Rat Island Phone Project
Channel: TheDandelionThief
Date: 2014-07-03

HARDCORE ARTIST 

I got tired of the constant demands. When you have a phone at your hip, its more deadly than a gun. Its living in the past, the present, and the future. And what a future! I can be everywhere at once, I can be there for everyone, I can be everyone. I never have to say 'goodbye' anymore.

When was the last time you said you're name when you called someone on the phone? How come they always know that its you?

Some people, and some machines, have stared at me accusingly, for killing this poor phone. They think it was me that did it, that I wanted to kill this phone, a form of fratricide. 

It wasn't the piece of plastic and metal that I wanted to get rid of. Its not really an object anyway, because it doesn't have a creator. Its an accretion, like a 'self' is an accretion (ostensibly around a word, a name). No-one knows how to make a phone. And No-one killed the cyclops*, the one-eyed monster. This is the one-eyed monster of our time, they still stare at me accusingly. All these robots.

Some folks have asked 'why the coat', to which, of course, the answer is 'invisibility'.

-Ezra Bloom

*(this is true, Ulysses told Polyphemus his name was 'Noman', so when Ulysses put out his eye, Polyphemus told the other giants 'No man' had wounded him, and they were all like 'oh, no big deal then' and went about their bizness.)