There's a story I heard about some great composer who wouldn't get out of bed one morning. His friend came round to see him and still, he wouldn't rise. So his friend went to the piano and played a short chord sequence finishing on the penultimate chord. A real cliff-hanger of a moment. The story goes that the composer immediately got up, rushed downstairs and completed the sequence.
I recently tried a similar experiment in lack of resolution purely by accident. I was at work, and the experiment went thus:
- Make a cup of tea.
- Return to desk.
- Take one sip.
- Go out on lunch-break to run errands.
The whole time, my uncoscious mind was still trying to drink the cup of tea. Even while sitting in the car I would reach out for my cup which obviously (to my conscious mind) wasn't there. It was especially prevelant while waiting at traffic lights.
It may just be that I'm a tea addict, but give it a go and see what happens...
5 comments:
I do this when cups of tea go cold. If I've had to go run an errand or something after making a cup of tea, and having started to drink it but not finished it, I'll be quite likely to come back after it's gone cold.
I know it's gone cold, I've tried it. It's disgusting.
And yet every couple of minutes or so I'll still take another sip (at least until I go to make a new round).
I hate cold tea.
Tries with beer. *opens can and goes to do laundry etc.
Nice one!
You're nutts :-)
I get that when trying not to browse blogrings at work
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