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ARTICULATE MONKEYS
Initial script - To be filled in by Brad where necessary
NON-INDENT: DEJAN
INDENT: BRAD
… I think they come here every Saturday
Are they like…-
It’s just like…-
…playing classical or…?
…the band from Waking Life, you know. Classical instruments but jamming, and… um… I’d say it’s an ethnic sort of style, from Balkans and surrounding regions. They come here and start playing… there’s contrabass, violin, clarinet, bongos and banjo I think it was or similar sort of thing. Beautiful music…
Nice.
Yeah, I was just sitting right next to them - I mean… it really made my evening, it’s not like you hear that sort of stuff every day or anything, you know…
Yeah, I know what you’re saying. I get my… oh man… conservatorium…
What, at South Bank?
Yeah… it’s… awesome, I get my dose of classical music there. Alyssa goes to those too, she’s really into it - and so am I.
Cool.
There is just something man, you know.
What do you mean?
Something…
Something what?
It’s here but it’s not here.
Like?
Like, I don’t know… like when they’re playing and just that moment before they hit the string or piano key, just that moment before it makes a sound… that’s something else.
Anticipation?
Nah… man… it’s like… here but it’s not. It is and it isn’t at the same time.
I’m not sure if we’re thinking about the same thing.
Mmmmm…. Coffee………
Check this out.
Whoa! That’s a big bowl, are you gonna handle that?
Yeah no worries. Look at the honey… all twirling around.
Honey bee…. Bbzzzzz…bzzzz.z…… hahahahaha
Hahahahaha…. What are you on?
I don’t know, my work I guess. It’s freaking… no creative expression. I do all these ads and it’s just like… whop whop whop… where’s art in that. I’m getting tired of it. You know I might actually quit the job and go out back.
Yeah, you told me - sounds pretty…. Are you sure about that?
Why not… I mean it would only be for a few months, or whatever.
What would you do there?
Art, music… nature. Escape from this.
Hm… I still think you’ll change your mind. That whole idea is pretty out there. You know what I think it is…?
What is?
The thing… the it…
Aaahhh… hahaha…do tell. Let’s see.
It’s your own emotional expression or a result of it. You know sometimes you could be laying next to a beautiful sexy girl and just be close… don’t do anything… just lay there… that moment, that electricity, chemistry… that moment… that’s it… your anticipation… it’s sweeter that the act itself, that moment of waiting. Just like that emptiness before the guitarist hits the string and makes a sound.
Could be. If you think so…. Maybe…
Yeah that’s it. What you need is a good shag to get it out of your system. Hahaha…
Hahaha…
I’m serious.
But there is just…. You know… it doesn’t have a name. It’s here but its’ not here. It’s in this glass and all around it - yet it’s not there. I can’t touch it or imagine it, but I can feel it… not even sure if that’s the right expression.
It’s almost like there is no words for it. Right?
Exactly!
So what… if it isn’t an object or a dimension… or…. A concept what is it then?
I don’t know. But it’s there. And I know you’ve felt the same way - I just know it. Both you and Gary and a few other people I spoke to.
I’m still not sure we’re thinking about the same thing, I mean how do you start thinking about it - how do you even act upon such a complex and delicate matter. Something that doesn’t have a form or….
It’s always been there.
When did you first notice it.
There you go - you’re trying to answer it but you can’t. It’s impossible.
No, no, no… I’m just trying to get closer to the subject or whatever we have on the plate now. You know… just trying to get as much data - as much information from you to help me think and identify.
But there is nothing to think about - aarrhh… it’s so….
Whoa… out there… hahahaha…
Hmmm….
What?
I’m sure we’re talking about the same thing - I can see it.
Well that’s what I’m trying to do here, to get some information from you - to get closer to it.
Yes.
You see for example we can use analogy- it’s a very powerful tool when it comes to something big and so abstract as this for example. So if we could get any clues at all… any variables to work with we could produce some results. You know what I’m saying…?
