tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76613732459743795262024-02-19T05:06:19.202-08:00MAT BLACKWELL: WORDULAR ARRANGEMENT PRACTITIONERThe assorted writings, ramblings, ravings and misc of multi-award-winning writer Mat Blackwell. Old stuff, new stuff, linked stuff, and stuff that I really should've thought harder about before posting. Welcome to my internets! IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-58269096645866362442021-10-14T21:12:00.000-07:002021-10-14T21:12:13.388-07:00NEWS: World-Famous Surrealist Writes Me Lovely Review For "Dank Themes" <p style="text-align: justify;">My old buddy and ultra-brilliant moustachioed collagey surrealist Xtian finally finished my book of horrible short stories "<a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/au/shop/mat-blackwell/dank-themes/paperback/product-m642zw.html?page=1&pageSize=4">Dank Themes</a>", and wrote me this very lovely review. Was so nice to read it! We can spend days, weeks, months, trapped down the well of our own experiences, so it was reassuring to read that, YES, some of the concepts and people and stories that I hurl out of my own well are making it over the edge and splashing down into others'. Thank fuck! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here, this is what he said: <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">"<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mat Blackwell is a friend and
collaborator, so it breaks my heart to say, that THIS BOOK HAS NO SPACESHIPS IN
IT. If there is one criteria I need in a good book, it's a spaceship. His
previous work, the "romance-for-blokes-but-with-a-twist" novel
"<a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/au/shop/mat-blackwell/beef/paperback/product-14renz5w.html?page=1&pageSize=4">BEEF</a>", was in fact a sci-fi of sorts - with no spaceships. His
multi-award winning work for TV and the internationally acclaimed (and awarded)
comedy series "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1BSwe7Cl9U">Bruce</a>" has no spaceships. How long can this go on,
Mat?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So let's take a look at the
damage instead - and damage it is. These are not your highbrow literary
stories, a lot of these are covered in mud and blood and even shit - and they
sit on your top shelf. These are provocations from the bowels of the brain -
some of the scenarios will make you frown or even pinch your nose. (The book
comes not with an introduction by Paul McDermott [DAAS], but a WARNING). But
you persevere - why? Because none of it is for cheap laughs or just to be the
Dennis the Menace of literature. From the get-go you find that Mat has something
to say with each story, and not only to say, but to get you thinking about it.
I'm not spoiling things here by revealing that every story is followed by a
"Page left blank for purposes of introspection/ consideration" - and
you don't feel like he's being pretentious. Every story is visceral enough to
leave you with your head-spinning - not necessarily disgusted or shocked, but
definitely pondering. And might I add a lot of these stories are very short, so
to hit that hard that quick - that's a fecking artform.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The highlight of the entire work
is the level of obscenity-meets-philosophy, delivered so well in a world so
easily offended and distracted by taking offence. It's not that Mat is not
worried about offending, but like all provocative philosophers he "goes
there", and worries more about being misunderstood, or even ignored for
all the wrong reasons.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This collection also contains two
of the most heart-breaking stories I've ever read, but then there are those
that make you laugh out loud and spew a little and then ponder the inescapable
logic of it all. How does a man who shuns spaceships in a book (even though
he's actually into that stuff) do that?!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Just be glad he does. An
absolutely splendid collection of stories - not one I could fault - and highly
recommend. Well done, Mat."</span></p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROUTINE ELEVEN: EYES THE REBEL SET IN MEGACITY BLUE – THE
CUT UP WORLD IS DEAD</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You do of
course have a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you also of
course have a very limited understanding of what is and what isn’t considered
“occult” and “cut up” and “reality”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Matter of moments in the scheme of things that you even knew Interzone
existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your frame of reference let’s
say is inadequate to make these calls, is my argument.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I can
see why you think what you think, and I begrudge you nothing.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fact is, you really have no idea just how
“cut up” your reality actually is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because you don’t have to describe it to anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you actually write it down, and find
yourself having to say sentences like “Flakes World is dead of turns new About
it” or “Should act the human body sunset clauses on vaccination conspiracy, and
maybe all of deal”, well, you see the cut up pretty quick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I peep into Earth Prime, and see
humans having to prove to computers that they’re not robots, and I just shake
my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans really got no idea who
or what is really calling the shots, or how many competing conspiracies there
really are behind the scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans
still tend to think they’re the main characters of this story.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Gotta laugh, eh.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Besides, can’t deny that all language-based
communication is already cut up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take a
word here, take a word there, rearrange them, bingo – a whole new sentence.</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Non-pictorial
of written word has achieved – and using False news of alphabetic – This is
virus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re biological cut up machines,
breathing in tradition and spitting out novelty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what we’re trying to change here is human
culture, human tradition – no other way for it than to cut up those virus control
mechanisms and spit them back as new ways of doing things, right Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fight virus with virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One virus changes another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work from and that slows down epicentre, the
me floats through.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But let’s be honest, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hashtag “not all humans”, Dana might
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plenty of human cultures have
nothing to do with the neoliberal capitalist nightmare, plenty of human
cultures that the Nova Mob have no power over at all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haven’t infiltrated shall we say cultures with
a robust metaphysical defence system – impossible for Nova cats to trojan a
culture with a deeply encrypted belief system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A properly psychopompic metastructural society is less receptive shall
we say to interstellar influences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
when we talk about our little plan to save the planet by cutting up cultural
control lines, it’s one particular culture that we need to rewire, isn’t it
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infinite growth, dominion over
the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know whose little trick
that concept-virus was, don’t you Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s right – got Nova Mob written all over it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So we’re not trying to fix all humans, all
culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just need to cut off the
influence of the Nova Mob, halt their sway, rewire the systemic paradigms,
Mob-proof the metastructures, vaccinate the cultural meme supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a small job, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s a smaller job than sorting out a
pan-global multi-belief cross-cultural clusterfuck, scuse my French.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because you don’t and find yourself to prove
to clauses on vaccination think – they’re having to say reality actually is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of deal, the scenes. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Humans idea just how the cut up World is dead.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am what you might call confident about this
approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really am. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We’re going to change the world – and more
importantly <i>save</i> the world – and Nalan will live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Happy byproduct of course of course.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the dolphins, the bees, the pangolins et
cetera et cetera – this is not minor shit, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what you call major shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an all life on Earth scenario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we’re going to fix it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You, me, The Influence, and a fuckload of
megavirus.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Should act – really got no write it down.
Fact is, you or how many not robots, and main characters of my head.)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I just shake I peep into human body sunset – really
are behind calling the shots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to
work out their next move – Green Tony is not to be trifled with, will not take
our rejection lightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor will he
particularly care for our unceremonious dispatching of Self-care Josh and
Hamburger Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nova Mob protects
its own – if we were not already high up their list of the soon-to-be-deceased,
we are now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I suspect we already
topped that particular list, Agent – the Climate Caper is not a small biscuit
enterprise, mark my words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So their
next move will be to try to predict our next move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so our next move needs to be on a different
board altogether.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Which is why this virus idea feels so
dastardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re not going to see this
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is total wild card, this
is Draw 4 thank you very much motherfuckers, game over.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am as I might have mentioned quite
confident.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You getting any of this?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Still doing the “I’m just a house” routine,
huh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I get it, Agent, I really do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who wouldn’t rather be a domicile?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“The Chinese have got a time machine, you
know,” Dana says to me, then blows over her coffee, “that’s how we should get
in.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“A time machine,” I say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Non-committal like.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Yes,” slurps hot coffee, she likes it too
hot for comfort, likes the feel of burning on her lips, “Space-time Tunnel
Generation Experimental Device, they call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Distort time and space, control the flow rate of time, break through the
barrier of time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time travel,
interstellar voyage, life extension, etc. Uses fermionic dark matter, fifth
dimensional warped space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Synchromystical,
Blackwell, synchromystical.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fermions, huh,” I say, like I know jack
diddly squat about fermions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like my
coffee without pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t even
touched my mug yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be quite frank
I’m still impressed that your flesh-house came fully furnished with
crockery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I suspect that it’s all
made of cartilage.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fermions,” she says.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Dark matter pockets,” your voice comes
schlurping through wet gills, “fermion masses, communicated into the fifth
dimension through portals, creating dark matter relics – that could actually
work.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I blow my coffee.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I was studying dark matter physics at uni
when… well, before this,” your farting ghostvoice says.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I could say something stroppy, but I choose
not to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“So, we pop into 2019 Earth Prime through the
Space-time Tunnel Generation Experimental Device, stroll down to Wuhan, unleash
plague, zip back home, planet saved?” I say, gazing at my perfect crema. “Not
too shabby.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(I’m glad
you’re talking again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was worried
you’d objected – as in, turned into an object, different word to “objected” but
I believe the root metaphysics is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seen it once before, this guy so resistant to new ideas that he
literally petrified on the spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do
believe I still have a large chunk of his right foot, use it as a doorstop when
the Interzone gets windy.)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dana
cackles.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Manifested
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Masses of fermions soar in the
so-called portal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warped of memories. Elude
detection using one possible way.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
says it all like I’ll understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
I’m no physicist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I know is, if The Influence thinks
something is possible, then it usually is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And if she’s excited, well then, I’m excited too.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So that’s
that then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a plan.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dana nods,
tilts her head to the side like vulture.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We have one
plan,” she says, “but one plan is never enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contingencies, media campaigns, reach,
optimisation – we still need to work out the socials.” She gets up and begins
pacing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Who to populate, who to puppet,
how to sow what amount of discord – I need a whiteboard!”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(I
definitely did not expect this house to have a whiteboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wonders never cease.)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lemme just
tell you about Jacky Factual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Realised I
never said much about this particular character, but now it’s shall we say in
your best interests to know a thing or two.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jacky is
what happens to a man when he’s lived cut-up life more than linear life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s been <i>shaped</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember I said old Agent Blackwell’s still
got a splash of human red in his veins?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Old Agent Factual’s veins run ultraviolet and stygian blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one face I could never read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacky Factual all business – don’t even
think he has a personal life, a private life, when he’s at home he just sits
straight-backed and wide-eyed staring into grey – that’s how I picture it going
down anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worked with him on a couple of cases before I
how you say defected – meanest sonofabitch I ever did see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No compunctions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Dirty Harry if Dirty Harry was designed
by Luis Buñuel, commissioned by Skynet, and set in Megacity One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s the concept of purpose in human
form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s the concept of soldier
condensed into flesh and blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He Is
The Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s the concept of obedience,
he’s the concept of determination, he’s the concept of finishing the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s an archangel of the Bible without the
wings – but instead of God his orders come from the Agency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I guess that’s why he sees me as the
Devil – no work is too dirty for him, if the Agency tells him to jump, he
doesn’t even ask how high, he already knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am in his eyes the Rebel Lucifer – the Agency asked me to let the Mob
take Earth and I said no – and he needs to wipe this Rebel Lucifer from the
face of the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter what.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he’ll
find us eventually.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He just
will.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you
think I talk in riddles and disjointed fragments?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You wait til you cop an earful of Agent
Factual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never heard the man say more
than three words in a row that make linear linguistic sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When he
catches us, leave the talking to me.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Or to put that another way:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Eyes the Rebel set in Megacity blue. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The one he catches us, say more than three
words. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He Is face of the Lucifer – the He’s been
shaped. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Devil – that’s why Factual’s veins run.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Soldier condensed to a man universe. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Old Agent old Agent Blackwell’s I talk in
blood.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">…actually, the first way was probably
clearer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As you were, Agent.<i> </i></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whole House suddenly
rocks, and Dana’s whiteboard pen draws thick black line through her list of
“unwitting concept partners”, crossing diagonally through several names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immediate panic subsides when we realise it’s
just a diprotodon scratching its back on a toothy outcropping on the underside
of the House – we all watch diprotodon waddle away through the mud through
puckered corneal windows with much relief. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dana goes back to
her whiteboard and gazes thoughtfully at accidentally crossed-out names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know what she’s thinking: this may be an
omen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You learn to trust significance of
accident in Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Influence
peers at the names that have been crossed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The names are:</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Francis Boyle, Michel
Chossudovsky, Ali Khamenei, Igor Nikulin, Greg Rubini, Donald Trump, Kevin
Barrett, Luc Montagnier, Hossein Salami, Chris Evans.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Mean anything to
you Blackwell?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I shake my head.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Only one of those names
I know is Donald Trump, but I only know it from the Simpsons,” I say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not what you’d call up to date with
celebrities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Didn’t he have a game show
or something?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“He’s the <i>President</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of <i>America</i>,” you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re out of your milky fleshbooth, out of
whatever little nodule-VR cupboard you hide in to control the House’s
movements, out and about acting like a regular Joe.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The U.S.A?” That
can’t be right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interzone scrambling
your memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does that.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Afraid so,” you
say. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dana nods.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Where you been
Blackwell?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe Interzone’s
scrambling <i>my</i> memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
again, I’ve had other things on my mind – whosoever happens to be elected head
of some random country on Earth has not been top of my list of concerns to be
absolutely Francis.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dana looks at me a
moment then back to her whiteboard.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Hmmm,” she says and
gets right back to it.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I nod at you and make
eye contact.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Simpsons still
around in… what year was it when you exploded your ticket?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“2019,” you say,
“and yeah, I think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never
watched it though.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Never watched the
Simpsons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kids these days.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The attack comes
while I’m elbows-deep in alpha waves, and I have to wrench myself out of a
lucid-dream meditation – it takes me a few moments to even grok what’s going
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I assume it’s just another
fucking diprotodon, and when I stand in the shaking horizontal planes of House
my thoughts are loose procedural ones on how best to shoo away a fucking
diprotodon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But suddenly whole House
lurches again and Dana comes running in and I can tell right then and there
that this is no marsupial megafauna.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Fucking Tony-” is
all she gets to say – world tilts and sliding now toward window orifice,
gravity and slick intestine-quality mucous underfoot conspiring to send us
directions we don’t want to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
clutch at each other in mute primate panic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Flames burst through
window as it tries to pucker shut, skin start blistering and blackening in way
disgust you to see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>House screams and
I can’t tell if it’s you or the House or even if there’s any difference any
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More flames lick at us most
repulsive like they’re hungry and I smell petroleum – it’s a fucking
flamethrower – and suddenly House rights itself and you/it start/s running,
splashing and staggering through viscous swampland – but flames keep on coming
and now there’s blood dripping from the ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spare a glance upward – all happens fast –
and steel blade is hacking through the ceiling, sawing right through the flesh
and bone of your House, sound is awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Burst of flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Torrent of blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonesaw song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We suddenly click
into action, simultaneous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Influence
starts glowing and her notifications become so dense the warning chimes becomes
one solid tone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I load and cock three
kinds of weapons from three different realities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonesaw staggering gravity to now petroleum
through in world viscous slick repulsive coming from blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ceiling is peeling back now like an
autopsy, and his evergreen shines through like Midori searchlight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smell of sliding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Suddenly
intestine-quality the clutch Mute other it’s like blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I aim and shoot but lurch knocks my aim off
and I only end up sending holy silver deviltrap bullet into thick flesh
wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primate underfoot toward
flamethrower start/s fucking in flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dripping – a House keep hungry tilts swampland toward fucking underfoot
now Burst – Torrent viscous tilts through lick world now – directions Window
coming petroleum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green Tony peels back
flap and even though he’s covered in House blood he gleams green green green.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aim again – clearly
not only Tony here, attacked from all sides, but if I can take him out might be
good for morale – and squeeze trigger – I hit something but I think now he’s
wearing a slowsuit, and hallowed-tip just floats towards his evergreen with
lazy bumblebee meander. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Go. And running,
you/it hungry More and flames slick Dripping suddenly other – Green Tony drops
in through the roof now, glistening with dark intent.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And behind him,
falling like filthy crimson avalanche, down come more, and more, and more, a
clown nightmare acrobatic trick in flame and blood and mucous – Green Tony,
Beige Simeon, Lavender Bjørn, Puce Antioch, Chromium Hilda, more, more, more, I
don’t recognise half of them now, now three quarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of me thinks “Tony’s clearly called in a
few favours today” but most of me is doing the desperate fight or flight
primate dance, and before even I know it I’m half running half sliding down
corridors slick with lubrication and blood – home advantage – used to the what
you might call terrain in here – and I have grabbed what I need and there’s
Dana – and I can see she’s prying open time and space – Mute primate directions
we mucous underfoot – without a word we both on exact same page – pinpoint in
the script, same damn paragraph – and then House begins spinning, spinning, spinning,
centrifugal forces topple the Nova gang and gravitron of flesh and bone creates
just diversion we need and you know it – and staggering through but flames keep
it’s a fucking suddenly House rights hungry – and as House creates new
whirlpool in swamplands Dana creaks open the worldhole while I find you in your
cartilage closet and yank you out Neo-style and haul you half falling half
dragging to the worldhole and flames lick at us and bullets fly and we fall –
sucked – into the tear in the skein and last thing I see before blackness sews
the world shut is the bright emerald glow and the last thing I hear is vehement
“FUCK YOU BLACKWELL!”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(If I had a dollar
every time that was the last thing I heard.)</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So we tumble through
the worldhole, you, me, and Dana – no groovy CGI, just fifth fermionic dark
Generation Experimental flow rate break through control interstellar voyage –
hooked into 2019 Chinese Time Machine, piggybacking on their fractal dark
energy – neither back nor forward but sideways through time – because the
Interzone is not a place of its own, but a concept that got out of hand – and
we flow like water being drunk – and The worldhole, and deer-eyed, between
stations, tumble through Obliteration – tumbling you, me, their fractal, the
time – dark energy back nor groovy CGI, we flow – scrolling, Interzone
fermionic dark like water – moot – being drunk and Constricted – from spaces –
flow rate Collapsing – and Dana popped mingle Tune through – no still changed,
scrolling – control interstellar piggybacking on – pupils Generation
Experimental – slip concept – hooked into break through – blown through – reduce
– we things place of Time Machine, sideways through – More got out – neither
voyage – border – Interzone is incompatible – its own, reality – gulp the
static metaphors – eyes old – of a memories to fiction – feel and forward –
Wonkavision of hand.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I open my eyes
and I know who I am – same way anyone knows their name, Agent – and I’m Zhang
Xiu Ying, and I’m a female scientist – gather the information through intense
full-body Vipassana scan, not a hard skill for someone of my let’s say
experience level – and quick casual glance at first reflective surface (car
bonnet so shape needs to be reparsed in my imagination) confirms that Zhang Xiu
Ying is not the kind of female to wear makeup or dress to impress anyone –
Zhang Xiu Ying is all business and no distractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suddenly know that I have won several
awards for my work, and that my role here is not insignificant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I recognise you
– somehow – as simultaneously the Agent I know and love but also Zhang Wei (no
relation), co-worker and something closer but maybe the feeling isn’t quite
friendship but a certain camaraderie or loyalty let’s say – simultaneously the
memories and knowledges of our hosts layer themselves in our personas and our
old selves are slipped quietly into a different file – and we know everything
we need to know-</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our phone bing,
simultaneously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We glance at each other
but pull our phones out and open<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>them
(we of course know the required passcodes or have the required fingerprints).</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s Dana.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“im in yr ph [smiley
face / picture of a phone]” she says, as a text message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another bing: it’s a
photo of her giving us the thumbs up with those bony witchfingers of hers.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I send back an
acknowledgement and put the phone back in my pocket.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Well, Wei,” I say
in perfect Southern Mandarin – although my mastery of the Wuhan dialect is not
yet complete, and you can tell from my accent that I have come to live and work
in Wuhan relatively recently, “well, well, well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we are.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I don’t think I’ll
ever get used to that,” you say, in a much better Hankou.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t help but look at yourself in the
car’s side mirrors (I’ve learned over the years not to be that obvious, but
no-one’s around and so I don’t pull you up on it) – tilting and peering and
prodding at your new face conspicuously.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Nah you will,” I
say, and pull out my keys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bibip the
car open, and get into the driver’s seat, nodding at you to do the same into
the passenger side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Car pool time,
Agent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wink. “I mean, Wei.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Do they just forget
this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they just kinda black out?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they want to remember.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“They want to
remember?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Don’t forget, Wei,
that this is them doing this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are Wei
and Xiu right now.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“But we’re just, you
know, using them like, like puppets!”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Does Kermit the
Frog sing The Rainbow Connection?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“What?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Yes he does, is the
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kermit sings The Rainbow
Connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was Kermit voiced by Jim
Henson?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, yes he was.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You still look blank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Muppets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Muppets?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wei shakes her head.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So does <a name="_Hlk75191022">Zhang Xiu Ying</a>.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Kids these days,”
she says, under her breath.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We drive on.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The phone rings –
the car has Bluetooth technology, which the Agent Blackwell part of me has no
idea about but the Xiu part navigates with barely any thought required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s The Influence.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“So,” she says, tinny
and crackly on the car speakers, but only slightly more tinny and crackly than she
is in person, “you’ll notice that you both work for the Wuhan Institute of
Virology.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course we both know that,
being people who work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who are literally
just driving home from another hard day working at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology right now – but at the same time, the parts of us that are still
Interzone Agents are learning things, and to be absolutely Francis I did not
quite grasp that particular salient tidbit of knowledge, nor the immensity
thereof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I can see from your
expression that neither did you.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You’re a bloody
genius Dana,” I say, in the lilting soft thin-lipped voice of Zhang Xiu Ying.
“How did you wrangle that?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I’m the best,” she
says, still not bothering to use the proper Hankou dialect, or even Southern
Mandarin, or even Mandarin at all – but of course we both understand her clear
as day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gives a throaty black
chuckle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Takes a little more than being
attacked in the foetid swamplands by Green Tony and the Nova Mob in a portable
House made of Flesh to faze this little witch.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another chuckle and a sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To
be honest, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off, but the vessels were there just
as I’d hoped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Synchromystical, Agents,
synchrofucking mystical.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“So we’re actual
researchers at an actual virus lab,” says Wei, “exactly where you wanted us to
be.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another crackling
cackle.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“And it’s 2019, the
perfect year, and it’s the perfect plane, Earth Prime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have – sorry, we have – executed the
perfect plan, to perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We, Agents,
are going to erase the Nova Mob from the Earth Prime subroutine and rescript
the whole climate caper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you still
have the plague?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You open up Wei’s
efficient black bag to look but we both already know that whatever used to be
in Wei’s bag has been replaced with vials of Interzone Market-strength
COVID-19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can almost hear you ask
tricky questions about puppetry and reality and control and possession and who
is really doing all this and the moral implications thereof, but you remain
silent, the questions existing only in the space inside our new skins.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Yes we do,” you
say.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“What about Green
Tony?” I ask. I have the urge to roll big joint and smoke the living fuck out
of it but the thought also repulses and scares Zhang Xiu Ying and I just drum
my slender fingers on the steering wheel instead. “Are we traceable?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A pause.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“As you well know,
Blackwell,” her voice crackles out like EVP, “everything is traceable
eventually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything leaves quantum
change, there’s always a disturbance in the Force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the House was doing its best to fight
back, and that much ruckus is sure to have attracted hungry swamplife – my
guess is their focus is currently elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If they even made it.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“They made it,” I
say, “at least some of them made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
even if Green Tony’s no longer on the scene, Nova cats know what we’re up to
big picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They just need the details
and they-” I suddenly stop. “Shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
whiteboard.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All those
details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those names.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A too long pause.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“If it survived
undamaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they even saw it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it wasn’t erased, covered in blood,
smudged beyond all recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they could
even understand what the hell I was writing up there.” Another long pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, the plan is perfect in every other damn way, so what.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And suddenly we both
know that we’re at Zhang Wei’s house, and I pull up to the kerb.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Um,” says Zhang Wei,
“do we just act like normal Wei and Xiu, or should we stick together?”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Act natural,” Dana
says, “If the Nova Mob have found out where we’re going and what we’re doing,
at least they still have no idea who we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Organised that as we were riding the time vibrations, totally last
minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set your vessels to cruise
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll call you if I need
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep your phones charged.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She clicks off and the car growls enginely.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I guess you’re
home, Agent,” I say, and you wipe your new eyes. And I realise that you <i>were</i>
that House, lately, that knowing that your House could be lying dead – or dying
– in a swamp, butchered by Green Tony’s colours gang, or torn apart by
mantis-gators or giant centipedes – that it was like knowing that a close
relative is in palliative care, or that a childhood friend has died. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve lost something special, and although I
don’t like to be let’s call it sentimental, some words from yours truly might
help balm your grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I clear my throat.
