The heating was bust at my brother’s house yesterday. So I made a fire.
I like to put newspaper on the grate, & then little flakes of wood on top. Then little splinters of wood, then little sticks. Then I build a pyramid out of six sticks, and over that I make a pyramid from three logs. Then I light it.
Some people think it's a bit F.O.C.D.U.P. (Fire Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Unlike Pyromania), but when I see those flames, I don't care.
-My unrelenting thoughts of topiary seem to subside & my consciousness is sucked into that fire.
Mickey woke me from my trance by talking in caveman...
"Man make fire"
In a '2001: A Space Odyssey' monkey moment, I said...
(In caveman)
"And fire make man"
So I ask myself the same primal question as my forefather's forefathers may have asked:
"Man make fire, or fire make man?"
22 December 2006
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