Welcome to another installment of House! Solomon is insistent on taking down the King and clearing the house of the presesnce, isn’t he? Where did we leave off with him? Perhaps a short refresher:
Solomon walked and wondered what he was doing here. Where was this place in relation to the garden? To the corridor? Was he closer to arriving at the tower, or farther away? As insistent as he was about returning to discover more, he began to feel like he knew even less than when he began. He tried not to board this train of thought; he'd been through this over and over again already. Instead, he glanced over his shoulder to see how far he had walked, but the building was gone. There was only the great field of grass behind him. Without any other recourse, he turned his thoughts to what he might find among the trees and kept moving.
Ah yes, he walked out of a building, onto a field, and was heading to the tree line. You can catch up with Part XV here. It’s interesting to consider his “being there too completely”; even when dreaming lucidly, there remains the awareness of the dream, it feels like a dream, it is a dream. And yet, for Solomon, his immersion is such that this dreamspace is becoming a very realspace for him. It almost feels like his explorations are less about acquiring information and more about, well, exploration.
Where was this place in relation to the garden? To the corridor?
These could be the questions of someone with purpose, and a desire to achieve that purpose as quickly as possible. These are also the questions raised by curiosity. Where am I in relation to this thing and that thing? How do I make sense of it, because it is all just so interesting. Is it possible that we, along with Solomon, are being duped into thinking he maintains his purpose? Are we following along, not to see how this ends, but to learn more of this strange Wonderland?
I’ll let you sit with that. In the meantime, here is Part XVI of House.
