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Excerpt: "She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behin
by freediver 5y ago
Excerpt:
"She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."
- andi999 5y agoLove it. If it were true though it would mean no human soul has ever been on the moon...
- freediver 5y agoA profound implication.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoOnce both reach orbit, the astronauts of the IIS meet their souls briefly 16 times a day. Enough to catch a microsleep.
- ahartmetz 5y agoI don't know. It sounds nice, but it doesn't describe jetlag well at all IMO.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoIt's an apt metaphor. Your internal clock is in a different time zone than you, and each day it comes a bit closer, until you and your internal clock are at last in sync. Souls don't exist, but the metaphor of something slower catching up to you is nicely done IMO.
- dougmwne 5y agoYou also spend those days feeling utterly unlike yourself, in a new environment that is perhaps subtly, perhaps radically different than home. You feel distinctly unmoored and if there could be a collective unconscious psychically linking us to those around, then surely it must take a little while to get plugged into such a thing.
- QuantumG 5y agoMost of my co-workers who have met me in person would describe me very differently to the few co-workers with whom I share the same continent. Jet lag changes my personality so significantly.