The City and The Plains:
The mental City is surrounded by Open Plains,
which by nature are forbidden to most men,
and most men are not directly aware of its existence.
By birth they feel that The City in their mind is not only
their home and where they should be but is also the only place there is.
A few people feel a certain hard-to-classify call. It is that of the neural Open Plains: a place in the brain that is outside the normal city limits of human consciousness. Even though everyone is born in The City, the few’s real home is elsewhere.
The City is a place of storytelling and dreaming; of weaving tales about the stars.
The Plains is where you look directly at the heavens.
The City is a place of problem solving.
The Plains is a place with no problems.
The City is where you mentally do life’s bidding.
The Plains is a place free of such conscription.
The City is a place of nervous and jumpy eyes.
The Plains a land of steady gaze and stable sight.
The City is where no one ever shuts up.
On The Plains no one ever thinks to speak.
The City is where men continually over eat.
On The Plains, men and minds are lean.
J.