When you're a normal person you're on the Big Clock. You have needs, wants, responsibilities that are basically in tune with a bunch of other normal people, and so day is created, and then night is created from day, and weeks, and all that. The calendar is collective. If you're not normal, if you're the other, you exist on a little clock, created from personal immediate needs, wants, responsibilities.Sometimes your little clock is connected with others. Mostly it isn't.
Even when I lived in that room on Skid Row, as bad as things were, I was still on the Big Clock. Now, out in the streets with zero direct support or resources it was amazing to me how quickly that little clock took over.
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THE DOG HUNTERS (completed)
Fiksi UmumA suicidal homeless weirdo has adventures. He runs into a duo of dog lovers, who spend their days traveling around the city observing and honoring dogs. Wisdom cannot be run away from. He escapes paradise and falls in love with a strange lady who m...
