Utilizing an Ecocritical lens to identify social anxieties for Rick stemming from Shane’s “light-switch story”. The repetition that’s seen in the post-apocalyptic dystopia and return to nature, is foreshadowed as an idea in Shane’s quip over the consumption problems that face humanity because of women’s inability to turn off light switches. The Freudian association is made through the familial link that Shane makes relating to the reaction of women to this criticism: “You sound just like my father”. This view is entirely problematic and informed by patriarchy. Under the guise of a joke, which Freud again would suggest is an attempt at relieving anxieties about matters of “dire importance to the subject”. Shane’s little tale finishes with him saying “at least I tried” which underpins in its entirety his own failings. The first season of TWDthrough its narrative navigation of word and image that allows for a graphic reiteration of there being no safe place while emphasising humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels as problematic. The dire concern that “the world is run on fossil fuels” (TWD. TS-19) is reiterated in both texts and employs a regime of verisimilitude through which the reader is interpolated.

What are you thinking about I asked my sister?
“mind your own fucking business and have your own fucking thoughts” – My mind answered.

“Just planning out my day” She said. She was distant, vacant stare.
I poked her.
I told here that she was in possession of a human body and that whatever she decided to do would be the right decision. (Leaving out the part that whatever she decided would also be the wrong decision). Trade-offs.
Always everywhere.

X-Day today.
Xavier everything.
X for Christmas.
Death. Poison. Treasure.
I am getting a cold.
Been feeling cold.
I’ll go for a run, get the heart pounding.

Thinking of my brother and our friend Trav.
Thinking music, making plans.
Jorgia, walking.
Penny, talking.
Alex, taxing.

and we all fall down.

I might change my sheets.
Time is scarce, but I have so much of it.
So much scarcity in my world.
I need to print. I need to edit, write introduction and functions.
Riddle in some content.
Critical analysis, follow on, dream-states. Oedipus!

My mind’s running, my nose running, the tap running.
And we all fall down.
Teeth gritty, midday and only just awake.
No drive, need for early mornings.
Power naps, to fully lose a day.
and to be wrecked, over do it.
Done and done. Kilian, the sherrif in town.
Watermelon jokes.
Telling wild tales.
forgetting to buy the coffee pot.
forgetting and forgetting and memory.
lost and writing something for Jazmine,
Jazz’s birthday. and the use of apostrophe.
and Harvey. Bird Man. Attorney at Law.

Nuts and bolts I said.
I wasn’t wearing any underpants.
Flonk flonk flonk.
I bought an old cologne.
We spoke of Agriculture.
We talked of music.
Speaking of things that you enjoy.
Music, friends, the elixir.
Concoctions, like acid potion.
What’s your poison.
And coffee (white).
Introductions and chatter.
Entering competitions.
Exhilaration, better get back to work.
So so so many distractions.
Buy wrapping paper.

Flights flights FRIDAY.
Bookings and all that extra information.
Stress.

Emotionality = caring.
Revulsion revolution.

Idea
NOT idea.

Naked me, showing an ordinary penis to the people that asked.
Class. Comfortablilty in their uncomfort.
SUREDE SUEDE SUEDE.
bali. BHAAL. BAAHL.
Diablo, yo go ho ho ho/

YELTOUR. ROUTLEY.

WALLEY YELLAW.
W
WAL
WALDO ODLAW.

BOTS AND NUTS.

I rose early and went. Tasmanian beach; no waves roll in. Only a quiet lapping at the shores. Squeaky sand. Paddling out, thinking Harold Holst. The cold is like being squeezed between giant hands. I exhale and close my eyes. A few bubbles swirling from my nose, up and out. A fattening. My heart beat is sharp pins in neck and the tear ducts. No toes. My open eyes below the surface. The sun is rises now, now. Gloss of light streams. Thoughts flow. Just sparks. Above, it all would be streaming, streaming. Below the surface, prickled eyes perceive flits of white. Circles hollowed out. Flat lights, dispersed silk. Saturating my skin. Sight and all senses are static. White mixes with a wash of red and blue. 

Don’t micromanage me young man. Was the last thing she said as she left. He sat there smugly. Sated from all the events that had lead up to the convergence and the moments just passed.

Genevieve and Sharmi drove their small blue fiat along the coast into town. Passing the fish and chip shops, hotels and the university. Stopping at the first set of lights, Gen put on the radio to Jazz. A proper English accent purred the next track title and they were off again.
“More marching band music?” Sharm questioned.
“Why not”.

The drove for five and then five more minutes, to find a parking space.

Genevieve had a sore throat from the night before and wondered what the best solution would be. She’d been seeing a guy for a week. Her love life was no frills and had its ups and down. Shar and her shared a flat down in the south east, along the coast for a little bit, where it was mostly quiet unless they invited over guest.

