Tuesday, December 17, 2013

What I really want to do is take the wrappers out of bottles

When I get a bottle in my hands, a beer bottle usually, I always start to peel off the label, usually without noticing, without even starting to drink it even. Sometimes it's really easy, the humidity makes it slide right off the glue. But what is it that I want here? Just to keep my hands busy? Or rather to make it useless? No wrapper, no bottlecap, no liquid, naked, nothing left to do but throw it away. I like to think I'm playing it safe because I know the world is a wealth of things we don't see walking around with our so called open eyes. You'd be tempted to ignore a deeper part of the beer bottle just as you ignore everyone else on the the bus, along with the infinity of their brains, because they're just so banal, so often, so always there. When was the last time you contemplated a cloud? And he great discoveries you made, were they made after overturning every little rock, or were the the rocks themselves, that you hadn't stopped to look at before. Places, people, things, ideas... Those are rocks. To really get to know a person you need to take of their clothes, poke on all their little concepts of things, take of their wrapper and look at the dark brown glass rather than the label they themselves exhibit, or that someone else put there. Always remember also the fraud that is your own wrapper, whilst taking notice that no one else will.
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