“There is a legend of the olden time that all our foolish plans and vain conceits are overlured to world the public good.”
Aristhophanes
The dust clouds from the recently wakened Icelandic volcano with terrible, hard pronounceable name for us – Eyjafjallajökull – have left the sky over the Europe and the harsh beauty of Island is enjoying an attention of many people again.
„Friðarsúlan“ means in Icelandic the peace column. Near the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík, on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay you can find some interesting construction. It is called Imagine Peace Tower and it is a memorial John Lennon from his wife Yoko Ono.
Not everybody has a possibility to come there in our real world. So settle for a small audiovisual invitation to the homonymous sim – Imagine Peace Tower – in world of Second Life.
During last several days I have often wandered the Second Life and somehow I have come to some party. I begin with a traditional place, which I often visit – the Beach Club in Bohemia city on Czechoslovakia2 sim.
I was dark and balmy night at that time. Stars illuminated the sky and a dance floor was full of many people. In the long shadows, spinning and dancing bodies were hidden and that all was with sounds of breathtaking music. Some bonnie girl fell in my arms and the world reeled.
However, the Baphomet Club on Bohemia Mall sim is completely another character. Here you can hear authentic music in style of metal, gothic, rock, punk, grunge and others. I made interesting dance creations in some flaming circle of hell with hard look of the skulls.
I was also in an old castle, which is in hiding on Groove sim. It suffices only to climb the steep stairway and you are welcome in a gothic hall with the dance floor. The magic eye looks at you from an arched ceiling and you are watched by the monsters as from Apocalypse.
The thematic parties were sometime very popular in Bohemia. It was in time of the oldest club called Xparadise. Unfortunately, this one does not exist anymore. Its successor, X-ko club on Angara sim, resurrected its distant glory, but then it totally disappeared yet. The thematic party was also in the Beach Club yesterday, this time in the swimwear, maybe with an illusion of early summer. To my surprise, the club has undergone the significant changes and it has looked really as the beach. However, somebody has told me, that it was only temporarily only for this party; and then the club would return to original state. So I have took past times again; one, which does not exist anymore today.
Do we live a hurried life, full of a rush and a stress? Probably, how someone. Or do our life from our birth till our death is really long or short, respectively, run? I think it is individual; it cannot be generalized to everyone. It seems like some fatalist philosophizing, but somehow it has come to me today’s morning.
How did it happen? From beginning, it seemed like usual way by train to my job. But when we stopped on the mains station in Blansko (city, where I live and there are to train stops there), then we had waited relatively long time for departure. Afterwards at once, the travelers begun to get out of our train even that one, who sat against me. It was bit curious, but no strange, because the speed train units commonly stop at the main station in Blansko with an exception of IC or EC trains (IC = InterCity, EC = EuroCity).
So, and this was just a situation, when one speed train from Prague had big delay. And so just these travelers change in big hurry to this speed train, some of them were half dressed, some of them run at a trot. Maybe time pressed them and some ten minutes could save them. I do not know. They simply hurried, maybe groundlessly, maybe with some intention.
Than I ask me: “Are we the slaves of time?” A slave? Human being, who is subject to an authority, submissive? Time? So it is, on the other hand, a physical quantity, which was made by human being. It has no begin, no end. We only determine some limits, time intervals ourselves. Henceforward hereunto, from here till over there.
Some silhouettes are coming up from the fog. The universe is coming to existence from the depth of time and space. It is no to hurry somewhere.
Yours truly is called Coral Ducatillon and I appeared in Second Life just on 11.07.2007. I am wanderer in Second Life. I live in Blansko and work in Brno at research institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. This blog is about my life and about my personal opinions about Second Life. Sometimes it is also about my real life and about some news about SL from another sources.
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