From whiskey river:
All you can do is this: Whatever you experience, whether tangible or intangible, look underneath the experience, like a child looking for a lizard under a stone. You’re not expecting anything to be there, but you’re always wondering if there might be.
(Richard Leviton)
Not from whiskey river:
One of life’s primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn’t hide too well. You mustn’t be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
(Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories)
And finally, sometimes you can’t help wondering if there might be something under the next stone, too… Cartoon from The Funny Times cartoon archive:
Great theme, great quotes, hilarious cartoon. Who is Whisky River, btw? I went to the blog, but I couldn’t find any author/creator info.
I hated hide n seek as a kid–always worried I wouldn’t be found. Sigh. But I do like the cartoon.
So, reCAPTCHA says–in Stolypin. Is that a good place to hide?
@marta – We used to play a game after dark, outside, called Flashlight Tag. Whoever was “It” pursued everyone else with a flashlight, which s/he left dark until a supposed target was nearby. Tagging somebody meant hitting them with the flashlight beam.
We were playing this once over an uncle’s house, and I was It. Little did I know that my sibs and the others present had conspired to sneak inside, one or two at a time, where they left the lights out/curtains drawn.
Talk about weird. It was like the mirror image of your worry — seeking, endlessly, without finding.
[Stolypin: I'd wager not, unless you're his ghost. :)]
@eisha – Hi!
I have no idea who whiskey river is, or –who knows? — what shadowy organization it’s a front for. Have tried to figure that out but, well, probably could have with enough effort but finally figured I liked not knowing. (Which in a Zen koan would be the moment when The Master slaps the apprentice on the head and shouts, “There! You are enlightened!”) I’ve had it in the blogroll of one blog or another for 4-5 years now.
If you’ve got some idle minutes, follow some of the links in their blogroll, labeled “the torrent.” It’s an ever-changing (I think automatically generated) list of blogs/journals with entries linking to whiskey river. Talk about an eclectic audience!