Marichelle 1: Insane Little Monkeys

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“Where do we start? It doesn’t matter where we start.
You start where you are is all. Where else, right?
Sure, where you are is where you start.”

Marichelle

Marichelle is awake. She is from Switzerland and now lives on an island off Honduras. She was in her thirties when I knew her and nearing sixty when giving these talks. In response to many requests, she gave a one-time series of talks in English to a small group. The transcript of these talks has been provided to me with permission to use. Attempts to organize this material only seem to make things worse, so I’m just presenting the best of it in loosely strung-together bite-sized bits. The talks were lively, but audience interactions have not been retained. I have made minor changes for readability.

So one day you wake up and say oh no, I’m totally insane, and that’s nice because it gives you something to work on. That’s how it starts, you realize you’re insane. Not a little insane, all the way insane. You figure out you’re all the way insane and always have been, that’s how it starts. Before this, nothing starts. Everything else is just nothing. Pretty simple, I would say.