Parallels I

Chapter 10 “Ghost of Past or Ghost of Future”

/David

Roar of car engine. Classical music playing on the radio. It’s Schuberts piano sonata number 16. Surely this piano gives off some chills, but in a way - it gives a feeling of strife, push for something - as if you’re on your way to a greater manifesto.

Road ahead is packed with vehicles - all doing their best to keep up with the flow of traffic. That emerged due to the end of the working day for many.

Flood of mechanisms and engines. A hell for the manufacturers and energy consumers. The beauty of the light propellers, the ghastly fear of bad retailers. The advertisements on the side of cars - like battle scars.

And what? It’s all possessed or in possession, ownership, discretion of creatures that consume the air, that shit and yell. And stare at you through tanned dyed bodies.

A great conveyor belt created marvel - stacked nobodies.

Well, maybe somebodies - wearing finest painted, crafted, tailored masks.

Put on daily for convenience of interaction, to keep abstraction in the