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They moved the sun. It's not hard to tell; every day I go to work and it's there, in its new place, startling with its blinding rays coming from an unexpected direction. It's as plain as, well, the sun in the sky.

Don't be silly, they'd say, the sun is enormous. A celestial body of inconceivable size, astronomically far away. And hotter than lava, we don't have anything that could touch it even if we could get there, even if we had the force to move that exploding juggernaut one inch.

But yet it is moved. We can all see it up there. The trains still run as they did before, the workday still goes on as it did before, the people all go to bed as they did before, but the sun's not where it was.

They did it by making us accept that this is where the sun should be. We move it in all our thoughts, and if our minds rebel in small ways we soon enough overcome them and begin to believe that this is where the sun is, where it always has been. And by will alone, it becomes so.

Date: 2009-03-11 02:01 pm (UTC)
dsrtao: dsr as a LEGO minifig (Default)
From: [personal profile] dsrtao
There's this dragon that keeps eating the moon -- luckily, I've been able to convince it to spit the moon out again, but I'm running out of tricks.

Date: 2009-03-11 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
Look for more in Mare Ingenii - I think you'll see what you need.

Date: 2009-03-11 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddywookie.livejournal.com
You're almost there. It's no shame; once upon a time I couldn't continually tilt my gaze downward to really and truly encompass my monitor, commute, kid, snow covered driveway and blueberry muffin. But if you get stuck, I can give you a few pointers to help you stop giving a damn about the sun at all.
Also, hi, I'm Philip. I can't remember if I've previously said "Hi, I'm Philip."

Date: 2009-03-11 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
We've replaced Philip's blueberry muffin with the relentless fires of the unvanquished sun; let's see if he notices!

(You hadn't. Hi, Philip.)

Date: 2009-03-11 02:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coraline
now i have warren zevon in my head.

"They moved the moon
While I looked down
When I looked away
They changed the stars around..."

Date: 2009-03-11 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
Huh. I've listened to a lot of Warren Zevon, but he always seems to have more good songs I haven't heard.

Date: 2009-03-11 03:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coraline
yeah... that one's on "transverse city".

and i just heard of hindu love gods which is an album he did with 3/4ths of REM (i.e. without stipe) which i now need to get my hands on. i'm intrigued.

Date: 2009-03-11 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
As I recall, they recorded the entire album in one, perhaps fairly inebriated, evening.

The Raspberry Beret cover is a lot of fun.

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