Or what?
Or the
one
being an alternative
to the means of transport
already existing and functioning.
Or the one bringing the possibility
of choice: you can travel in this way
or in that way. You can take this or
you can take
that.
Or, at first, we
have to define and
indicate what is an alternative to
the alternative transport, or what is
“in this way”. What kind of transport is
already functioning here thus making the
existence of another, opposite and different,
system of migrating-relocating-displacing possible.
The system of
transport already existing is the clickable
transport. So the unclickable transport is an
alternative to it.
The clickable
transport is extremely simple. You only chose a place (or the name of
this place) you want to get to, certainly among those which are
available, you click it and you are already there, at once. Fantastic!
Formidable! Exactly like in a dream. Exactly like in the case of the
thinkable transport so much expected and desired: you close your eyes –
say-think timbuktu
– and in a moment you are there, in a moment so short it can be easily
said you have arrived there at once, and the journey lasted not even a
second - - - - - - - but you are there not in your mind, not in your
imagination for it can happen you even don't know what and where
Timbuktu is, so you won't see it with the eyes of your imagination –
you are there absolutely really, physically. Without all well known
nuisances of travelling. You don't waste time, money, energy, you make
no trouble, you disturb nobody, either yourself, you worry about
nothing, your are not under thread of accidents and collisions. In many
a situation such travelling would be really welcomed. Commuting, for
example, to work or to school. You wouldn't have to wake up so early,
which is quite unbearable and so upsetting in late autumn ...... and
how about those breathtaking sunrises? the horizon glowing and burning
purple? soft hillocks and tousled trees slowly emerging from the
blackness of the dying night? a bit of pity . . . . . . .
Of
course, it's not hard to be imagined, that all words can be clickable
and then we would have a chance to get everywhere and at once. What
will we know about travelling then?
Nothing.
We won't even brush the essence of travelling.
And
what is the essence of travelling?
Relocation
or relocating?
Relocation
through relocating.
More
or less toilsome pushing our body through more or less resistant space.
And through the time too. As well as more or less toilsome pushing our
mind through deserts and jungles of knowledge. I'm not
sure if the word “knowledge” is a proper one. Maybe I should rather
write “through intellectual deserts and jungles” or “through deserts
and jungles of intellect” provided that mind and intellect are not two
different labels for one thing, thus covering experiences which would
be something more, or less, something different than just pure
acquisition of knowledge..... but nothing comes to my head...... And
how about wisdom?
So,
the alternative transport (to the clickable one) would be (and is) an
arduous wandering, on foot, maybe even barefoot - - - - - - - slowly,
very careful reading - - - - - - to have time to look around, to look
out and look in, to watch inside and watch outside - - - - - - to taste
the words, to bite into them, to crunch, chew, grind them, and they
would melt in the head like sweet chocolate - - - - - -
And then?
Because
this is but a theory. Now the time has come for practice. How can I get
alternatively to next page-screen?
Unhurriedly.
Unhurriedly.
Is it the
only alternative, or maybe one of many?
If it is one
of many, or at least of a few, then what are those others like?