A Video Game
30 December 2010
12-30-2010 - Vientienne - day 2
Video Game
"Глядя на лошадиные морды и лица людей,
на безбрежный живой поток, поднятый
моей волей и мчащийся в никуда по багровой
закатной степи, я часто думаю:
где Я в этом потоке?"
Чингиз Хан
I walk on the pebbles of Van Vieng and through the dusty streets of Vientienne.....as between the statues of the Buddha Park built here by a monk-priest-shaman who wanted to compare-and-contrast-and-marry Hinduism with Buddhism in sculpture. I feel like a protagonist of some bizarre video game. The scenes change. I meet other characters, with whom I exchange some form of information - verbal and not - just at the right time....allowing me to move into other levels of the game. Although, "levels" perchance presumes some concept of hierarchy, which would be completely artificial to assume. More like rooms, perhaps. Maybe, the info they receive from me gives them access into other spaces as well. All of us wandering through the video game with someone outside of our virtual world playing with her joystick. Funny that.... Or, maybe, most of those characters we meet are drawn around us.
While it would be an epitome of silliness to think the concept is even close to new - anyone who's imbibed of the Eastern wisdom would laugh at that - I have never felt it with such visceral non-intellectual acuteness. Perhaps, my Van Vieng tea has been spiced with the "red pill." After all, the area is famous for such surprises ;o)
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