Epimetheus

Tokyo Fear.

Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Yeah, right.

Ingredients:

• Bicycle.
• iPod w/Matrix Soundtrack.
• Headphones.
• Puny halogen light.
• Partially cloudy sky.
• Dark road.
• Train tracks.
• Plan to visit Mizuho City.

Directions:

1. Leave the house as close to midnight as possible for your nightly ride.
2. Before departing, ensure that your iPod is strapped securely to your belt and your headphones are adjusted properly.
3. Don’t forgot to attach and turn on your puny halogen light.
4. Ride 10 kilometers away from home and end up in Mizuho city around 12:30 or 12:40 in the AM.
5. Make your way back home. Take the only road that a) doesn’t have any street lights and b) is lined with dark fields.
6. Depend on your iPod to provide a distraction.
7. Don’t switch off iPod when ominous music from the Matrix emanates from your headphones. In fact, get caught up in it.
8. Freak self out and pedal as fast as possible.
9. Promise God anything at all, “Just get me out of _this_ one and I promise to never look at pR0n again.”

Note:

As retarded as this sounds, it was effing scary. All sorts of madness bubbled up from my subconscious, “OMG, someone is going to jump out of the field and chop you up! You are going to die! They are right behind you! Pedal faster! OMG. OMG. OMG. Why did I come down this road! Some wacky, repressed geek is going to act out his favorite violent scene using my corpse as a prop.”

/me curses the Matrix score for providing fodder for my already active imagination.

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