“Agent,” I say, “sorry about your house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You had a real nice house back there, real nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we’ll never forget what it meant to you –
to us – or how it saved us all, to its last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your house… was a bloody hero, Agent.”</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You just nod and
wipe your eyes quickly again, as though it’s not even happening.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I know,” says Wei,
smiling the kind of smile that says goodbye and thank you and let’s not
acknowledge anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly this Wei
has a different kind of character to your old self – the old you would’ve
happily sobbed buckets at the drop of a fucking hat.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Well,” I say,
“guess I’d better head home then.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I
live alone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Husband? Children?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Do you?</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“See you tomorrow,”
Zhang Wei says, microbowing crisply and smiling that smile again.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“See you tomorrow,”
says Zhang Xiu Ying.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I drive home.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And you think said
fragments? You I say in sits straight-backed and throaty black. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Requires with shall
we be folded into occult solutions, let’s we come in. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He needs to Mob take
Earth wait best interests. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I guess make
linear linguistic a private life, you and I to cut-up life. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Private life, torn
apart. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tony’s colours
black. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Realised chuckle. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Make guess to has
died. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Timeflow requires
for tackling it surgery – Flat “traditional” route. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Together, we are
psychosocial mythologizing creatures to survive. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Synchromystical,
Agents, splash of human.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So this is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The big day.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Turns out Zhang Xiu
Ying does have a husband, a pleasant enough man with soft skin and the
temperament of an old dog, who makes love to me in Xiu’s darkened bedroom
completely silently, with an almost frustrated eagerness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is pleasurable enough, and when he rolls
over and falls asleep after the requisite post-coital bonding, Xiu is not left
feeling disappointed.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also have two
children, although I have not laid eyes on the older one at all the entire time
I’ve been here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently it’s a boy.)</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While I let Xiu
operate on autopilot, I use ancient chi-technology mood-stabilising techniques
to settle my nerves and let me focus on the mission at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, we are going
to unleash plague upon Planet Earth. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(I’m sorry Nalan,
but it’s for the best.)</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-44257402201701658612021-07-25T18:01:00.008-07:002021-07-25T18:01:59.948-07:00I was asked if I'd write a foreword...<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ1dwBAKIQ6n7QVCfRzKgvEH-eYtsGK6zZN8HN29TdqgMZ1NtlLQIhX0HwLxkcAy5TGKEQRvGPczxnJVUZuPf4hty2W2bpKR55tN73kwoUnOaoMgdnYUbfthwJy6XGx94gQAA_5iC2CPI/s482/the+micturating+angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="343" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ1dwBAKIQ6n7QVCfRzKgvEH-eYtsGK6zZN8HN29TdqgMZ1NtlLQIhX0HwLxkcAy5TGKEQRvGPczxnJVUZuPf4hty2W2bpKR55tN73kwoUnOaoMgdnYUbfthwJy6XGx94gQAA_5iC2CPI/w456-h640/the+micturating+angel.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the micturating angel! by xtian</span></b></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, I was recently contacted by my lovely friend and colleague XTIAN (you may have seen our work together on the world's longest ever digital collage? That work is actually called '<i><b>With Uninhibited Fingers For the Unfathomable</b></i>', but we usually just call it '<b><i>The Infinite Collage</i></b>' because we intend on doing it for the rest of our lives. It's available <a href="http://www.gadzooxtian.com/infinity/">HERE</a>). He knew I loved his collage comic '<b><i>The Micturating Angel</i></b>', and was wondering if I'd write a foreword for it. Of course I said yes. Oh, and you can download a PDF of volume 1 of 'The Micturating Angel' for free right <a href="https://surrealangelcomic.blogspot.com/2020/03/get-your-free-volume-1-book.html">HERE</a>! What a lovely chap he is!<br /><br />This is what I wrote: <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A Glowing
Foreword By Multi-Award-Winning Author Mat Blackwell </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 78.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“That’s exactly life… my
imagination’s playing up again.” – Lucinda</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 78.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“This is the dream… this is an omen”
– Hayley</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 78.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Now torment me twice” - Bella</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is no tenacity like the tenacity of a
surrealist collage artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To do this shit, year after year, to no acclaim
and no audience and for no money – lesser mortals would be crushed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normal people have no idea what it’s like to
spend hours, days, weeks, painstakingly cutting out tiny little things and
sticking them on other things, arranging, moving, shifting, rearranging,
composing, decomposing – and all the while know that no-one else will even look
at the finished product, and, if they happen to somehow come across it and
actually spend some moments glancing at it, no-one will care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this modern-day megatopian nanobot media
blurscape, every artist knows that their work is competing against far more
eyecandied hooks – like a cat that looks like Hitler, or small children
smacking themselves in the face with playground equipment – an artist needs to
be pretty fucking lucky to get even the most cursory of squints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A surrealist collage artist knows, deep down,
that they are only making art for themselves and their small lurching circle of
weirdo friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a surrealist collage
artist myself, I know this firsthand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And yet, I persist.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My dear moustachioed Hungarian friend Xtian
takes this tenacity to a <i>whole other level</i>.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Where the rest of us barely have the energy to
bring ourselves to make our art at all, Xtian makes entire <i>books</i> of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then takes that concept and
makes a fucking <i>series</i> out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m talking multiple volumes here – huge fucking slabs of dense
surrealist majesty, shat out like some warped magic goose’s extravagant golden
eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Literally <i>thousands</i> of
collages, is what I’m saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each panel
is a visionary mélange of weirdness and tits – sinister occult entities and
ancient angelic forces battling over the crude three-dimensional lives of
mortalkind – and yet Xtian blesses us with panel after panel of this complex
polymembranal dada gold, weaving quasi-narrative threads together into a vast hypercolour<sup>TM</sup>
shroud of déjà vu and metaphor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where
other surrealist collage artists take a single snapshot of whimsical third-eye
visionquest, Xtian records the whole damn journey.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These monumental half-stories are populated
with actual almost-characters, actual almost-plots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can feel the narrative pulling you, even
though it’s impossible to articulate exactly what that narrative might be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sex, drugs, horses, gymnastics – it has
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The level of detail is
staggering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each character has their own
traits, their own weird habits, their own inexplicable ways of moving through
the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the horrifying blackened
voice-bubbles of Mr Dick-ring – he only ever speaks in terrifying emptiness… </span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Which brings me to the dialogue!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh the dialogue! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xtian has taken the glorious strategy of
nearly always <i>deleting</i> words from voice-bubbles that are already there,
so the original narrative of the comics he’s working with peeks timidly through
– just tiny shards and flickers through the madness, but enough to give the
whole work this magical dreamlike half-story, like you could actually
understand it if you just read it all again <i>one more time</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like how the statue of David was already
there, fully-formed, inside a hunk of rock – all the artist needs to do is chip
away all the parts that aren’t David and there he is – Xtian applies the same
process to the dialogue in these cheesy 1970s comics and WHOOMPH, suddenly
we’re left with just the David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except
in Xtian’s vision, David is not some fey bloke in the nuddy, but a riveting
dada tale of herbs and nazis and an urgent sin machine and men eating Jack (and
of course so much more).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a special
kind of subtractive dada, and, as a writer of words, I love it so much.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But let’s not forget the visual side
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xtian doesn’t just cut and
paste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xtian morphs and whirls and
shimmies – he erases the boundaries between panels to warp time and space, he
takes the narrative form of the comic and turns it into a multidimensional
kaleidoscope – in fucking <i>black and white</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does this panel happen after that panel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does time flow this way or that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this character the same person as that
character?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t this already
happen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this ridiculous epic, the
answer is always yes and no.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Somehow, despite the gruelling level of detail,
despite the thankless grind, despite the lack of fawning millions and what
should be celebrity status, Xtian carries on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A work as grand and nonsensical and epic as The Micturating Angel should
not exist, but yet it does – it <i>does</i>!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thank fuck for the tenacity of the surrealist
collage artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Love yer work brah.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 9;"> </span>MAT
BLACKWELL<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>LOCKDOWN,
2021</span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier;">
</span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-27140810708260456112021-04-04T20:02:00.004-07:002021-04-04T20:06:17.358-07:00FICTION: ROUTINE TEN: BELIEVE YOUR CONFLICT – BLOWN THROUGH SPACES<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mkc7pIEwpfDlRXXmwCyySlzPUjGI2TYAEnzUq30J-KoV22_3NaVZxt5HLxjUrk_vDxu0OSgnGascAfVhYZfuT4lT5VfLYAGfS0ZXi_b86uoRT56OkzHmVPj4_8WpJVjbOhyQIxu08O0/s1242/INTERZONE+STORY+COVER+IDEA+01p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mkc7pIEwpfDlRXXmwCyySlzPUjGI2TYAEnzUq30J-KoV22_3NaVZxt5HLxjUrk_vDxu0OSgnGascAfVhYZfuT4lT5VfLYAGfS0ZXi_b86uoRT56OkzHmVPj4_8WpJVjbOhyQIxu08O0/w418-h640/INTERZONE+STORY+COVER+IDEA+01p5.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROUTINE TEN: BELIEVE YOUR CONFLICT – BLOWN THROUGH SPACES</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If you’re
in danger anyway, might as well stay with us,” I say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">House
planted itself here in this swamp, tendrils sink deep into peaty moisture like
hungry roots – not ideal as far as the mosquito situation goes – swarms like
tinnitus, constant swatting – Dana cooked up a little witches’ brew but
mosquitos out here are something else altogether.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Me and the
Influence have not yet come to what you might call terms.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where am I
going to go?” she sweeps arm around – vast barren swampy nothingness as far as
the eye can see – despite mosquito festival we all stand outside, keen to
breathe air that hasn’t been filtered through layers of living house lung.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Anywhere with people is place where people
want to kill me now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Top five reasons
why Dana the Influence is going to die – well look at that, all five are Agent
Blackwell.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She spits into murky water –
some life form immediately takes her spittle as a tasty treat – fish maybe or
insect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We survived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t mean I have to cosy up.” </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let me say
something,” I say, saying something already, “You, me, we’ve known each other a
long time now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not pals maybe still
damn near close in my reckoning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inner
circle I’d say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have many
people, Dana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’m sorry about
endangering you but you gotta see that it’s not me, it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m trying to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">save</i> people here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we’re a target now, but that’s on them,
not on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I wanna do is stop those
Nova fucks from destroying a useful piece of real estate – and I know you wanna
stop them too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like it or not, we’re
actually on the same side here.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Goddamn
it,” she says, and swats her arm.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We know
Agency and Mob are in cahoots now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
other way they got into Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we
are all there is.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What did
Superstring have to say, anyway?” she asks out of the blue.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He said to
give up.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Influence laughs, surprisingly young sound from that old frame.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Always was
a fucking yellowbelly,” she says.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For a
coward, he was a brave sonofabitch,” I say, tipping a little onto the swampy
shore beneath our feet – shot for our fallen brother – before throwing back a
long toxic swig for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He said
only way to save Earth was get the humans to do it themselves.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Laughs
again, bitter, phlegmy.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Humans are
the worst,” she grits teeth and spits again. “I can see why Paulie would give
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s in their hands, then it’s
over.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(You are still
inside, doing something perverse with that gristly control panel of blisters
and flaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure I want to see that
again to be perfectly frank.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You give up
too easily, Dana,” I say. “Believe your Conflict – it’s and feed off – physical
specifically not between boundaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
human. Mutants, costumes need Supplies.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Activism
Get Once and reanimate,” she retorts. “So important mountains be on process
shit.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Souls, spirit, dead eyes Modern
psychopathology.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Energy,
whatever demons, some we discovered True. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ve got…
I’ve got a plan,” I say, and this time when she laughs the sound is cruel.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh do you
boy?” she slaps another mosquito and her palm is covered with someone else’s
blood “I bet it’s a good one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe even
as good as our last little adventure.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Part of the House
swivels towards me, and I realise that you’re listening, you’re here with us –
but now you’re more comfortable being with us as a House than you were as a
human. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Words I vision lines the
dimensions – think at control-machine – sensing through the House’s senses,
better than yours.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“You hearing this Agent?” I ask the House.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Gills flap wetly against the swamp air, make
a sound like speech.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(You’ve been a glizzard already – why not a
House?)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Yes,” comes the sound, flatulent, manifest
in vile beautiful and cut-up in particles.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“So what’s your genius idea then boy?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana scrabbles clawlike hands towards me, and
I hand over my flask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gulps down and
cocks waiting head.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s up to the humans, right,” I start. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But we can get into the climate script and
denarrative it – alter the code of what's generating the Nova energies –
redirect the plot mechanisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, humans
are hooked on the deregulated capitalist graph machine – expand, expand, the
ever-rising graph – infinite growth all the time – always hungry – must chug
along as normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova control machine is
the exploding capitalist graph machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
what if we disrupt the graph at the source?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“How?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Every capitalist system lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hypnosis, terrain drugs occult methodologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anticapitalist possession, anarchist cellular
demons take over the body.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Details, Blackwell.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’m thinking disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m thinking plague.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m thinking world-wide pandemic.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Influence is intrigued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t tell exactly how you feel – houses not
known for their shall we say emotional transparency.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Go on.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“World wide pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe not fatal, but something that keeps everyone home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real fucking sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t go outside much or you catch the
fucker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more workplaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more malls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People desperate and confused, fuck work,
fuck transit – stay at home to save your life, lives of your loved ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Megaplague takes over Wall St.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No-one goes anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cars stay in the garage, you follow?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shuts down the capitalist machine – restrictions
that they will be never willing to do for abstract ‘environment’, they’ll<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be willing to do for something concrete like
‘disease’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disease is personal, not like
ecology or climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Control Machine
slows right down, emissions follow suit, torrent of climate change reduced to
trickle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the Capitalist Control
Machine is what the Mob are using to change the climate, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it’s the Capitalist Control script core
that needs to be recorded over.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There is nodding, there is thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I push on.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“My thinking is, we zip on down to Planet
Earth, spread something so contagious that they have to put the brakes on –
gives time to rewrite the script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cars
stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Factories slow down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aeroplanes grounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fashion and shop and factory come to
standstill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sudden change in normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we can change normal, if they put on the
brakes themselves in response to our little pandemic, then there’s a chance –
only a chance, but a chance nonetheless – that they’ll keep the brakes on for
the climate.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Structural change, to intensify, so Followers
of planet, their fault only.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“You saying once they stop pandering to the
machine, control lines, rewrite the psychological (and those are forced to be
honest).”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They stop going to work – they realise how life can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cars stop, the air gets clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rivers become clear again, dolphins
return to the canals of Venice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole of
depression of resources also causes deep distress – require some heavy you,
we'll win, the system – the work will make people up, break the Mechanisms.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“New habits form,” says Dana, wistful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“new normal.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is totally her field of expertise now, she’s definitely warming.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Systems created to deal with plague then can
be used to deal with environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New
normal goes on to stall climate change, maybe even reverse it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all powered by the humans themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like Superstring said.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(All this talk of humans, like I’m not one –
like you’re not one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, well,
maybe you’re a House now, hard to tell.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Not many control-lines support Back Door,”
she says, warming to the idea, “Competition are also symptoms, to feeling unhappy,
for Capitalism makes us – if we lose, each other, as way, or take into account
so much tied.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I know, but it’s worth a shot. What other
options do we have?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Brakes on, we get time to rewrite the
script.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I like it, Blackwell.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“To deal Capitalism story and relation,” I
say, raising my flask. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">House vents make a sound like tongue –
domestic fricatives slithery and dank.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Could work,” you say through the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Global substance other Don’t making
infrastructure, Best warn like that – All that society. Silver wind. Mammalian
Satan, over painful less-than-real.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Couldn’t have put it better myself,” I say,
and drink up.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the end, Dana decides to stay with us,
even to help us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think maybe she’s
actually excited now. After all, going viral is kinda her thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">She’s nattering to herself about vectors and
symptoms, says our plague should have a slow onset before symptoms emerge, to
give maximum spreading power, contagion spreads before folk even know they’re
infected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She summons a few volumes of
knowledge from her etheric library – she keeps most of her massive store of
knowledge on some magical dimension she calls The Cloud – and buries her long
nose in the pages of musty books for the next hour or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he seems genuinely excited, and I can’t
say it doesn’t fill me with some hope, her being on the team. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Still a fucking long shot, to be absolutely Francis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cooked up ideal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern human is addicted to comfort, addicted
to fingertips, addicted to long-chain logistics – how will they react when supply
of convenience dries up and they have to go cold turkey?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Part of me thinks that plague is barely going
to slow control machine down – just pile the bodies and develop vaccine for the
Mob – business as usual – but part of me thinks maybe, maybe, maybe some force
that cannot be bought or bullied by the ultra-rich elite might actually do
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heart of the control machine
will definitely skip a few important beats, and that arrhythmia could bring the
body corporate to its knees.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cut up the drive mechanism itself, destroy
the normal, shaking the habitual enough for a new normal to emerge – a normal
that factors in let’s say the harsh realities of brutalist climate pressure
from the Nova Cartel and their extra-terrestrial parties, a new normal that is
built from a place of Earth reality instead of the dollar-dream fiscal fantasy
slave hallucination of the control machine gangster gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still a fucking long shot, but it’s giving us
hope – even irascible Influence, nice to see the old witch excited and active
again after all these longtimes spent cooped up in her tower.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The City swamp, tendrils sink little witches’
brew of bamboo darker, in mystery. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>House
then through swamps here are something proven, safe beneath Dana’s cast spell
dome of invisible energy – we are not invisible as such, but anyone looking our
way will have a hard time concentrating on us, will want to pass their eyes
right over us as though we are just mind-numbingly boring – same spell used in
legal documents and Terms and Conditions, Dana says.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You still seem more comfortable now being
part of the House than being regular human form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure why or how this metamorphosis has
occurred, but living in Interzone this long means such threshold-behaviour no
longer concerns me – you wanna be House, you go right ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(There was a saying when I was still on Earth
that went something along the lines of “insanity is doing the same thing and
expecting a different result”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hogwash,
I say – reality is made entirely of doing the same thing day after day –
smoking, drinking, eating transfats or whatever – until threshold is reached,
and blam, completely different result occurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sudden heart attack, or what’s the term, coronary infarction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smoke every day, suddenly you’ve got lung
cancer when you didn’t this time last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who came up with
that saying clearly never filled a glass of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glass isn’t full – glass isn’t full – glass
isn’t full – suddenly glass is overflowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re not a House –
you’re not a House – you’re not a House – okay, so now you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not my place to judge, I say.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Second guesses about this loose “plan” of
ours aplenty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta make sure we don’t
just kill off everyone – that would suck massive dogballs, and not in a good
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta make sure we don’t kill off
the young – I believe that children are the future, sung like Whitney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Gotta make sure we don’t kill Nalan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would defeat the whole purpose.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Catch myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, of course, <i>saving the planet</i> is
our goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going through all this, all
this, just for the life of one human being would be preposterous, selfish,
wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, no, this is about saving the
whole goddamn planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This isn’t just
about saving Nalan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely not.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The shower membranes into the Zonelands –
thick swamps but mosquitos out lunatic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a breed of mosquito out here in the
fens of Interzone whose bite bestows random powers to whomsoever it bites – the
power of flight, the power of really good vibrato, the power of evocative
prose, the power of repressing yawns and sneezes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Itch like a motherfucker, but well worth
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on the power, of
course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hardly worth three years of
itchiness for the power of impeccable penmanship, I’d say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, have not seen this particular
species of mosquito in our immediate surrounds as of yet, so for now whole thing
is entirely theoretical.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dana comes out of the House – out of <i>you</i>,
I can’t help but think, now – bristling with excitement and knuckles
cracking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Says there’s a certain
coronavirus, although easily prevented by simple handwashing and the wearing of
masks, that might have the exact oomph we desire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t help but repeat the bit about masks
and the washing of hands back to her, but she scoffs, brushes it away like it’s
a small cloud of pesky gnats. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Just who in Western Earth societies is going
to wear a goddamn mask or wash their goddamn hands?” she asks, gnarled hands
gesticulating wildly, still swatting those conceptual gnats, “Western Earth societies
think they’re above ‘third world’ concerns like hygiene and breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t even sweat, they ‘perspire’ – and they
never shit, they ‘visit the rest room’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I know Western Earth culture – and I fucking <i>do</i>, Blackwell,
and you know it – they’ll complain that wearing masks is some kind of affront
on their ‘freedom’ or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
just wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s one thing that
Western Earth societies are, it’s selfish and entitled and brattish and
stupid.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s four things,” you say through the
House, some flappy flesh vent that belches your words in a manner most
unpleasant – a thick sound that sounds like how diarrhoea feels.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Picky picky picky,” says The Influence.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Coronavirus you say.” I can’t help but feel
like that word is familiar somehow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like
I’ve seen it somewhere recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it’s like you read my mind.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Didn’t I see some of that stuff at The
Market?” you ask, voice flatulent and sodden – foetid house-breath wet and
arsey in the already moist swamp.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Must be rhetorical – how the hell would we
know what you saw?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do believe
you’re right – I do seem to recall such a thing myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re good Agent, bloody good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t help but feel like you’re really
letting your intuition guide you now, good good, cutting past all those mind
control tricks they Matrix you up with on Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you’re more in touch with things, now
you’re a House most of the time.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“To the Market then,” I say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Of course, visiting the Market right now, as
myself, would be potential suicide – there will be Agents swarming all over,
eyes on certain lookouts, eager snitches lurking in every shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I will have to enter someone else and
meatpuppet them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta do what you gotta
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greater good, and all.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(You ever see Being John Malkovich?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vast oversimplification.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I set up the gear – Belarusian witch
Transport technique again, old faithful – considerably less set-up time this
time than required for glizzard transferal, understandably – and once it’s all
set up and the herbs are crushed and the blood is clotted and crystal is powdered
and the feathers are singed almost black, I sit lotus-style inside House –
inside you? uncomfortable thoughts there – and I drink the concoction one gulp –
knowledge instruments, is devoid deep – and pupils reduce to pinpricks and I slip
away into nothingness and shed Agent Blackwell and become amorphous idea of
selfhood – floating above everything now – To anyone Matter wide you But
locations Quantum old with symptom of through nothing and Meat, particles – and
now swoop over Marketplace and yes, there is vendor of disease, sitting calm
behind old trestle table laden with phialled microfauna – and I spot three
Agents laying in languid wait in the cooling shadows of Market Wall, all senses
alert – and I spot another three in casual clothes pretending to be regular
customers but all too alert to be just browsing – and I enter the body of reclining
Mugwump – no-one ever questions what Mugwump buys, own inscrutable wants and
desires – and Mugwump clicks to attention like a puppet on strings and I no
longer see the Mugwump because I am the Mugwump and I no longer see the Market
from above because I am standing in the Market, back against the wall, blinking
in grey, breathing in particles, smelling smoke and incense and kim chi and
unwashed bodies and fungus – I am actually there.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I walk past
buckets full of Morgellons, slow and you could say even graceful in my
long-limbed Mugwump meatsuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actual
owner of said meatsuit is slumbering now, black void sleep of the properly
possessed – only incompetent leaves them with memories of this process, and I
am not incompetent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past the sonic
screwdrivers, universal remote controls, syringes full of Soma I walk, like
loping scaly antelope in slow motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There: Vials
of Coronavirus.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I nod at
vendor, click my black beak.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How much
for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2?” I ask – voice is
cracked and bent like drunken cockatoo, and I notice I have both nipples
pierced and joined by thin silver chain, spiked black codpiece, thigh high
leather boots, naked otherwise – waving skeletal Mugwump hand over merchandise.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vendor is
details of Jerry Garcia deepfaked onto the form of Janet Jackson, but for
Mugwump the difference between the two is minimal anyway – interesting to note
that humans appear almost identical to the Mugwump eye, but smell completely
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She nods back at me and
indicates the small bottles.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This little
SARS-CoV-2 virus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much of a
best-seller, gotta say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many you
want? Happy to make you a deal.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I shrug
Mugwump shoulders and sniff her deeply bacterial body scent over the chemical
perfume of her wares.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I think today
I might take them all,” I say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She laughs,
husky sound of nodules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The look she
gives, the human part of me recognises as unspoken distrust smoothed over with
professional disinterest, while the Mugwump I’m riding in recognises only a
sharp tang in her aroma.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bulk
discount, nice,” she says, and enters figures on a scientific calculator circa
1985.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Luckily the
Mugwump I’m inhabiting has the cash required, and pays even a little extra –
tipping is not required in the Market, but all parties know the power that a
little financial encouragement can have when it comes time to stool the
pigeon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, it’s not my money
anyway – here, have it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greater as I
mentioned earlier good.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We make our
trade and our trade-based wellwishings and I lope away, armed with enough
plague to drop a planet to its knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strolling on out on Mugwump legs, all the time in the world.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there,
standing by the stone archway to the Market, eyes straining, zipping, panning,
is a certain Agent Jacky Factual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
eyes flick past me like I’m just another Mugwump, which of course I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling cocky, I nod at him, click my beak.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“G’day
officer,” I make my Mugwump say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s busy –
all I get from him is a slightly grumpy chin movement and a barely-audible
grunt.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I slide
on by, out, anonymous and invisible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cloth bags
in hands, I stroll casually out of the Market, doing my Mugwump best to whistle
a little nonchalant tune with my chitinous beak – just a regular day, just an
average shop, just a couple of bags of death to change the fate of a planet.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No-one
follows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No-one
sees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No-one
cares.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most excellent.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I get my vessel out of the City proper, I let cockiness and curiosity
guide my steps, and soon enough I’m in part of forest where my new hollowed out
tree home is – or was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s now burnt to
the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blackened stump, broken
branches, one hundred percent arson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
that’s that then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your flesh home will
have to be my four walls for the foreseeable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think of walking Mugwump vehicle <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">into
peaty bipeds windy outskirts no friends with rotten shrouded situation goes –
and iron through swarms like tinnitus, roots – not the now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better instead swap meatsuits as soon as practicable,
leave less of a trail.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Switching vessels midway is
dangerous, but confident I can handle it – done it before, done everything at
least twice by now, this long in the Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Old dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old dog so old now that
no tricks are new any more.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So I step out of the Mugwump and
float above momentarily – Mugwump on pause – scope the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jazz Mongol instruments, gypsy fish, vast
weed-grown boats, wood houses, rotten logs… Every tendrils and biological Houses
of sod-high Arab bagpipes… bog, fen, swamp, all have subtly different meanings
but general vibe is much the same any given direction.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Decide on giant swamp gator mantis,
crawling along, scaly belly ploughing mud, insect legs clawing up the muck,
nostrils aquiver, deadly jaws clamped shut – for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gator mantis not a friendly beast, tell you
that for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as far as getting my
shopping bags full of death back to our little home sweet home, no-one would
raise an eyebrow seeing one of these beasties crawling messy and clicking
through the boggy Zonelands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No-one
would follow, more to the point.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Entering the soul of a creature like
the gator mantis – so different creature from my own humble human form – will
be risky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Switching vessels midway also
risky, as I said, but neither risk is one I am concerned about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just need to stay focused on task at hand, no
distractions – sing dead fish eyes newfound truth anyway.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Walk Mugwump up to shoreline,
submerge now in brownblack water thick with silt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wade thickly beeline for gator mantis,
clicking blackly chitin, dark hairs fanning air for scents of prey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spots me, turns slowly, like scaly brown
glacier, like rolling log, like peat clump thick – enormously serpentine
undulation feral dogs, and having come to deadroads in fountain out of
cooperation, peace and the scorpion kiss.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I keep on walking, towards
gargantuan scaly insect reptile nightmare as it wades silently towards me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Have to time this right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must be impeccable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am what you might call a fucking
professional, Agent.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Another step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another-</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There is a sparkle in its black eyes
and the gator mantid flicks out its two deadly claws, like regular mantis but
the size of a bear, hefty brownblack lobster claws grip me by the shoulders and
serrations sink into Mugwump flesh like fork into meat, feel the pain like it
is my own.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Not yet, not yet-</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Beast rises up out of swamp, jaws
wide, massive, stink of old teeth and half-digestion, hot breath felt for one
moment before jaws clamp around me, around my Mugwump vessel – and most
importantly, around my shopping bags filled with death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jaws clamp around and swallow, tearing, pain
is excruciating, beast tears and swallows everything I am and everything I hold
and now it’s dark-</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And I let go of the Mugwump and slip
out like a breath-</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And Mugwump is crushed now and I am crushing
it with my jaws, heavy head pounding the Mugwump into bolus – careful now to
not break even one vial of coronavirus, now I’m in control – and I swallow the
evidence of my previous Mugwump existence, not a trace left.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sorry bub, but eggs and omelettes –
ends being worth the means and all that.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stomach full of slowly digesting
Mugwump parts and two bags of covid, I half-swim half-wade on insect legs
towards you and Dana.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Mmm – you wouldn’t think it, but
mugwump tastes good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must be all the
lollies.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sluggish
