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Chapter 23 - sculpture

Dude: man. quiet day.

Dasch: ehh. no wonder. you're on couch again.

Dude: i wish it had some wheels.

Dasch: where would you go.

Dude: it won't. it's gonna have stationary wheels. it would be like on treadmill.

Dasch: why on earth would you have wheels for just that.

Dude: i just wanna feel like i'm moving.

Dasch: but you would be in the same position.

Dude: the point is. it just has to feel like i'm moving.

Dasch: why can't you just be normal and walk outside.

Dude: i don't want to do the walking myself. the wheels are gonna do the heavy lifting.

Dasch: you can barely lift yourself. i can see that clearly.

Dude: i just want the wheels to keep rolling. so i feel like i am crusing and floating.

Dasch: in a sense, you're immobile.

Dude: you're not saying i'm handicap. that's not right thing to say.

Dasch: i didn't mean any of that but i guess it gets your reaction.

Dude: i let others move so that i do not have to move.

Dasch: are you trying to be center of universe.

Dude: i don't want such status. i just can't let others make me move. this is like psychological battle.

Dasch: you won't flinch. because you allow no energy waste.

Dude: the powerful never moves. think all kings. they never stand. they just sit in thrones.

Dasch: isn't that basically center of universe. i thought you seek no status.

Dude: i don't seek anything. i just deserve it. i'm complete. no need to seek anything.

Dasch: you do seek wheels for your couch. how are you gonna get them without moving.

Dude: they will have to roll their ways here.

Dasch: that's never gonna happen. it's impossible.

Dude: i don't care about how it gets done. i let them just unfold. i do not force anything. i just let it happen.

Dasch: yes, you do let things happen. doing nothing in that couch.

Dude: what goes comes. what comes goes. there is no denial. just acceptance.

Dasch: you seem to have become poet. sitting there too long.

Dude: i'm like that sculpture. the one sitting and thinking.

Dasch: you're not too far away from it. you just gotta stay still and stop talking too.

Dude: it's not easy upgrade. it would be like crazy yoga. nonmoving. frozen in time.

Dasch: how is it that sculpture can be thinking. it's just sitting. i get that one. but why is it thinking.

Dude: just look at his posture. it's in thinking mode. fist holding his chin.

Dasch: what must he be thinking.

Dude: i don't know. something important. he looks pretty serious.

Dasch: maybe he is asleep. maybe he froze while thinking. that's how he became sculpture.

Dude: maybe something he thought struck him. and it froze him. some kind of lightining strike.

Dasch: maybe it wasn't something he was supposed to think about.

Dude: it was something forbidden. mindblowing. we won't know what it is. it gives us no clue.

Dasch: maybe it's done thinking and that's why it stopped and became sculpture.

Dude: maybe he didn't like thinking for too long and so he decided to stop in the middle of it.

Dasch: and he decided to just remain seated. for all of us to see him that way.

Dude: actually it makes total sense. think about it. if we stop thinking, we are all comatose and turned into stone.

Dasch: i don't know how he managed to stop thinking though. it's little crazy.

Dude: there's one way. you can just sleep.

Dasch: but you do have thoughts in dreams.

Dude: i'm talking about the ones that are blank and have no stories at all.

Dasch: so we can't really make it happen when we want it to.

Dude: yeah it seems so.

Dasch: i'm little disappointed we can't do much about it.

Dude: but if we have no thought, there would be nothing. it would be total darkness. i mean there would be nothing. just absolutely nothing. there would not be even nothing as well as anything.

Dasch: maybe no one gets a chance to know what that's like, aside from blank dream.

Dude: blank dreams seem to be our best shot.

Dasch: actually, when you faint and wake up. that missing part may also count. the void.

Dude: sleep and faint are like similar things. they are both going to sleep.

Dasch: i wouldn't wanna faint. it's usually accident. it could end up dying.

Dude: yeah, i think blank sleeps are better deal too. fainting may not guarantee wake up.

Dasch: i'm gonna see if i can get it.

Dasch closes his eyes lying on Dude's mattress.

Dude: yeah, let me see if i can too.

Dude closes his eys sitting in couch.

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