The 28th Bali Arts Festival, Week One
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 by GawainBy Gawain
This arts festival thing keeps getting bigger and bigger, like an alien plankton bloom swallowing everything in its path.
This year it is not just visible from space, but from Mars, and with a naked eye, too. Soon it will begin to spread all over the archipelago, and then the whole planet, until, in just a few years, the whole human race will rise at dawn to beat gongs and dance all day and then late into the night, until, exhausted with pleasure, we all simply collapse in the happy sleep of the exuberantly sinful.
(The economy will collapse, GDP will decline by 80% overnight, there will be a crash in housing prices, packages will no longer be delivered by UPS and the MacDonald’s opening hours will become extremely erratic (the sign on the locked door might say: “gone to ceremony, be back whenever its over. Or maybe not.”) But none of this will matter, because, we are all going to have — oh! — such fun!)
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