tastes and sounds
It's amazing how sensory-driven emotions can be.
I'm in Mwanza, and stopped along the side of the street to eat a mango. A delicious, juicy mango. They are a dime a dozen here these days, well actually a dime for 2 or 3 but come December, I hear you can pay a farmer 1-2 bucks and go clear out an entire tree. So I'm eating this mango, really really enjoying it, and thinking to myself, "how on earth will I ever be able to leave this place?"
Then, from far away, I heard the wail of a fire engine. I stood still and listened as the siren intensified in volume, then diminished again (by the way I love the doppler effect). My first thought was, holy shit, I didn't know there were fire trucks here! But then I started thinking about my apartments on 55th andUniversity, or 53rd and Woodlawn, and the firestation, liquor store, and latenight chinese takeout restaurants that were all right across the street. I was back home for a good 20 seconds, and I loved it (other onlookers, equally startled to see the fire-engine, were probably even more perplexed by the fact I listened to it with a huge smile on my face).
As quickly as my sense of taste decided I could never leave, my sense of hearing swiftly bitch-slapped that notion right back into the waaaay back of my head.
I'm in Mwanza, and stopped along the side of the street to eat a mango. A delicious, juicy mango. They are a dime a dozen here these days, well actually a dime for 2 or 3 but come December, I hear you can pay a farmer 1-2 bucks and go clear out an entire tree. So I'm eating this mango, really really enjoying it, and thinking to myself, "how on earth will I ever be able to leave this place?"
Then, from far away, I heard the wail of a fire engine. I stood still and listened as the siren intensified in volume, then diminished again (by the way I love the doppler effect). My first thought was, holy shit, I didn't know there were fire trucks here! But then I started thinking about my apartments on 55th andUniversity, or 53rd and Woodlawn, and the firestation, liquor store, and latenight chinese takeout restaurants that were all right across the street. I was back home for a good 20 seconds, and I loved it (other onlookers, equally startled to see the fire-engine, were probably even more perplexed by the fact I listened to it with a huge smile on my face).
As quickly as my sense of taste decided I could never leave, my sense of hearing swiftly bitch-slapped that notion right back into the waaaay back of my head.
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YO! Don't forget the great job at the hospital doing the sleep study too. Or great places to eat like Quizno's, Portillo's and Krispy Kreme's. BING! UD
By Anonymous, at 11/14/2005 11:49 PM
I JUST wrote about mangoes. Oh man. You guys have big ones yet? Cant wait for all the fruit Ness and I are gonna GORGE on when we come visit. And about the sensory craziness thing, the same thing happens to me like all the time. Strangely, a lot with burning garbage. Sometimes I'll be walkin around, smell something that I'm like- WHOA! Smells like home or reminds me of home somehow and I'm totally warped into this memory of the land o plently and then I find OH...only garbage being burned.... Such a disapointment..
By Michelle, at 11/18/2005 9:37 AM
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