Excerpts From Aesthetical Sermons

Episode 8 excerpts a moment from Joris Planck's "Sermon on Companionship," wherein he considers how much time he wastes. We'll be challenged to decide if we, the listeners, aren't somehow implicated in his metaphors.Transcription of Joris:"Watching my chickens, the overbearing gravity of wasted time oppresses me. Then again, seeing anything overwhelms me with this sentiment. Why, I could have mentioned clouds dissolving, or wind carrying outrageously engineered seeds as they parachute wildly to mock the Mother Earth, who is all too desperate to cultivate each and every one. By Jove, and it pains me to speak in such frank words, my mind cannot conjure a single thing that doesn't sag with the appalling avowel that time is wasting away savagely, inexorably, and, in a desperate attempt to dissuade me from discovering its accelerating atrophy, it searches frantically the endless corridors of memory for some thing, some image, that may challenge this intellectual blockade. But there is nothing there, Mind! Mind, th