink a glass of milk, but you think for a second that it's water and it indeed tastes like water, just for that split second? though carter describes an actual decision to eat cereal with water, the moment of interplay between the tongue and the mind, at the start of consumption, provides a crack in the reality of expectation in the world...one where alternatives start to seep in and suddenly possibility becomes everything possible...
the first time I ate cereal with water instead of milk
it was weird. for a second I thought I was pouring
gasoline on my malt-o-meal as the water lolloped out
of the gallon jug, like someone was playing a trick on
me. fixing it felt the same but looked different.
eating it looked the same but tasted different, like
cereal with water instead of milk. at least the water
was cold.
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I would think that one would need a very loose grasp on one's tenets of one's reality in order to be able to confuse H2O avec l'essence. The smell of petrol is unmistakable and to be able to unintionally delude oneself into perceiving fuel without the aroma smacks of too much smack.
Perhaps the demands I make of my perceptual rationale are overly stringent and a whole lot less fun.
Perhaps this chap drank petrol once, in error, and now has an unhealthy penchant for dousing himself in it and then dancing around a candle in a thoroughly unadvisable and naked manner. Who am I to criticise? Good day.
p.s. KC, PICKY?
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