Status Updates From A Fictional Inquiry

'"Then too there's the opposite: being invisible, when you're in a particular state of mind, opaque, somewhere else."'

'I'm thinking that silence obliges long journeys in order to see.'

'I awaken in a warm light filtering through the transparent curtains, with the sensation of having had dreams that don't connect to me but to the room, left here by hundreds of previous dreamers.'

'First of all, the child moving his little plastic train up and down against the window glass, maybe thereby experiencing the childish completeness of being inside something while still being in possession of it from the outside. He's quite focused as he plays, but the toy train may compensate for the loss of an external form that is no longer visible.'

'It's as if we are far more removed now. I think things are different now; more stable and moderate, with less demanding engagement. Everything is slightly more marginal.'

'Some words cause one to behave in a certain way.'

'Then there's the lengthy time stored in the box, the instrument's negative outline forming a hollow on the bottom; all the truly dead time between an object's usefulness and its becoming a collector's item.'

'They speak an unadulterated dialect as a form of resistance.'

'I simply hope for an age favorable to me.'

'The morning is crystal clear, almost springlike; or maybe it's the fact that I'm here, inexplicably and lighthearted.'