Coherence

Coherence in character is a fluttering concept. I can never be the same person again. Let alone for years and years. I can not make it across a few instants. What I do is peddle records, what I do is wear the same name. But in the middle of the scene, I request time. Go behind the curtain and quickly change my clothes. Measuring a person against her actions and speech is weird. What about the biggest freedom of them all, the freedom to do and say bullshit. Even our jokes have to be intelligent, now?

We use many different ways of understanding who a person is. We have many different ways of parameterizing a presence. We are still sensory beings. My discomfort is with dealing with the diagnosis of a person's mal-constitution on the basis of her actions and speech. I mean, everything a guy might do or say might be meaningless. But she might still be a wonderful person to hang-out with. Dis-engaging, stopping the reading activity, rising above and developing a macro-perspective is a problem. The benefit of a false hind-sight looming large over you.

I refuse to fit into the trauma of your specifications. I really have somewhere else to go. I can really pretend to misread, not-read, noise-read and be scott free of repercussions.

Coherence demands the strength to consistently speak the same lie. When you travel this becomes apparent. Nothing remains the same and learning to read new maps is the task at hand. Travel demands a bridging-over tackling new faces asking question, habits dry and crumble. People can compare us only across days or weeks. We can be inventive (and re-inventive) and tentative. If everyone was compulsively traveling all the time, there would be no wars, no murders. People would just wait for a new travel-cycle to kick in. People you don't like will just move on.

Maybe if anyone stays at any place for too long, they should blow up? That sure will make people follow their compulsions. That sure will ensure definitive incoherence.