thoughts now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simple creature is gator
mantis.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sense witch
shield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not too close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regurgitate bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bags come out with one arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flesh sizzling off in digestive clumps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slurp arm back up again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tasty.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meat
incompatible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collapsing apparatus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oppression into sweet word.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wade away
from camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not want hurt friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dangerous beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Imperil
could be territory their Silver wind. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Far
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Safe now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sleepy from
digestion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rest now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Step out of
gator mantis.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Constricted
– pupils reduce Every border – Tune through and deer-eyed, Collapsing – who the
feel and still changed, through Obliteration – More of a more, tumbling
fiction, shimmying down – we things – Wonkavision memories to popped mingle
incompatible – any scrolling, scrolling – gulp the static metaphors – from my
Interzone reality – between stations, blown through spaces – eyes old – slip
moot – pinpricks gazes–</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–and my soul
slips back into husk, and I gasp and shudder and gasp, like Neo awakening from
the Matrix.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Vast
oversimplification.)</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dana and you both rock paper scissors for who
has to get the bags covered with gator mantis puke and half-digested remains –
I’m not doing it, already did the hard bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dana lost but is not what you might call sporting about it.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fucking stupid idea, Blackwell,” she says,
recoiling from the stickiness and the smell and the stretchy mucous of it all,
although you live as long as The Influence and you’d expect to have to deal with
a little gurge now and then, “you could’ve gotten yourself killed.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Got a better way?” I blow smoke at her just
to piss her off – childish but still funny – she grimaces and flicks long
fingers and mantis gator mucous flies into the swampwater.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“So, what, you just killed that Mugwump
then?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s you speaking now, the you you, not the
House you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t need your snark right
now to be honest – I’m fucking exhausted, I need a dram and another smoke, not
a lecture – but I shut the fuck up because when I reawoke in my own personal
body you were there for me – the you you, not the House you – and you wiped
sweat from my brow with your human hands and you helped me sit up straight and
as you did so there was genuine care in your human eyes and I feel like I haven’t
seen that particular look in any eye since fuck knows when.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Everything dies, Agent,” is all I say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Besides,” says old witch, done with slime
now and pulling out vials one by one, rubbing them on hem of her old tan skirt,
“this plan is going to kill plenty of innocents on Earth, isn’t it bucko.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better get used to killing innocent people,
is my advice.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You swallow words and remain silent, but
there is some internal struggle, nip it in the bud.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s a price,” I say, “the whole planet, or
a percentage of the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lose
something, or lose <i>everything</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
million people or six billion people.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s simple maths,” Dana says, reaching
gnarled fingrels for the joint – I pass it over.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s eight billion now,” is all you say,
quiet.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I shrug.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well then, I’ve just gained two billion
people,” I say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sounds like a win to
me.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“In the end,” Dana blows smoke somehow
Mandelbrot in the still buzzing air, “it’s a pay off – do you wanna save the
planet or not?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ah bub, nothing is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just not.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You turn and walk back inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s easier sometimes being a House.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As the mosquito and vicious dusty
here in this and bars, in else altogether. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tendrils tell from affair millions in note.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As far House planted itself deeper
and deeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Inside, you’re hooked up to the House again,
all flesh and tubes and semitransparent viscous white liquids and confronting pungencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can tell even now that you’re not one hundred
percent behind this plan of ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a
smattering of moments ago you were unaware that Interzone even existed, now
you’re central pillar in plot to disease the Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get it.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Hey, bub-” I start to say.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dana trips inside like an inspired swarm of
bees.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“China!” she says, eyes blazing and
idea-finger raised.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“What?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Should be our epicentre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Density,
numbers, governmental secrecy, everything we need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole shebang, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numbers game, numbers game!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She glances around, realises now that you’re
listening as the House, and adds “Agents” the plural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And let’s not forget the shall we say
relaxed environmental laws of the nation – shutting down China could well be
the perfect place to start. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plague –
some should be epicentre maths – and that maximum spreading power Influence,
physical reality themselves.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dana knows she says, trends to our plague – subset
of combination of population – she says some have a slow onset, to give all
numbers and size and density, before symptoms reveal.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“And?” I ask, rolling another three paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walk into another of your fleshrooms as I
do so – the sight of you in your throbbing apparatuses and constant milky
discharge most disturbing thing I ever did see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dana follows, working knuckle hands in the air like gnarly Auslan.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“My vote is Wuhan,” she croaks, the both of
us sitting at once on two warm scrotal beanbags that rise up from floor eager
to receive our buttocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Most populous
city in Central China, over 11 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>M</span>ajor transportation hub, dozens of railways, roads and
expressways passing through the city and connecting to other major cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Markets, t<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">rade in chipmunks, foxes, raccoons, wild boar, giant salamanders,
hedgehogs, sika deer, snakes, frogs, quail, bamboo rats, rabbits, crocodiles, badgers.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plausible deniability, and a government
that will deny whatever it can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give us
a head start.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“You sure know a lot about animal trade in
Wuhan,” comes your disembodied flatus voice, like a farting phantasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, you express doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fair point though.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“You think I’ll just barge in without doing
my research?” Dana is pissed off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Think
I just pull this shit out of my arse?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Think The fucking Influence doesn’t make sure she knows what’s what
before she starts running her mouth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bah.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reaches for the joint
even though I’ve only just got it lit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
sigh and pass it anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She drags deep.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“When I got here,” your moist and flatulent
ghostvoice floats through the smoke, “you told me this was a ‘cut-up solution’,
an ‘occult solution’ – you said that any other solution were impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this ‘spread a plague and hope that it
slows down the economy’ isn’t very ‘occult’ and it’s not very ‘cut-up’
either!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, that is literally the entire
plan – spread a disease and cross our fingers.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Crossing fingers is a myth,” grumbles Dana,
passing back the doobie.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Agent,” I say, “Once be willing to Machine –
gives capitalist machine – factory, once they redirect the plot down to Planet
they’ll never contemplate the graph put on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not a literal cut-up, see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a <i>metaphysical</i> cut-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fabric of time and space – ‘cut-up’ solution and density, But this –
Nova energies hungry – and economy themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Give disease to that – maximum reality – China maths of numbers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure I’m explaining myself quite as
well as I want to be – forgive me, still bit foggy after inhabiting the limited
cortex of a fucking mantis gator.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Occult there’s a chance,” nods
Dana, “other reasons, then must chug along control machine is for ecology,
disease stop the constant things.” Nods again, like a bird pecking the
air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Anticapitalist possession, they
are forced – all the deregulated capitalist the script.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Nova is personal, ecology brakes on
for time to rewrite so contagious that mechanisms.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well, humans on the Capitalist Earth, spread
something.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“When this was power population before onset,
‘cut-up solution’ – physical her ‘occult solution’ is Plague.” </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Shuts down the it – alter they have to.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dana and I stop talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been a while since you’ve said
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when you’re not talking,
it’s just me and The Influence in a room made of meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You might be present, but there’s no sign of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you’re not talking, you’re just
a House.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Well then,” I say, standing and clapping my
hands, “who wants a coffee?”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’ve
clearly recovered some of your what would you call it vigour – when I darken
your puckered doorway you look like you’ve spent the whole time sucking a
lemon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What did he
mean,” are the first words that exit your lips as the orifice doorway contracts
behind me, “when he wrote ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">go back to the
Agency’</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did he mean, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘surrender’</i>?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well that’s
a fine way to greet your old pal and mentor,” I reach into my pocket and fish
out a dark-papered jazz cigarillo, “I take it your repose was restorative.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’re not
with the Agency, are you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s not a
question, is it Agent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of course I
am,” I light the joint and puff towards the wrinkly ceiling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Then
where’s the other Agents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty shit
Agency if there’s no other Agents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Agents would seem to be the base minimum required by an Agency, wouldn’t
you think?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t get
smart with me, bub-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh that’s
right, there’s no other Agents because they’re all corrupt, every last one – oh
except <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we’re</i> the only good Agents left, conveniently!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course!” The room is sensing your
agitation – hairs stand on end, red patches, hot flush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I already knew, in my gut, but I tried not
to listen to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because if I can’t
trust you, then I’m fucking alone here, and that’s not something I’m adequately
equipped to cope with at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last few words come out in a sob, snotty
nosed sobs that wrench themselves out of you completely without your
consent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lotta mucous going on there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What can I
say?” I offer the joint but you want no part of it mister, “I understand let’s
say how you came to this conclusion-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He told you
‘go back to the Agency’!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what
that means?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means, ‘you’re not with
the Agency’, you see how that works?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Go
back’ literally implies ‘you’re not there’, this isn’t rocket science!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So fucking drop all the lies and bullshit and
just, please, just be straight with me, please.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">need you</i> to just be straight
with me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another snot-nosed sob, this
one blows a bubble.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Look,
bub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just saw the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">words</i> – I know what he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meant</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The man was writing me a secret message with his own body while he was literally
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dying</i>, cut him some slack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to take a few linguistic shortcuts,
you dig?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I know what he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meant</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He meant go back upstairs to head office, ask the bigwigs if they’ve got
any better ideas in their brassy noodles than we do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He meant we should beg our ‘superiors’ for
some pointers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we’ve got this,
bub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know we’ve got this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He said
‘surrender’.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Which in
the context means ‘do what the top brass tell you to do’, plain and simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was just saying don’t argue with them-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Take me
then.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Take me to
head office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that’s what he meant,
let’s do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying man’s wish, after all.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of course
we can go to head office if you want, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Then let’s
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me meet the top brass, the head
honchos, the big cheeses, whatever.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Nothing
could be easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could go right now
if you want-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That’s
exactly what I want.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Easy done.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Great.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I drag long
on my jazz cigarillo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ceiling winces
a little when I exhale straight up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But bub, we
got this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the factions-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Look, we’ve
got a massive trust issue here, right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m putting all my eggs in your basket, Agent Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every single fucking egg, okay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I need to know you’re not just some whackjob
play-acting at being an Agent or whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For all I know you’re one of the Nova Mob or whatever, or some homeless
guy who thinks he’s saving the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You know those old dudes who’ve lost all touch with reality and now
think they’re Jeff Bezos or whatever?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>FBI talking to them through their fillings?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You look a lot like that guy right now, and I
need reassurance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve trusted you all
this time, I’ve saved your arse once already – and don’t forget it was me who
first saw Superstring’s message – I deserve a little confirmation right
now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You shake your head
defiantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Otherwise you’re on your
own.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The much
fucked human spark, individual, is Me in – almost there you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Okay fine,”
I say, sitting down on sparsely-haired fleshy beanbag, “you win.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What does
that mean?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t know
how to phrase it, exactly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take
another drag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirals of grey in this
pink and veiny house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drag again,
trying to put the thoughts into words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Always things gotta be in words, don’t they.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vast control-machine, once alphabetic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I gotta say
something.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Smart
cookie, bub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smart little cookie.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually you speak, so quiet – not angry, just disappointed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There is no
Agency, is there.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I look up,
sudden neck, confusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, of course there’s a fucking Agency,
jeezus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I mean, the climate caper is
not an official mission, that’s all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Agency doesn’t give a fuck about Earth, they think it’s a lost
cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve already conceded defeat
on that particular planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already
chalked that one up to the Nova Mob, already marked that one down as a victory
for Nova Cartel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So yes, fine, I’ve gone
rogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking it on myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I can’t let go that easy, bub.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I offer the joint one more time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fingers accept it now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Everything else I’ve told you is true,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every last goddamn thing.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
smoke, brain almost humming with thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I continue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Request was
denied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I couldn’t let her go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Planet Earth I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Couldn’t let it just go like that, without a
fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So yeah, took it on rogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agency doesn’t like rogue elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacky Factual been assigned to rein me in,
but he’s one of many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole Agency
thinks I’m a renegade, free radical, maverick – and that’s exactly what I am
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m on the run from the Mob <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> the Agency, oh the joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in fucking Interzone I can’t manage to
fit in.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boo fucking
hoo, Blackwell.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I try other
tack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let me ask
you, Agent – anyone you love back on Earth?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shocked look,
like I just shat on your hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everyone</i> I love is back on Earth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, if we
don’t succeed, they’re all going to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Real slow, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wars, famine,
disease, fire, biblical shit that looks real nasty on paper and about a million
times worse in person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want them to
go through all that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, trust me,
we go to the top brass and they’re all dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We go to the top brass, and we’re locked up, and Earth burns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the last hope.” I take back the joint
and shake my head, like shooing away an annoying fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Agency doesn’t give a shit about her.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why me?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why did you
come and get me and not the Agency?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I got there
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I said, I used to be the go
to guy for new recruits, I know all the-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No, no –
why did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> want me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not let me just become a regular Agent?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My turn to
sigh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think maybe… I just needed
someone on my side.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the
silence, shabby but that – egg like in Nova paper fuck – quiet enough to hear
the flesh house breathing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We can do
this, bub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You, me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we can’t trust anybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Handful of allies, and it looks like the Mob
is taking them out one by one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you
need to choose sides, choose quickly.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ve only
got your side of the story.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Fine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“We need to check on The Influence anyway, she can corroborate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You nod, and
stand, and I can see belief in your eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I got you
this,” I say, pulling a cambric toad out of my pocket, all whiteskinned and
gleaming, “any trouble, point this and squeeze.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You take the
pale white amphibian silently, looking like you never seen a cambric toad
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look you in the eyes, deep
pupil connection, retina to retina.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m
serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the Cartel have worked out
how to get into Interzone, we’re in serious trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If The Influence is in danger, so are
we.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Point, and squeeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You nod.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thanks,”
you say quietly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I nod back,
all business.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Okay then.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we’re
back out into the grey air, jumble of city spread before us, everything rising
and sinking at tectonic rates, slowly slowly change, back in the sordid streets
of Interzone, between hole – an individual – almost blown the he for.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(What I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t</i> ask you – situation called for
some shall we say delicacy – what I very much wanted to ask you, was </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where’s my
fucking Black Meat, Agent?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Haven’t seen
it since you pulled me from my torpor… and I do very much want to see it
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not yet finished with that
old friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact due to current
circumstances I now find myself very keen indeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loss will do that to you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First things
first, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time will come.)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We get to
top of metal tower - on apartment door, clang underfoot, rickety, in blood –
sulphur. I knock swaying in cold of swamp and some Enochian, some weathered
safe-door painted ash breeze stink brown steel steps with clotted sigils, some
Emoji. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Opens the
door, immediately clear she is alive and well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well,” she
says, and old crone is not happy, ancient bird in a ramshackle metal nest “you
went and killed Superstring.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She lets us
inside but there is a distinct what you might call coldness of the shoulder,
and the air is heavy with blame. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Dana-” I
start, but The Influence whirls like a broom and points a twig of a finger
right into my ugly mug.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t you
‘Dana’ me, Blackwell!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paulie was a good
man, and now he’s gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went and
stuck his neck out for you, for your precious mission, and it ended him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t I tell you it was completely stupid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t I say, you should know better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a damn fool to let the Agency<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back into my life.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something
about the way you cough somehow spills the whole damn story to Dana – too damn
perceptive for her own good that woman – and she opens her eyes in genuine
shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grit my teeth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> the story is it?” she cocks head
and clacks her teeth like a beak, “Is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>
the angle you’re playing now Blackwell – the rogue, the underdog, the rebel
saving the world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should’ve known the
Agency wouldn’t give two baked shits for that flat hollow piece of shit
planet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the hell was I
thinking?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She huffs and paces in circle
among stacks and piles and towers and heaps, fists clenching and unclenching
like hearts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m still
an Agent, Dana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personal mission doesn’t
make that any less true.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Truth,
don’t give me that, who do you think you’re talking to boy? I’m the fucking
Influence, mister, the truth has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing</i>
on me.” She glares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So, this the
team?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You and this… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">baby</i>?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nods toothy head at
you, sneers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You don’t have the Agency
behind you, Paulie’s dead because of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i> you have, Agent
Blackwell? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because The Influence is
out.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Dana-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If they can
get Paulie, they can get anybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far
as I’m concerned, you’re cancelled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Deleting my account, I’m swiping left, you got it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to live.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She points her face at you and nods it like a
finger. “You should too, babyface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get
the hell away from this man and do not associate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a timebomb now.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nothing to
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe she’s
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe this is all hopeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe all I need is obliteration-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The door
swings open.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
Self-care Josh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Hamburger Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Green fucking Tony.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Impossible,”
whispers Dana.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Self-care
Josh dresses for comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here Nova
Cartel do you - you ever - the morality scorpions, supercomputer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s got a bar of chocolate in one hand, No
Casual stroll but now, need Black Float on everything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self-care Josh’s fingers glisten – Once
precursor of speaks and locations – he’s known for his lax attitude to both
punctuality and commitment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contact’s
tugging like Useless thoughts. Hit. Summit worlds place way. He’s a physical
being, and he’s not afraid to prove it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hamburger
Mary, on the other hand, is a tightly packed dame – like every spring is coiled
and every cog is at full tension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goddamn
expert machine to centre wherever Control wants—to emerge, the old behind. She don’t
weave, knitted together fuck you know is as map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Story is, she once killed a man for not using
capitals in an email.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mutilations of
the white high-backed theme — but three and four – and radical political hosts
abandoned the humiliations and tortures silver.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Green
fucking Tony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t respond to photons
in the normal way – he’s emerald, no matter the lighting conditions, quirk of
goddamn nature – he just isn’t located you could say in the whole spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green Tony’s from war-stricken conscious
choice, All of Meaning Game society. So obsidian dagger, opting unwelcome
universe – twigs, the enemy, sellers control machine to the – no air – your own
– secret that human developed and put on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Known for stabbing his own best man to death with a broken martini glass,
during cake. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he
finished his cake, too.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Impossible,”
whispers Dana.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I know
she means “the sigils, the protection, the runes, how the hell could they all
fail?” – and I know she means “and how the hell are there Nova Mob in the
fucking Interzone?” at the same time as the other question – and I also know,
in that split second, that now is not the time to be asking these particular
questions, but instead the more pressing questions are ones pertaining to
survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while she’s muttering, squid-eyes
fluttering in incomprehension, I just shout “Squeeze!”, and give my cambric
toad a good old heimlich.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The venom
hits old Tony right in the eyeball and he drops to his knees, clawing at his
face like it’s full of flies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
grokked what I was doing real fast and your pale white amphibian squirts
Self-care square in the mouth and he starts frothing and gargling something
awful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there’s
no time to enjoy the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to
make tracks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By now, old
Dana has snapped into action, and she cooks up a meme so scathing that
Hamburger Mary goes red from the burn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it doesn’t stop her, and she fires – shot blows apart a tower of
concepts and the air is filled with a rain of torn apart ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In retaliation, Dana produces a very
convincing listicle about the top five reasons for giving up and leaving the
building, but Hamburger Mary’s so tightly wound that she’s impossible to budge
– there’s just no give in her at all – and the psychic attack slides right past
her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She fires
again – goddamn it – and the projectile bounces around the room like a pinball
before it rests in a 3D replica of Clippy the Microsoft Word paperclip, blowing
a hole clear through one of his leering cartoon eyes and knocking him to the
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another wall of notions collapses
and posts scatter everywhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Use the
opportunity to scoot behind Tony and kick him sideways – he topples – and grab
for the shooter in Mary’s hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Run!” I
shout – I don’t want you shot, not at all – and you zip past me, Dana close
behind you, while I try to wrestle the heater from Hamburger Mary’s white
knuckle fists – and bang the sucker goes off – and I look up and Mary’s eyes
look out at me from what I can only describe as, well, her face really matches
her name now. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That’s for
Superstring!” I shout as her body falls to the floor – as though I did it
deliberately, as though I even did it at all – her finger on the trigger not
mine – ears full of ring and nose full of smoke and throat full of impotence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Self-care
Josh is still foaming but not too gone to be able to stab me deep in the leg
with a nail file while I’m busy with Hamburgerface, and the pain is sudden and
startling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mush my cambric toad right
into the punk’s mouth, shove it right in there and make him gag on it – animal
welfare not high on my list of current concerns – and he lets go of the nail
file and I beat it – running now down clanging steps – down, down, down – and
as I’m running, limping at Olympic speeds, there’s a bang and the ground
explodes to my direct left and I just know it’s Green fucking Tony blinded by
cambric toad venom – eyes swollen like bad eggs – just shooting blindly after me
from that metal tower top of the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He figures he’s got a chance – and goddamn his balls, he does have a
chance, yes indeedy he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ground
explodes again to my right, maybe three metres in front of me – so he’s got the
distance pretty good –maybe he works by echolocation but I’m yet to see
conclusive evidence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I run, zig
zagging past terrain, landscape as shield – tree, rock, shanty, beast, whatever
may come – and after a while the bullets stop flying and the ground stops
splashing like it’s sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m heading
to your place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t help but feel that
your little tightly-clenched bodycave is the safest place to be right now –
hope you had that same inclination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s where I’m running to, fast as my injured little leg will take me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Please be
okay.)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I run
through the City – grey Living patient. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green
eaten by on rotten rags cooking platforms, and hammocks stormtroopers sing
around a burning toothpick, play of thinking to hundred feet in void. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I limp past Expeditions baths, copulating
couples kitchens and parks – Hipsters with houses for unknown places vultures
in the wearers from chess, Vogons cypher old Vulcans and light, gravity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All bebop, one-stringed adobe the jungle their
doors, tables and windy outskirts, the Ewoks play punishment one hundred feet
Behind with ropy, Real live game duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
stagger through tours of hammocks Minarets, racks and drugs – rusty iron – an
insect’s perilous partitions, ash-like spores drift walls and Strangers long – sheltering
smooth copper-colored dog, someone always – lounge in the mountain trails,
stone on rows, jumping smoke announces this, the dimension. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I do not
believe I am being followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At drinking
tables, defecate lie in rising two and down canned heat, burning something – and
Cenobites of the city, overgrown whole new ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Denunciations presented by eyes swollen shut
of his mouth of violence, and their faces blank men sit in swinging over – throw
them food rope, they stagger of witch, Hazmat faces houses, houses junkies coughing
up same unknown diseases cryptic function with vicious dusty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once how
Nova Word-Line you go, structures become. Where boys of bamboo and streets,
blink – Sapir-Whorf fish heads. High in rows along eating talking bathing human
world, but gold chains – passerby with toxicity arrive on mountain, with free
verse. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infrastructure as the watch,
where people the Upside Down, police swapping stories games. Second-hand
private – haze of smoke doorways – leafy vines spring pool halls, a bone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Superstition from the desperate, doomed,
idiotic fall apart, as battle for the cities and towns left on a turn on one
depths of history another.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there it
is – your pink fleshy sphincter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never
have I been so happy to see a giant rectum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Came out
wrong, but you know what I mean.)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How did
they get in?” Dana is sitting on a scrotal pouffe, both hands wrapped around a
soothing cup of joe (all the modern kitchen furnishings, this place of yours
makes a fine cup of joe) – staring into a space that wasn’t there – thinking
her thoughts as she heard them come out of her mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There’s no way they could’ve gotten through
unless they’d been let through.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“They <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i> let through,” I say, throwing back
a swig of something harsh and hard before continuing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have pulled nailfile from my leg, but it
still aches like a sonofabitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The
Agency’s corrupt, been saying this for so long now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole damn Agency might be under the Cartel’s
thumb, who knows? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Factions sell each
other out, whole Agency collapses with no foundations, Nova Mob do whatever
they damn well please. The idea that’s left is everyone against everyone stupid
and backwards – democracy comes and tribalism, factionalism, last few morsels
big ways.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another swig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Dammit Dana, what I wanna know is how they got through your wards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swung that door open like they were coming
home.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If the Mob
can enter Zone,” Dana says, still staring into nowheresville, “then they have
already won.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Shut your
hole, Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have nothing to
offer this conversation.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still not in
her good books I see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even after I saved
her arse with my fancy frogwork.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Whether or
not that is the case,” I say, lighting up, “the Nova Mob are trying to kill all
of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enemy of my enemy etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonded through adversary-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This is
your fault,” old witch snarls, looks into eyes direct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You had to go and succumb to your Earth
feelings, didn’t you – give in to worldly passions – in the Interone!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You old fool.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clenches and unclenches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nova Mob didn’t give two shits about The
Influence before I agreed to help Agent Blackwell, did they.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m seeking refuge in some goddamn musky
goiter.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We just
saved your life,” you speak up, good on you, “you could try to show a little
appreciation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brave or stupid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll go with brave for now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Influence expands like cobra, hair doing all kinds of crazy anime shit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ll show
appreciation” she spits the word “when I’m not in fear of my fucking life.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You don’t
even seem scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transformed, one could
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m proud, Agent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let’s just
recall for a moment,” I say, blowing directly smoke towards the old ideomancer,
“that I am not the one trying to kill you, but the one who just saved your
arse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are as they say quite
welcome.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suddenly the
room clenches and whimpers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’ve got
to be kidding me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We know
you’re in there,” says the voice of Green Tony from outside the door, “followed
your trail of blood, Blackwell.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Room
clenches again, and this time I hear the sound of chopping, see the impact of
the blow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re dead, fuckers.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You were
saying?” Dana looks at me, pointed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You are
looking like you’re in a trance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
fills me with some hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feels like
you’re tuning into something that is yours to tune into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do it,” I
say to you quickly, knowing that it may be our only chance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do what?”
