.. I On the Right Sept 2QQ5 FftEE FCDNi ( u LL u i Udnl ic be ui-lk o..t , all ia be wk vjou .'s ail t jac6 uji-t-W you 5. ail i voarvt ,o b 14 all vDo'l 7 Al 0 tj n0t talking to vou and consul the eveds r A" . JR e'NL " iy- rr. 7 i , ,:-! A light. It's always a flashing red light. Most often the pulse thereof will prove insufficient to illumi-T nate the precipice, but not always. Not always. And not today. This black glass eye stares at my own with blank, stupid indif ference, which I return in kind. The Seer's Sphere of the New World, all pervasive information offering no cure for ignorance. A manifesta tion of the collective consciousness of our kind in these great days ol computer generated heroes and economically unviable lives. am tnis ana more. g I do not turn it on. Beyond the door I hear voices and footsteps, the later mostly with Durpose. the former laraelv without. How much DeoDle can let fall from their mouths when the have nothina to sav. tU Astounding. Really. My ears and soul I opt to caress, these sandpaper kisses which at times have seen me sought and shunned, desired and ridi culed. Mine is a path perhaps not so much chosen and hunted down and caged, a thing beautiful but in its inability to be tamed. Oh the idiot melodrama. Oh the pretentious drivel. But still the liaht flashes, and it is there that I direct mv gaze, charmed like a snake. It occurs to me that my best and clearest V thoughts arrive when I opt not to think at all. Is it my consciousness, some sadist automaton, whipping my poor subjugated mind, forcing it like an abused animal through a gauntlet unending, of blades and j; boiling thought? Or is the mind itself a masochist, flogging itself fre netically, performing acrobatic routines solitaire, a circus to fill these shadow spaces? Does it even matter? Not a bit. The persistent crimson beacon beckons, promising release,! promising peace. Promising oblivion. One way trip, limited time offer. Act now, operators are standing by. In this sudden calm like a breath cut short by a closing fist, the charged Chernobyl stillness, there seem only to exist the prosaicfl fragmented bloody brilliance, and the sound of my one hope for sal vation. Tones, rhythms, melodies, harmonies, syncopation, dynamics time signatures, sharps and flats and hearts and souls and the gentle) heartbeat of the last majik science has yet to kill. And what happens when the song ends? Oh, but what happens then? The relentless anaesthetic assures, with clinical detachment, that such an event is not only possible, it is in fact inevitable. A mathematical certainty. A self fulfilling prophesy. Why not just give J in, fade into the pulse of that red glow, and suffer thought, the witchJ of reason, to live no more? I am seduced. I am horrified. I