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Edited by Martin Cadwell, Friday, 11 July 2025, 08:24

a white image of a man with a shadow  Part Five of the Spirit and Alien Political Party story has been uploaded as a downloadable document in the post 'Spirit and Alien Party', tagged 'spirit party'.

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Can you see what I see?

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History shows us where we have trodden before, or something like that. Literally, where I have trodden helps to reveal what I have done and not done. Allow me to explain.

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I like fried food. I like to make patties and fry them. I can put pretty much anything in them; just think of a home-made fish-cake. Why not a chicken-cake? (not a beef-cake though because that is old slang for a heavily muscled man, and the words don’t sit right for me when I think of cooking).

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Cheap frozen fish has usually been in a pressurised environment that forces water into the flesh. More water and less fish to make up a required weight means more profit for the supplier, and I suppose the retailers. You have to defrost these fish before you fry them otherwise there is a lot of oil spitting all over the place. This is invisible to me because I have eyes that don’t see everything as your eyes might. I am also kind of forgetful and, like many people, easily distracted, particularly when it comes to cooking and eating. Although I will wash the dishes, plates and utensils that I use for food preparation as I go along, I always seem to not clean the cooker. Not really surprising because it is hot when the food is cooked and ready to eat and I just want to eat. Even when I clean the cooker, I forget to wipe the tiles above and at the back of the cooker. There is nothing that I can see to remind me that tiny spots of oil have accumulated there during the cooking process. And, oil doesn’t really have much colour anyway. I know many people can see the oil and tiny drops of water. But, if you consider that I have always been amazed that the people in football (soccer) stadiums can see who has the ball, you will begin to understand the difference between my vision and normal vision. I can only guess what detail other people can see.

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If I use clean water, which is what any self-respecting and clean person should use to clean things, I cannot see where the tiny oil spits have landed, and most often, dried out. These dried ones are the ones I have to scrub with actual detergent and one of those green scourer things. If I use dirty water, these dried oil spots are very visible to me; yellow.

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Even though it seems disgusting to practically everyone, including me, if I was to wash the kitchen floor and then use the same water to wash the tiles by the cooker, I would be able to see where I need to scrub. I don’t do that, but if I did, the history of where I have trodden would show me some of my cooking and non-cleaning history. In my head, this equates to: if you want to reveal invisible dirt or rather contamination, use dirt.

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I turned on the television and turned to a shopping channel.

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        ‘Want your home to be clean and smell like it has been recently cleaned? For the low price of sixteen ninety-nine you can have not one, not two, but three bottles of the new improved formula ‘Dirt’ by LMS. Your visitors will envy you that musty smell.’

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