In and Out of Planet Earth

Paul X:
[By the river X1 is having a conversation with his ego X2] You know yourself, I don't.

Paul X:
But you trigger the events, I don't.

Paul X:
I don't do anything of the sort.

Paul X:
Yes, you do.

Paul X:
No, I don't.

Paul X:
You're the very one triggering the frame of things...

Paul X:
By saying it perhaps?

Paul X:
In a manner of speaking, yes.

Paul X:
I am merely your train of thought and you're right in the middle of it.

Paul X:
[X1 is spending 60 minutes underwater in the sea] Nine minutes: I couldn't stand anyone or anything anymore.

Narrator:
[the Fish inside the sea] Deep space, down below the final frontier. You can't measure it, you can't time it. Everything beats faster than the fastest beat on the surface of the ocean. The reproduction level is fifty times higher than the one on the surface. When someone's hungry, one eats as much as fifty humans during an entire day. One second on the surface equals sixty down under. One eats faster, one dies faster. This is the greatest landscape on earth.

Paul X:
Eleven minutes: I can hear myself breathing, breathing underwater. There is life inside, life underwater. It's still cold. I can feel this and smell things.

Narrator:
When it's cold, it's ten times colder. When it's hot it's ten times hotter. When it's dangerous, danger is omnipresent. There are billions of stories swarming at the bottom of the earth. There are the untold lives of millions of creatures shaping the ocean. It's a parallel universe guided by the continuous flow of water. One needs a map to guide oneself thru it all, a map of the Universe. Thoughts are everywhere. There is a superhighway of thinking. Thoughts come and go. 'I need. I want. I kill. I eat. I f***. I die. Some creatures form the exception; they lie unabated for millions of years then move from planet to planet in search of a meaning. These creatures are themselves the stars rotating in a galactic stratosphere in the deep end of the cosmic ocean.

Paul X:
[Paul X is spending sixty minutes underwater] Thirty-six minutes: I can't feel my weight. I'm completely weightless. I can still feel and I have needs and urges. Jane's other nasty habit includes sucking; thumb sucking that is. According to world's figures from the World Health Organization -and they do have such figures! - 18% of us suck our thumbs, 10 to 12% appears to be women. According to the medical establishment 'thumb sucking is the process of sucking on the thumb for oral gratification'. It is a powerful need in infants and it is a normal activity with its peak occurrence at about age two. If thumb sucking continues past age four, malocclusion of the teeth -abnormal contact between the teeth of the upper and lower jaw- may develop. Sucking is the chief source of pleasure for an infant. Studies have found that sucking not associated with eating results in increased weight gain in premature infants and decreased crying. Doctors seem to believe that thumb sucking is unnatural and a health hazard in adults. Are the doctors implying that they favour alcoholism, heroin and cocaine addiction and heavy smoking? That is unclear. Some people could find it offensive to see other people sucking on a fag.

Paul X:
Forty-nine minutes: Killing doesn't necessarily involve weaponry. Poison is just as efficient and relatively painless. Poison can consist of: cyanide, chloride, mercury, bleach. The stuff is easily available and terribly efficient.

Paul X:
I strongly defend the right to own a gun. Without it, life has no meaning. A gun is there for your protection. Of course if it is used, it will kill. That's the whole point.