the hamlet that thinks it’s a ship.

10 June 2007 · by Tintin Wulia · in hands-on thinking

Built in 1996. Very opinionated. Thinks it’s a ship, and that the land is its ocean.

Everything is interconnected, it says – pull one string out and poof goes the whole thing down.

Somehow, believing that it is sailing, the whole hamlet could be at times found cruising for a new location. As it is cruising it could be seen holding to its rose petal roofs – the wind too strong.

When it reaches the edge of the paper, however, it realizes that the world is flat. But then it acquires a new skill: nowadays, this hamlet – that thinks it’s a ship – is occasionally found cruising thru thin air.

for charles and li lin, thanks so much for singapore.
untuk rani, indi, dan noe – terima kasih atas rujak, ribs, dan semuanya.

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As a result of an auction in Sarah Vanhee's The Great Public Sale of Unrealised But Brilliant Ideas, my bio has become a collective bio:

When they were thirteen, Tintin Wulia and Christiane Berndes wished that Peter Pan would lose his shadow in their neighborhood, because they thought that Peter Pan was kinda sexy. Night after night, they would think a happy thought, wishing that Peter would find them if they could fly. Nothing happened – Tintin and Christiane discovered that Peter had much preferred Wendy.

Three decades later, Tintin and Christiane are still discovering many things. One, that Peter Pan is a fictional character invented by James Matthew Barrie. Two, that the fact that Peter is fictional doesn’t mean that he’s illusory. They are also discovering that, three, it is not a happy thought that one needs to be able to fly – it is, rather, the combination of a passport and a valid visa. And also, four, that the fact that one needs a passport and a valid visa to be able to fly is just shitty.