One man became alarmed, astonished and aghast about conditions! Not about the conditions he was in, but about the conditions in him! Circumstances in The City are the same for all – the reason they seem different is that life whispers different interpretations of the circumstances into each man’s brain, (helps keep City Life moving).
Being of ordinary consciousness is the one mental condition wherein no upkeep at all is required. To bust loose from The Central Urburbs, takes all of the constant inner scrambling a man can muster, (with the ultimate realization of its futility). Only the Liberated Few can cash in a bus ticket that never was part of the extreme upside of losing, (actually, throwing-away), your City green Card.
“No officer, I am not from around here. It is just my physical resemblance to everyone else that confused you.”
Fact:
Only those securely affixed to The City know where they are from and where they are going.
Those invisibly on The Plains outside of town don’t know squat about such matters. (Idiots!)
No one should think their self on This Adventure set who has not a ramblin’ mind, good feet, and a total disregard for City opinions. No one there can tell you how to escape – if they knew how they would not be there.
“Pa, does that mean that we are mostly on our own in This Thing?”
“Drop, ‘mostly’ boy, then forget the rest of that sentence.”
J.