Vacuum

 

 

___Some guidelines on how to vacuum in a

rush without avoiding them neglected corners___

 

 

Vacuuming is the ubiquitous part of the modernist human destiny and dignity, it encompasses the obligations of man or woman, young or old, citizen or Immigrant, legal or Illegal, Healthy or Poorly, Philistine or Learned, Boss or Me, Regressive or Progressive, Evolving or Devolving.

 

 

To vacuum may at first appear to be in need of certain prerequisites, like having an apartment or a house, but the presumption cannot be any further from the truth as, even the homeless can vacuum. I recall in my own time I was forced into voluntary car-living, for over a year, while at the same time keeping a yuppie job without appearing to colleagues so, or making them admit so, including the then boss, (but never referred to as the Boss, as the term boss did not exist in my vocabulary then). But all those months I had to vacuum the car inside out as the dust and crumbs and yes them neglected corners would accumulate their favourite mementos.     

 

 

The term vacuum enters the domestic vocabulary initially as a Verb �" to vacuum �" or vacuuming �" but vacuum is a Noun a thing, to be put in to good utility. In humanities we often hear terms like Political Vacuum being used - or in Psychology may hear a description of life of dementia, leading to a crisis of values and the consequent vacuum, One may indeed describe the life of the Boss as a vacuum inside a vacuum. In nuclear physics, or elementary particle physics - vacuum can be anything, any learned institution can recognise as immense source of grants and direct cash or expenses claims, via direct government grants or requiring security clearance or not.

 

 

I hope the above rather short paragraphs have provided a little insight on how to proceed and lookout for, while doing the domestic vacuuming. I hope the very act of clarification of syntax and the etymological reading of this innocent word, has shed some leisurely light on an otherwise “sluggish” if not lethargic topic. But to a physicist having munched up all them grants, and paid for Frequent-flyer program credits by attending meetings and conferences, even, the odd book signing ceremony, and now collected it. Vacuum is the dynamism, the thing that moves, its engine roars, as if guiding the invisible hand to place the vacuum where it ought to manifest itself, but a manifestation is all that is, for the vacuum already so untenable is busy with next souvenirs and postcard.