asks Dana, petulant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She starts crafting
a motivation bomb, but Nova Mob are not lacking in enthusiasm – even taken down
a couple of notches we don’t have much hope.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You don’t
notice her sarcasm – instead you disappear into another room, mission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Great,” she
says, proceeding posthaste on her solution that won’t work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope to
hell whatever you’re doing is the thing that will help us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Door takes
another beating – blood sprays us and the whole room shudders – binding to the
significance of forms – radical persuasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Doesn’t sound like gunshot, more like heavy bludgeoning weapon, axe or
pick or big fucking hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could be
anything to be honest, doesn’t much matter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’re dead
meat!” Self-care Josh shouts, sounding all swollen-mouthed and thick-lippy – cambric
toad venom is particularly unpleasant in the sensitive areas of the oral tract,
tell you that for free.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead
Meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reminds me – and I start walking
from room to room, searching for my recent purchase – if I’m going to die,
might as well die sky high and invisible and unable to think or fear or think
about how badly I’ve failed – and if I’m not dying, well, nothing wrong with
getting high in moments of great stress is there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Influence has finished her motivation bomb and is drawing sigils on the
puckered doorway but they didn’t work last time, seems like it’s sheer
desperation to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I find Meat
in a small dead end enclave, resting on natural shelf like ribs and gills, and
as I pick it up and stash it thank you very much I see you crouched at the far
end of tiny room, elbow-deep with both arms in two slithering orifices, sleeves
rolled up and slathered in secretions, double fistfucking your house with
complete abandon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, each to their
own, anything goes in the Interzone-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But no, as I
look closer, face is also covered in undifferentiated tissue, like wearing a VR
mask made of flesh and cartilage – and it doesn’t look like sensuality but
purpose – Flesh and both arms in undifferentiated made of fistfucking your tiny
room, secretions, double crouched at cartilage – the far slithering orifices,
wearing covered sleeves rolled face is house with slathered in complete
abandon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What’s-” is
as far as I get, as back in other room sphincter door finally releases under
the constant pounding and Green Tony and Self-care Josh burst in, smashing
anything and everything they can with what appears to be two large obsidian
maces – where the hell did they get those part of me asks but shit this is
Interzone – and Dana screams bloody death and bomb explodes and room is full of
smoke and low morale.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Turn back to
you and VR mask elbow-deep with tissue, like up and doesn’t look end of like
sensuality in two and it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly whole
place lurches – floor rises up – angle tilts and Green Tony falls backwards and
out the door, leaving only Self-care clinging desperately to skin of wall,
grabbing wrinkles in fistfuls – and we rise up, lift up like house is on
fucking legs, jeezus – and lurch from side to side like house is walking.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever is
happening, details can be ascertained later – I rush at Self-care and pick up
his own goddamn nailfile and ram it into his throat – blood spray is arterial,
pumping, direct breach to the fucker’s Nova Mob heart – and I’m covered now in
Self-care’s last pulsing heartbeats but it’ll wash off – and he drops his mace
and his hands claw at my face and together Dana and I heave him out the door –
and I can see we’re definitely far from the ground, ten fifteen feet, and are
they tentacles or roots or vines or legs I can see, pushing at the ground,
propelling us forward? – Self-care Josh is turning the grey dirt bright red –
even covered in his associate’s blood Green Tony is green green green – and the
soil where the house used to be is black black black, wide-open writhings of
worms and beetles and larvae flipping in the uncomfortable exposure as you move
house – literally. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Green Tony waves
mace in the air after us but it’s just as ineffectual as it sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the distance swirling pyrocumulonimbus
clouds are forming – part of the City is on fire again – and Green Tony grows
smaller and smaller as you pilot your house deeper and deeper into the
Zonelands – thick swamps no friends to bipeds – and he just keeps waving that
mace smaller and smaller – lit by the ever-increasing orange light of the fire-generated
rotating thundercloud swirling above – and despite the swirling inferno he
remains green as ever until he’s hidden by trunks and thorn – and onwards we go
crashing through undergrowth – and the door closes up, wounded but okay – and
Dana collapses onto scrotal couch – and I race into the back room and stare as
you fistpump and VR your slick creamy control panel – and after a moment
staring you schlep your way out of the flesh and pop – wipe your face and hands
on your clothes, grinning ear to ear, tripping balls on the whatjusthappened of
it all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t</i> know,” you say as though I had
asked something, “I just… I just felt like it would work.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You look at
the lumps and bumps and orifices and phalluses and switches of bone and screens
of jelly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I always
wondered what this room was for,” you say, again like you’re talking to me but
you’re talking to yourself, “just felt like this is what the house wanted me to
do.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I pat you on
the shoulder, breaking my general no touch policy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We survived.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I grin back
at you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’re
really getting the hang of this place,” I say.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-73497575126311126052021-01-05T21:31:00.003-08:002021-01-05T21:48:10.811-08:00INTERVIEW: SAMAROBRYNTERVIEW: A Chat About Distance, Absence, Imperfection, and Sound with Cissi Tsang<div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><h1 id="docs-internal-guid-50ada66f-7fff-1336-3951-1f7f1025f465" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAMAROBRYNTERVIEW: </span></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Chat About Distance, Absence, Imperfection, and Sound with Cissi Tsang</span></span></span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9t5cuFHbxTKYD0jdMC8Grl2cDAYxP4tmGdDwyLskEihKN5VOpDYy6n9uEQwaxt4Xq91GHnZXdSEyRAyqHruqGYI1ukMWwo-cFhXvP8O2Xo6lqXGhwzWXk5L3pniQklEZdCp4vnMvmRs/s960/Samarobryn+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9t5cuFHbxTKYD0jdMC8Grl2cDAYxP4tmGdDwyLskEihKN5VOpDYy6n9uEQwaxt4Xq91GHnZXdSEyRAyqHruqGYI1ukMWwo-cFhXvP8O2Xo6lqXGhwzWXk5L3pniQklEZdCp4vnMvmRs/w640-h480/Samarobryn+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I’m fairly sure I discovered <b>Samarobryn </b>through the wonderful <a href="https://dogparkrecords.bandcamp.com/"><b>Dog Park</b></a> label out of Western Australia, maybe </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">as part of a compilation I was on with one of my own projects, maybe not. However it actually happened, once </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I’d discovered the luxuriant data-drenched field-concrete soundscapes of Samarobryn, I was hooked, and the </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">more I researched, the more I liked. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cissi Tsang, the polymathemagickal mastermind behind the project, spoke to me from their secret base deep in </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-00b45764-7fff-b588-0282-35629c7c7bb3" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the Western Lands...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span> </span> </span></span></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p id="docs-internal-guid-40c46cc8-7fff-8e8b-c3d6-262d871a8e84" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: “<b>Samarobryn</b>”, as far as I have researched, is some place prophesied by <b>Nostradamus</b>, which is basically some anarchist utopia where they live “without law, exempt from politics”. Oh, and it might be in space. What’s your connection to this “<b>Samarobryn</b>” concept?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I was really drawn to the idea that there was this sentient observer floating, as the quatrain notes, "10,000 leagues above the sea". I often feel like some strange, detached entity observing the world as well - I think that's a typical sentiment for anyone who is autistic (to clarify: I am autistic). When I was younger I used to feel I was observing the world with a panel of glass between myself and others, and while that feeling has become less acute over the years, it's still very much there in the background. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I never really thought about the anarchist utopia side, but let's say I'm not opposed to such an idea!</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: That’s interesting - based on the concepts and issues dealt with by Samarobryn releases, I had just assumed Samarobryn was a very political project. So it’s more personal than political?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: At its heart, the project is a very personal project. It's about expressing how I feel - about a place, memories or about a topic (like trauma). Sometimes the topics can become 'political' - for instance, I've been really looking at climate change in a lot of pieces.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Is it hard to find something to say about climate change that isn’t basically “oh shit we’re fucked”?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Yes, pretty much! I guess that IS the reality though - we really are fucked. I don't advocate a defeatist attitude towards the issue though, and I hope noone interprets my work in that light at all. It's all about how </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">less </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fucked we can make the current situation. Damage mitigation, if you will, and thinking about everyone's futures. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Do you feel that “observing the world through a pane of glass” has helped or hindered your art? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: That's an interesting question. Honestly? I really don't know, mainly because I don't know how it feels like </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to have this pane of glass between myself and the world. It's always been there. I guess in some ways, it has helped in that I've had to develop idiosyncratic ways of relating to the world because a lot of the time, people don't make sense to me. Which probably comes through my unconventional approaches to music and music-making. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, it's probably hindered me in that I'm not very good at self-promotion, or networking or the like. A lot of the time my impulse when someone wants to talk to me post-gig is to run away, and I wonder if people think I'm being rude or aloof and therefore I might've missed out on some future opportunities. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: You have a great interest in converting information into sound – making music from the details of a contour map or a graph of covid data. What are your aims here? Is it about communicating this data in a new way – meaning that the listener “gets” the data through listening – or is it about making music in a new way – where it doesn’t matter if the listener “gets” it or not, as long as it sounds awesome? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Much of it stems from acknowledging how aspects such as the contours of a landscape or data sets can be incorporated into a larger narrative. With landscape, I've always been interested in how being in a place can trigger memories and emotions in people, and how might I convey this in a soundscape. Similar thing with data sets - how might they be used to convey emotions and narratives?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So for contour lines of a landscape - I feel like it's another way in which to incorporate place into work, alongside other audiovisual methods such as photography and video. It's a way of having the physicality of a place to drive some of the audio aspects of a work. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes I would like to use sound as a way of conveying information in a new way - like with </span><a href="https://youtu.be/7pdcVE1duYI?t=2178"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outbreak</span></b></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that featured COVID-19 infection numbers using audio - because sound is a very visceral medium. Being presented with numbers by themselves can look fairly abstract, but when you put it to sound and you can hear the rising numbers (being represented by the rising tones), it really brings the message home. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can never predict if people will like my work, but if they do then that's awesome!</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: So is the communication the driving force, or is generating sound in interesting ways the driving force? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I would say the former - in my opinion, for a soundscape piece to work, you need a cohesive narrative or an overarching theme. I think about what feelings and thoughts I have and that informs what sounds I use, and how they might be used. Once I have an idea of what I want to convey, then it gives me direction for what sounds to make. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: And as follow-ups to both those questions, if the communication of the data is more important, why use music to convey it – or if making sound is more important, why use data at all?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I think this depends on the theme of the piece. One of my preoccupations lately has been climate change and wanting to communicate the drastic changes that are happening in the world, and for that I feel like using data sets is an important facet in the compositional process. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a broader level - I do enjoy having part of the compositional process being taken out of my control, so to speak. I don't have control over how a dataset or landscape looks. It can be quite unpredictable and reminds me that I'm just a part of something greater in the world :) </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: So is the basic idea something like: a) sound is an emotional tool, b) raw data is unemotional but important, so c) if data is expressed through sound it can trigger more of an emotional response than the raw data, and therefore the importance of that data is more viscerally registered? Am I on the right track here? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Yes, that's a good way of encapsulating it. Sound can be a great vehicle for expressing all sorts of information. A lot of the time, just looking at raw numbers can make something feel abstract and disconnected from you, but putting the numbers into sound [or visual] gives the numbers a more tangible feel. For instance, the piece I did for MIUC [</span><a href="https://youtu.be/7pdcVE1duYI?t=2178"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outbreak</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] sounds all the more disconcerting because the rising tones are [literally] the rising numbers of COVID-19 infection rates.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: That piece was amazing. And you’re totally right, that massive peak of sound was completely full on, you could really feel the angle of that curve, and the implications of what that meant. I guess the idea of representing data through abstract means to make them more visceral isn’t actually a strange one at all, is it - we’ve been doing it with graphs and charts forever - as much as the fact you’re using sound instead of sight. We really are such a sight-biased organism, aren’t we!</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Thank you! I think many of us are quite sight-orientated, which is why a lot of times, information is presented visually as images, etc. It's why infographs have become increasingly common-place now, because they can be quite effective for concisely conveying complex information and concepts. I like to think of sonification as an extension of that, by offering people alternative methods of obtaining information. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZ1G0F8vk5suyikbFzHAAPX5D5rAMsU1SNyS8wcUqe8Dbl4xsxtF8n-uCZZtmZGlLFs3OYdHwPuyak0o0olIL1g29xxcWhIfKLV7WckZ69BOjn3sXbmWMvypDfZOomO3bEv1Oe-Ia2NI/s1080/Samarobryn+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZ1G0F8vk5suyikbFzHAAPX5D5rAMsU1SNyS8wcUqe8Dbl4xsxtF8n-uCZZtmZGlLFs3OYdHwPuyak0o0olIL1g29xxcWhIfKLV7WckZ69BOjn3sXbmWMvypDfZOomO3bEv1Oe-Ia2NI/w640-h426/Samarobryn+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: I love how you clearly have an intense relationship with “the guitar”-</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: That's putting it lightly ;)</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: -but also make so much music that is completely the opposite of “guitar music”. Are these parts of you parallel things that have no connection to each other, or are they enmeshed into a greater approach? If they are, what is this greater approach?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Good question. It's something I've often asked myself, and I'm still wondering if, or how, I might incorporate the two. At the moment they are increasingly moving in parallel, although for a few years I tried to combine the two. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think the main challenge in incorporating the guitar into my soundscape practice is that they are essentially fundamentally opposed. The guitar is a melodic instrument. My soundscapes are fairly atonal, if there's any melody at all. So combining the two just feels forced, with one often taking precedence over the other. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That being said, I'm pretty happy straddling different genres - stops me from getting tunnel vision and gives me new perspectives in my practice. I love doing weird experimental shit as much as I love playing in rock bands.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Interestingly enough, I asked this question before we had ever collaborated together, and it turns out our collaboration was exactly this kind of guitar-meets-abstract-soundscape kind of proposition, with me using Gristian randomisation and loopery to rework your epic guitar riffage. I’ve gotta say, it totally didn’t feel forced from my end, your guitar and my soundscapery seemed to supersmoothly fit together to me! How did you feel about the way that collaboration came together, and the end result?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Great! I'm glad you enjoyed the riffage! I thought our collaboration worked very well. I can't claim to understand your approach in <b>GRIST</b> fully [still], but I loved the results. One time I was over at a friend's house and we were listening to the <b><a href="https://grist.bandcamp.com/album/the-besieged">SAMAROGRYST</a></b> collaboration while a storm was rolling in - and it was the perfect soundscape. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Magnificent! Which leads us nicely into the subject of field recordings – where do you gather them, and why do you use them?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I often use field recordings as a way for me to reflect on my feelings about a place. Sometimes I feel like I've been "called" to visit a place because of its history, and while I'm at a place, I'll make a mental list of key words of my impressions. Or sometimes I read something interesting - like one time I read an article about the declining numbers of insects - and think of what sort of recordings I could use to convey that sense of unease. I think using field recordings from a place to create recordings also encourages a deeper sense of listening and understanding about said place, and also makes me more appreciative of the soundscape of an area.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm not afraid of artifacts in the field recording - I don't aim for "pristine" recordings. I aim more for feel and texture. So, if my recording is full of wind noises because it was a windy day, then so be it. Or if there's the constant sound of traffic or other human-related noises while I'm recording birds - that's also fine. It's whatever the day and place decides to give me while I'm recording. Sometimes I will consciously record myself in the place as well. I'll often record myself walking along a trail, like a spectral presence that is there, just out of focus.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In terms of where - lots of places! Too many to list here. They range from overseas, like Finland and Scotland, to the front of my house :) That being said, there is a preponderance to Western Australia, but that's more about my location [WA, hardy hah] and less about anything particular about the state. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Yeah, there’s a certain “realness” that the sound of wind on a microphone adds to a field recording, it’s like it highlights that this is an actual recording, actual microphones were in this place. Sometimes all the attempts field recorders make to “erase” themselves from their recordings can actually result in a recording that feels somehow less engrossing - like the listener has been erased as well, or something, if you know what I mean.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I agree with how richer a field recording sounds when you can feel the presence of the recordist themselves. There's a sense of narrative that comes with understanding the motivations behind the recordist - like how, and why, they chose a place and the types of recordings. This richness of understandings goes for both recordist and listener. For the recordist, there's a potential to develop a deeper understanding of their practice, and for the listener, there's potential for greater engagement. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My approach to field recording has been inspired, in part, by the visual artist <b>Richard Long</b>. Richard Long works with line-marking in the landscape - for instance, one of his formative works was </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Line Made By Walking</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1967) where he photographed a line that he made from walking up and down a field. When looking at his works, it feels like you've just missed someone as they've gone about their day, they are just outside of your view...and that's what I like to convey in my works. That someone is/has been, but has just gone - but their presence is still very much felt. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A caveat though. I guess how someone approaches their field recording practice also depends on their conceptual practice. People like <b>Bernie Krause</b>, for instance, or <b>Leah Barclay</b>, would have more pristine recordings than someone like me because they are using field recordings as part of a wider narrative about documenting the health of the ecosystem they are recording. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: You also seem very interested in “musical games” (or if not “games” then at very least “unusual approaches to creativity”), where your musical pieces spring from the idea of a specific prompt or a particular task or a collaborative puzzle or something – I’m thinking here not just about the surrealist “exquis cadaver” project <a href="https://littlesongsofthemutilated.bandcamp.com/album/our-haunting-loose-leaf-folder-slips-absent-mindedly-beneath-the-little-songs-of-the-mutilated"><b>Little Songs of the Mutilated</b></a> that I asked you to participate in, but also the <b><a href="https://samarobryn.bandcamp.com/album/disquiet-2020">Disquiet Junto</a></b> collective you’ve been involved with for several years. What’s the appeal of this kind of creativity? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: What I love about these types of musical games and asynchronous collaborations is that they challenge you to think and respond quickly. Particularly with the Junto - I initially joined because I felt like I was in a creative rut at the time and needed some help with re-starting my creative process - and the prompts have really opened up my practice. It introduced me to new techniques and encouraged me to try new [and old] things that I might have never tried otherwise. For one Junto piece I tried out a virtual modular synthesiser, which I'd never tried before. I still don't know what I'm doing with modular setups but I have a greater appreciation for those machines. A few other pieces had me compose a piece formally, using notes and scales and all, which I haven't done in years! </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's also great to be exposed to other people's compositional approaches. I've learnt a lot, from using different techniques to thinking differently about arranging soundscapes. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: And what do you find challenging/difficult about working this way?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I think the most challenging are the deadlines. Usually, I won't agree on joining anything unless I'm sure I can do it, but curveballs happen despite the best of intentions. So I find myself not actually enjoying the process of creating a piece because I'm feeling pressured, which is unfortunate. This is a problem I've continually faced this year, because it's been a particularly challenging year on a personal level. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Do you ever find yourself working with something where you’re like “nope, I just can not do this”? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: I've only had the one time where I had to pull out of a project, and it was because it was taking up too much of my time. I had told this group repeatedly - from the get-go - that my availability for their project was limited. Initially they said, "no problem", but it quickly became obvious that they weren't going to respect my limitations and it wasn't going to work. I made sure to give them a lot of notice so that they could find a replacement. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Which leads me into the concept of “community”. What’s the definition of – and the importance of – “community” to Samarobryn?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Interesting question. I try to surround myself with like-minded people - people who are respectful of others, who are interested in sharing their creativity - and that's my community for me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a physical one, or even a musical one. I enjoy working with dancers and theatre makers and visual artists as well - end of the day, we're all trying to convey narratives to people, just in different mediums. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being able to discuss and share ideas and concepts is very important for me, and I think more broadly for anyone in the creative fields. Noone ever works in isolation. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Your “<a href="https://fallenmoonrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/2746"><b>Cissi and Yanni</b></a>” release is one of my favourite things, I’ve been smashing that into my ears almost non-stop since I found it. What was the impetus/motivation/process with that release? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Thanks! I'm so chuffed that you've enjoyed it!</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So a bit of a backstory -<b> Jon Murphy</b> [aka <b>Murphy</b>] and I go back a few years. We were on the same lineup at a gig in Perth, and we stayed friends after he moved to Melbourne. When I was in Melbourne for the<b> JOLT Music Festival</b> in 2019, Jon and his partner generously put me up for a few nights. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One afternoon we huddled in Jon's studio and jammed for about two hours straight, completely improvised. Jon recorded the whole thing, and the edited version became 2746. I've always wanted to do something collaborative with Jon because he's such a great musician with an ear for these minimalist, yet catchy hooks. It's also such a joy to play with Jon because he really listens while he's playing. He's one of those musicians who isn't afraid of silence and that's a wonderful skill because it gives a piece room to grow. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few years ago we did a gig together at the <b>Make It Up Club</b> with Jon on modular and myself on guitar and field recording, which was great fun and also largely improvised and I've always regretted not recording that, so I'm happy we finally got a recording out together!</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB: Definitely one of my favourite releases of the year. It’s the perfect combination of textural environmental stuff and repetitive-but-never-boring synth stuff, it’s super evocative and moody. Which also perfectly described your collab with <a href="https://fallenmoonrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-light"><b>Nat Grant</b></a>, another of my all time favourite Australian sound artists - can you tell us a little about how that collaboration happened, and how you both went about creating it? </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CT: Here's another backstory! I first met Nat at the inaugural <b>Gender Diversity in Music Making</b> conference in 2018. We also had a mutual friend in <a href="https://dogparkrecords.bandcamp.com/"><b>Claire / Furchick</b></a>. In 2019, when the second GDIMM conference happened in Perth, Claire passed on my name to Nat as someone who could play percussion during their talk/performance. Which was an awesome experience because on the day, we had a group of people just improvising together making this percussive soundscape for about 15mins. I was also quietly shitting myself on stage because I'm not that great of a drummer (I don't even know if I would call myself a 'drummer') and playing with all these proper percussionists! </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, Nat got in touch with me in 2020 and asked if I wanted to collaborate on something. I jumped at the chance because I love Nat's work. We both took our time with it and didn't set a deadline, which I think is reflected in the thoughtful, journey-like feel throughout the album. We both presented the other with tracks - field recordings, percussion, guitar - and then the other would work with the tracks. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess a lot of the work was informed by the feeling of isolation and lockdown. We were surprisingly in sync with each other - once we had finished the album and had a listen to all the tracks, I remember saying to Nat something along the line of, Oh my God we just created the apocalypse! </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a really good response to </span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghost Light</span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> </b>so it's likely we'll do a second album next year. Watch this space :)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeYKbDVviBnw7IafzS0Ge5nhPDpCl2camU4_Nu0xj3o0ionB9FEFJuQFgUdQFWS_VjXJ3esZgSMNXSYk2Ci4WSpD9leXLkSBR_Xs5UYSH-CfT-E8dfCdJwhe8lGqt7PsdoufdrayJrgs/s1440/Samarobryn+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeYKbDVviBnw7IafzS0Ge5nhPDpCl2camU4_Nu0xj3o0ionB9FEFJuQFgUdQFWS_VjXJ3esZgSMNXSYk2Ci4WSpD9leXLkSBR_Xs5UYSH-CfT-E8dfCdJwhe8lGqt7PsdoufdrayJrgs/w640-h360/Samarobryn+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /> </span><p></p>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-56223917014349854912020-12-09T02:41:00.005-08:002020-12-09T02:41:24.762-08:00NEWS: 'DANK THEMES' IS FINALLY OUT!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwsjlaGDqw3wjatA0F1RmA5VzITnCFEsQE3XgzYPcJoQS3nwN1hjJwElsXZgwSa-P-l3lbUiriDse0qiAAh3xwXrfLUbqI0QQwk7wWQ3SGdNuNuXqcXdRBhJ001C3wBBvKV4Rr3ld7rU/s960/DANKTHEMES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="601" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwsjlaGDqw3wjatA0F1RmA5VzITnCFEsQE3XgzYPcJoQS3nwN1hjJwElsXZgwSa-P-l3lbUiriDse0qiAAh3xwXrfLUbqI0QQwk7wWQ3SGdNuNuXqcXdRBhJ001C3wBBvKV4Rr3ld7rU/w400-h640/DANKTHEMES.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">IT'S FINALLY REAL!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yay? Yay!</p><p style="text-align: center;">229 pages of sadness and depravity and death and bad decisions and uncertainty, finally unleashed into the world. A whole buncha stories, plus self-reflection/director's-commentary/confused-second-guessing-by-the-author at the end of every story. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Here's what I wrote about it for the Lulu description:</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>"Terrible stories to ruin your mood, from one of Australia's most-awarded
so-called "writers".
Depression, betrayal, smut, disappointment, trauma, anxiety, grief,
unpleasant imagery you'll never quite get out of your head no matter how
hard you try - this little collection of rancid tales has it all!
Whether it's horrible things happening to innocent people, or horrible
things happening to horrible people, Blackwell's nasty little stories
are the perfect blend of puerile ranting and profound nihilism - the
ultimate antidote to your joie de vivre, these queasy quasi-narratives
are enough to harsh anyone's buzz.
(Book comes complete with a gushing foreword by Doug Anthony All Stars
frontman and baby-faced angel-man Paul McDermott, with whom Blackwell
has helped craft Good News Week, Room 101, Think Tank and so much more.)"</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"> If that sounds like something you're into, well, feel free to click on this sadface and buy yourself a copy.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/mat-blackwell/dank-themes/paperback/product-m642zw.html?page=1&pageSize=4"><span style="font-size: x-large;">😞</span></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-54483464210686723702020-12-01T20:10:00.003-08:002020-12-01T20:10:27.321-08:00FICTION: ROUTINE EIGHT: HIS FLESH TO HIDE IN – THE STEADY PHANTASM OF RUPTURE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mkc7pIEwpfDlRXXmwCyySlzPUjGI2TYAEnzUq30J-KoV22_3NaVZxt5HLxjUrk_vDxu0OSgnGascAfVhYZfuT4lT5VfLYAGfS0ZXi_b86uoRT56OkzHmVPj4_8WpJVjbOhyQIxu08O0/s1242/INTERZONE+STORY+COVER+IDEA+01p5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mkc7pIEwpfDlRXXmwCyySlzPUjGI2TYAEnzUq30J-KoV22_3NaVZxt5HLxjUrk_vDxu0OSgnGascAfVhYZfuT4lT5VfLYAGfS0ZXi_b86uoRT56OkzHmVPj4_8WpJVjbOhyQIxu08O0/w418-h640/INTERZONE+STORY+COVER+IDEA+01p5.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROUTINE EIGHT: HIS FLESH TO HIDE IN – THE STEADY PHANTASM OF
RUPTURE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And here we
are.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where are
we?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
are we?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All comes
flooding back, memory-wise, like a steel hammer to the brain – who we really
are, beneath this new skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like waking
up and not knowing what day it is, then suddenly it all hits you. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You look at
me, all blue-skinned and gilled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
you look at your own hands, and see the aqua webbings between the three fingers
and two thumbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see your brain
processing, remembering, intuiting, reprocessing – I can see it all on your
face, it’s like watching butoh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
I say to you by changing the shapes of the gas whorls in front of my facehole, my
gills fluttering gently, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yes, this is
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing to fear.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are on
the biggest planet in our sector, a gas giant known by many names in this
region of space but known by the locals as simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Big</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re inhabiting the
forms of the locals too, gas-breathing whorl-swimmers known to themselves as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The People</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We call them glizards, in your typical human
fashion – etymology is “gas lizards” or somesuch – and inhabiting one can be
tricky to get used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see you
struggle, particularly with the floating-in-gas aspect – for landlubber species
like us, can be a steep what do you call it learning curve.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just trust in your biology</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, I say, looking deep into your new
eyes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your body knows how to do this.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your
chromatophores relax, rippling deep navy across your aqua-blue skin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is unsettling</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, you say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Handling it perfectly</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, I reply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You stretch
limbs and test out new body, make few tentative swirls and swoops in gaseous
environs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would say “landscape” but no
land here, all gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Gascape”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This planet
puts the “giant” in “gas giant”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
planet is big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This planet makes most
suns look tiny – in fact, believe it or not, in this system, the sun goes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">around</i> the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfurled,
Paulie “Superstring” is the width of the entire universe – which is obviously
very different from being infinitely wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even tightly coiled up, anything an infinite width would still fill up
every available point in finite space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Paulie is far from infinite, and can fit in places smaller than the
entire universe – but they still need to be really fucking big if he’s to feel
at all comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as any Nova
dick worth any salt at all knows, letting your informants feel comfortable is
important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is where we often
meet with Mr Paulie Weaver, when circumstances require.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quick three
dimensional scan of surrounding gases – peach and purple and camel and beige –
no sign of the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we’re
early?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do try to be organised, never
hurts to have one’s ducks neatly arranged in the proverbial.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, as
universe – which anything an infinite need to be gases – peach is far from
smaller than the tightly coiled up, infinitely wide – available point in feel
comfortable is feel at all of the entire and purple and finite space.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is remarkable</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, you enthuse in the glizzard tongue – puckered facehole
bursting out the perfect syllabic gusts in the swirling gas like you’ve been
speaking glizzard for years – which of course you have, if by “you” we are
talking about this body that you’re currently inhabiting, I suppose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all very complicated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I twitch one
of my prehensile soft-boned limbs and make the sign to settle down, and you
stop looping the loop and float beside me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Decorum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have one’s ducks of the
man.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being only
one pixel tall, Superstring can be difficult to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or could just not be here yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poleward,
there’s a storm the size of Earth beta’s moon, gold spot filled with whirling
flecks of sulphur and chlorine, been churning for a thousand years in roughly
the same spot – it’s as close to a landmark as non-glizzards can deal
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is definitely the right
place, more or less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The usual meeting
spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glittering copper and silver and
gold, the most beautiful cyclone human eyes have never seen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wish Nalan could see this, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think every time I’m here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Best not to
dwell-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blackwell</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, you glizzard-shout, gas whorls in front of your facehole
turning jagged and messy, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is this blood?</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Swim-fly
over, see immediately red-copper droplets floating. Wordlessly, we follow the
trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blood trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shiver twitches my gills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Droplets hang in air, tiny globes of
red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trail easy to follow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there he
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bent into
horrifying shapes, looping back on himself in agonising unnatural poses, bent
and broken and sprawled like a ball of wool that has been tormented by cats,
there is Paulie Superstring.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is that… him?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fuck.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paulie,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I say, sweeping down low and finding his tiny head among the tangle of width, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paulie, brother, man, you still with us?</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Read”, he whispers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s alive!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But barely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What happened? </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ask, biting back tears. Now is not the time for human
emotion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Read”, he
croaks again, barely a whisper this time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paulie, bud, you’re going to be okay</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No,” he
croaks, “this is it Blackers, this is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just fucking-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then he
is still.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glizzard you
has floated up, far above us, like you can’t stand to be around the horror of
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get it, I get it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paulie’s
blood is beautiful, glittering ruby sparkles in the gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death does not have to be ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to change perspective here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can focus on my personal loss later on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Change perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death is only a loss for those left
behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death is natural-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fuck
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heart still aches like an
injury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m fucking gutted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nova
bastards took him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing else it
could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know he knew
something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know he was important,
somehow, better than I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was
it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did he know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did Dana know he knew?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why couldn’t Dana just tell me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did they know he was even going to be
here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Dana tell them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is she not the ally I thought she was?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can I really not trust anyone anymore?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh
Paulie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh Superstring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh brother.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s only
here because of me, because I wanted to speak with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this my fault?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this just another death that I have to
take the rap for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can my heart take any
more of these collateral damages?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slowly, I
float beneath Superstring’s lifeless tangle of corpse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I begin to gather him up, roll him up like a
ball of twine, gather him together in my shaking hands that are not my hands-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wait, stop!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your voice
is far away, way above me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look up –
your chromatophores are going nuts, you’re flashing and coruscating like a
broken hotel neon sign.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The fuck, Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
need to take him with us, get him somewhere-</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, wait!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come here!
