Thats the way things happen in the movies, I hear you say. But someone wins the national lottery! Or becomes the president or isnt that scary the presidents wife.
And if you look closely at what Bluff does in the movie, youll notice a characteristic detail: hes never late, the fucker. Always just in the nick of time As soon as the security officer looks away for a second to think about the meaning of life, Bluff shows up out of the blue and, to take advantage of the security officers temporary helplessness and save Bluffs bullets for the other 149 security officers, clouts him right on the head there you go, your soul is floating up to hea I mean hell, of course.
As soon as the pretty lady feels an attack of female dizziness coming on, Bluff is right there to help as if he had seen it coming all along, the bastard.
Thats just the way he is no sooner do you stop to take a yawn than hes there to take care of things. Even Homer sometimes nods when the day of villainy is done, the villains need a minutes rest, too. Bluff shamelessly takes advantage of that respite, and the next thing you know, his shameless face looks into your eyes and says insolently, The name is Bluff. James Bluff.
What an asshole, right?
But the most interesting thing is that he takes his one-in-a-million chance as an accuracy on par with the Swiss time-pieces and invariably moves on from episode to episode, maneuvering deftly in the machine-gun fire and sliding between the pretty legs in those rare moments when theyre loose and defenseless.
Or take Next, starring Nicolas Cage.
In that movie, Nic is able to tell the future in all of three minutes, and the spell is long enough for him to bend his head low and lift it back up as necessary.And hes as deft maneuvering in the gunfire. When I first saw him I thought, All right, Bluff is back from another plastic surgery. You see, their tricks looked too much alike, and they contrived to knock the enemy all over the place without as much as shooting a gun.
It logically follows that if Nic doesnt brandish a gun in Next and Bluff isnt a frequent shooter either, then their main weapon is knowing how to be in the right place at the right time, smiling their bulletproof, white-teeth cover-boy smiles at the bullets coming their way
Maybe thats what gets the bullets blinded or how else can you explain that they miss the target all the time?
To put it scientifically for all of you nerds out there, the high probability of success in a situation where the probability of survival is negligently low is guaranteed for these individuals by either congenital or acquired ability to synchronously interact with aggressive agents, thereby allowing the individuals to attain their goals and use their capabilities in the most optimal manner possible.
Anybody get that?
Thats what the distinguishing feature of stalking is the absolute synchronization with the world and the use of power, aggression, and weapons kept to a minimum.
A poem by Guberman, I think comes to mind.
I had a friend who fed himself to lice
Mending his rags as old as life
Cut out Creations likeness nice
And hunted God without a knife
Chapter 5. Look what the cat coughed up
What does it mean to be in the right place at the right time?
In the nerdy parlance of overly smart mathematicians, this means having the right space and time coordinates at a given moment.
That is, F (x, y, z, t) = f (t), where f (t) is that tricky function essential to success and to the feeling of deep mental satisfaction.
Anybody get that?
To put it simply, heres an example: Say a cat runs across the road, escaping the cars prone to hit her any second.
Three things have always amazed me:
1. As a rule, the cat runs without looking around, instead looking steadily at some point ahead.
2. But if it stops and takes a look around, the cat is bound to be run over.
3. A simple yet amazing fact: a car drives through the spot where the cat was a second ago, but the cat is already not there.
Here, the following analogies offer themselves:
1. A person crossing the road of life looks at a point ahead of them like the cat. They can only see their ultimate goal and trot toward it.
This sort of obsession is a distinguishing trait of so-called ambitious people. That is, those who achieve success, for it is ambitious people that do.
Theres a certain secret to it, and in fact its a property of human consciousness. You can look at thousands of things, but you can only see those that your eyes search for, and once you see them, you just keep on looking at them. Thats as simple as that, and everyone knows it, but
Duck hunters know a funny thing: a duck shot while flying falls into the grass, and as the duck falls, the hunter mechanically follows its path with his eyes. Every hunter sees the spot the duck has fallen onto and then goes there to pick it up, but they wont find it unless they look steadily at the spot as they approach it.
But if they only remember the spot approximately and go searching for the duck on the just assumption that their six to eight pounds of brains guarantee locating a lousy duck in the grass, ninety-nine percent of them will never find it, dead or not dead.
Why do they find no duck? The duck cant have crawled away to heaven, right?
2. If you look away from your initial goal and start to have your doubts when youre half way there, youre not likely to succeed remember what happens to the cat when it freezes in front of the speeding car.
But the overwhelming majority of people doubt things all the time. THINGS AND PEOPLE but why?
Theres a good saying that cowards die many times before their deaths.
And if you ask women, who in fact stand behind the natural selection of homo sapience males, what a cool man is, theyll give you thousands of answers, but each will be sure to mention confidence.
Confident is an antonym for tentative. Women believe that a man can be anything a sadist, a murderer, a bastard, a pauper and still be attractive to them. But strip a man of his confidence, and no woman will ever look his way.
The instinct of selecting a potential mate unerringly tells a woman that a male lacking confidence will achieve nothing he has no prospects.
Hero, the laughing stock of the neighborhood, can only be a hero for a girl whos a laughing stock herself. People of this kind never make it unless theyre characters in a book, a drug for losers. In real life, someone who is confident scares predators away with their confidence alone.
Thats why little kids (and professional dog trainers) can, without an ounce of fear, approach a big mean dog to pet it (unless the dog is chained up). Their absolute faith and fearlessness dont provoke the dog to bite them.
If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it would move. Let me just add that faith is not a thought nor kung fu theory but the special state that stalkers learn first, a real feeling as opposed to mumbling, I do believe, I do believe, I do!
To those with extrasensory perception skills, one can simply say that energy is perception, the twenty-second Tarot trump (the Fool), the dude with a bindle, looking up to the sky to see his way up there, not down on Earth.
This Arcanum is the beginning and the end of Tarot studies.
It is this Arcanum that describes stalking on Earth.
And it is its energy and the perception of it that yield faith and all the resulting consequences, including the blinding bulletproof white-teeth smile.
Fools get all the luck, as the Russians say.
And thats quite true.