Monkey Beach
“Sleep is an altered state of consciousness. To fall asleep is to fall into a deep, healing trance. In the spectrum of realities, being awake is on one side and being asleep is way, way on the other. To be absorbed in a movie, a game or work is to enter a light trance. Daydreams, prayers or obsessing are heavier trances. Most people enter trances reflexively. To contact the spirit world, you must control the way you enter this state of being that is somewhere between waking and sleeping.
The tid...e is wicked. When I go against it, my speedboat does a crazy, sideways slither. The sky, one sheet of pissing greyness, stretches low across the horizon. A sea gull squalls overhead as it flies towards Kitamaat. This early in the morning, the beacon in the distance is still blinking, a forlorn warning against rocks. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve spent hours watching it flash. Sitting on top of a short metal tower painted red and white, the beacon is about fifteen klicks from the village. When I see that lone flash of white light against a vast stretch of darkness, I feel deliciously alone.MoreLess
The tid...e is wicked. When I go against it, my speedboat does a crazy, sideways slither. The sky, one sheet of pissing greyness, stretches low across the horizon. A sea gull squalls overhead as it flies towards Kitamaat. This early in the morning, the beacon in the distance is still blinking, a forlorn warning against rocks. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve spent hours watching it flash. Sitting on top of a short metal tower painted red and white, the beacon is about fifteen klicks from the village. When I see that lone flash of white light against a vast stretch of darkness, I feel deliciously alone.MoreLess
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