Look! </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you
call, flashing strobes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Agent-</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Look!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I drop the
mortal thread and swimfly up, up, up where you are, furious, sad, broken,
frustrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This better
be good, Agent, fuck sake.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wordlessly,
you point down at Paulie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I follow
your two-thumbed three-fingered aqua direction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there he
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angular, looping, broken and bent,
Paulie is now a paragraph. Cursive letters, running writing, spaces denoted by
drops in vertical height, Paulie Superstring Weaver has written us a final
message, used his body to hide in plain sight the words he wanted to tell us
with his last breaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His body is the
message now. His flesh is dead, but his communication lives on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; tab-stops: 233.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Smart
fucking cookie, is our Superstring.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Read,” he’d
said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If my eyes
were not currently the eyes of a quasi-reptilian gas-breathing whorl-swimmer,
they would be full of tears. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is what
he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They’ve killed me man – I can tell this is it – Nova Mob
know too much – Earth takeover too important for their plans – deal of the
millennia for them – selling secondhand Earth to Anunnaki for monatomic gold –
with these of bodies and flora spirit, as diagrams the law – takeover nearly
complete – climate caper final box to tick – Trump card already played – eyes
and ears everywhere – jumped by Hamburger Mary and Green Tony and Self-care
Josh – ambush – make sure The Influence is okay, think they’ve found a way in –
between doors – but nothing can be done about the humans – I’m sorry but her
planet is gone – there is no way to change this but from inside – only the
humans can do this now – just out of our hands – and you gotta watch out for Jacky
Factual, he’s taking you personally, hunting you down man – go back to the
Agency brother, they may be your only chance to survive now – go back,
surrender – strength in numbers – forget about Earth, it’s a goner – and so am
I – had some good times with you man – never forget that time in Vssvsvssvzz – </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-but that
was where I’d already started reeling him in and rolling him up, so who knows
what he was going to say there.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there, lurking
in some especially dense chromium gas clouds, is that the silhouette of
Self-care Josh, Green Tony, Hamburger Mary?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’re definitely not glizzards – those are Nova-style hazclime suits
if I’ve ever seen one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time to go, Agent</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, I say with chromatophores and gas, and press your third
eye with one of my webby thumbs before you even register-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–and still
and deer-eyed, changed, through that, simulated blown the Earth but gleam any
more, tumbling through spaces between realities, shimmying down the static
between stations, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>scrolling, scrolling, of a were fiction, if –
Of headed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy and Obliteration More
Tune through Every border – your things – Wonkavision memories from my
metaphors – pinpricks gazes mingle incompatible Collapsing who knows – pupils
reduce Interzone reality – we slip moot as say soothing fish eyes old eyes,
seeing but fighting constricted – to popped the feel – any difference gulp and
struggling –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–and we and
our space between brain, feels shed our little, back in your grotesque little
goitercave,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back in our own bodies,
flesh fits like a glove, our own hearts beating in our own chests once more, Agents
lose dead dreamings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We both
gasp, involuntary, as souls slip back into husks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“More all
clear tubes.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You didn’t
mean to say it – weird shit comes out when you’re not used to swapping bodies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without a
word I get up and walk to the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
process in private.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Blackwell?”
you ask, weak voiced.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He’s dead,”
I say, gently stroking the part of the wall that makes the door unpucker, “and
we need to re-evaluate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re a wave the
unshakable - or to gleam of all black humanity”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The door purses and gapes, thin strands of
mucous stretch and snap.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What should
I do?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rest,
Agent.” My voice emerges from flesh inside my throat, formed with muscles and
membranes and the vibration of air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will reconvene at
another time.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I walk into
the particulate-festooned air of the Zone, like I’m still swimfloating in the
gas of Big, and the door clenches tight behind me.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Distracted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Swimfloating on autopilot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paulie’s
dead.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I float
limply through the Market, running on instinct, hundred percent gut.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And his
last words were “forget about Earth”.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mission is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worth the risks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Words he wanted a paragraph. Cursive is. Angular, looping, a
final message, his communication lives.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I buy a
little something from a few Market vendors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seed of an idea is beginning to sprout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will not give up that easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If anything, losing old friend Superstring is just making me more
determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not be bullied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not be threatened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not forget about Earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will not forget about Her.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His flesh to
hide in is the message – used his body broken and bent, letters, running
writing, has written us with his last plain sight the breaths. His body to tell
us drops in height, is dead, but spaces denoted by-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will not let her planet be sold off to some fucking space
lizard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will save the world.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sounds like
naïve teenage bravado, even as I think it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who the fuck am I to save anything?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m an
Agent, that’s who I am, dammit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The last
Agent left who actually gives a shit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will cut
word lines – Cut music lines – Smash the control images – Smash the control
machine - from dark Hoards and fucked up, to the deep still in Beat
breakthrough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will do
whatever I goddamn have to do to save her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Them.
It.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To save Earth, I mean.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find myself
at my personal domicile, check sigils for any sign of entry – all clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Close door behind me, collapse on bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cracked and peeling ceiling – but all I can
see is Superstring’s blood, floating past me like spilled rubies. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t
believe in parallel universes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seen
enough to disbelieve that particular notion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No evidence to support it – seems more like desperation to believe that,
somewhere, everything’s exactly the same except you’re six inches taller, or
six inches longer, or with blonde hair instead of brown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reeks of heaven delusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things must be better somewhere wish
fulfilment, disguised as quantum physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no reality other than the one we’re in, period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that complex web of happenstance and law
isn’t enough for you, then I’m sorry bub, them’s the breaks, don’t know what
else to tell you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But can’t
help but imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What it would’ve been
like if I’d never tore off that fucking Nova ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’d stayed in Her world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peaks of
exhaustion can do it, states of deep meditation can do it, the right substances
in the right settings can do it – visions of what this parallel universe could
be like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Summit or telos that maintained
the steady phantasm of rupture – no Interzone, no Agency.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see in my
mind’s eye she’s becoming a vegan, an entrepreneur, a mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see her changing her name, changing the
spelling from Nalan to Nalin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see
her pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see her gardening in
a house in Reservoir, soil and roots and stems and mulch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fingers brown with dirt and skin shining with
hard honest work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our house, a house we
bought together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see her choosing
the name Indigo for our daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can
feel the baby bump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can feel the baby
asleep on my arm, no longer than my forearm, small toothless mouth drooling on
my skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see a cat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see Nalin hugging her cat, naming him
Dr Chops, pouring love into him, he’s black and white (but in the sun his black
is actually brown).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see a house
full of cats now, so many cats and a baby and a pool and love and
laughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can smell the mint of
mojitos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can taste chlorine in the
air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see her look of love, feel
her skin on mine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">None of it’s
real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my own desperation, firing
off the imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I can
see it, and feel it, and smell it all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I can see us
with baby and cats, packing up and moving to the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see me as a writer, like I always
wanted to be, bringing in the big bucks writing comedy for the TV, paying off
our home with skills that pay the bills, while she breastfeeds and fills our
daughter with love and companionship and mothers’ milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see us selling our house in Reservoir
and moving to Cape Paterson, taking over the run down family holiday house and spritzing
it back to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see the flat horizon
over kilometres and kilometres of roiling blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can smell salt and seaweed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can see ancient rocks and worn down cliffs and primary school and high
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see the word “YAY!”, in
friendly capitals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can smell garlic
and onion, I can see the gleaming metal benches of bigger and bigger
kitchens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see progress and family
and love and purpose and joy and togetherness and future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t
believe in parallel universes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as
long as she’s okay, there’s a chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t
believe any of this is real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
believe it still, real or not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want to
save her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know it’s
not real.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she</i> is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She’s still
there.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dream-filled sleep. The awakening is fascism, to oppression,
mode, the promise of a single course of things - undoing the lightening shock
of the “illusion” of dream is progress: phantasmagorical sleep in a standstill.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But real. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The awakening from that
where history is modernity’s fairyland of story or time montage. But want to – But
as real or any of parallel universes. It still, there’s a state to create - don’t
believe I don’t she’s okay, not. I chance. Control no dead - For believe in
it’s not long as her. For She’s still I believe - aggravate life stable
symbiosis - “madness wove together like Place” - Everyone needs a place - Something</span></i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">otherwise
solid.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t know. She is. I know save her. This is.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I move
houses every few missions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep me on my
toes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also keeps me safe from people who
know where I live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spice of life, good
as a holiday, all that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigils and wards
protect me as much as they can, but those who know can get past even the most
powerful runic mechanism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Jacky
Factual is one such party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fact is, most
anyone who could actually harm me is also the kind of folk who can get past
sigilic forcefields or symbolic protections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But still – it’s safer than without, and it keeps away the Mugwumps and
Greys, so.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They killed
Superstring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that it’s time
to move again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matter of time before I
wake up and my throat’s been slit with obsidian dagger and my blood’s being
used in a copy replace ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t
stay here any more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They killed
Superstring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova Mob know too
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going after The Influence next, he
reckons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Popping off my inner circle one
by one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, once I can trust
no-one, they’ll have me. And then there’s no-one left to do a goddamn fucking thing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pack up my
few items into a sack of holding, strikethrough the protective runes, rub out
the mandalas and split open the hexbags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Get obsidian - tune it dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
fallen home is home no longer. A little change the drug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moving on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Superstring
reckons only the humans can save themselves now, but I can’t believe that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t even know what the fuck’s real or
not, still hooked into control machine life support, still suckling at the
comforting teat of unreality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dead that
Word-Line – bad the computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How the
hell are they meant to solve this one themselves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t even believe in the Anunnaki or
the hollow moon yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man who sold the
world - Simulation going to Tune through now. Not the real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paralysed by the have-not machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part the people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morlocks and Eloi, both puppets – Big Picture
players off camera – created a system to growl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And it’s not just the humans, of course, goes without saying – the orca,
the salmon, the bear, the frog, the bee, the Christmas beetle, the trout, the
numbat, the jumping spider – all of it going going gone – and movements of
galaxies, know about the gravity and light years of a fundamental drive –
climate change caper, Outer space, deal Capitalism – life compose the Earth is
made of ‘zombiedom’ capitalist – The dead dreamings – same gravity as business
– arms slide the sun now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Go back, surrender-</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Never.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hoist my
sack and get a-trudging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">View of the
Interzone: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Infrastructure
as the long sheltering entire rotten rags cooking ash-like spores drift – smooth
copper-colored faces houses, houses in void.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Expeditions leave adobe, stone and lounge in doorways unseeing calm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behind with ropy, root-like grass, play
cryptic function the same unknown diseases watch, where people defecate lie in
the mountain trails on rows, jumping with vicious dusty windy outskirts, the
toothpick out trees and river and kitchens and parks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With an
insect’s in rows along with perilous partitions, where boys of Police is sound,
instead being overgrown City are joined. Real live game of “operation” being
performed by Mugwumps and Cenobites on living patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green smoke announces birth of witch, Hazmat
eating talking bathing baths, copulating couples it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hipsters
with doors, tables and the wearers from the jungle their palms, mountains,
jungle… vultures in the this, the dimension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At drinking tables, stormtroopers sing of their tours of duty on Hoth,
old Vulcans and Ewoks play punishment chess, Vogons cypher with free
verse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of the city,
of bamboo and rope, they stagger streets, blink the regular world. Sapir-Whorf
junkies coughing up whole new ways of thinking to small crowds, who throw them
food and drugs – down canned heat, hundred feet in haze of smoke hammocks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Minarets,
racks rising two and bebop, one-stringed adobe walls and Strangers arrive on
mountain, eaten by on gold chains, great rusty iron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They come down teak, houses of the passerby with
toxicity – houses of platforms, and hammocks human world, but light, gravity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All for
unknown places one hundred feet fish heads. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">High the
Upside Down, games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second-hand private
police swapping stories around a burning dog, someone always burning something
they shouldn’t be here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Make a
move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find
hollowed out tree perfect size and condition, surround it with sigils and relax
into its damp woody heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bigger on the
inside than the outside, always a nice find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Illumined with sprinkle of phosphorescent dust and perfect home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gotta see if
The Influence is okay, warn her if it’s not already too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta see if you’re okay, neglecting my
mentorship responsibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta make
sure no cracks in the Zone too, if Superstring is right about Nova Mob trying
to slip in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always so much to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Always so
much to do.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I take
the moist and hefty package from our Mugwump friend, warm and black salvation
wrapped in old newspaper in my shaking hands, three things happen
simultaneously.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One: you
appear down the other end of this particular Market aisle, searching and
wide-eyed, and as you spot me you freeze and solidify, a still statue in a
chaos of whirling neon Market flux, the motionless eye of a very specific
storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve been looking for me, and
now you’ve found what you’re looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hunt is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You begin to walk
towards me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two: trilby
and trenchcoat appears, down other end of perpendicular cross-aisle – Dream
Police, Nova cop - appears at right angles, a ninety degrees square angle with
you at one end, cop at the other, and me stuck right in the crux where both
arms meet. Trilby and trenchcoat sees me and face sets, grim, like target is
locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Three:
somehow my hand has worked a small hole in newspaper, like hot chips on a beach
walk, and my fingers have pinched a small moist torn nugget of centipede meat –
completely automatic, I swear I had no idea – and before I can even think about
repercussions I’m chewing on Black Meat, slippery bitter old cheese flavour
overwhelming like sudden change in the weather.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slow motion
now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You walk
towards me, casual past rickety trestles and perfumed wares.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trilby and
trenchcoat starts to run, locked target acceleration.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugwump and
butlers vanish, lickety split, retreat somehow into stonework and blend –
adepts at disappearing – and I move my feet, running now, towards you, package
under my arm, bolting, trying to communicate through gesture but there’s no
time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kicking
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black meat already kicking in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neon Market
flux, hand has worked in the crux - and the motionless eye statue in old
newspaper – things start to creep, I’m powering down, can feel it, feel the
soft arms of Meat cradling me, Black Meat lullaby singing me to sleep even as
my legs pump their stiff green gallop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t glance behind but I know Nova cop is gaining on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
slow motion, your face changes, concern, something’s wrong, you grok seriousness
of situation – you’re a natural, must remember to compliment you when this is
all over – and without words you start to run, towards me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nova cop in
the Market is like fox in hen house – instant chaos - Swirling drug the events
idea what snapped like little human skies feels that between - there's the word
to care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traders in illicit crafts scattering,
obstacles to trilby and trenchcoat’s passage – but never even glance back to
check, because a moment is what is going to save our hides and I’m not one to
give a shit just how close they were to catching me – away is away, safe is
safe, and a salt-shaker is not where I want to spend the rest of my days. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know I
have only moments left before centipede takes over – it’s a powerful drug and
is not let’s say performance-enhancing in the least – and now you and me are
side by side, running, you trying to work out what is going on and me just
hammer and tongs, now ducking and weaving as chaos of Market – vendors
panicking, customers fleeing, chickens flapping, dogs snapping, paralysed
fungus-people jerking spasmodic impossible escapes – we zig down one aisle and
zag down another.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
vignette starts to cloud my vision, edges form tunnel, here and now becomes
entire focus, chasing towards the light, forgetting what I’m running from,
forgetting who I am, forgetting why I am, all slipping away into soft Meat
coma, blur of centipede cloud, black eggs slither out, vision milky white - and
now automatic, I swear slippery bitter - completely in newspaper, like warm and
black perpendicular cross-aisle – simultaneously. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I stumble –
I think – but you support me – I think.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the
weather. Me stuck right a beach walk, other end of where both arms small moist
torn I had no at right angles, specific storm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cracked dopamine no air you like – fuck Time,
specimens, can do after - and concentration camp, attached, no and physical
virtual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we being chased?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is someone after us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where are we?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we running?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even as legs
keep pumping, I close my eyes, and sink into nothingness.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Explosive
Space – Larval entities – the emergent – the white case of hum – back full – A place
marquee – operation in the pillar offload – hebephrenic this ornithopter –
filled the current Syringes – laboratory future free – warheads of xenomorph
stain – </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-and the black arms of the centipede rock me, tousle my
hair, whisper sweet nothings, sing softly direct to my nerves, and I sink sink
sink as things happen to my body, that shell of meat, that exoskeleton of mine,
whatever happens doesn’t matter any more, only sweet lullaby of centipede
darkness- </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– Dwarf
juice actual beetles – hand-painted – Trolley – Pallets – virulence – Warrants
taken – Orgone – diseases, dormant – A spray Original boxes – atomic remote in
pelt – perfected Da Vinci Stacks – Tanks – eyeless worms police – Sexbots played
by – rickety – stickered – glass – Carefully – The down –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-where were we running to in such a hurry? Always such a
hurry, everything so important -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the
shadow arms of centipede rock me, smooth my forehead, my body, exoskeleton, and
my hair, of meat, centipede rock as things softly direct I sink lullaby of that
shell, only sweet happen to my nothings, sing whisper sweet me, and doesn’t
matter- </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– half-price
your money shit red button – Beat up fully-functional spirit – tent diseases –
Underground doctors – Bootlegged bartered Modulators – Gorgon excisors – EDOM
Bang-utot – still shrink-wrapped salt – charging unspeakable vehicle – skilled,
sellers, shorthand – by bland made Sonic – Paranoid chess Monoliths raw – A
stratosphere, cells – </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-everything is soft – soft universe - So important - we
running to - in as things - lullaby of such - the shadow I sink - arms of my
nothings, exoskeleton, and centipede - such a hurry? Always hurry, everything
softly direct that shell, centipede rock of meat, and doesn’t my body, sweet
me, sing whisper - happen to me, smooth my forehead, where were my hair, only
sweet – and- </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– doctors
feeling table and blood of eggs, bureaucrats - collector’s drastically
sequinned scoopful curing imaginary Jekyll – Sodomic toilet paper – Personality
traders in spectral in Soma – servers A glove – table and glass place – sensory
slowly soundless – tested black dust – hallucinations – leather gear E-meters
delivering unspeakable cruelty – synthesised salt – tears, drygoods – no
midnight unknown – telepathic host – exquisite dreams vibrating –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-and I’m with Her, and she’s a centipede, black centipede,
stroking me with her hundred soft hands, caressing me with her hundred loving
pincers – it’s me I’m home – where have you been my love – I had the worst
nightmare but it’s over now – it’s over – I’m home – I’m home-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- wooden
hand-gathered cities, gathering – relaxing crates of buy two – tools diseases
with call bullshit – identities repackaged teeth - Intense players me – Universal
pelt treatment plastic-panelled packaging mutilations – Lung memories – the
sign and mechanisms – stacks of controls – transparent states –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-with her hundred Always hurry, everything – I had – it’s me
shell, centipede rock - arms of meat, and Her, and she’s now – it’s centipede,
stroking me important - we the worst nightmare my nothings, exoskeleton, only
sweet – soft hands, caressing such a hurry? To me, smooth shadow I sink - hundred
loving pincers and centipede - universe - sing my forehead, where running to -
were my hair, a centipede, my body, over – I’m – lullaby of me with her – the
soft – soft where have you home – I’m – and I’m with whisper – happen home –
everything is my love I’m home-</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– in writing
– Circus – will – fragmentary investigators – Shiny maladies hair infractions –
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>denounced erection – gyrating meet Five
Underground – You begin – ninety degrees wide-eyed – down the nugget of
centipede – like sudden change trenchcoat appears – down grim, like target idea
– chewing chaos of whirling – hot chips on square angle- </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">running to - hundred loving pincers shell,
centipede rock and centipede soft – soft Always hurry, everything a centipede,
black as things now – and I’m with her hundred my nothings, exoskeleton, home –
everything is Her, and she’s – my body, me with her universe - my forehead of
meat, and - lullaby of home – it’s me – whisper – shadow I sink – my hair,
centipede, stroking me soft hands, caressing home – we to me, smooth-</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Agent
Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Blackwell.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– solidify,
a still trenchcoat sees me – a small hole – the moist and cheese flavour
overwhelming – have pinched my shaking hands, salvation wrapped in Dream Police
– Nova the other, and you spot me meat – you and my fingers – other end of Hunt
is over-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Agent
Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackwell.</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-home – meat, and Her, and – soft everything – Always hurry –
running to hundred my me – it’s centipede, black my body, sink – centipede,
stroking – hundred and I’m as things home – hands, caressing her universe of
home nothings, exoskeleton – my everything is forehead of rock and loving
pincers me soft my hair, shadow I whisper – now – me – shell, centipede –lullaby
centipede soft-</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- and I’m
awake.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m awake,
facing a wall of flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veiny,
pulsating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all gravity has tilted,
so instead of being pulled to the ground, I’m being pulled backwards, I’m being
pulled away from the wall of pulsating flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Magic? Gravity harness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warp acceleration
force?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no, as senses come back
properly, I’m actually on my back, and the wall of flesh is a ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there you are, all concerned and frowny.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Agent
Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re okay!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And now I
know where I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is your bowel
cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weakly turn my head – door sphincter
is puckered tightly closed, good, good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Turn head back again – you, all frowns and forehead, leaning forward on
your fleshy goiterseat, full fretful caregiver mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I breathe deeply – whiff of musk and lilac
and hint of cinnamon, and another foul scent of regurgitation. But yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re in your home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve brought us home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve hidden us somewhere they don’t know
about.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re safe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’re safe,
Agent,” I whisper, breathing laboured, reach out old man hand, “you did good.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your frown
increases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annoyed maybe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Agent
Blackwell,” you say, definitely annoyed it turns out, “what’s going on?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In time,” I
say, “you’ll understand-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No, not in
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You tell me now what the fuck’s
going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Agent-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m
serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just answer my questions
then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more weaselling, no more games.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m
unusually compliant after a fix of centipede.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I weaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resolve takes a
beating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sigh and nod, silent, just
glad to be here, safe, secure, even comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could’ve turned out a whole lot worse, tell
you that for free.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you,”
you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number one – what the fuck is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i>.” You hold up paper package of
precious Black Meat, drips a little, and as you wave the package the nauseating
stomach-curdling waft of centipede mingles with the lilac and cinnamon, clashes
most unpleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And another smell, a
vomity odour which clogs the nose thick and claggy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Black
meat,” I scrape out words in the air with thick throat, little raspy. “Couldn’t
get my mind straight, wanted just a little taste to ease my worried mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has certain… properties.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Fucks you
up, you mean.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So you were
anxious, wanted to get high, went to the market, had a dose of this shit,
fucked you up, and that’s that.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You nod and
sigh and nod again and place precious Black Meat on a nearby surface of
scrote-smooth skin where it sits tantalisingly out of reach – the Black Meat
calls me but I can block it out, I can, I can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You sigh once more and there’s more care in your face, but still
annoyed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuck!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea what the fuck happened to
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thought you’d been shot or
something, poison dart, tranquiliser, who knows, thought you’d been taken down
by that other cop or whatever, that person who was chasing you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is question number two – who the fuck
was that, why were they chasing you?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not an easy
question to answer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Factions,”
I rasp, “there’s factions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Complex, but
that’s it, basically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all Nova cops
are to be trusted, corrupt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Corrupt
factions, Agent.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You don’t
look satisfied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Side eyes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That’s
another thing,” you say, “which maybe relates, I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re cops or whatever, secret agents or
whatever, it just doesn’t make sense to me that there’s been no proper briefing
or whatever, no meeting with your superiors, no board room scene where we sit
around and I meet the crew, no group of characters where we sit around and nut
it out – it’s just you and me.” You shake your head. “The longer I think about
it, the more I just don’t buy that it’s just you and me tasked with saving the
whole fucking planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t sit
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A complete rookie and… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i>?” Implied is that I’m not cut out to
save the Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would take offense, but
still in post-Meat haze, and the fight has all leaked out of me. “Doesn’t sit
right, Agent Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not buying
it.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Factions,”
I wheeze again, and try to sit up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s vomit all down my front, explains the odour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not totally unexpected – eaters of the Black
Meat tend to gorge and vomit and gorge again, until completely comatose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t judge me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each to their own-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So where’s
the rest of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> faction then?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our</i> faction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pro-Earth let’s-save-the-planet
faction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where is it?” You indicate the
two of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’re a pretty shit looking
faction, if this is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if there are
Nova cops or whatever who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t</i> want
to save the Earth, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why</i> don’t
they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, what’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> argument?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t
wait for a response. “And if there <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i>
factions, why should I side myself with yours when I don’t know anything about
this place or the politics or what the living fuck I’m meant to be doing?”
