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Chapter 10. Something with the People Around
The Chinese New Year has arrived — the year of the fiery red horse. I was born in the year of the metal, that is, the white horse. Ash Wednesday also passed. I love this holiday, especially if I happen to find myself in some country where one can see it, observe the unusual atmosphere… Somewhere nearby the Catholic churches, where people from early morning come out to work and walk all day, walk through the streets with crosses drawn on their foreheads. It’s wonderful. I remember filming a video like that in New York. There was an incredible atmosphere, and the day was so unforgettable for me. Back then it had fallen on February 14, and it was Ash Wednesday — and I was walking through New York with a camera, filming slow-motion video of how people were walking around with crosses on their foreheads. That was wow. And back then I was, sort of, this funny grandpa, in a leather jacket. The way they all love to dress in layers, in some kind of hoodie, in a leather jacket. Then I walked all around the places where SoHo and Greenwich Village are, and in one of the stores I bought myself the scent Mad et Len Patchouli Khami, which is no longer being made. And I was all perfumed with this scent — and it also smells of the church, of a kind of gothic. I was listening to the music of UNKLE and Massive Attack in my headphones, and filming on the camera how people were walking around with crosses on their foreheads. That was wow.
I was on the phone the other day with Big Alexander, and told him that I want to go off into this unusual state, and that I am still trying to figure out why I had ended up in this state for a week, because of what, and what it is. And then I started telling him: “But what if I had always been in this state, and on the contrary, I simply hadn’t noticed it — and when I left home at 17, I started climbing into the social mass to people, and because of this I started noticing it. And then, in 2011, I fully lost this state and became an earthly person. Or, after all, was I in this “cosmos” only from the moment I left home? And in 2011, this ended. And — again — why? What switched this on, and what switched it off? I am trying to figure this out.” And Big Alexander said: “All people, when they are born on the earth, all of them must become spiritual, wise, must grow and develop, must pass through all the difficulties, through all the problems. But you were already
The Chinese New Year has arrived — the year of the fiery red horse. I was born in the year of the metal, that is, the white horse. Ash Wednesday also passed. I love this holiday, especially if I happen to find myself in some country where one can see it, observe the unusual atmosphere… Somewhere nearby the Catholic churches, where people from early morning come out to work and walk all day, walk through the streets with crosses drawn on their foreheads. It’s wonderful. I remember filming a video like that in New York. There was an incredible atmosphere, and the day was so unforgettable for me. Back then it had fallen on February 14, and it was Ash Wednesday — and I was walking through New York with a camera, filming slow-motion video of how people were walking around with crosses on their foreheads. That was wow. And back then I was, sort of, this funny grandpa, in a leather jacket. The way they all love to dress in layers, in some kind of hoodie, in a leather jacket. Then I walked all around the places where SoHo and Greenwich Village are, and in one of the stores I bought myself the scent Mad et Len Patchouli Khami, which is no longer being made. And I was all perfumed with this scent — and it also smells of the church, of a kind of gothic. I was listening to the music of UNKLE and Massive Attack in my headphones, and filming on the camera how people were walking around with crosses on their foreheads. That was wow.
I was on the phone the other day with Big Alexander, and told him that I want to go off into this unusual state, and that I am still trying to figure out why I had ended up in this state for a week, because of what, and what it is. And then I started telling him: “But what if I had always been in this state, and on the contrary, I simply hadn’t noticed it — and when I left home at 17, I started climbing into the social mass to people, and because of this I started noticing it. And then, in 2011, I fully lost this state and became an earthly person. Or, after all, was I in this “cosmos” only from the moment I left home? And in 2011, this ended. And — again — why? What switched this on, and what switched it off? I am trying to figure this out.” And Big Alexander said: “All people, when they are born on the earth, all of them must become spiritual, wise, must grow and develop, must pass through all the difficulties, through all the problems. But you were already