waiting for soul

william gibson’s latest book pattern recognition has this throwaway concept that your soul can’t really travel as fast as an airplane, so when you fly somewhere across great distances, your soul actually trails behind you, attached by a string, and will eventually catch up to you later, at which time you become whole again. but until then, you’re sort of a shell, there but not quite all there.

maybe i feel like this this weekend. or maybe it’s just the jet lag.

i’m sure getting up at 3:30am pst, flying back to sf, and then going to an all-night party and not getting home until 8:30am on saturday didn’t help. in any case, i’m doing a lot of sleeping this weekend.

or meditatively waiting for my soul.

Posted at March 7, 2004 8:26 PM