] Perhaps something intense triggers it, like when there's a
] death in the family, or when you just found out your
] lover is going to break up with you. You're standing in
] the back yard and you're looking at a leaf and you see
] every vein on it. You see every detail, hear every noise,
] time just slows down and every second drips like
] molasses. Things becomes slow motion and every sense in
] your body is absorbing the moment, you're not on
] autopilot anymore.

Interview with the Flaming Carrot guy. I haven't read a lot of Flaming Carrot, but I enjoyed the stuff I saw. This interview is good...

Asked what carrots the Europeans had offered as incentives, a European negotiator replied, "There were no carrots."

Hmm ... none? Surely there's at least one, I think.

Flaming Carrot is a very calculatedly surreal character. I'm kind of curious when you got into surrealism and some of its many offshoots.