Distance

I. Time-Space-Distance. Things in the mirror seems larger (or smaller) than they appear to the human eye. The map and the territory are both real, and both not real. Faraway things and events have less impact (distance decay) or more impact (distance magnification) than we initially perceive. Memories are sporadic, accurate and inaccurate simultaneously, but can be refined or confounded later. We will know both more and less. Linear feelings of ticktock time plus gravity's weight equate to age, yet imagination and meditation transcend everything -- and nothing.

II. O Lucky Man! jumps through the hoops, landing here and now. Once Upon a Time there was a coffee plantation operated at gunpoint. NOW in the WEST, a modern city, an automatic roasting machine. People in white coats inspect the Factory, the processing of coffee beans imported by ship and train and plane from Guatemala and Nigeria. The Nigerian beans, once roasted refined and sealed in small Imperial Coffee bags at the rate of 72 packets per minute, are next sent from England back to Nigeria for distribution, acquisition and consumption. "A cup of Imperial Coffee is the proper way to finish a meal -- be it in a palace or a prison. . . But between the making and the drinking stands the Salesman." One must tempt the English away from Tea. "Selling is psychology. Inspire belief." Toy with the disconnect between production and consumption. Imperial Tea must go. Transfer Sugar, Milk and Honey to Imperial Coffee.

Finally, please Note that soon will be the last day to mail parcels in time for their delivery to, among other places, Iraq. Don't forget Christmas cheer. Go with Imperial all the way.

Today's Rune: Growth.  Note: all quotations (and probable misquotations) derived or extracted from Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! run through the scrim and screed of my scrawled notes and deposited here for your eyes not only. . .