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(Written on Eowyn, on the train. I was in a very odd mood)

I wake up in a world unstuck from time. I look at every clock and ask: is this the real time? But which time is real? There is the time of yesterday , the system by which my life has ticked for 27 years. There is the new time, the one running the world now. And there is the time in my head, which lies somewhere in between. It is strange on the train. The multirider machine jolts me back, as it stamps my card with yesterday time. We sit together silently in a world gone if not mad then mildly eccentric. The light is wrong, pale & thin, the streets empty (it is a sunday but since I am working altdays seem the same to me). The regular clockwork of the trains careens further into randomness. When we reach McIver we shuffle off in a hopeful stream of jetlagged humanity, directed across paths & tracks I haue passed a thousand times before but never walked until today. Emerging from the shuttle we enter an empty station, our "connecting" trains all gone, the signs all claiming "this platform is not in use".

Date: 2006-12-04 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
i totally get you soph, day light savings has made question the time im present in. It's made me think i dont really know what time is... its subject to what i make it and thats a bit of a head twister for me to truly grasp :)

Date: 2006-12-04 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
by the way,
anonymous = your brother... yep thats right, its my alter ego :)

Date: 2006-12-05 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hipikat.livejournal.com
the time of yesterday , the system by which my life has ticked for 27 years

Am I the only one who remembers having daylight savings as a child, and has been patiently waiting for it to be reintroduced every year since?

Date: 2006-12-05 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com
*blinks* I haven't see writing like that since I was doing literature!

Date: 2006-12-05 09:35 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] purrdence.livejournal.com
you and Stephen Deadman, I think.

Date: 2006-12-06 12:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pedanther
I remember having daylight savings as a child, but it's been a matter of indifference to me whether it would be reintroduced.

Date: 2006-12-06 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edible-hat.livejournal.com
Those of us in other states where it happens every year can't see what the fuss is about.

Date: 2006-12-06 10:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edible-hat.livejournal.com
yeah, but like I said, elswhere it happens every year and people don't even stop to think about it.

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