Dogma of the Non-Apparent Movement of Small Clusters (Movement 05)

Notebooks of European Contemporary Movement (Fundamental Laws and Absurd Dogmas)

PART II

Absurd Dogmas (Notebooks I-V)

Notebook I – Non-existent Movements

 

MOVEMENT 05

The sum of the forces is inversely proportional to the area in which they are applied (Dogma of the Non-Apparent Movement of Small Clusters)

 

They arrive on vacation, coming from the Big City. Some only stay for a few days, others stay longer, sometimes 2 or 3 weeks. They’re all looking for the same [thing]: rest. Many think they should give their lives a new direction. Why not move to a village like that? Everything is so peaceful, life would be so much quieter.

While they open their suitcases with this doubt in their minds, and spread out their personal belongings on the table and bed, outside the villagers are working non-stop, taking care of their houses, their growing fields, their animals, their farm machinery, preparing their shelters for the coming rain, planning their trip to the city to go to the post office, which is 15 km  away, and taking a detour because they have to go to the bank, and on the way back another detour to go to the agricultural cooperative to reinforce the implements they need, By the way, it is necessary to split some firewood and protect the rations, because there’s a lot of rats around, and try to seal the window of the back house, so as not to do any more damage, fix the valve on the watering tank tap, and see if the wheeled motor hoe engine is working already, when the new air filter arrives, and tonight we have to bake bread, because guests have arrived, a family who are coming for four days. They’re coming from the Big City.

The temporary guests, who are on their well-deserved vacations, since they live permanently in the enormous drudgery of life in the Big City, look out of the window at the fields and the small rural houses and think, “We’re always running around, struggling and moving in the city. What tranquillity, what a quiet life these people have”.

 

Published in November 15, 2024

 

Author: Carlos Norton

To know more: Notebooks of European Contemporary Movement (Fundamental Laws and Absurd Dogmas)

 

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Movement 05

Sound recorded with Roland CS-10EM binaurals

Loppiedo, Podenzana, Itália

September 7, 2022, 09:45

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Mov 05

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