Sha suggested that they get some soothers or icecream. But Geneviev only shook her head and winced like a frog swallows. They were catching a cruise and had to park in long-term. The trip had been mostly paid for by work, they worked for themselves. Genevie pulled out her phone and wrote a quick text on a whim then slung her handbag over her shoulder.

The two of them walked up the uncomfortable ramp – its gradient lending itself towards the steeper climbs of its berth. Sh silently mused over the kill count of such a gangway while Genevi removed her camera lens deftly and took a photo of the water and the land, then the cruise ship with the sun in the background. They made a queer couple as the strolled abroad, but you could tell. It was an air. Maybe in their gait, jawline or posture. Both with shoulders pulled back, very clean hair. Edges where edges should be. Round only at the scarves and straps.

The book that Genev read that night was of little interest, she usually followed the tales with the fifty pages rule because
“life my darling is too short”.
“How do you know?”

S had a meeting with one of the patrons aboard and in the cabin across that night. It went well, she talked to them and set up a price for their service. They wanted a little bit more, like everyone seems to, but for a little bit less. Gene had echoed this for the years they’d known each other. It wasn’t OK there was a fee for everything, even international waters.

“Why did I get a book on pirates?” Gen moaned.
“Yes, indeed”
Why not Titanic or Peter Pan. She thought of her business and how nothing lasts. Ge sighed and pulled out her camera. The faux-wedding photography that she’d done for some friends snapped into sharp focus. She was removed, always, but this distance was her own tailored aesthetic. Numb to the wanton of others. Her lips were dry but years of lipstick wearing made her resist the urge.

Wondering if there were any animals aboard. G squeamishly turned off her camera and hugged herself. The radar blipped, once in the captains quarters. Technology had come a long way, but the green circle remained. Like space invaders, like pac-man or pokemon it was a refferential to something that unless you were there, looking, it was just a blip. And then it was gone.

The two women. Both of them, were gone.

The confusion regarding the Brontosaurus, provides a lighhearted jab at the Sciences for their inability to provide resolute and current answers for current problems. Timeliness of information relating to extinction is seriously brought under the microscope.

Where mistakes that have been slow in being rectified, so to does this undermine true knowledge when speaking of en-mass belief systems. This ignorance inherent to the general populace creates falsehoods, blind panic and crisis that are lacking the backbone that establishes a well reasoned science of perfection. Its here that many of the hopes of mankind substantiates logical claims. While the text suggests that science can be mistaken, nowhere is it said in 10:04 that the increasing Co2 and H2O levels are something that humanity can deny, or be absent from. These repercussions as instances of justice for the manipulations and mistreatment of the world promote the need for ecocriticism, to promote and highlight the ideas and information exchange that pertains to human being and the natural world.

Here society functions as a hive, reacting to forces beyond its control with rammifications and that lead to suffering for the maxed out credit with mother nature. The stakes that ecocriticism is most concerned with are higher than just a “strong six-figure sum”. For the city, its chaos in the boutique shopping aisles. Prices rise as the social climate reacts to external forces, this means a revaluing of resources and points to the structures of society bursting at its seams. This titanic groaning, can be likened to the instance that befell the Titanic. Its bow grating and moaning against a dislodged fragments of nature, that brings the excesses of man’s grandeur to a shuddering and deathly standstill.

Sacked trams actions jammed, heating inner wiring melting hands too hot to touch. And it all goes out the window, or it would if you could open it. Only the strength of bathe. Fearing tomorrow today, the next day. Riding you bicycle. Shaped like a razor into a car- shaped like a Buller. And all the promises you made to everyone else. The silence; well it all comes crumbling down in a wall of noise. Fear strikes in failure. Figures finality. Friends and family oppose the want of rested auto-mental-destruction. My bicycle revisits the paths many trod. Tried and true, I swerve in the hope- of making it to tomorrow.

‘Man is not man-in-history, or man-as-savage, but man’ Bronk.

Parallels exist between the poetics and philosophical notion of nature’s preeminence to the human being. William Bronk’s “midsummer” exists as a parable to go beyond the reminiscence over nature. Organic reductionist human thought in its consideration is suggested to reposition the importance of the reader and more broadly the human’s centrality to earth’s purpose. Seeing the natural environment as a means in itself rather than resource is a philosophical notion touched upon by the pastoral-esque philosopher Heidegger. His musings over human instruments creation corresponds to our detriment. Critiquing industrial modernity from his removed position in civilisation, to that of the hardship of pastoral life, reminiscent of the philosopher Epicurus he questions – “making a world of disposable stuff” and highlights the problematic viewpoint of Man as ‘lord and shepherd’ over Earth. through Heidegger’s Ecophilosophy Art and poetry are to play a role in what he calls ‘saving the earth’. Seeing Art as this “death denying project of world mastery” allows us to frame The Romantic’s movement as a response to the Industrial Revolution to have shaped the construction

Of nature. Furthermore this return of the pastoral into the human psyche has made for a revision of what is important to be noted in nature.