getting ready to go to sleep. exciting, huh. and when i wake up we’re supposed to fly to zurich. exciting, huh.
did i ever tell you about my first trip to zurich?
it was new years eve 1991, if i remember correctly, and i was playing in lausanne, if i remember correctly.
so i arrived in zurich on december 30th and had the night off by myself with nothing to do. so i put on some swim trunks and went to the most interesting indoor pool that i’ve ever seen. it was this vast, greco-roman (minus the stone phalluses) pool complex, with big columns in the pool and interesting waterfalls and little sub-pools and all sorts of crazy stuff. so i swam around like a retarded seal for a few hours and managed to piss off a lot of the older swiss people who were a little, um, annoyed at my youthful exuberance.
apparently there was a very proper way to comport oneself in this pool, and i being an ignorant auslander wasn’t aware of it. but i had fun. how can you not have fun in some big, crazy greco-roman pool with about a million fun things to play with and in? there should be more urban indoor pools with fun and crazy things going on.
if i had a pool i would try to make it as interesting as possible. a nice rectangular pool can be terrific, but wouldn’t a strangely shaped pool with slides and diving boards and little grottoes and waterfalls be more fun? i would really like to have a pool with a deep end that was genuinely deep. and painted black. so you could swim down 20 or 25 feet (8 meters) and it would be pitch black and you coud pretend that you were hanging out with giant tube-worms by the mariannas trench. sorry if i spelled ‘mariannas trench’ incorrectly. and how about those giant tube-worms that live off of energy from the fissures in the bottom of the ocean? anerobic life? or something like that? i love having a profoundly limited notion of science. just enough to stay interested, not enough to become petulant. but those tube-worms are very interesting. isn’t it true that at one point the earth might have been covered in life that didn’t breathe oxygen? oxygen is very caustic. how interesting that life on earth has developed to sustain itself with a caustic gas. maybe there’s life elsewhere that can breathe ammonia or chlorine or methane?
it would be hard to have a dinner party and invite someone who breathed ammonia.
they would probably die. and providing a dinner party environment wherein a space-alien dies is very rude indeed.
i believe that martha stewart addresses this in one of her books. chapter 17 ‘accomodating guests who are from another planet and breathe a gas other than our own terrestrial brew’ yup. it’s late.
the brain is taking on a life of its own. it’s in control. i’m merely it’s fleshy conduit.
k-mo