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Telephone at random
    #7944752 - 01/28/08 10:56 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)



Lift the handset. Start dialing a number, any number, blindly. Press the numbers at random. Wait and see what happens. To begin with, the experiment is mostly disappointing. Engaged signals, recorded error messages, blanks. Dead ends. Unless you're very lucky, your first attempts lead nowhere. The telephone does not work at random. So you must arrange matters to increase your chances of success.

Begin by determining the total number of figures you will dial, which varies depending on the country you're in, the requisite codes, the region you are thinking of contacting. You can either limit yourself to national calls or extend your luck to the four corners of the world (depending on your mood, your languages, and your budget).

Clearly none of this should be treated as a prank. The game we are playing has nothing in common with the kind of practical joke played by adolescents the world over. And this, indeed, is the first thing you need to impress upon your interlocutors. "I'm phoning you at random. Can you tell me who you are?" You must get them to agree, if you can, that it's no joke.

What happens next is unpredictable. They'll slam the phone down on you, or you'll begin an unlikely conversation with the receptionist at a steel girder factory in Manchester. They'll insult you, or else a strange, semi-anonymous relationship will be initiated with someone who was a perfect stranger a moment before.

The experiment is not about making new friends or chatting people up from the comfort of your own home. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not the point. Rather it's a way of experiencing the density of the human world, both close at hand and far away. Telephoning at random ought to be the starting point of micro-adventures into this density. Of infinitesimal odysseys. Instantaneous disorientations, sudden abyssal faults in the daily routine, little pockets of strangeness. To return to earth, just hang up. But it takes a moment to adjust. Strands of otherness still hang in the air. Or you've left some thread of your own behind, and you don't quite know where.

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Re: Telephone at random [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7944773 - 01/28/08 11:02 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

Interesting post. :thumbup:


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Re: Telephone at random [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7944784 - 01/28/08 11:05 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

I enjoy the way you think :wink:


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Re: Telephone at random [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7944789 - 01/28/08 11:07 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

The idea is not my own. But it's certainly something I want on my to-do list. :mushroom2:


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Re: Telephone at random [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7944794 - 01/28/08 11:09 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

I've got enough people in my own life that I don't really feel like talking to most of the time. :lol:


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Re: Telephone at random [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7944801 - 01/28/08 11:11 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

I like to tell the callee that I am watching them from across the street... Stalking can sure be fun! :yesnod:


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Re: Telephone at random [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7944934 - 01/28/08 11:43 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

i'd give it a try but my skype isnt working atm...


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