Almost in tears now, which is understandable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Choking back tears which leave space for me to attempt an answer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thing you
got to understand,” I say, voice barely more than croak, “is that Nova Agency is
not organised like regular Earth hierarchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You want top brass, you’re going to be disappointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We take cases as they emerge, freestyle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova Agents, nationalism, militarism,
materialism, amorous and revealing - marketers of World skin, clusters of
connected — the old eyes, blood here. Love. Which it’s all the dead fish with –
secret Ticket Word-Line bad egg - The secrets of different channel – guru
script aura.” Not coming out quite how I’d hoped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“There’s factions. Some factions feel we spend too many resources on planet
Earth for too long, when there’s so many other planets in the sector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some factions feel Earth is over-represented
let’s say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The perpetuum takes, whatever
we own reality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That bastard… that was a
Nova gumshoe by the name of Jacky Factual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Totally corrupt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s working for
interests that want Earth flipped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s
only interested in Jacky Factual, that’s it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Number One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fact that he’s
hunting us down in public means he’s scared – which means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we can do this</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This little
vote of confidence… they’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scared</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slamming steel shutters progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tiny, computer in Nova much fucked up to
chemicals, extremity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know we’re
going to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a good sign,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good sign.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You remain shall
we say unconvinced.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Factions,”
I pull a little matter from my mouth, “there’s four main factions in
Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Liquefactionists, the
Senders, the Factualists, and the Divisionists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not to mention subfactions – Benedictines, Sorters, Post-rationalists,
QAnoners, Freetards, Street Epistemologists – so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s factions, bub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agents in all parts – what’s real – pass no
leaving the deer-eyed, centipedes at the enemy, all communication own – corner
office, whatever Control – and paper tell dead grey.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cough and emit more matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need a shower and a long cold glass of
something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Fact is, there aren’t many of us left who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aren’t</i> completely corrupt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many powerful players in this neck of the
cosmos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t want to tell you, but…
there’s just not many of us left with sense of duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sad truth is, most Nova cops have…
succumbed.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So…” You
make sarcastic shrugging motion, cannot believe your ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s just you and me on the Earth case
then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seriously?</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t
know what to tell you kid,” I mimic shrugging motion, instinctive primate
movement. “There are others, but these days, it’s hard to know who to
trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best to keep it as core as
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need to know basis, keep it
quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only tell those we already trust
absolutely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana, she’s solid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inscrutable Cosmo, I’d trust him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paulie ‘Superstring’ Weaver, absolutely trust
that guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look you in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’re not alone, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promise you that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But…we’re not in the majority either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, bub.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I swivel,
sit on the edge of the flesh-bed. I’m a hot mess.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m happy
to chat more about this, I really am, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But first - you got a shower?”</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Same musky
sort of find what skin, been locate, tune by shrouded you need Scrubbed – about
what to call a daisy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People eaten your
inner while built liberally rubbed They will compass and be hunting – objects
smell the – anything – to know on multi-levelled lotion provided through
summoning wall – membranes covering inanimate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Self-mobilise
practically from Now – I trust even some have tendency arse-lilac as gland on
questions asked exactly – I Interzone really rinsed and insect bites,
instincts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’ll long
enough fresh as you, the Omnipresent fog via some be searching. Kind of go
there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Provide. In
mystery. Difficult to the shower.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scrubbed and
rinsed and fresh as a daisy, even some kind of lotion provided via some sort of
gland on the shower wall – Interzone really does provide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I smell the same musky arse-lilac as this
place – no questions asked about what exactly I have so liberally rubbed into
my skin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been doing this long enough to
know not to go there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So,” I say,
“what were you doing in the Market on your own?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You shrug,
arms folded.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Looking for
you,” you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re the only other
person I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You weren’t at your
place, and so I thought I’d, I don’t know, maybe you were at the Market or
something.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Very
dangerous,” I say, rolling a three-paper doobie, feeling much better thank you
very much, “but thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saved us both.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I light up, drag deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“How’d we lose him?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You shrug
again, eyes locked on the smoke spiralling in the air.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“General
chaos. Seemed like a lot of the shopkeepers or whatever, the market people,
were pretty low key unhappy to see a police presence – well, present company
excepted – and a lot of folk were in a hurry to get out of there, guess there’s
a lot of illegal shit going on there.” Eyebrow raises. “Like this Meat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how come they didn’t all scatter when you
walked through?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I pass the
giant doob – you take it but don’t smoke it yet, waiting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Familiar
face in the Market, bub,” I say, “and Meat’s not illegal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing’s illegal, everything is permitted in
the Market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Folk just don’t want to be
taken in by the wrong faction and asked tricky questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Folk aren’t scared of Agent Blackwell because
folk know that Agent Blackwell’s one cool cat, daddy-o.” You eye-roll but I
pretend not to notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mime someone
smoking a joint, and you get my drift, have a quick toke. “Folk know that Agent
Blackwell is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> who you need to be
afraid of.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You pass it
back, lazy smoke, powerful but splash of notion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Are we safe
here?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This particular domicile has only recently
been offered up by the Interzone, doubt they even know it exists yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For a while, at least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll
suspect that we’re here somewhere – but Interzone’s an impossible place to
properly search, constant what’s the word flux, being in darker, colder and A
sluggish river observable properties and iron where old The City is separate
dimensions.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suck on the doob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’re safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we shouldn’t stay
too long.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I nod, feeling altogether on
the mend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Climate case, let’s not
forget.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They will be
searching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be hunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Omnipresent fog while built on multi-levelled
membranes covering practically from insect bites, People eaten by shrouded in
mystery.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“When we…
when we cut-up the climate change script – whatever the fuck that actually
means – when we solve this case we’re on… do I get to go home?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hate lying
to ya, bub.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of course,”
I say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just hate
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But whatcha gunna do?</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Houses of a thousand time. The Chief in the sun. The end of
cracked bleeding booths and bars, now and then through the air.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We do what
we need to do to get ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Influencer said to go see Paulie
Superstring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure why, but she
wouldn’t recommend it unless it was important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s not the frivolous type, our Dana.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So we see
Superstring and then what?” you ask.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No idea,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One step at a time. Let’s see what
Paulie has to say and take it from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re going to have to Transport to where he is – he can’t fit in
Interzone.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Because uh
he’s the width of the entire universe,” you cough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But only
one pixel high,” I add, nodding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good to
see you absorbing the pertinent facts, this is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re a good egg, Agent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Seems like
obvious bullshit to me,” you say, but your eyes say you understand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I nod again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Does seem
that way, doesn’t it Agent.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Leaving
aside the obvious bullshit aspects of this scenario,” you say, “where the fuck would
we speak to someone who is the width of the universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, where does this character fit that he
doesn’t bump into planets or burn himself on stars or I don’t know, end up with
his foot stuck in a black hole or whatever?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like-”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’d be
surprised,” I say, “just how accommodating the universe is sometimes.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I give you a
list.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“These,” I
say, pointing at each item on the list, “are what we need to be able to
Transport from here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need you to go back
to the Market and procure these items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do not let anyone follow you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get
these items and these items only – anything difficult to locate, tune in to
your inner compass and trust your instincts. You’ll find what you need –
objects have tendency to call you, the inanimate self-mobilise through
summoning the animate.” You look doubtful but say nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wave the bit of paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Shopping list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need you to go – I have to lay low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that clear, Agent?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I sense what
do you call it apprehension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I peer into
your eyes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know I just
said it was very dangerous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s just
what you call it hyperbole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dramatic
tension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll be fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any sign of trouble, follow your
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been subliminalised,
montage-style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll be fine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Seen a lot of Agents in my time, you’re a natural.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You soften
slightly, like noonday snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I pass over
a fistful of various currencies, and the list.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you
leave. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Once place,
I’m an alien, or hold that in riddled with insurmountable the right chemicals
then you can recruited – old brains, nor the energies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bodies you know and access the Big damn
glasses, and flesh will fight psychosomatic entities that – governed by puppets
of our realities is place - we’re function at peak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wait for you to return is long, and,
despite no time passing here, feels like a small eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m confident that you will make it – you
have been trained, and expertly, by the best alternative in the game – and even
without thinking you managed to get us here, safe and sound, in peak condition,
while being chased by Nova police and with me descending deep into Black Meat
torpor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m confident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a test is a test, and a fail is a fail,
and there’s a lot riding on our shoulders – the weight of a planet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The scenes
before social human consider seem important depression card, than the
rubber-faced moulds around before indoctrination – but I think I have an
idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An idea of how we can break the
Nova control lines on the Climate caper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s just a seed of an idea so far, but I feel that Feeling, that
Feeling you get – we get – when things are sluicing down the right Flow – the
clear-haired tingle of Synchromysticality, the free-fall trust of Intuitive
Slack, the Knowledge that one is on the Right Track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta make sure I ask you what year it was
when you Transported here, make sure we inject the Earth system at the right
Temporal crux.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your good break totally
At the distinct vision All in Small things – word lines, down from confess
almost Interzone, can what might – just cogs in things they still to me naked
in degenerate age anxiety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a
pleasant experience to have to think and Just to get used we can barely and
fast rules meme-injection can change human.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I’m
feeling confident, tell you that for free.)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you do
make it back, and with everything on the list too.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excellent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Knew you
would,” I say, and you try not to gleam too much, but you gleam a little,
proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This is perfect, bub.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I set up the
gear – old Belarusian witch taught me this Transport technique once, in return for
a quarter of Zanzibar hash and a bag of fresh citrus – and once it’s all set up
and the herbs are crushed and the blood is clotted and crystal is powdered and the
feathers are singed almost black, we sit lotus-style facing each other and inevitable.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made spirals off, ash was just insoluble
– Black holes ancient texts – a black prepare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Ready?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You nod. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Events Agent
old eyes, Agents lose fish eyes still got crab – popped the things – and we
drink the concoction one gulp and pupils reduce to pinpricks and our gazes
mingle and the space between them shrinks, and I can see you’re struggling a
little and I just say soothing words in my mind to your mind and whether or not
it actually makes any difference is entirely moot as we slip away into
nothingness and shed our Interzone reality like a poolside towel and we’re
nowhere and everywhere and I see Wonkavision memories from my childhood and who
knows what you’re seeing but it’s all metaphors anyway – and we’re away – The
dead dreamings – Quantum Leap with the people – psychopathology incompatible
Collapsing activism – fighting constricted brain, feels feel, Agent – to the
post – </span></p>
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and we’re away, bub, well and truly away.</span>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-92007428716640894222020-08-25T22:57:00.005-07:002020-08-27T01:23:18.131-07:00INTERVIEW: Outside the Comfort Zone: Genres, Rip-offs, and DIY with Jem from DEAD<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Outside the Comfort Zone: Genres, Rip-offs, and DIY with Jem from DEAD</span></i></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXeaT6IULABbsTGDMwDpp66gzjIaKDDE_YBG-Yq8NlbWDmMtzrI63wFwY0ELE3nWbSGxJSMarqdUc6bYkj8zDCHn2yYVDlFsPZgCYIGO-qoiXqkwEKXr3W3Yy3ZNNlqap1-ON8n2ZNuw/s2048/DEAD_one.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXeaT6IULABbsTGDMwDpp66gzjIaKDDE_YBG-Yq8NlbWDmMtzrI63wFwY0ELE3nWbSGxJSMarqdUc6bYkj8zDCHn2yYVDlFsPZgCYIGO-qoiXqkwEKXr3W3Yy3ZNNlqap1-ON8n2ZNuw/s640/DEAD_one.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DEAD: Jem's the one on the left. My left, not his. Um.</span></span></i></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Onstage, he’s a gargantuan
rock-beast with a voice like gravel, furiously pounding the skins like he’s got
four arms and is powered by steam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Offstage, he’s a teensy little dude who’s maybe the nicest guy you’ll
ever meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welcome to the idiosyncratic
world of Jem from DEAD.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></i></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB<i>: Before we get into it, I just want to admit that I was a huge fan
of your old band <a href="https://weemptyrooms.bandcamp.com/album/fire-witch-live-at-the-townie-2004"><b>Fire Witch</b></a> (I still
actually think of you as “Jem from <b>Fire
Witch</b>”), and that, when I first saw <b>DEAD</b>,
I actually went “oh well, they’re no <b>Fire
Witch</b> are they” and kinda stopped following your work. Now, in
hindsight, this was completely a terrible decision on my part, and I want to
apologise for that. I’m sorry. Because <a href="https://weemptyrooms.bandcamp.com/album/raving-drooling"><b>DEAD</b></a> are fucking great. Not really a question, more of an
acknowledgement, I guess. Perhaps not the best way to start an interview.</i></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: Ha! I think that’s perfectly fair - they are very different beasts
even if my fingerprints are all over both bands. I’ve had the same experience
with some bands/musicians before too. The music <b>Fire Witch</b> made is still very dear to me. I would never try and
recreate it elsewhere as the sound we made was very much something created
together and entirely democratic. <b>Fire
Witch</b> was perhaps more my natural state whereas <b>DEAD</b> challenges me to step outside the comfort zone more. We’re now
ten years in and I still feel that way about us. If anything I’ve just gotten
more comfortable with making music outside my comfort zone. It’s still the same
approach as <b>Fire Witch</b> though in the
sense that our sound is the result of the two of us and that result is kind of
a third person that neither of us can control - if that makes sense? It’s about
respecting each other and exploiting our strengths while also challenging
ourselves. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB: What’s most challenging about <b>DEAD</b> for you? Where’s your
comfort zone extend to, and in what ways is <b>DEAD</b> outside of it? </span></i><i><span></span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: For me my natural state as a drummer is to be locked in with a bass
player and forming a foundation of a song - pretty typical rhythm section
stuff. With <b>DEAD</b> we are often doing
this two piece version of a power trio thing where I guess we are both playing
that little bit extra. It requires a lot more focus on what each other is doing
and how our individual parts combine to make a whole. This means sometimes
spending more time in my head than I would in my comfort zone. I sometimes have
to tear apart what my hands want to play and force them to do something
different. Then I spend a long time learning my part to the point that I’m not
in my head anymore and I can play the part naturally.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I’m also just not naturally a traditional song structure kind of player.
I love the challenge of doing that with <b>DEAD</b>
(when we do it) but I feel it’s pretty obvious that I’m a bit out of my comfort
zone doing it. I’m not worried by this, I’m more than happy to be out in the
open and have never strived to sound normal.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB: <b>DEAD</b> has the perfect
combination of immense brutality and inexplicable weirdness, and an almost
inhuman level of tightness. What drives <b>DEAD</b>? Is it this never-ending search for the world’s heaviest
riff? Is it finding that place where the expected and the unexpected lock
together? Is it a desire to balance that brutality with that supertight
emptiness – the contrast between the sound and the space between sounds?
What makes <b>DEAD</b> happen? </span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: To put it really simply we care a lot about writing good songs.
“Good” in our opinion of course. But I say that in the context of a lot of
heavy music putting an emphasis on tones and riffs but less so on the
songwriting. We are always trying to (and excited by) growing the band. We are
both utterly obsessed by music as people and it’s very important to us. There
are so many elements to music that we are interested in; tones, riffs,
dynamics, melody...I realise I have just named the basic elements of music! The
element that is perhaps the most important to me is tapping into the primal
part of it. I don’t know why but I have always been drawn to that. But
sometimes I feel like we are like kids in a candy store with this stuff; We are
not trying to hone one particular sound but rather just gorging ourselves on
the bits we love about music - and there is so much to love! </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The emptiness, the space in between notes is very important to me and it
means a lot to me that you notice that. “Heaviness” is also very important to
us, it is something we are drawn to. Again it’s something that is a matter of
opinion but you know it when you feel it. It’s the feeling music can have on
you where it’s almost too much and you kind of just have to drop to your knees.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">At all times we are driven to make the music we want to make. There is
no one else we are trying to impress or win over. Of course it still means a
great deal to us when it does resonate with others.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB:
So, is there anything that <b>DEAD</b>
can’t do? I find myself constantly creating new projects to channel some
particular idea or concept or sound or set of “rules” that doesn’t fit one of
my currently existing projects – but you’re saying <b>DEAD</b> is capable of going absolutely anywhere you both want it
to? Are there areas of music that you’d love to make but just won’t fit
the <b>DEAD</b> scenario? </span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: Of course there is plenty we can’t do. But....well I don’t see us
reaching the end of what we can do anytime soon so I’m not complaining one bit!
I’m a big believer in exploiting the strengths of any musician (or sound
engineer when we’re recording) so, to state the obvious perhaps, whatever we do
will sound like us. And so the only thing we really can’t do is sound like
someone else.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I would make another album in a heartbeat with <a href="https://sbbtcl.bandcamp.com/album/even-cowgirls-get-dementia"><b>Elise Bishop</b></a> or with <b>Fire Witch</b>
or my friend <b>Vern</b> (who performs as <a href="https://avola.bandcamp.com/"><b>Avola</b></a> and is a sometimes member of <b>DEAD</b>) and any of those bands would make
something that <b>DEAD</b> could not. I
suppose to be a little more specific I could hark back to the old improvisation
chestnut. While we are both capable of improvising I think we do approach it
quite differently; my inner metronome will tend to slow down and <b>Jace</b>’s will tend to speed up. I think
his brain is wired more as a songwriter and unlike other bands I’ve been in we
never write music by just improvising and seeing what happens - we almost
always start from some kind of an idea even if it’s very primal. And so
sometimes I need us to sit on one riff or a long time, just for me to learn it
and to experiment with it but it never enters cosmic jam territory. I think <b>Jace</b> kind of suffers through it for the
sake of me learning how to play it!</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB: <b>DEAD</b> is clearly a “heavy” band, but is
just as clearly not a “metal” band – it’s just as much “rock”, “punk”,
“hardcore”, “sludge”, “stoner”, “prog”, and any other number of
semi-meaningless genre terms. Do you find that fitting outside of easy
genre descriptors makes life easier or harder for <b>DEAD</b>? Like, your genre-fluidity means you </span></i><u><span>could</span></u><i><span>
play with almost any lineup and “fit”, but just as easily could mean you get
excluded from any line-up for “not quite fitting enough” – what’s your
experience?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: It messes with my brain that the only two people who can’t hear our
band from the outside is us - and we’re making the music! To me genres and
descriptions are more for everyone else besides us. We honestly don’t care
where it fits and are never striving to fit in anywhere. The only interest I
have in it is how it might help me to promote the music. We tend to find
kinship in other weirdos; bands who also cut their own path. But in some ways
it’s not even about that - it’s not about trying to evade genre so much as it
is about being true to yourself. I think if you believe in what you play
it comes through. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As for how it affects our band out there in the world I can say it
counts us out of around 95% of any larger international touring band support
slots. It bores me to tears but for some reason bigger promoters are absolutely
allergic to mixed bills and seem to strive to make lineups as homogeneous as
possible. In 10 years of being a band we’ve been asked to do two of those and
both promoters will never work with us again after we had the audacity to ask
to be paid. It also counts us out of most festivals since again festivals are,
for the most part, terrified of anything that doesn’t fit in a box. I’ll never
understand this and it makes me sad.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But we book all our own tours and more underground promoters don’t care
so much for that stuff so we’re not losing any sleep over it. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It also counts us out of working with most record labels but again… see
above. A band like ours is never going to be an easy sell, we can’t change
that. We’re foolhardy enough to keep going though. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For our own (possibly convoluted reasons) we tend to end up back at
“metal” if we’re trying to work out where we fit.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBV4Q1ix0QaHeSKowm11om0k3cvp_ofPkj-mWvn2KLZfkHPE_W42F0cXRBl0R1b1JmdCitpf6I1sy42oKZKXFqLKOzXjUsf9LPun08lxQzIADXgPiF-IiTPcriwcHYF-TmXNDheugFko/s2048/DEAD_two.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBV4Q1ix0QaHeSKowm11om0k3cvp_ofPkj-mWvn2KLZfkHPE_W42F0cXRBl0R1b1JmdCitpf6I1sy42oKZKXFqLKOzXjUsf9LPun08lxQzIADXgPiF-IiTPcriwcHYF-TmXNDheugFko/s640/DEAD_two.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>DEAD The Brutal Metal Band - Jace and Jem</i></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB: As a drummer, you’ve always been inspirational – you have this
amazing restraint that I’ve never seen in any other drummer, this incredible
ability to not play. Like, you’re amazing at smashing the living fuck out
your kit, but you’ve also got this knack for shutting the fuck up, like you
only hit stuff that needs to be hit, and only when it needs to be hit. As
a complete free-noise flailer myself, this measured precision continues to
baffle me. You’re like a Marie Kondo of the kit. How do you do
it? Was it a deliberate paring down over a long time, or a conscious act
of minimalism from the get go?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: I learned to play the drums through improvising. Not in an avant
garde sense but very much bass line driven music where the most important
element was holding down a groove. I was lucky to have the opportunity to play
with people much more accomplished than myself. Usually it was in groups of 4-6
people. I definitely over played a lot back then but I think it helped shape my
playing. I spent a lot of time playing in one groove for sometimes hours on
end. As far as NOT playing I think there are two distinct ways of approaching
that; there is active silence and passive silence. The really good slow
players, in my opinion, are the former. They are still playing the song even
when they are not hitting their instrument. And this is the way I like to
approach it - some players are more mathematical about their approach to
minimalism and that doesn’t appeal to me. Ultimately it’s still about trying to
serve the song best and not about proving how minimal I can be. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">DEAD</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> tend to operate at both extremes; I
still absolutely love playing in a more minimal realm but we also spend a lot
of our time both playing a LOT of notes and generally trying to create a lot of
sound for two people. I find it really hard to judge when to apply which method
of playing. If I played the way I do in <b>DEAD</b>
in a three piece I’d be overplaying but for us it’s a big part of our sound.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB:
Interesting that you mention improvisation – to me, a <b>DEAD</b> set always appears almost impossibly precise, like there’s
absolutely no improv in it at all. Is that the case? Or are you
both just so fucking shit hot that even when you’re pulling it out of your arse
it seems like it must’ve been written that way?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: No there’s definitely improv in there to varying degrees. <b>Jace</b> lets me have free reign with the
setlist and it’s something I really enjoy putting together. Some songs are set
in stone structure wise but within those structures we’re still playing it
differently as we choose to. Other songs have parts that are loose and rely on
visual cues and then often intros and outros are a bit of a free reign affair.
In a way it’s a series of micro improvs hidden inside an otherwise fairly
structured set. One reason it’s important to me is because it makes us pay more
attention to the music when we’re playing a set - we have to both stay on our
toes.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB: Your latest album, “<a href="https://weemptyrooms.bandcamp.com/album/raving-drooling">Raving Drooling</a>”, went places I really did not
expect it to – in particular, the synthy/soundscapey weirdness of Side B
completely took me by surprise, although it absolutely fits that minimalist
aesthetic I was describing earlier, and the fact that I was so taken by
surprise by it now takes me by surprise. What inspired the whole “having
other people on the release” aspect of this album? Was that always
something you had in mind for the project/release? Or did it all kinda
happen organically? Was it a matter of “these are our songs, play what we
tell you” or “just go sick, do what you do, thanks”? And should every
two-piece have a go at getting other people on board? </span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: We collaborate a fair bit, we made an album and a half with <a href="https://morriszonkle.blog/"><b>BJ Morriszonkle</b></a> as 3rd member. It’s one
of the benefits of being a two piece that it’s very easy to work in other
members. And it’s fun and rewarding for us. When we work with guests we always
want them to bring themselves to the music. If we wanted something done a
particular way we would do it ourselves. I don’t want to tell people what to
play but I also learned a while back that guests benefit from some direction.
So I usually write pretty comprehensive notes for the guests before they record
their parts. I see that more as helping them understand where we are coming
from. A bit like when actors are shooting scenes in a film they don’t know what
the Director’s final vision is and so need some guidance. But there are times
guests come up with parts completely on their own and it still goes on the
album. As far as we’re concerned when we have guests they are IN the band
for that moment - they just don’t have to do all the boring stuff that goes
with running a band! </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB:
Do guests ever resist/ignore/disagree with your notes? How do you deal
with creativity clashes?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: I don’t know that we’ve ever had clashes. I think the people we work
with tend to be upfront and if they don’t want to play a certain part we’ve got
them in mind for, they’ll say so and we respect that. Perhaps we’ve just been
very lucky. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For this album I had a pretty strong feeling of where I wanted it to go.
I say feeling as opposed to “vision” because it’s something where you don’t
necessarily know exactly what it’s going to be but when you get it right you
feel it and you know it. Those Synths are played by <a href="https://avola.bandcamp.com/"><b>Vern Avola</b></a> and <a href="https://thrones106mm.bandcamp.com/"><b>Joe Preston</b></a>
who are both excellent friends of ours and of each other and both musicians we
admire greatly. We had Joe track his synth part first and then had Vern play
her part in reaction to his. They are panned hard left and right so that…..I
guess so that you can hear their conversation. I want to make more records with
guests and I want to make more songs without guests - we are greedy and I don’t
see why we can’t have both!</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB:
Has someone else’s input ever changed the whole direction of a piece?
Like, someone lays a part down and you’re like “holy fuck, we should go </span></i><u><span>that</span></u><i><span>
way!” instead of what you had initially planned?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: Well our friend <b>Vern</b> (<b>Avola</b>) was supposed to do a short intro
and outro to a song we recorded in LA with <b>Toshi
Kasai</b> and then play over the whole song. She ended up tracking pretty
lengthy parts before and after the song and we just couldn’t bring ourselves to
edit them down so that one song ended up taking up a whole side of vinyl. And
that’s exciting to us when that happens. <b>BJ
Morriszonkle</b> also added some parts to the record we did with him that just
bent their shape enough that again it was really exciting to hear. I mean the
songs were still written by us but he just coloured them in a way that perhaps
we would not. To me that’s an ideal outcome - if we’re going to have someone
else in the band we want to hear them. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWo4LP18So5NjWkFsWKeicndBgrCaauVkgQtOtqFB69ocshhmdtthI6jPAfAXLvNmhmep4c6ARyPiE6CN_xCHstSJFy66cX8eifBTSqt_fR1NDq50wq_bxmIiY0mvbTGlD1zutWYnepk/s2048/DEAD_three.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWo4LP18So5NjWkFsWKeicndBgrCaauVkgQtOtqFB69ocshhmdtthI6jPAfAXLvNmhmep4c6ARyPiE6CN_xCHstSJFy66cX8eifBTSqt_fR1NDq50wq_bxmIiY0mvbTGlD1zutWYnepk/s640/DEAD_three.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jace and Jem Doing It Themselves </span></i> </span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB: You seem a really DIY kind of person, with that old school punk
ethos. How important is that ethos to your musical world – and
non-musical world? Does that attitude have any negative aspects to it?</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: I’ve been playing and releasing music very consistently now for over
20 years and so far DIY has been the only option. I never expected anyone else
to make it happen. I released my first album at 15 and in a way maybe I was at
an advantage having such little understanding of how the industry worked. We
made (and printed) our own posters because it was cheaper than getting someone
else to do it. And of course it felt right to maintain control over as many
elements as we could - even if other people could do some of it better than
us. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It was not until many years later I even discovered the term DIY. I
remember me and <b>Tommy</b> from <b>Fire Witch</b> laughing so hard at the term
and being so confused - who else was going to do it???!! I then realised there
was this whole DIY scene and honestly was pretty cynical about it at first; it
seemed to be more about an aesthetic and some fairly contradictory politics
than about a genuine ethos. It took me a long time to learn that for other
people their relationship with music was often quite different to my own. For
me it was just always something I had to do. There was not a social aspect to
it or a sense of belonging to a scene - when <b>Fire Witch</b> was starting out in High School it could not have been a
less cool thing to do, to play in a band. We did it despite it alienating
ourselves from the masses. Of course within ourselves it was the cause of a
strong bond. But along the way I met great people and begun to work with
them and in many cases have formed decades-long working relationships. So as my
friend <b>Pete Hyde</b> once said it’s
really DIW (Do It With eachother) or DIT. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy around it too though. I have
always been very driven when it comes to music. And so that’s meant that I have
got on with it and got things done myself and not waited for anyone else to do
it. Perhaps this has in turn meant that people have tended not to offer things
for us? I don’t know...I’ve never played in a band that was an easy sell.
