Collapsing World » Insomnia http://sevenels.net/blog Letting the air out Sun, 15 May 2011 12:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Things You Think About at 2:30 AM http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=484 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=484#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:24:10 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=484 There’s a story out of the French Revolution of a fellow whose guillotined head continued to scream for several minutes after being divorced from its body. Good story, but when you think about it, utterly impossible. Even if the executioner had botched the job so closely to the shoulders that he included the larynx with the head, the diaphragm would still be necessary to push air past the vocal cords.

I suppose it’s possible that a severed head could retain consciousness for 30 or 60 seconds. Possibly it could even work the jaw muscles, albeit silently. It’s completely possible that the eyes and ears would continue to process information until the brain became starved of oxygen. That would occur fairly rapidly. Vision is the first higher brain function to break down, so who knows?

But a screaming head? Not very likely.

]]> http://sevenels.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=484 2 Things you think about at 2am http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=482 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=482#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:51:04 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=482 What if Lady Gaga is really Marilyn Manson playing an elaborate practical joke on everyone?

What if all wormholes are an express train to a singularity–the terminus of time and space, the Big Bang–and everything ejected in the Big Bang is the material being sucked in by black holes throughout the universe, and the universe’s existence is a product of its own demise?

*****

I should have had a proper typecast, especially since I hauled home four standards over the weekend, but between insomnia and a hellion child, I’m just drained.

]]> http://sevenels.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=482 2 The Poison Garden http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=381 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=381#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:20:09 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=381

Typewriter: 1950 Royal Quiet DeLuxe

]]> http://sevenels.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=381 5 Insomniac’s Hideaway http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=211 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=211#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:42:36 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=211
Insomniac’s Hideaway
Originally uploaded by olivander.
Where do you go when it’s 3:30am and you can’t sleep? Denny’s!

]]> http://sevenels.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=211 1 The End http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=181 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=181#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:34:00 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=181 2005_nanowrimo_winner_icon

It is done.

Goodnight.

]]> http://sevenels.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=181 0 Sleepless http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=180 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=180#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:45:08 +0000 olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=180
Sleepless
Originally uploaded by olivander. Silhouettes like shivering ancient feelings
They cover my foreign floors and walls
Submarines are lurking in my foggy ceiling
They keep me sleepless at night…
Can you pull me out
Of this sleepless night
Can you pull me out?–King Crimson

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