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| 11:31pm 29/07/2003 |
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Vacations are great. Time runs differently. The things once considered important are recalibrated and reconsidered.
Vacations allow for long neglected scrutiny of things that have fallen away, outshined by the more consequential events of adult life, like work and attention to survival.
Vacations let me tamper with my physiological patterns without damaging consequence. I can sleep when tired, remain awake when stimulated, eat when hungry. Within this environment of ease, my mind works a little differently than it does in times of more intensity. Without other factors to distract, I can get into the zone of supreme concentration which isn't always easy under normal circumstances.
Today's zone involved The History Channel and a special on ancient Egypt. I was mesmerized by this program. Totally captivated. House could have been on fire, and I still would have been in Egypt.
My perception of Ancient Egypt is affected by a condition I have just named "Forgotten IntrigueThrough Over-Exposure as a Child" (FITOC). Hippos and Native Americans also fall into this category. Basically, because some of the most fascinating things in our world are pushed on us at an age when we can't fully appreciate just how interesting these things are, by the time we have enough other things to compare them too and understand how amazing they are, we've been so accustomed to seeing and hearing about those fascinating things that they no longer draw much attention from us.
We see images like this, and this, and this so often as children that they represent all that is Egypt to us. Say "Egypt" and immediately our mind's eye shows us pyramids and the association ends there. Egypt and its relics and wonders are commonplace to us. But occasionally, if we can force ourselves to forget how many times we've seen certain images and try to see them again for the first time, the FITOCs of our lives can become instantaneously mesmerizing and mystical. During this History Channel program, I don't think I blinked once.
I mean my god. These people actually existed. You couldn't dream up a more visually captivating IDEA for an ancient culture if you tried. We need an Ancient Egypt appreciation day. I mean Pharaohs! And would you please reacquaint yourself with how fucking amazing the Sphinx is? And pyramids and animal-headed people and sarcophaguses and, for the luv a holy hell MUMMIES! Hieroglyphics!
And Thoth is the coolest god name ever. |
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