Operator Speaking by Zachary Constantine
 

Insomnia #1826

2009-11-20 04:33:46 // The Operator
 

Warning: Bricolage.


Here’s a dollar – spend it on food, ok?


My god is my bottle-
I do what I must
My demons are shards
Of a god I couldn’t trust

- Waste

Memories of the psych ward. Ambiguous confessions to murder, daydreaming, or worse. Banish them all – pursue happiness against all reason, whatever it takes.



“I saw you – intentions brimming with altruism – giving that crackhead a dollar, Christian.”
- Booze, Cthulhu, and the Weeds

There are two kinds of help:
The kind that gets you back
and the kind that keeps you back


“… and, whether it began as an investigation into the bicameral mind or merely a creative outlet, (perhaps an escapist refuge or fugue limbo the individual entered upon encountering stressor which he was not prepared for?) it has clearly devolved into something less cogent. It has become a spectacle so ugly as to suggest that it has taken on a life of its own and will proceed without intervention to its logical conclusion: reality.”

We’ll get there. Hold on just a little longer…


Psychiatric Evidence – Schizophrenia: Auditory hallucinations of a critical nature. A large percentage of patients with schizophrenia experience “command hallucinations.”

Relevance to Bicameral Mind – Patients suffering from schizophrenia experience a partial relapse to the bicameral mind. In the absence of consciousness, bicameral man hallucinated a commanding voice that instructed him in times of stress or decision-making.

- Summary of Evidence
Julian Jaynes Society

No. Too far. Step back slowly.

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