Step away from the elephant, Sir …
If, like me, you hang out amid the rapture of the meta-modern communities, you’ll inevitably encounter the apocryphal elephant.
He’s the one that some crew of blind men are touching while they compare notes, trying to decipher what the hell this large wrinkly thing is they’re all feeling …
This week — regarding this whole entire set-up — I have questions …
Who are these men?
Why are they blind?
What one earth are they doing touching a poor elephant like that?
How’s the elephant feeling about this medieval arrangement?
… “erm, guys … duh, I’m right here! … I can hear everything you’re saying … I mean, look at the size of my ears! … what?, ok, ok, my bad: FEEL at the size of my ears!”
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Meet Nial.
Things started to get strange for him in Spring of 2020, when a non-blind woman showed up in his field one day.
“It’s an elephant!” she said, immediately.
From 30 feet away!
And just like that, for the first time in his long long life, he felt truly seen.
Not an easy moment to forget for any beast, but for an elephant …
It completely shattered his relationship to reality, himself and his concept of personal space.
”Perhaps I’m the one who’s been blind” he muttered tremulously to his therapist, Svetlana.
{He began visiting her back in 2019 — for his body dysmorphia.}
He tells her yet again about the recurrent nightmare …
”I have my theories, of course, but what do YOU think it means, Nial …?”
Buoyed by the session, as always, he regains some sense of personal sovereignty…
… but not two weeks later, on the night of the Scorpio full moon …
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Thank You.
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