Yeah… I know…
It’s like… you take a small thing - something within our reach and you compare it to a much larger and complex but still comparable system and you draw some conclusions from that. Because… this whole …. existence… it’s all just one thing. So when did you first notice it?
Hah… well in highschool.
Do tell.
Well there is nothing to tell - I was just there and I though. This whole thing is starting to make sense and I smiled.
You think you found it?
Ah?
You think you found the answers?
Nah… I just felt it. Nothing to it. I can’t see it or use it or… anything - but I know it’s there because… it’s there.
Hahaha… can you believe this conversation….
Mmm..hmmm…
Mmmmm…. Chai… it’s the cinnamon that makes it so aromatic…
Are we going to move these papers?
Yeah - might as well, we’ve pretty much covered it all tonight. You know what to do right?
Yep.
Well then, it’s all cool.
Indeed.
It’s just this thing… this it… you got me thinking. It’s like…. What the hell are we talking about here. But as I said before… use analogy… use to reveal more facts or get something firm and solid to be able to even grasp this concept, or whatever it is that we’re talking about now. So how do you know that it exists?
I just do.
Hmmm….Imagine if you could reveal this and use it.
Nah… I wouldn’t use it.
Well see that’s a difference between us. If I discovered something so big and deep I’d want to harvest its power and ride on a wave of its discovery to boost my achievements in art and music and whatever…
I don’t think you can - I don’t think there is a way.
Maybe it’s inspiration what we’re talking about… or inspiration is a product of it.
Well all art and music is product of it, it’s like it’s all around us and in us and … you know… everywhere… so when you play an instrument you’re being an effect of it. It’s resulting.
So there you go! At last we’ve got something solid!
Haha… you’re just…
Well yeah - I want to know more about this. I think I have a pretty good idea what we’re talking about here now… but it seems like our perceptions are slightly different.
Everyone’s is.
We could go from really simple school examples to track this down… let’s see… this whole planet… it’s systems and living beings… it’s just a products of the sun’s heat. That’s it. Nothing more. Just a complex chemical reaction. But what I think was a key moment - it was when the substance got the ability to replicate… and not in a sense of elements or molecules but on a slightly higher and more complex way… that duplication was a first predecessor to the life on earth.
You’re really going simple with it now - like school example.
Well yeah let’s start from basics. And look at us now. Using mobile technology, computers, look at us eating processed and manufactured food… we live in a system... and we all are really a system of chemicals… not much different to this rug here or that spoon there… you know… we’re all here because of the energy of the sun… like when you boil water and it’s all bubbling… once you turn off the stove calm it goes… that’s what we are.
Amen.
And also… this now… and that future instance and past - it’s all one same thing.
Yeeess... it’s all happening at the same time.
Well I don’t know about “happening at the same time” because if the time is really just an instance in a dimensional system then we all just are - have always been and always will be… I wonder what the concept above time is - the fifth dimension - is it the time of the time... If you lay out the time in a 3 dimensional system and you get yourself at a few positions in a time ordinate - you know… what do you get - just too positions of yourself at different time points… can’t say at different times because we’re expressing it all at once now… although “once” is incorrect term as it’s time based - but you get the idea of what I’m trying to say. So imagine this time component being contained and being under another time dimension itself… whoa... that’s just too hard to think about. We’re like an amoeba trying to figure out how to use a mobile phone… but who knows. Maybe that amoeba can, to some degree, be aware of the existence of that phone - maybe its location of position or something… that’s pretty much two of us trying to do now… trying to grasp a concept or something more abstract than a concept and know that it’s way out of our intellectual reach. We’re like two monkeys trying to be articulate.
(to add: God… is it God what we’re talking about… glass - holding it and what happens when it moves… where is it - is it all around - how can it be all around when it’s a not dimensional… we’re all in it contained within the dimension - are we then talking about the 5 th dimension… could be I don’t know)
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