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In Recognition of the Relevance - Alternate Routes

from 1983​-​2002 by Larry Wendt

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Alternate Routes 25' 8" 1993

Back in the early days of our history, before people had the ability to locate themselves by Geosynchronous Positioning Satellites orbiting our planet out in space, people had to be educated about how to get from Point "A" to Point "B" and beyond. One had to learn how to read this arcane, graphic mnemonic device called a "map" which existed in many different forms with notational styles which often required one to carry several different copies of these things which generally existed on pieces of cheap paper which often became folded-up "wrong", torn, stained with coffee and food, mutilated, outdated, or just plain worn out. If one was unfortunate enough to have to use the public and mass transit systems in America at that time, the problematic issue of how to get from Point "A" to Point "B" and beyond, became overlaid with a far more complicated complex route and timing schedule which varied from transportation system to transportation system that was also printed up on a variety of different sized, constantly changing, throw-away, crumpled up, paper lists in another multitude of arcane notational styles, whether it be bus systems, trains, or planes. If one wanted to go someplace outside of the local system, they had to carry with them a large bundle of these maps and schedules with which they would also have to pay close attention very carefully or else they could end up where mass transit does not exist or run anymore: stranded at a broiling-hot or freezing cold, un-enclosed bench in the middle of nowhere, having to wait for several hours until the first bus, train, plane, or human being would show up the next day to get you out of that hell-hole. Not that this still cannot occur in our now modern times with all of our technological conveniences where we do not have to think where we are at any particular moment. However, this text sound piece harks back to a simpler time when one had to learn this specialized language to be able to get around to places which is now a more or less extinct way of doing things. Instead of being able to just tear up out of frustration while screaming, at their maps and schedules when they miss a connection or get lost, one can now throw their battery-dead, "smart" cellphone (that cost an arm and a leg) onto the ground and stomp on it several times — while screaming of course. We have come to appreciate this "better living" through technological change as progress indeed.

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from 1983​-​2002, released May 2, 2023

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