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I'll change my nick to Synchboy. Get a cup of coffee and follow me:
Someone wants to tell me that my color is RED, and that it is connected somehow with the Tao. (This is the puzzle parts so far: the color red and the Tao)
1-I'm walking in the street. There's a little girl with red shoes coming, the sun on her shoes makes them really bright. An old man is walking aside me, paralelling with me and the little girl. His pants are red, same tone. Coming aside the girl is an old woman, red shirt in the same tone, the sun making it almost to shine. When they pass by each other, it's like an anthropoid creature is created - shoes, pants and shirt - and then disappears. Describing it, it looks banal. But it was not. Visually, it was something I had never noticed happening before.
2 - I start noticing red everywhere. I start thinking about it. What does it mean? Why?
I wake up in the dark and go to the bathroom, my thoughts still focused on this subject. I spit in the sink and turn the light on. It was a spit of blood. A big red bloody thing splattered on the sink.
3 - I am re-reading Animal Man by Grant Morrisson. The bit where he takes the peyote in the desert. He is looking at the Universe, and the Universe is red - and then it strikes me: "here I go again".
He looks around and says: "IT IS RED". And then: "WHY IS IT RED??". I remember all the syncronicities around the color red that started to happen to me. The song I'm listening to at the time? Pearl Jam's "Red Mosquito".
4- Some of my friends call me "Red" Mesquita (Mesquita is my surname). "RED". Only then I remembered that.
5- My band's homepage was built entirely in red patterns - months before all this start to happen.
6- At work, I usually talk on the phone, or read stuff here at Barbelith, while mindlessly scribbling, drawing bits of stuff in every piece of paper I can put my hands on.
Without even thinking about it, I draw a cat's head, it's eyes staring firmly at the viewer. On its side, an unfinished sketch of a cat's rear legs, in profile, with a big, desproportional tail waving smoothly. I completely forget the drawing.
I get home at night to see a big red stain on my door - blood. There was an accident with "2", one of my cats (yes, that's her name). She lost the tip of her tail when my bedroom door slammed behind her.
I had completely forgotten the drawing until next day, when I noticed the crumbled piece of paper next to my monitor. The fucking tail waving. The big eyes staring at me, as if in a warning.
7-I'm walking home, thiking about the Tao. How I should try to learn more about it, because it seems to be such a great way of viewing the world. I decide to research on the Web about the Tao. But what should I look for?
There's a big RED shiny car blocking my way.
The license plate reads >>LAO + some numbers I dont remember<<
As in Lao-Tzu, right???
P.S.: If you guys know anything about the color red, I'd appreciate the info. |
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