![Mach 20 - Laurie Anderson](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751059863925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 28.07.2008
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Mach 20 |
Ladies and gentlemen, what you are observing here are magnified examples or |
facsimiles of human sperm |
Generation after generation of these tiny creatures have sacrificed themselves |
in their persistent, often futile, attempt to transport the basic male genetic |
code. |
But where is this information coming from? |
They have no eyes. |
No ears |
Yet some of them already know that they will be bald |
Over half of them will end up as women |
Four hundred million living creatures, all knowing precisely the same |
thing--carbon copies of each other in a Kamikaze race against the clock |
Some of you may be surprised to learn that if a sperm were the size of a salmon |
it would be swimming its seven-inch journey at 500 miles per hour |
If a sperm were the size of a whale, however, it would be traveling at 15, |
000 miles per hour, or Mach 20. Now imagine, if you will, four hundred million |
blind and desperate sperm whales departing from the Pacific coast of North |
America swimming at 15,000 mph and arriving in Japanese coastal waters in just |
under 45 minutes |
How would they be received? |
Would they realize that they were carrying information, a message? |
Would there be room for so many millions? |
Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose? |
Name | Year |
---|---|
O Superman (For Massenet) | 2005 |
Bright Red | 2008 |
Speak My Language | 2005 |
My Right Eye | 2010 |
Big Science | 2005 |
Born, Never Asked | 2005 |
Speechless | 2008 |
Freefall | 2008 |
From the Air | 2005 |
World Without End | 2008 |
In Our Sleep | 2005 |
Walking and Falling | 2007 |
Bodies in Motion | 2010 |
Example #22 | 2007 |
Tightrope | 2008 |
Beautiful Pea Green Boat | 2008 |
The Puppet Motel | 2008 |
Washington Street | 2001 |
Muddy River | 2008 |
Slip Away | 2001 |