Initially, the fact
that a massive stink ant can emanate a cry perceptible to the human ear and
survives by searching for food on bed of an extravagant rainforest can be
perceived as a metaphor. Of course it can be taken literally as well. Nonetheless, the ant seems more like one in
need such as a homeless person, or a lost dog.
Or in other words, the ant can even be relative to someone who is lost
in his or her mind, rather than physically being detached.
Secondly, the text
seems more fantastical. Where a lonely ant becomes possessed and conduces an
abnormal disposition but yet it is still able to transcend or climb
upward. This does happen, but it may
seem like a hopeful ideal of invincibility that a person might have.
The description of
Geoffrey Sonnabend’s state just makes the fungus seem like a drug. However, to only remember music might mean
that we humans remember what we want, or one might remember an aspect that is
second nature to him or her. As if our
hearts have a stronger sense of memory than our minds. ‘We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an
eternally fleeting present’’. This
statement might be true. After all in
this contemporary digital age we photograph everything. I wonder if ‘eternally frozen in a mass of
lead’ is relative to memory. Well
Madalena Delani, her memory and the ant died so maybe this opening text is more
about immortality of any existence.
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