A Russia Mousse

An intellectual travels to Moscow just ahead of the Ukraine tribulation and discovers a 'stranger' form of superstition/eternity.

A mystery-fable inspired by Click (Adam Sandler)! 

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A man traveled to Moscow just before the Russo-Ukrainian tribulation began and took with him his handy-dandy beloved Swatch wristwatch and when he arrived at the airport, he noticed strangely that the watch was frozen and when he looked up around him inside the airport, he thought the traffic people and movement of people were somehow miraculously and inexplicably frozen in time too!

This man, Edwin, an Algerian-American college professor of political science, hoped to evaluate the shape of post-USSR Moscow capitalism and couldn't have predicted the sudden Ukraine invasion approaching and was happily going-along during this 'field-trip' to make notes on Russian culture/commerce-life on social-media to share with his peers and random interested Western citizenry in this modern age of network-driven society commentary (hmm).

EDWIN: The classic vampirism-arts in Russia beckon an 'old-world' view of Romanticism, touched by that special Russian taste for things...commercially eccentric (or colored unusual!).

He saw the motion of traffic and people inside the 'frozen' airport suddenly resume again and his Swatch wristwatch working again! He scurried to his airport-taxi transit vehicle and got to his hotel-room where he logged onto his laptop and began taking notes and would eventually go back to his normal 'field-trip' journal reports (cyber) and make comments on Russian art uniqueness. However, that airport watch-interior 'freeze' haunted him while he slept (hmm).

EDWIN: There's a plethora of colors/lights for Kremlin-streets for the holiday-season of Euro-Xmas commerce and the street-life leaves me no choice (emotionally) but to remember that very unusual time-freeze 'miracle' inside the airport in Moscow...could be a sign of the Apocalypse (perhaps?).

When he got to a special Moscow gourmet-eatery and ordered what his Dartmouth professor-friend (Shelbye O'Hara) insisted he try while on this Euro-field trip, he was overwhelmed by the appearance/texture/taste of this fancy little Russian dish. That's when the time-freeze occurred...again! This time, Edwin decided to run around outdoors and take photos with his handy-dandy iPhone and then took photos of his Russian gourmet dish.

EDWIN: I'll take a photo of the dish; then a bite of it; then see if the bite-photo lasts!

The bite-photo of the 'time-eroded' dish did last! However, the time-freeze sill was 'real' science! Edwin concluded that the time-freeze for some reason froze his Swatch wristwatch but had no impact on his iPhone-camera functionality and recorded the shape-shifted dish by photograph. Edwin left Moscow with the (private!) journal-note, "Time elapse is a sign of consciousness variability and metaphysics 'omens' and may be 'separated' as a 'variable' with a technical method of object-isolation (e.g., photography), which suggests there are 'artifacts' that signal a consciousness-reflection of the 'timelessness' of perceived displacement (wow)."

Maybe what Edwin discovered on his Russia-trip was the 'magic' of dough itself!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing" (Helen Keller). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)