7 posts tagged “forest”
Saturday: Driving along the dark, green mountain. In that closed, dark folliage that looks like the hill atop Darling Road. But this mountain is also exaggerated. The wooden suspension bridge atop the green floor is covered in dark. There is an opening in the cover a far distance away. A light penetrates through, casting a strange gloden, emerald hue upon the surroundings. It is like New Zealand but I know that it is not New Zealand. It is Darling Road. But I know that it is not Darling Road because the direction in which I face is a hill, not a deep open valley. It is recurring. I already know that it is a farce. And yet that magical location of which I have never seen, is one of the most beautiful and intoxicating places that I repeatedly again and again visit. But why, oh why: In land of such beautiful virgin serenity is the bridge rotting, breaking apart, and falling? There is no stop. The warning was already long made. The bridge is man-made. It is not natural. It is a construction of death. The very wood.
I guess that is rather negative but... well...
Usually the bridge holds and I have been fine before while hiking during the winter and various other seasons.
The winter was the most spectacular. The colors...
It was on this French-Canadian public television channel at nearly 2 am in the morning. What really bothers me is that I can't remember the name. It must have been produced in the late 1960's or 1970's. It was about this man's dreams (or rather nightmares) that affect reality. He approaches a doctor for help who instead exploits his strange powers. The world is changed overnight into that of a nuclear holocaust. Each day the doctor uses him to change the world, but always what happens is the outcomes grow worse and worse. It was a really strange and frightening sci-fi movie. It kind of ended rather off-beat/ironic though because the robot, who replaced part of the human race in the man's nightmares, ended up serving ice cream out of his little moving trolley cart with a colorful balloon attached to it. I had always wanted to learn what the name of that movie was and I still am very much trying to find out. The only other time I have heard it spoken of was earlier this Autumn on a morning show of NPR. Low and behold, although I was listening intently to the program and remember very much about the commentary, I forgot again its title...
