| World History in 10 and a ½ Bullet Points. |
| Written by Ivelina Atanasova | |
| Sunday, 12 April 2009 | |
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1. I was born in a wet afternoon; there was mud all around me; several amoebae pottered around. My father wished me to be a female (please disregard the theories that Adam was the first human creature, it’s all tittle-tattle) because he was curious what it might be the feminine kind. Perhaps he meant it to be an evil experiment or perhaps he was just bored to death back up there, in Heaven. In anyways, he created his first issue in a female body. Last night I asked him when precisely he is going to set me up for a marriage and in exactly how many decades/centuries/eras I would have to become a modern emancipated feminist. In the next town, he said, there was this lad, Pedro, the only one who survived after the Big ‘Boom-Bang’. Pedro was looking for a young and diligent housewife, so he decided to get us married. 2. The big ‘Boom’ was nearly two hundred years ago…sometime in my childhood. My father had conducted the deluge in order to screen a second time the sinners. He said it Gomorra and Sodom looked like a small spilled coffee cup. He granted the Sun an extra holiday bonus for a wee while and sent Prometheus to the creatures ‘downstairs’. Since they are not outstandingly smart, the human creatures found an occasion to fight – some Helena (or something like that) who by the bloody way was a quite evil woman. The very same Helena invented the ‘beauty studio’: you put in some normal women and then you treat them with some painful procedures and then you bring them out as if done under an indigo: skinny, almost bonny, emaciated. The history says Helena taught them some tricks how to experience pleasure when sexually intercourse occurs. I wonder how father let such kind of peoples exist… 4. Dad wants to send me in a nunnery so I know what the right path is. In anyways, I thought I should better decide for myself and decline these heathen convictions of mine and practice a wee bit of witchcraft, kabala, numerology and what else. And what of it?! Only the stake is not that appealing… Both men and women knew ‘the stake at their hand’. So you think the earth spins around a vertical line; so you think it is a ball rather than a square… so bloody what?! Does this change the world? 5. It has been a fortnight now in listening about that lad, Pedro, the son of the father but from another marriage of the other town’s woman…?! The father wishes me to marry him, it is obvious, because he could not stand spinsters dusting up around his house. He much more preferred a strong offspring to run around his old feet who he may create in his image. 7. Today we picked mushrooms. Though, they are not for cooking – they contain much more pesticides than actually taste. Father is mad about it. He said if these pesticides continue to spread around, he would invent another ‘boom’ for the peoples… 8. We went shopping with my husband. Oh. Oh.Oh. What a wonderful invention shops are! What shoes, bags, skirts, socks…! What cars! We ate and we drank, we jostled everyone with our plastic shopping bags, we crowded… my soul was fulfilled with sweet pleasure. 9. Today I asked my dad who my mummy was. He looked at me closely and slapped me on my right cheek. “You’re the first woman in the whole world, what are these ramblings for a ‘mother’?! I insisted and he promised to send a fortuneteller who would tell me the ‘truth’. The fortuneteller came in a dark and silent night. S/he came into my room and brought the fear with her/him. S/he promised to get into contact with my mother in the next half an hour. I waited for three hours. It never happened. Thought: The ½ is to be left unwritten. |
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