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What is The Slide

In The Kingdom of Leisure, “the Slide” is a metaphorical period of decline or descent — a time during which things grow darker, more difficult, or more challenging, before bottoming out and then (implicitly) reversing course. It’s a key part of their annual cycle.

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Key aspects of “the Slide”

• Typically the slide begins on Field Mowing Day in late September or early October and ends on the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year: the winter solstice
• There is reference to a “really long slide” in 2020 (covid quarantine), describing it as a “nine-month decline” that “felt like” it started earlier than usual
• The idea is: we all “slide into darkness” (figuratively) during the months after Field Mowing Day, as daylight wanes, struggles accumulate, and the world feels more oppressive. Then after the solstice, the light returns incrementally (i.e., the “bottom” is passed)
• The literature frames this as something that can be predicted and used: “aspects of our existence are predictable and we control how we function within that paradigm”  

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Interpretation & symbolic meaning

• It’s a cyclical frame: “the Slide” is the descent to the low point in the year, corresponding with the natural turning point of the seasons (winter solstice)
• It’s not just seasonal or natural — it’s existential. The Slide is a time when troubles, darkness (literal and metaphorical), entropy, fatigue, confusion, discouragement may intensify
• But part of the point is that one knows the Slide will end, so one can plan creative or restorative strategies (e.g. hibernation, reflection, internal work) rather than be overwhelmed
• The Slide is contrasted with the return of light, renewal, and rebirth after the solstice — and is tied into the rhythm that includes Field Mowing Day and Attic Day

Somewhere Near The Slide and Field Mowing Day

 

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...provided yet another disturbing insight into Senna's extraordinarily intense egocentricity and uniquely flawed genius...

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Attic Day 2024 - Year 19

 

 All We Are is Who We Are

     [who am i?]

I have become so many people
In my life and I mean so
Very different things to
Very different people
Including myself because
Obviously I have changed
Over time if not evolved
Into this right here

Who very well may or should
Become something entirely new
Very different things for
Very different people
To whom do we owe all of this
Who are these contributors
There is never a way to fully say it
But there is a responsibility to show it
And pass it along

     [i am who?]

Are We Who is Are We All

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Herding Light with Dave

 

Fracture by King Crimson

 

I’m not sad that I’m dying
I’m sad because you will miss me

I’m not dying because I’m sad
I’m dying because I’m done

I have left all of the pieces for you
Of the puzzle unsolvable

Things I enjoyed and for you to see
Maybe the biggest part of me

Live like you’re dying
Die having fun

2424

 

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the way i see it
once we stop caring so much
is when we can start to ascend
to the pinnacles of freedom

when the petty becomes important
power differentials
result in needless suffering
indifference is transcendent

we hold all the power
to chose that which we care
we hold all the power
to chose that which we don’t

nothing is equal
so we may immerse ourselves in
that for which there is care
a clarity for the precious

happiness is a privilege
the ultimate flex is boredom
not playing by no rules
refusal is discipline

what if

 Apologies to Charles Bernstein


Let’s just say the poem could have been half as long

Let’s just say I see the scam for the scam it is

Let’s just say I know how much I disappoint

Let’s just say being the best is better

Let’s just say it really could be a simulation

Let’s just say it’s all self-referential

Let’s just say I learned it from small times

Let’s just say I know you better than you know yourself

Let’s just say no one knows me at all

Let’s just say he found a place

 

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Sistine in the Otis upon Seeing the Tolman 2424

 

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