From Blue
Gravity
Publishing
Copyright 1994 Darren A. Lott
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Notes on Funnel Cloud: I saw a video tape by two men trying to capture a tornado for the news when they realized they were in its path. They drove rapidly down the highway, tornado in pursuit, until they reached an overpass. Minimally protected, they kept the camera on and recorded what it is to be inside such a beast and live. It was easy for me to understand why they were out there, in harm's way, instead of hiding in a storm cellar somewhere. It's the same attraction that pulls the giant wave riders to Wiamea bay. It's related to Big Game hunting, but with no chance of besting your opponent, only surviving it. The attraction to potentially destructive forces is a part of our psychological makeup. It probably stems from an innate desire to ally oneself with the best and the strongest. Generalized further, it can lead to an "Identification with the Aggressor", to get close to things that intend to destroy you. So what initially seems a wish for destruction can simultaneously be a safety mechanism, depending on your perspective. The second feature of this attraction is its high sexual charge, embodied by the femme fatale: A woman who becomes increasingly dangerous as you get closer, who is survivable only by piercing her heart, and staying there. |
Funnel Cloud I used to long for
thunderstorms Predators excited
me; I now understand my core
fascination- Now I'm hunting a dead
spot I knew your
sister Sashay You'll wear a fur
coat I'll hide under the
overpass Only you could want me that badly. |