“precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself”

“Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.”

Once in a while, you come across something that so resonates with you to the point of altering your reality. Or your perception of reality. It’s like, all of a sudden, you can see yourself more clearly. You understand what is going on inside your head. You see what the root of your problem is. Yet to explain that something, or how or why, is completely beyond your command with words. Haunting. That is all you can think of.

Tautology: using something incomprehensible to explain something incomprehensible.

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Exactly 91 cm away from himself…

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I came across something yesterday.  The Bloggess mentioned it as “Painfully poignant: you should watch this”.  So I did. And I have not been able to stop thinking about it. Have not been able to stop crying actually.

If you have ever questioned who you are, where you are, what you are, why you are. If you live with the haunting that you may not be yourself. Or that if you are, then who is this other person. If you ever feel/fear that if you lie still long enough, you will for sure float outside of your body and look down back on yourself lying in bed, and you are scared that you may not recognize yourself. If you could almost precisely predict when you will have an existential breakdown.

If you wonder what it is like to have such chaotic thoughts inside your being. Watch this. “Skhizein“, written & Directed by Jérémy Clapin

 

Skhizein (short film) from Jeremy Clapin on Vimeo.

 

18 thoughts on ““precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself”

  1. Jennifer Lynn

    This would require that you knew where you were to begin with…and that is usually just a facade to ease the motion sickness.

    Maybe the world shifted 91 centimeters and he stayed in place?

    Who, Where, What, and Why you are……are all evolving answers that may be pinned down for moments or years but not forever…..so aside from reflecting on history and orienting your movement, why try so hard?
    .-= Jennifer Lynn´s last blog…Selling A Home and Losing Your Base. =-.

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  2. Diane

    I can’t watch it. I’m afraid to watch it. I saw The Butterfly Effect three nights ago and it’s still freaking me out. I don’t think I should watch it.

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  3. Wicked Shawn

    I watched it yesterday and just couldn’t respond. As I have so recently watched my grandfather slip, I must say, I wish it went more like this for him. This sudden movement of 91 centimeters. The meteor crash. The poetic movement of one’s self from the space they had once occupied. It doesn’t make me sad. It makes me hopeful I hope that if I ever begin to slip, ever begin to lose my grip, I do it 91 centimeters at a time, rather than one person at a time, or 10 years at a time. Yes, I definitely prefer 91 centimeters.
    .-= Wicked Shawn´s last blog…What Ashley Judd and I Have In Common =-.

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