Thursday, November 1, 2007

Receptors

On a walk to a sacred site, a man gets suddenly struck by lightning, endowing him with mental channels into others' lives, which at first annoys him, but later turns more and more enticing at the risk of turning off his own life.

`what are the channels? how does he get there? does he literally walk into others' lives? what are the side-effects of the portal?

2 comments:

Indeterminacy said...

I think he might begin to get seriously involved with these other lives, over and above paying attention to his own, and then, when he reaches a point of final obsession, he discovers that these other people's lives are entirely in his imagination. They do not exist.

Madeleine said...

The thrall and eventual realization of a life vicarously lived, no doubt.