In The Wilderness: A Book of Illusions ~ Third Testament: coming of the second phenonomen

If it's all an illusion, should we still do it?
2 "Depends on what you get out of it." -HEATHLEY
3 If it's all an illusion, should we still do it?
4 "Only if I would." -ELAINE
5 "Let's pretend we do it." -HERBIE

CHAPTER TWO

Walking through Shandon.
2 Why did I even wave?
3 Let's just ignore each other.
4 I like randomness, of only to keep my mind from thinking.
5 Straight lies are good too.
6 Perhaps, even the devil could be divine.
7 Faces of worry, faces of pain--don't be late for church.
8 Either we don't mix, or we don't belong. Which on is it, or both?
9 Separation might work. Oh, yeah, it already does.
10 Kipp, I haven't found one seven yet.
11 O.K. I just found one.
12 No, it wasn't the Buddhist center.
13 Well, I didn't really bother to check, mate.
14 "Blinded by the light," or all these cool metallic signs.
15 I like it.
16 Thank God, I didn't wave or look them in the eye. No rebuff, no shame . . . no love (now we're getting it).
17 You'll have us converted in no time, SHANDONITES!

CHAPTER THREE

Why do you sit in the smoking room?
2 I feel more comfortable being with people who don't care whether one smokes or not.
3 People who choose non-smoking rooms/areas, choose to not be with a certain group of people.
4 They are exclusionary.
5 I am too. I choose not to be among them.
6 I can not stand to hear the non-smokers laugh so loudly.
7 Exclusive loudness.
8 Doesn't someone have a cell-phone they can answer?

CHAPTER FOUR

I love the Christian Bikers. These are not your mother's Christian Bikers.
2 They're like some ribald band of Robin Hood's merry band of brothers (and sisters); living life, laughing heartily--so refreshing, though they never acknowledge your presence with so much as a nor or smile . . . nothing.
3 They require no social exchange, no acknowledgement needed whatsoever. Love 'em or hate 'em, they don't give a damn.

CHAPTER FIVE

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

2 JESUS CHRIST!

3 Lisa, I've never seen so much traffic in all my days . . . .

4 Wouldn't they just love--people love--to just sit in traffic.

5 (HONK)!

6 I'm blowing my horn for no reason at all.

7 Um.

8 I'm just incensed. I can't afford it, nowhere I go. I just paid a parking ticket that I got for being at a damn meter for two minutes. That's what I get for saving a quarter.

9 JESUS, they're just content to . . . Columbia is full of a bunch of lemmings. They just love to stand in line somewhere. Not me.

10 I love you angel, I'll be picking Annie up at two. I have to go by the Jam Room. I had to order some hardware and cases . . . . Um, I'm ready to kill someone right now.

11 Blume is not taking it anymore. This is one white man, GONE MAD!