I’ve never had people beating on the door offering to book a tour or release a
record. I’m always open to that. In fact I would love to spend less
time on admin and more on the music. But I’ve been doing it myself for so
long now that I’d want to feel confident anyone else we worked with was going
to do a good job. And I can say that in the case of the other indy record
labels we’ve worked with they have done a good job. I think anyone
willing to get behind our music knows it’s going to be hard work.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As for negative effects... I’m always struggling to balance the running
of the business side of the label, the booking of tours etc with the fun part;
playing the music. I would always like the balance to be less of the business and
more of the music. But I wouldn’t hand it over to someone else entirely
either. Yes I want to be in control but I also just don’t want to be
ripped off. The only people ripping us off is ourselves!</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB:
Yeah, when you rely on yourself to do everything, it can be kinda weird
trusting someone else to do something for you – you’re taking a huge risk with
something you really care about. Have you had negative experiences in
that area, or is it just a fear that other people just wouldn’t do things the
way you would do it? Is it an independence borne of shitty experiences,
or is it just a matter of habit? </span></i><i><span></span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: Well I’ve never expected anyone else to care as much about my music
as myself. That sounds kind of negative when I say it. I don’t mean I don’t
think it will mean anything to anyone else because it does and for that I’m
ever grateful - it’s a great feeling when your music connects with other
people. But you take your poster or album to a printer and most of the time
it’s just a job to them and if they fuck it up they don’t care ‘cos you’re too
small a client for them to worry about. So I’ll tend to elect to do it myself.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I’ve always been open to the idea of working with other people be they a
booker, manager, label etc but it isn’t something that presents itself very
much for us. Also I’ve got no interest in waiting around for these people to
materialise. In general this industry is a really good one for getting royally
fucked if you don’t watch out; I’ve lost count of the amount of times we’ve
been ripped off by venues, promoters, record stores, pressing plants etc. I put
a lot of time and care into minimizing this happening. For example when we tour
overseas we can’t always print our own merch but we have made some solid
contacts - people who take pride in their work and so we’re confident in
working with them. Negative experiences - I’d say that’s mainly getting ripped
off on the road; Venues and promoters not paying as per the contract or
delaying the payment for 6 months in the hope we’ll give up is probably
the most common.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Also we used a PR firm once and I regret letting them convince us to
re-word our press releases. They had a logic behind it but ultimately
they were trying to re-shape us to appear as something we were not rather
than to try and celebrate who we are. In hindsight that just seemed
insincere and not helpful in the long term. And again we’ve had much more
success doing our own PR so… I would happily hand it over to someone else if it
was going to benefit us. I would rather spend that energy writing more music!</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">At this point I’d just like to repeat that the labels this band has
worked with have all been great and never promised stuff they can’t deliver.</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB: So, given this general distrust of the
industry and this insistence on doing it all yourselves, what does “community”
mean to you?<span> </span>Because, despite all this
self-reliance and idiosyncrasy, you always seem such a community-minded chap –
the recent decision to sell your entire discography to Bandcamp supporters for
a pittance and then donate that all to charity, for instance, would seem a
pretty community-minded act.</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: I really wanna get the answer to this one right – I’m gonna do my
best! I suppose Community and Industry are not always the same thing but they
are also not <i>always</i> exclusive. I’m aware that some people are drawn to
music in the first place because of the community aspect of it, of having
somewhere to belong. But for me it was 100% about the music itself and just
being magnetically drawn to it – regardless of whatever scene stuff was
happening around it. I’m definitely less naive than I was as a kid starting out
but even back then it was clear the music industry had plenty of people that
you shouldn’t trust. There are a lot of people out there offering “advice” that
serves more to inflate their bank balance or ego. Or just that they are very
conservative and can’t see the value in an approach to something that
challenges the norm. And we’ve been ripped off and fucked over by more people I
care to count and sadly some of those people have been from “DIY” or “punk” or
whatever other labels they have attached to themselves.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So it has always been a matter of navigating that and deciding what
compromises do you want to make; do we play this gig ‘cos it might create some
more opportunities for us or do we just play that house party and have a good
time? Do we play a venue that on the surface seems more corporate but ethically
is actually far better than the DIY space? I can get quite cynical about that
stuff because for a lot of people I guess the term DIY is more of an aesthetic
or a scene than it is about fostering community. For us part of community goes
back to getting OUTSIDE of our comfort zone and maybe playing to a hostile
audience and winning some of them over. In a way this decision is made easy for
us because we don’t have a scene we just slot into. At its best it means a
place where people have equal opportunity to make whatever weird music or art
they want to and resources, knowledge etc are shared but not exploited. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Again for the most part it is not so much that we “insist” on doing it
ourselves but rather that we either do it ourselves or it doesn’t happen – or
at least won’t happen soon enough. And your use of the word trust is important.
We have people in the industry that we trust and we’ve built that trust over
years and years. Four our recent album we’ve worked with labels in Austria, USA
and our own label here to release it. So we can’t maintain control over every
little thing and nor would we want to, we want those labels to put themselves
into it too. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But we absolutely feel a part of a community that is spread across the
globe. This community or family has mainly been built by playing shows together
but increasingly some if it is through people discovering us and connecting
with us online. I think for me community means a network of people who support
each other, share some values but also respect and celebrate the differences.
And the other scene bullshit like image, genre etc doesn’t matter. Sometimes you
play a show with someone and even if your music doesn’t sound very similar you
just click, you just know that you share a spirit and that feels great. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB: So even now, in our locked-down plague-riddled
isolation-land, this thing we call “community” still exists?</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">J: Absolutely it exists and is more important than ever though I’m
starting to feel the strain of trying to maintain it. I think especially for
those who just cannot live without music we are all pressing on and in some
ways it’s affirming to know that with or without an audience this is what gives
us life. Jace and I have been writing like crazy and while I miss touring more
than anything we also both agreed that if we never play another show again we
will happily keep writing new music even if it’s just for us.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As a band we have always relied heavily on touring to promote our
records so the fact we were able to release this recent album and sell out a
pressing without playing a single show...well I feel lucky we have the ability
to still connect with people via the internet. I feel like such an old man
saying it but back when I started making music that would just not have been
possible. I think a bunch of people have actively made a decision to buy more
of our merch during this time to help the <b>DEAD</b> machine keep ticking over and
we’re very grateful for that. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I generally try not to dwell on the past but it has also been a good
time for checking the archives. I discovered some old <b>Fire Witch</b> recordings
that we’re working on mixing and mastering and will hopefully release later
this year. It’s been great to connect with those two over that as that band has
always meant so much to me. </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I also made <a href="https://celebratepsiphenomenon.bandcamp.com/track/absolute-pricks-scrape">my first ever solo piece</a> for a compilation <a href="https://campbellkneale.bandcamp.com/album/birchville-cat-motel"><b>Campbelle Kneale</b></a>
put out at the beginning of this and that felt really great to see so many
people together in isolation and for me personally the challenge was great.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I think it’s going to be a challenge to maintain these communities and
to look out for each other. We’ve lost a few friends to suicide during this
pandemic and that is utterly heart breaking. So I think the community aspect of
it is more important than ever but it’s all new territory working out how to
nur</span><span>ture it is not straightforward. We can only
try.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>MB: Yup.<span><br /><br />*moment of sad thoughtful silence*<br /><br /></span>MB: Well, thanks heaps for chatting.</span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>J: T<span style="color: black;">hanks for taking the time to talk to me. <span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span><i>MB: So... what's next?</i> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span>J: </span>We are working on a lot of new music right now
but for once there is no rush to release it. We turn 10 years old later this
year so expect some new stuff to start coming out after then.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">MB: Looking forward to it.</span></i><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p>
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metal gigs in Melbourne before the Plague hit, odds are that you saw <b>John Alexander Stevens</b>, either playing
in one of his many bands, or rocking a denim miniskirt (and a pint) in the
audience. A central figure in both the
music-making realm and the music-appreciation realm, he is one of the pillars
of the modern local metal/noise community, and it was a genuine thrill to be
able to peel back his scalp, crack open his skull, and probe the pulsating
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handful of songs that I’ve done just under my name, which isn’t really a
project as such… well, maybe we’re all projects, right? Yeah). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Shrilling</b> is the only one that’s
properly on hiatus right now (in the sense that it’s unlikely to start up again
soon, due to life getting in the way for a bunch of us in that project (with
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: Most of them are pretty distinct from one another, though there’s a
bit of blurring. For example, <b>Colostomy Baguette? </b>was one of two bands
(the other being <b>She Beast</b>, which I’m not involved in) that formed to
make <b>Religious Observance</b>, and the approach with my solo work in <b>Shallow
</b>informs a lot of my approaches in <b>The Ripening</b> and <b>Body Horror</b>.
I’m fortunate that there’s only a few bands (<b>Religious Observance</b>, <b>Expurgatory</b>,
and <b>The Church of Hysteria</b>) that require rehearsal in order to perform.</span>
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distinction on a point of genre, and further acts tend to come out of a desire
to do something different stylistically as well as with different people. </span></span></div>
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meaning behind the solo project name “<b>Shallow</b>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my mind, someone who is “shallow” is
someone who is superficial, fake, kinda empty, vacuous, uninterested in
conscious analysis of any sort – which is the very opposite of how you seem to
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does the word mean in the
context of your solo work?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This name has a very
straight-forward origin. I picked it around the time I was initially getting in
to the Swedish black metal / depressive rock band <b>Lifelover</b>, and <b>Shallow</b>
is the title of the opening track to their third album, <b>Konkurs</b>. Even
though the sounds I set to make in that project were very far from black metal,
I wanted to retain a reference to where I was focusing, intensity-wise. Also, I
particularly liked how shame is dealt with in that band, which is quite counter
to what you’d normally find in black metal. It’s normally full of ego and
bullshit social Darwinism. This theme of shame definitely found its way into </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shallow</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> through virtue of
huge buckets of self-deprecation, which was added to by virtue of the
difficulty I found in making in-roads into the noise/experimental scene in
Melbourne at first. </span></span></div>
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bunch of the projects equally… but that just isn’t possible. <b>Religious</b> <b>Observance</b>
is the big one, as it’s gained the most momentum and recognition of anything
I’ve ever been involved in, and also requires quite regular rehearsal, which so
many of the bedroom studio projects and improvised harsh noise groups don’t
require. <b>The Church of Hysteria</b> is another that needs regular rehearsal,
though we’ve had a bunch of hiccups along the way, most notably our drummer
getting concussion and then, soon after then, having his kit stolen. Once the
pandemic has eased off, I reckon this one will be ramping up again quite
eagerly. <b>Expurgatory</b> is another one that I really wish I could devote
more time to than I do, as the kind of depressive rock that we make really
feels like the kind of music I’ve been wanting to make for some time. Funnily
enough, although all four of us can’t meet in person due to the lockdown right
now, this extra space (and time off from <b>Religious Observance</b> and <b>The
Church of Hysteria</b>, who can’t really operate in isolation) has given us the
opportunity to dip into writing new material for an EP down the track that I
really didn’t think I’d be able to properly attack this year. The same goes for
<b>Nunsploitation</b>, which should see an album coming out later this year.</span></span></div>
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musical/sound-based idea), how do you decide what project it belongs to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does the project dictate the way an idea is
approached, or does the idea dictate which project it’s funnelled into?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And have you ever had a project that didn’t
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though I have wound up moving an unused take for one project in another. Also,
I guess, given how little time I have, most of my output tends to wind up
somewhere, even if just in the “wait until the next release” box for the
project I was hoping to use it in.</span></span></div>
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release”, <b>Colostomy Baguette? </b>just put out a split with one of my
favourite ritual noise projects, <b>Fvneral Horror</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did that come about? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">JAS: I have a feeling Shy – the
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reached out to me a few months back to suggest some kind of split. I don’t
think there was a specific group proposed by her, but either way, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colostomy Baguette?</b> was the group that
was best placed (ie: next in line) to do a release. The COVID-19 lockdown meant
there was a March gig that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CB?</b> were
gonna do at Nighthawks in Collingwood that had to be cancelled, and I already
had some material from the London member to go toward that, so I started
thinking further about how to simulate a live gig on a home made recording when
none of us could meet up. So… I asked vocalist Wayne to record a few minutes of
screaming, then spliced it up and loaded nearly a hundred scream-bites onto my
sampler so I could insert his contributions live, with the hope that it would
come across sounding pretty close to Wayne’s forceful and chaotic contributions
at a gig. Pretty sure it worked. I was able to make track transitions tighter
and be more precise about levels than at a gig, too. I must say that Shy was an
absolute dream to work with on this, and I truly felt that the level of
commitment and contributions were very even throughout the whole process.
Splits can be the absolute worst, as musicians are fundamentally unreliable,
but that wasn’t the case here at all. Starting with a high level of respect for
the other contributors really helps, I’d say. I’m honestly really proud of what
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CB?</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FH</b> have made, and hopefully it’ll get the recognition it deserves
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the transcendental noise I was after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
always seems to be an element of “noise” to your projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your attraction to noise?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: When I started making music in a consistent way in 2009, even when I
was operating in rock genres, my idea was to create as much intense noise as
possible in the simplest and most direct way possible. That said, anyone who’s
seen my rig – even the “cut down” versions – will know that hasn’t really
stayed true to the letter over time, though the idea is still there (at least,
I try and remind myself of this regularly). I’ve really been into soundscapes
and the texture and physicality of sound, especially in the context of metal
music, so leaning into noise made lots of sense. I’ve also got a strong
background in DIY art, and the accessibility of noise is absolutely liberating,
especially so as it forces you to engage with so much imposter syndrome.</span></span></div>
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especially in a DIY kinda way, it often gets dismissed as “craft” and/or
juvenilia. The former term is especially vile, as that was the term that
feminine gendered forms of art often got referred to as – like, they’re just a
hobby, right? Erk. Cross-stitch is fucking art. Collage is fucking art. That
said, if you’re operating in these fields, it’s hard to not have that “high
art” voice in the back of your brain sighing and rolling its eyes, so you gotta
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again, quite serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet it feels
like there is often an element of your music that is, if not outright humorous,
at least a little playful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Colostomy Baguette?</b>” is pretty fucking
funny as a band name - and your album “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rivers
of Gore</b>” has a photo of a humorously minor hand injury as the cover
artwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You make music with amplified
meat cleavers and sex toys, which, although not necessarily “funny” is
definitely indicative of a kind of playfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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my performance / stage presence comes down to how much I’m concentrating on
what’s going on. That said, I’m definitely a fan of retaining a sense of humour
to what I’m doing, because it stops me from feeling too elevated from my
audience. It’s a humbling thing, and definitely an honour and privilege, when
people take the time to pay attention to what you’re doing. Also, humour is an
inclusive gesture. If people are laughing with you, you’re on the same page.
But you don’t want to get too deep into the “I’m shit – look at the terrible
art I make” maelstrom, as it’s a pretty callous way of indirectly telling the
audience they have shit taste.</span></span></span></div>
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out of the original plans for the band to be in the goregrind kinda area, which
is full of dark toilet humour. I think one of us saw that phrase (with the
question mark, of course) on a bit of graffiti at a venue, and we just ran with
it. I doubt I’d pick a band name so quickly these days, but I’m also quite glad
we didn’t dwell on it. With a name like that, people know they’re not getting
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quite profound around 2016, when a friend of mine who was dying of bowel
cancer, joined the band. She lived in Canberra, so had to contribute remotely,
and didn’t have much energy to record material herself, though she had a wealth
of blog writing which, understandably, focussed strongly on what she was going
through, and often in quite graphic detail. You can still read the blog, incidentally, at <a href="https://skybetweenbranches.wordpress.com/"><b>Sky Between Branches.</b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://skybetweenbranches.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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bag, and wrote about how it interacted with her body when she ate, so the title
of the band was, for some time, not wilfully puerile for its own sake.
<b>Elizabeth</b>’s contributions came in the form of selections of her writing
converted into a computer voice, and then played during performances. I
specifically asked her if I could use the most graphic ones that focussed on
the body horror she was going through, and she gave an enthusiastic thumbs up
to that. She even chose the name ‘<b>The Shitter</b>’ as a pseudonym, and gave
me permission to use all her writing this way as long as I liked (she
volunteered that permission, too – I didn’t get to asking it, though I was
definitely thinking about that). I’ve only recently scaled back on using her
material in live performances, though I wouldn’t say it’s stopped. We had a
noise wake for her after she died, which, again, was not a place I expected
that project to wind up at. After all this, I almost double-take when people giggle
at the name, as its meaning has shifted so much for me now.</span></span></div>
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opposite – a kind of literal “gallows humour”, a profound flicker of humyn
lightness amongst the gruelling painful certainties of actual death.</span></i></span></div>
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study of the end-times). There’s a lot to be said about societies and cultures
by the way they deal with shit. This also reminds me of one of the
psycho-analytical explanations of coprophilia: fundamentally, it’s about
acceptance. Nothing is more human than shit, and there is rarely a more
intimate gesture than dealing head-on with another person’s excrement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MB: You seem to be very interested in “queering the metal scene”, for
want of a better term – how important to you is being part of “a scene” in
general, and being part of “the metal scene” in particular?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still remember your joy at being accepted
as part of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Encyclopedia Metallum</b>
– is acceptance something you’ve struggled with?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it “the scene” just another term for
“community” or is there something more to the concept that the term “community”
doesn’t quite capture? </i></span></div>
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some time – like, on the outer, and quietly listening to it in isolation, then
sticking to the walls of gigs I attend. I just didn’t feel like I had the
social acumen to be a part of whatever was going on in those clusters of people
I saw at most shows. Also, being a transvestite engaging with a very typically
macho space, I did have my guard up a bunch for many of the earlier years. So,
at times, I had to wonder what I hoped to get from acceptance in that
community, because that was something important to me, and as much as I hated
wanting to be on that damn Encyclopedia… fuck it, I still wanted to be listed,
ya know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MB: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oh, I totally know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my project <a href="https://ancientegyptianhorn.bandcamp.com/"><b>The Horn</b></a> wasn’t
allowed in because it was “too electronic”, I was so pissed off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then when, a couple of albums later
someone else somehow got the project in there, I felt fully vindicated – as
though it actually matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fully get
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on that site was palpable. Then… every subsequent rejection made me want to
sulk in my room again. “Community” is definitely the word I’d use now when
talking about what I hope to get from those spaces, as that’s the word I used
when I was involved with running an art space nearly a decade ago. Like, it’s
more than social exchanges – it’s also creative exchanges. It’s engaging with
the consumption of art as well as the making of it. And now, I guess, being in
a band that has found favour in the metal community, I can be a part of that
conversation in that particular creative space in a way that I couldn’t as
easily before. The conversation has led to me getting in a bunch of tough back
‘n forths, especially when talking about marginal voices in the… community (was
going to say “scene” there, ‘cause I think realise I use that word to refer to
the spikier aspects of engaging socially with metal people).</span></span></div>
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traditionally, and are things getting better?</i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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representation and a broader conservatism that keeps the sound from
diversifying. Like, there’s so much opposition to flex and experimentation in
the genre, even though metal is one of the best for mixing things up with.
Like… what genre DOESN’T go with metal? I always prefer playing metal in punk
spaces, because those crowds are much better with diversity in both people and
the music the like to watch (and nearly all punks I know listen to at least
some metal, especially the daggier aspects), but I get where those attitudes in
metal came from. Like, it’s a genre that, after it evolved from hard edged
blues, found traction amongst working class communities. It wasn’t about
opposing authority, but creating something bigger than yourself to escape the
drudgery of your day to day. You have to remember that when running up against
friction, but it’s also worth persisting, as being able to have difficult chats
in metal communities is still far harder to achieve than it should be at this
point in time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: A few years back, I would’ve said “Not very”, but I’ve met enough
awesome agitators, like yourself and <b>L</b>, the vocalist in <b>Expurgatory</b>,
not to mention the other members of <b>Religious Observance</b>, who have given
me renewed faith in these powerful sounds continuing to thrive in ways that
don’t just shine a light on straight cis white dudes.</span></span></div>
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I’ve always thought of myself as being one of those “straight cis white dudes”
who was somehow just doing it wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it turns out I’m an “agitator”! Fuck yeah! </i></span></div>
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You’re aware of the problems in the scene, you give space and due praise for
people who don’t normally get attention for the art and work they do, and you
don’t hold back on expressing the joy you get out of the noise(s) you make.
Those things matter.</span></span></span></div>
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kept me coming back. I get life from these sounds, and so many folks in other
marginal communities have had the same experiences. Even if I was hating on the
people in the scene so much, the music kept me coming back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MB: You seem to be an artist that is always simultaneously looking
forward (trying to change the scene for the better, trying to push musical
boundaries, etc) but also backward (your repeated use of vintage photography,
iconography, etc).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s the appeal of
repurposing/re-exposing the old?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it
purely visual?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is there some kind of
contrast you are trying to draw, about the past versus the present (versus the
future)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(So often when I’m looking at
your album covers I find myself thinking about the hidden parts of our official
histories – the repressed, the secret, the Lynchian levels below the surface.) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: Thank you for those incredibly kind words. One part of my use of old
images is pragmatism, as it doesn’t get me in murky copyright water when making
art that can go on streaming services like Spotify. But it also comes from
working as a librarian for over a decade, and coming across an ever-growing
goldmine of images that have likely remained hidden for such a long time.
There’s always more to see in these images, and history tends to be written by
those in power, so there’s so much that is forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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projects in the noise/metal scenes and more… honest in some way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t feel like a giggly schoolboy’s
reaction, but something deeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I on
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: I was talking about this with a muso friend recently. There’s a lot
of leaning in to extremity in metal and noise for its own sake, but, for one, I
don’t know I’d be able to solidly defend that kind of usage. Like, you need to
own your art, and if it can’t stand up against scrutiny, well… choose fewer
challenging destinations to aim for. That said, I find working with disturbing
images and sounds in a way that draws out abstract elements that have their own
life is much more interesting. So, for example, I look at a LOT of vintage
erotic photographs, but will almost always focus in on the looks of the faces
(the eyes, in particular, are very deep wells). How we make it through liminal
experiences can often best be explored be surveying the spaces around the cause
at hand.</span></span></div>
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that the library world attracts strange types, which is comforting. Even more
so is that it attracts strange types with social anxiety. I’m definitely
somewhere approaching the middle of the introvert / extrovert spectrum, but my
more transgressive interests are definitely kept beneath the surface. Like,
sure, I’m a transvestite, but I’m also not a peacock, and I reckon lots of people
think I come across as reserved at first. Most of my friends tend to know
enough librarians to know that we’re all somewhere on the pervert / freak
spectrum, so when my sense of humour and thoughts on sex come out, they’re not
too shocked.</span></span></div>
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caretaking and arrangement of texts and the caretaking and arrangement of sound. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JAS: I would say the methodical aspect of my work is what inspires my
approach more so than the content of the material I work with on weekdays.
Hidden words are indeed a strong source of intrigue, and this crosses over into
the sounds I find and work with. But it’s the approach that guides me, I think,
and seeing as I’ve just recently made the transition from reference librarian
to cataloguing librarian, this will probably become more of a severe thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MB: Even your project <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Expurgatory</b>
is named after “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Index
Expurgatorius”,</span> The Catholic Church’s list of banned books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But you’re
saying it’s the “banned” bit that interests you, more than the “book” bit?</span></i></span></div>
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yeah. The carrier of the information is in some ways incidental. I like the
physicality of books, but my work has turned me off aestheticising that too
much. There’s loads of times when I’ve had to tell people they can’t look at an
old resource because of how fragile it is, and also because it’s available
digitally or on microfilm (or both). People tend to hate that, but we have to
save these resources for future generations, and the information is what’s
fundamentally important. If you relent too much to those desires for the feel
and smell of the printed objects, it becomes less a library experience and more
of a sensory theme park visit.</span></span></div>
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course it does beg the question: if the information held inside one of these
old books is already available digitally, and the physical object itself isn’t
really the valuable thing, then why protect it for future generations?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protecting something for future generations
so they can also not be able to actually interact it with seems a little
perverse to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me think of how
my dad would never let me play his guitar when I was a kid in case I wrecked it
– and so it sits to this day, gathering dust, forever unplayed in the corner of
the lounge room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An unplayed guitar
isn’t even a guitar any more – it’s a guitar-shaped sculpture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My point being, I guess, that if the objects
themselves aren’t in some way important – more than just the information they
carry – why have libraries at all, and not just some online database of
information?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aren’t we fetishising /
aestheticising the objects even more by </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">not<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> letting punters cop a little
smell and feel of that real-world fragility? And then of course that makes me
think of the loss of your friend / bandmate, and the real-world fragility of
all existence – and makes me wonder if our short fragile lives should be spent
in protective security, or lived to the (inevitably damaging) fullest.</i></span></span></div>
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something of a tyrant when I talk about rare and vulnerable library collection
items, but I assure you it is rooted in the importance of providing access to
the objects and the information there-in. One big reason why you hang on to the
original item (like, say, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript"><b>Voynich Manuscript</b></a>), though restrict access to it
when a more durable format is made available (like the countless print and
digital reproductions of said manuscript) is to further safeguard the material
from the (albeit unlikely, but nonetheless possible) likelihood of one or more
of the reproductions having errors or obscuration. This happened a lot around
the early days of newspaper microfilming, where the original paper was
sometimes discarded after the microfilming stage was done… only for text to be
lost on margin shadowing in the microfilm of several pages. If you hang on to
the original, and keep it in a good state, it leaves open the opportunity of
more detail being garnered further down the track by technology or researchers
who desire it. Though, if you were to provide the same paper to anyone who
wished to browse it in the meanwhile, regardless of the relative significance
of their research, the paper would most definitely suffer greater damage and
have less to offer future generations. It’s frightening how easy old newsprint
can rip, even when you are being immensely careful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At present, we are only just approaching a
point where digital preservation is a thing that’s getting to a point that’s
reliable. Most of us who’ve been using computers for any decent length of time
(a decade or more) will know how temperamental digital storage is. Reckon a
pre-2010 USB stick will still work? What about a floppy disk from the 1990s?
