- Fri May 04, 2001 11:00 am
#98765
We have presented information, stories, images, music, thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc. <br>These fragments are here for your interpretation.<br>For us, they are the ambient pieces that flow around an individual when they are detached.<br>Transient bits that come and go without obviously occupying one's immediate preoccupation, yet remaining in the subconscious.<br>Giving encore performances in our memory when we least expect it.<br>We are unsure sometimes whether these things happened yesterday, or a decade ago.<P>The idea came for this when I was driving along I-15 in Southern California.<br>I was in an old truck with a CB radio, and having never actually heard one of these before, started switching the channels.<br>The area that we were driving through varied between sparsely populated and relatively desolate.<br>Yet there was all this random chatter on each channel.<br>Sometimes floating in and becoming very clear, sometimes so distant and static-complimented it was barely audible.<br>I listened along with the tape deck in the truck and started to lose myself within conversations about Christmas lights, motor oil, sex, and Lake Elisnore. <br>I paid enough attention to make out phrases and thoughts, but never long enough to truly feel within the conversation.<br>Yet these voices remained with me. And every once in a while, for no apparent reason, they resurface within my thoughts.<br>And I rewrite history, attempting to remember what it was like to experience these memories when they were being written.<P>There's probably a fine theory or proven scientific conclusion why the mind works like this.<br>Remembering both the life defining and the completely mundane at the same time.<br>Seemingly interested in both intensely enough to place them without any regard to their importance in the world outside of my mind.<br>But I choose not to know why.<P>I remain forever in transit.<br>