# ok, maybe I should lock my door - I swear a random dude just walked into my bathroom and I can't believe I haven't freaked out - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# and I can't believe I'm tweeting about it while he is still in there — in wonder of he is sleep walking - or if maybe I should freak out - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# ok - he's still in the bathroom and Im now thinking a combo of hobo and drunk and sleepwalking dude - he seems late 20s - hmmm what next ? - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# I'm thinking the hobo part cause I can smell BO - and I really am wondering why I haven't freaked the F out - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# maybe I should mention I live in a relatively rustic studio apartment in SF - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# ok - have weapon if I need it - but don't plan on any confrontation with it - about to go in - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# haven't gone in yet ..... debating calling cops but just feel it's not needed for some reason (and probably contrary to all logic) - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# ok - still haven't done anything - he is still in there - gonna setup a ustream now I think - standby - about 4 hours ago from Tweetie
# http://www.ustream.tv/channel/revision3 - about 4 hours ago from web
# going in - about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
# if u haven't been watching my ustream -the dude passed out in my bathroom and I just dragged him out - about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
# ok - I think the drama is over - intruder is out - door is locked - think I finally need some sleep - about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
I got this from gawker. They also have a Ustream of our hero in action.
It is easy to be contemptuous of him, seriously, how could you tweet when someone is mucking about in your bathroom? But I think this Hamlet made the right choice by acting in character, and twiddling his thumbs to a purpose. By acting out in accordance with his Dharma, may be he mobilised the cosmic forces to act on the intruder who passed out in consequence.
To tweet, or not to tweet: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler for the frame to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to twiddle thumbs against a sea of troubles,
And by tweeting end them?...
In a detective novel the name of which I forgot, the hero is convinced that Hamlet pondered not the question of his own death, but the seemingness of his life. To be is to be what he is, to act in character. And not to be, is to be the seeming Hamlet, the Hamlet who finds it necessary to fulfil expectations. Hamlet sees that his need to fulfil his father's expectations is to fit into a role, to accept seemingness.
I feel David Prager chose to be himself, and in tweeting, made the right action. To go out and tangle with the intruder merely because it is what is expected of him would have pushed him into a false role, and it might not have helped him at all. As it is, the intruder passed out.
And our Hamlet makes the final tweet:
# ok - I think the drama is over - intruder is out - door is locked - think I finally need some sleep - about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
Quite so.
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
Quite so.
bazooka!
ReplyDeleteNice post...
well summarized
he was himself
is it fear that inspired him, or the possibility of communicating with the world?
It's got to be 'possibility of communicating to the world'. Nice post Baskar. You are in form.
ReplyDeleteTechnological advancements and innovation has taken our life to the next level now with what they call Web 2.0. In future crimes may not be difficult to solve.
Kartikey, one wonders what sort of a man he is. He is not a nobody. Here is where you can read his tweets- dlprager, and he has an entry all for himself in wikipedia!. I think he is a producer in an internet TV called Revision3.
ReplyDeleteHe might not be the prince of denmark, but he is no pauper, ha ha (silly laughter).
Balajhi, what with Web 2.0, I think nobody need feel lonely. I even read news now and then that a set of people network and arrange for group suicide! Now, that is puzzling.
Just found this-
ReplyDeletePrager has a site called Pragerpedia where you can ask him ask him anything and he will answer: "I am Prager... Bringer of Truth... Ask me and you shall receive!", he promises, and adds for good measure, "It might not be right, but it sounds good!".