Drama Monologue Velocity vs. Viscosity :: Drama

Drama Monologue Velocity vs. ViscosityInsanity comes in two basic varieties slow and fast.Im not public lecture about onset or duration. I mean the quality of theinsanity. The day to day business of being a head case.There be dozens of names I guess depression, catatonia, mania,anxiety, agitation. They dont re everyy tell you much though do they?The predominant quality of the slow form in viscosity.Experience is thick. Perceptions are thickened and dulled. Time isslow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickenedperception. The body temperature is low. The pulse is sluggish. Theimmune system is half asleep. The organism is sloughy and brackish.Even the reflexes are diminished, as if the lower leg couldnt bebothered to jerk itself out of stupor when the knee is tapped.Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscositys cellular coma, velocity endows everyplatelet and muscle fibre with a mind of its own, a means of knowingand commenting o n its own behaviour. There is too much perception, andbeyond the plethora of perceptions, the plethora of thoughts about theperceptions and about the fact of having perceptions. Digestion couldkill you What I mean is the unceasing sentience of the processes ofdigestion could exhaust you to death. And digestion is just aninvoluntary sideline to thinking, which is where the real troublebegins.Take a thought - anything. I doesnt matter. For example - Im tiredof sitting here in front of the nurses station. I perfectly reasonablethought. Heres what velocity does to it.First break down the sentence. Im tired - well, are you reallytired, exactly? Is that, like, sleepy? You have to check all bodyparts for sleepiness, and while youre doing that , theres abombardment of images of sleepiness along these lines head fallingonto pillow, head hitting pillow, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Nemorubbing sleep from his eyes, a sea monster. Uh-oh, a sea monster. Ifyoure lucky you can avoid the sea mo nster and stick with sleepiness.Back to the pillow, memories of having mumps aged five, sensation ofswollen cheeks on pillows and pain of salivation - stop. Go back tosleepiness.But the salivation notion is too alluring, and now theres anexcursion into the mouth. Youve been here before and its bad. Itsthe tongue once you think of the tongue it becomes an intrusion. whyis the tongue so large? Why is it so scratchy on the sides? Is that avitamin deficiency? Could you remove the tongue? Would your mouth beless of a bitch without it?