10 September 2006 - big project

A sufficiently big project is like a cage, and you’re locked in the cage with this monstrous project, because it’s also a monster, and you and the monster are locked in a marathon struggle to run a marathon, and you have to drag it toward the finish line because it’s locked to you like a ball and chain, and all you can do is keep going and keep going and keep going and keep going and keep going because you’re tide-locked like a moon and can only face toward the ball, which is also a planet. One day, at last, you unlock it and set it free, like a genetically engineered weed, and it becomes a tail and wags you.