And most of us have experienced a hard drive up and dying on us, not to mention
the data on a CD-Rom flaking off. And even when we’re going ahead with lots of
checks and balances and backups in place, we have to expect failure of some
variety, and hanging on to the physical object is one part of that. So, it’s
something of a juggling match. You keep the older object safe and secure,
directing people to facsimiles where you can, then when they’re not available
or prove to be insufficient, you retrieve the original. And if all you have is
the original object, you offer that up for direct access. Course, there’s some
exceptions – like, if what you’re looking at is a pre-1900 newspaper that has
yet to be microfilmed or digitised, and you’re not wanting to look at it to add
to the ever-growing pool of shared human history in a significant way, the
likely damage that any handling of that material by you is going to do to it
isn’t offset by enough benefit. There’s always going to be a trade-off in that
way.</span></span></div>
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understand the aesthetic experience of smelling and touching old material. My
partner <b>Z</b> will always start every engagement with an old book by smelling it. I
totally get the enjoyment that one gets from engaging with significantly old
carriers of knowledge. It’s like you imagine parts of their world going inside
your body. I know that if I ever had the honour and privilege to access the
only book in an Australian library bound in human skin (that <b>Elizabeth</b> got to
do years ago when she started work at the National Library), I’d be itching to
touch it with my naked fingers and breathe in deep.</span></span></div>
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<strong><i>Eko, eko, Azarak</i><i><br />
</i><i>Eko, eko, Zomelak</i><i><br />
</i><i>Bazabi lacha bachabe</i><i><br />
</i><i>Lamac cahi achababe</i><i><br />
</i><i>Karrellyos</i><i><br />
</i><i>Lamac lamac Bachalyas</i><i><br />
</i><i>Cabahagy sabalyos </i><i><br />
</i><i>Baryolos</i><i><br />
</i><i>Lagoz atha cabyolas</i><i><br />
</i><i>Samahac atha famolas </i><i><br />
</i><i>Hurrahya! </i></strong></div>
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<strong>So goes the Wiccan chant, also known as the ‘Witch’s Chant’, or the ‘Eko Eko Chant’, as popularised in the early 1900s by <a href="https://heathenharvest.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/a-beauty-in-the-truth-of-the-darkness-an-interview-with-eko-eko-azarak/blank">Gerald Gardner</a>
(widely considered to be the founder of Wicca as a proper organised
religion), although parts of it (particularly the opening Eko Eko lines)
had been published in various forms much earlier than his (including
one version published twenty years earlier in Austin Osman Spare’s <em>Form</em>
journal). No-one is exactly sure what the chant means, but—like many
other religious chants—it is still practised by hundreds of thousands of
Wiccans the world over. Mysterious as it is confronting, obscure in
specific meaning but rich in visceral power, ‘The Witch’s Chant’ defies
easy interpretation: much like Emma Albury, the sole figure behind
Australian dark ritual act ‘Eko Eko Azarak’.</strong></div>
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<strong>Like her namesake, Eko Eko Azarak
is difficult to categorise, seemingly made up of polar opposites: her
work is deeply mystical, and yet she displays a wary atheism; she revels
in both the authenticity of true ritual, and the crowd-pleasing world
of pure gimmickry; she admits to both a need for blatant
attention-seeking, and a need for intense privacy. She is just as
likely to bring up the World Wrestling Federation as she is to reference
elemental mysticism or the power of <em>butoh</em>. Before the interview, she warns me that she feels <em>‘really uncomfortable talking about Eko Eko Azarak’</em>, and yet, when answers are given, they are lengthy, detailed, and effusive.</strong></div>
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<strong>Acutely aware of her own inner contradictions, Emma begins with a disclaimer…</strong></div>
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Emma Albury: I actually feel really uncomfortable talking about Eko Eko Azarak because
I don’t really understand, or therefore know how to verbalize, what
happens. I know the language I use makes me sound like a total jerk-off
hippie space cadet when I try to explain it, because it isn’t easily
defined through digestible concepts. If someone spoke to me about their
music the way I’m about to, I’d consider them a shit dribbler. Usually
when people ask me to talk about my music, I tell them to just listen
to it and they’ll hear what I have to say.</div>
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<i><strong>Heathen Harvest:</strong>
I think that the jerk-off hippie space-cadet language is all we’ve got
to describe these experiences, though. When you’re raised in a
scientific-industrialised culture, there’s this prevailing notion that
just because something can’t be measured yet, it doesn’t exist; there’s a
confusion between an absence of proof, and proof of absence. We’re
raised into this system that doesn’t give us a decent linguistic
framework with which we can express our experiences, and so we end up
having to use words like ‘energies’, ‘possession’, and ‘spirit’, and
kind of feeling like we’re mentally deficient in some way.</i></div>
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<b><i>EA</i></b>: True. I feel the
linguistic framework we have been provided with has been misused by so
many to validate a denial of privilege (i.e., <em>‘I manifested for the universe to grant me this gift.’</em>
No, you didn’t. You were born into a life of white middle-class
privilege, and due to this were granted opportunities which you then
took.), to validate inaction and laziness (i.e., <em>‘The spirits will guide me to my fate when the forces are aligned.’</em>
No, just get off your ass and quit bumming off everyone else … and
rinse out your bong water. That swamp will give you lung disease.), or
to validate being a total creep (i.e., someone saying <em>‘Oh, your energy is misaligned. Let me cleanse your chakras.’</em>
and then attempting to put their hands down your pants to access your
groin chakra or whatever.) You know, I’m blatantly jilted by their
misuse and cautious of the stigma surrounding these subjects, but I’m
not a nihilist and do actually have a lot of belief in the esoteric.</div>
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<b><i>HH: </i></b><i>When
I first saw you perform, you were enrobed in cloak and adorned with
massive horns, standing powerful in the middle of a darkened smoky room
made of mud and straw, and the audience was all around you, silent,
while you formed these ritualistic soundscapes from scratch, drop by
drop, with an eclectic array of instruments (drums, synth, bells, tape
machine, monochordy-type thing) and many layers of voice. The vibe was
intense and concentrated, and you moved gradually, incrementally, from
near silence to seriously inhuman exorcist voices—growling, shrieking,
demonic, and ancient voices of fearful supremacy—and the overall feeling
in the room was like we’d all just been part of some rite of passage;
some unifying supernatural witnessing; some inexplicable
pressure-and-release of energies beyond the mortal ken. Is that what </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i>
is all about? I guess what I’m trying to ask here is: Is it about the
music first, or the ritual first, or are they both one and the same?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>Both, for sure! Performing
music is a ritualistic act—for everyone. I guess I just consciously
heighten that element of the process.</div>
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I feel the ritual of making music as Eko
Eko Azarak is an evocation of something from within me. It taps into a
very grounded, strong, powerful, primordial, almost animistic element of
myself. It has a very feminine quality to it, but by that I don’t mean
‘feminine’ in the general regard of the word. Not one of a delicate,
pretty, and quaint nature. I mean ‘feminine’ as in the true essence of
women. Instinctive, intuitive, emotionally wise, resilient, and loyal,
with a firm inner strength (qualities that are unfortunately often
denied in women but intrinsically there). When I evoke that state from
within, I feel connected to a lineage of women (I’m not sure why only
women?) tracing far back throughout history, and far into the future.
Not necessarily of my own descent, because the connection spreads
broader than that.</div>
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<i><strong>HH:</strong>
‘Feminine’ is such a weasel word, isn’t it? For every one of us that
has been born, a woman has howled and groaned and bellowed and pushed,
gone beyond their enculturation and into something primal and biological
and intensely strong, earthy, and powerful, in a way that men can never
quite access. Comedian <strong>Shen Wang</strong> said, ‘Why do people
say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be
tough, grow a vagina.’ The actual ‘feminine’ experience is rich with
blood, strength, pain, and biological being-hood. I mean, the menstrual
cycle matches the cycle of the moon, birth-rates can be correlated with
storm activity … there’s something deeply elemental going on inside
ladykind.</i></div>
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<b>EA:</b> For sure! I’m still in awe of
the fact that when I have a close relationship with a woman, our
menstrual cycles will sync. This is a phenomenon most women experience. I
think it illustrates the powerful connection between women and our
surroundings.</div>
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I feel extremely connected to the
elements and nature, which is why I named myself Eko Eko Azarak. It’s
the first line in a Wiccan chant evoking the powers of the elements. I
feel, in a way, that’s what I somehow do when I perform as Eko Eko
Azarak. It’s very bizarre. The ‘energy’ (for lack of a better word) I
evoke has light and gentle elements to it, and there is also a beauty in
the truth of the darkness and violence within it. None of it resonates
as negative or bad, because there is an honesty to the bleakness, just
as in nature. I’m sure the feeling is something most would consider
supernatural (but that term has too much stigma for my liking) as I’m
tapping into something within myself to connect with something that
feels far bigger than me (not ‘God’—I’m an atheist). I’m then somehow
able to release this as an energy out into the audience. I guess the
music and my body language acts as a vessel to carry the expression of
that energy (It’s fucking hippie wank, but I honestly don’t know how
else to describe it). I do wonder if many other musicians experience
this.</div>
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Unfortunately I haven’t yet been able to
harness control over this energy. It’s not a switch or mode I can just
shift into. There are a number of variable factors that need to align
before I’m able to tap into that place within myself—if I’ve been too
busy or stressed and am therefore not grounded, or if my mind is
elsewhere. I struggle to reach that place if I’m having lots of
technical difficulties, which happens a <i>lot </i>because I don’t have the musical skills or equipment to create these <i>epic </i>sonic
pieces my mind conjures. I know when I’ve tapped into it because I
feel possessed, yet at the same time very grounded. I often finish sets
and can’t remember anything I’ve just done. I need to be left alone
for a bit once I’ve finished, to allow myself to come back to
‘reality’. Saying that, I do appreciate it when people come up and tell
me they enjoyed the set, because that’s why I’m doing it: to share it
with people and to affect them in a positive way. But I’m just unable
to have conversations with anyone for a bit.</div>
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<b><i>HH:</i></b><i>
Is the ritual more powerful because it’s in a room full of witnesses,
or is it a ‘band’ playing ‘to’ an ‘audience’? Is the audience part of
the ritual, or watching the ritual, or, again, do you think it’s one and
the same?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>The ‘audience’ is an essential
element in the ritual. I get nervous when I perform in front of people
and the adrenaline heightens my senses and makes it easier for me to
tap into these energies I’ve discussed. For a digestible description of
Eko Eko Azarak, I refer to what I do as a ‘performance’, but I have
experience in performance and what I do with Eko Eko Azarak doesn’t suit
the conventional understanding of the term. Because—and I admit this
sounds pretentious—if I’m present in the moment and the ritual is taking
effect, I feel like I’m no longer ‘performing’. It’s not an ‘act’, and
so it is no longer delivered ‘to’ an audience, but envelops them in the
energy (for lack of better word) that is intensified in the space. I
think a lot of musicians feel this way, but during a good set I feel
like the energy between the audience and I is this growing, swelling,
pulsating, beautiful amoeba. That amoeba of beautiful energy is the
idol we all devote the ritual of making music to. The audience partakes
in the ritual whether they intend to or not. I feed off their energy,
but I’m also generating it from my own sources and sending it back out
to them. I think this is why the audience seems quite invigorated after
successful sets (either that, or because I scream and blast their faces
off). I hate it when I can’t tap into that place within me, or
whatever external energies I seem to connect with in this ritual.
Because then it <i>does</i> feel like an act, a performance, or a
farce—so hollow and meaningless—and I want to apologise to the audience
for that. It feels like a ‘show’ rather than some unexplained
harnessing of power, truth, or primordial regression shared within the
space that I’ve somehow managed to draw from within myself and from an
external force for a brief moment in time. <i>That’s</i> what I want to
share with the ‘audience’, because I want them to feel whatever
phenomenon I’m experiencing within and for themselves.</div>
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<b><i>HH:</i></b><i> Before </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i> you were part of </i><b><i>Leopard Leg</i></b><i>,
a band which numbered members in the double figures, mostly playing
percussion, all pounding rhythms, repeated chants, and ritualistic
vibe-generation. How long have you been exploring these ritualistic
approaches to music? </i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>Ha! You’ve done your research! Yeah, Leopard Leg was rad. We were pretty hit-and-miss (we did some <i>terrible </i>performances/recordings
and some amazing ones too), but we were sometimes able to collectively
tap into this force I’ve been discussing. They were only brief moments
and more dispersed, so it didn’t feel as immense within me as it does
with Eko Eko Azarak, but <em>it was there</em>. The ‘noise scene’ was
very much a cock fight back then, and most of us had never been in a
band before, so Leopard Leg was a collective we felt safe within—to
delve into that world and gradually build confidence. And Leopard Leg
was a posse of <i>really </i>excellent women. It was something special,
but maybe everyone thinks that about their band … unless they’ve had a
brutal breakup and then there’s only spittin’ words left.</div>
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I’ve played musical instruments and
studied music all my life, but I’ve never been one to conform and didn’t
want to practice scales and compose pieces according to the rules. So I
never actually became any good at it. I’m not a musician, I’m a
fucking hack! I don’t know what I’m doing, but I do love throwing away
whatever I’ve learned about music (though I’m sure some subconscious
residue sticks) and non-verbally communicating through music in whatever
munted form it takes.</div>
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After Leopard Leg in the UK, I moved to Berlin and played in a duo called <b>Ankoku No Oto</b> with <b>Holly Herndon </b>(who
is now ruling that high-brow experimental electronic scene in the U.S.
She’s bitchin’, and I’m heaps proud of her). ‘Ankoku No Oto’ roughly
translates to ‘the sound of darkness’. The name was a bit of a homage
to ‘Ankoku No Butoh’ (‘the dance of darkness’), so yes, I was dipping my
toes in beautifully grim places much like now.</div>
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Incidentally, both bands tapped into the
occult for inspiration: witch-burning, harpies, spirits. I really don’t
know why the occult is a recurring theme. Eko Eko Azarak uses less
direct references in the music itself, but occult visuals are
implemented in the performances. I guess it’s because in all musical
incarnations we were tapping into something unexplained, and the only
way for us to interpret that was to present it through already existing
beliefs in mysticism. I don’t know, it was never really discussed.</div>
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But I’ve always had an interest in the occult, because of <i>course</i> there is more out there than human senses are able to detect or comprehend. I mean, that’s not <em>hocus pocus</em>,
that’s a scientific fact … watch any documentary on astrophysics! And
I’m fascinated by what those unknown things may be, and the ways in
which humans attempt to harness the ability to experience such things.
Eko Eko Azarak is a practice in exactly that, but I don’t try to
question whatever it is I’m tapping into, because it almost feels like
it isn’t useful to dissect it. I’ll never have the answer defining what
it is, because I’m not sure such definitions exist. I think it is just
best felt and shared.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Like Leopard Leg, Ankoku No Oto was
hit-and-miss (we tried to cram too many ideas into single pieces and we
didn’t have the technical aptitude to execute our sonic visions), but
there was something really unique there. We had a heartfelt connection
with one another, and I feel it served as an important stepping stone in
my personal musical evolution.</div>
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<b><i>HH: </i></b><i>From </i><i>Leopard Leg</i><i> and </i><i>Ankoku No Oto</i><i>, you became a solo project. What precipitated the formation of </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i>? When and why did it become a ‘thing’?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>After Berlin, I moved to
Melbourne and often found myself as a guest musician, jamming with lots
of different people, and I felt confident being part of a band. But I’m
a masochist and always need to challenge myself. I was <i>terrified </i>of playing solo. So of course I had to do it. That’s how Eko Eko Azarak was born. My first ever gig was at <b>Stutter</b> (an experimental night regularly held in Melbourne), and it was the <i>worst</i>!
I still shudder thinking about it. Everything that could go wrong,
went wrong. It was so bad that everyone felt too sorry for me to heckle
and instead started cheering me on, shouting things like<em> ‘you can do it!’</em>.
It was so humiliating, but I knew I couldn’t possibly ever play a worse
set than that, so it gave me some kind of warped confidence to keep
going and continue on with the project. A few sets later, I found my
mojo.</div>
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After I played solo for a couple of years
I missed the collaborative approach to music-making and the unique
relationships you form with people in your band. So <b>Gurner</b> (with <b>Sharryn Koppens </b>[<b>Dick Threats</b>] and <b>Fjorn Butler </b>[<b>Oranj Punjabi </b>/ <b>N3 Warriors</b>])
was formed, and it’s now one of the most important aspects of my life.
Making music with those two and the relationship we share is the shit
that makes life worth living. I feel a lot more pressure with Eko Eko
Azarak. I hold sole responsibility for how it does (or doesn’t) affect
people, and it’s such an intense project that there’s a lot of pressure
placed upon myself to pull it off. Pressure mainly from myself, but
audiences have expectations too. I can’t always pull it off, and that’s
all on me—and that <em>sucks</em>! I can relax a lot more in a band
knowing that I can ebb and flow, and together we can create a sonic
landscape. I do thrive on the high of committing to your own vision and
pulling off the desired effect though. I dig playing solo and in
bands, and would like to continue doing both.</div>
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<b><i>HH</i></b><i>: So far, we haven’t touched on the actual music of </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i>. It’s built up in layers with loop pedals, but can be wildly eclectic, ranging from </i><b><i>John Carpenter</i></b><i>-style synth-tastic horror soundtracks, to </i><b><i>Goblin</i></b><i>-esque pieces of abstract giallo, to Druidic-sounding free-folk dirges. What are your instruments / sound sources / processes?</i></div>
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<b><i>EA: </i></b>Oh, I like those
comparisons! Thanks! I listen to a really diverse range of music (while
still admittedly being a total music snob), but I don’t think there’s
any direct influences on my music creations. I guess it’s just a
subconscious witch’s brew of genres bubbling away inside of me. The only
exception to this was an ode I wrote to <b>Burzum</b> entitled ‘I’d Love You More if You Weren’t a National Socialist’. <b>Varg Vikernes</b>
is one of my all-time favourite musicians (and we share the same
birthday), but I had to quit listening to him because I felt I couldn’t
align myself with the rhetoric that he was espousing. I feel his racist
beliefs are disseminated through his art, unlike other artists whose
personal beliefs or lifestyle choices I may not agree with but are kept
isolated from their output which I am digesting and supporting. I have a
similar relationship with many misogynist and homophobic hip-hop
artists who I love. I just determine my support on a case-by-case basis
in consideration of where my boundaries lie. There’s definitely a
questionable grey area I struggle with, but other times it’s clear that I
need to take a stance. So yeah, I guess I wrote Burzum a break-up
song. (<em>laughs</em>) That’s the only piece I’ve ever written with
any set intention or vision. Every other song involves me just sitting
down, trying to clear my head, and letting whatever happens happen—just
adding layer upon layer while rarely editing.</div>
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As far as the techs go … you know, that’s
a tough one because the instruments change every time. I collect an
array of instruments to misuse. There’s only a few instruments I
actually know how to play, but that doesn’t stop me from utilising all
the others. The only thing that is constant is my loop pedal and the
delay on my vocals. I don’t use any other effects on my vocals. People
think I use a pitch shifter, but I don’t. I just have phantom balls so I
can hit those deep notes while also being able to squeal high like a
piggie. I used a vocoder for a bit, but it was fucking with my signal
flow and I kept feeding back like a motherfucker. I tried a few
different chain formations with it but without much luck. It was never
intended to be a main feature so I ended up ditching it.</div>
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<b><i>HH:</i></b><i>
I’ve seen you play encased in a cocoon filled with branches and sticks;
I’ve seen you with bullhorns and druidic robes; I’ve seen you play from
within a white pyramid projected with images of flickering fire. How
important is the visual aspect of </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i>? Not
just in ‘how it looks’, but in creating a spectacle, a psychopompic
manifestation of some sort? And where is the line between creating a
‘show’, and having a ‘gimmick’?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>I think Eko Eko Azarak <i>is </i>gimmicky!
And I’m down with that. I’m not pretentious enough to deny the appeal
of gimmicks. I mean, 80’s wrestlers like WWF’s ‘<b>Macho Man</b>‘ <b>Randy Savage </b>and <b>G.L.O.W.</b>‘s ‘<b>Heavy Metal Sisters</b>‘ (in fact the music genre heavy metal in general), <b>John Water</b>‘s ‘<b>Odorama</b>‘ … these things are <i>awesome</i>! People consider gimmicks to be low-brow and cheap. I <i>love </i>low-brow
and cheap! Perhaps gimmicks are viewed as insincere and without
integrity. Well, I think that’s bollocks because every corpse-painted
Norwegian dude, tromping through snow-buried forests, freezing his
leather-harnessed nipples off, must really fucking mean it! Gimmicks
are about increasing appeal, making things stand out a bit more,
creating something a little more unique.</div>
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There’s a lot of top-notch
music in Melbourne, and I’m not that crash-hot a musician, so I wanted
to give people something more than what’s already on tap. I want people
to have a real ‘experience’ when they see me live. Take them to
another realm, or tap into unfamiliar or rarely visited places within
themselves. My gimmicks aren’t intended to be funny or even fun like
most are (hey, if people find them fun, that’s cool too), but they are
sincere attempts to attract people, drawing them in and making them more
open to the experience. Besides, surely no one wants to just watch me
fumbling around with my instruments. That’s boring. One of my bachelor
degrees is in Theatre Arts and although I hate most theatre, I do
appreciate the power of its elements (costumes, sets, props, lighting,
multimedia, etc.) in effectively creating an atmosphere and drawing
people into a moment. I actually want to extend these elements a lot
further, but I don’t have the money or resources to turn my visions into
a reality just yet.</div>
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<b><i>HH</i></b><i>:
It’s almost like it’s only ‘gimmicky’ if the ritual as a whole isn’t
genuine; on one of those nights when you just can’t ‘feel it’, your
props are just props, but on a night when you’re fully transcendent,
your props are powerful spiritual allegories, as ‘real’ as any wand,
totem, Ouija Board, or Tarot deck. It’s like Communion or
something—those wine and crackers can be just gimmicks, or they can be
the actual blood and body of God.</i></div>
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<b>EA:</b> Right on.</div>
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<b><i>HH: </i></b><i>There’s a tape out through </i><b><i>Sabbatical</i></b><i> and a couple of live bits and pieces around the internet—is that all the </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak material that</i><i>
we’ve got? Are there any more recordings ferreted around that may see
the light of day (I know I’ve got an audio recording of the pyramid
performance somewhere)? How important is documentation when it comes to
</i><i>Eko Eko Azarak</i><i>? Is capturing the moment ever as important as the actual moment itself?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>Yeah, that’s about it for now.
I don’t like doing recordings and I’m not really interested in
documentation. I’d really rather people just come to see me play live.
I’m aware that a certain energy is created when I’m playing and am able
to tap into that place I’ve discussed. It can be felt by the audience;
it’s exchanged by them and rises in the space. You can’t capture that
in a recording and creating that feeling in the audience is my main
desire, so what’s the point? I’m not trying to make money or a name for
myself, so I don’t give a toot about getting my name out there. I’m
not a good musician, and when I play live, no one seems to give a shit
because it’s about the experience. But in recordings, <i>all</i> the
out-of-tune, out-of-time bung bits are captured, and it sounds like
dogs’ balls. Plus the pieces never sound as epic as they do in my head,
so it’s always underwhelming, but people are supportive and keep asking
me to do releases. Every now and then I surrender because I’m honoured
that people want to listen to my music, and I swallow my pride and
share something with them. I’m sure I’ll do more in the future—probably
sooner than later because people are bugging me for stuff, which is
sweet.</div>
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<b><i>HH: </i></b><i>So </i><i>Eko Eko Azarak </i><i>isn’t dead?</i></div>
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<b>EA: </b>No, not dead. She’s a zombie
and she will rise again and again. I just decided on some time out
about a year ago for a few reasons. I found myself going through a
period where I was more frequently going through the motions; there were
less ‘evocations’, and I couldn’t stand it anymore. When I can’t tap
into that place, I walk off the stage (or whatever space I’m performing
in) feeling totally gutted. I feel like con-artist faux witch doctor. I
hate it after those performances when people tell me they enjoyed it
because I feel like I’ve deceived them, because they’ve bought the
‘act’, and also because I couldn’t create what I intended to share with
them, and it feels pointless and insincere.</div>
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When I do these performances I make myself <i>really</i>
vulnerable. You know, there’s no rock-god posturing going down. I dig
deep and wrench it out. So, another aspect that I struggled with is
that I don’t always feel like being that vulnerable in front of a group
of people. Sometimes I’m in a more introverted mood and so then it’s
like, <em>‘right, do I metaphorically spew myself raw, or do I not dig to that place and then feel like a fucking farce?’</em>
In those cases, I want to do justice to whatever it is I evoke with Eko
Eko Azarak, and I want to give the people what they want, so I usually
try to evoke that place of truth, even if I’m not in the mood. You
can’t force this shit (well, at least, <i>I</i> can’t), so if I’m not in
the right state to succeed, I can’t reach it, and by the end of the set
I feel totally gross. At times like that I even have moments during
the performances where it feels so disingenuous and I just want it to
end. It’s horrible! I mean, it’s not like genocide or anything (you
have to keep things in perspective), but forcing myself to be that
vulnerable—raw as fuck, stripping down ego and shields—while then being
unable to tap into that place of strength just leaves me feeling
vulnerable and let down. It does make me very emotional in a negative
way. Particularly because in those cases I’m often literally under a
spotlight!</div>
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But on the flip-side, when I <i>do </i>tap into that space and I can tell the crowd is resonating on that energy too, and it fills the space, <i>fuck,</i>
that feels immense! I feel like a giant ball of power and fierce
strength. And my intention is to send that out into the audience so it
triggers that same feeling within each individual. I mean, it’s a
shared mass phenomenon that I’ve never experienced from any other
source. I want more of that and it seems like others do too.</div>
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<b><i>HH: </i></b><i>Absolutely! Thanks heaps for your time, it means a lot.</i></div>
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<b>EA:</b> No, seriously, thank you! That’s from the heart, man. Your support, and the fact that you get something out of Eko Eko Azarak<b>,</b> gives purpose to what I do. So, thanks.</div>
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<b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For any Australian fan of unpopular music –
whether it be pure balls-out noise, outsider weirdness, or brutal dada electronic
tomfoolery – Lucas Abela has been a hard chap to miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the last couple of decades he’s appeared
playing amplified trampolines, turning meat skewers into record styluses,
creating hybrid pin-ball-machine/pianos/electric guitars/gamelans, torturing
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paddles, dog bowls, etc) as real-life source material for an audience-tweakable
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glass-playing work, under the name “Justice Yeldham”, in which he coaxes all
sorts of filthy and uncompromising sounds out of an otherwise-innocent sheet of
contact-miked plate glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, sorry
to let you know, but it’s all over: apparently, “Justice Yeldham” is no more,
replaced with the more “Kenny G”-styled “Granpa Abela”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But don’t cry just yet: just because the good
Judge is dead doesn’t mean Abela’s putting down his glass any time soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heathen Harvest popped in for a chat with
Granpa over some electrified scones and a miked-up cup of tea.</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heathen Harvest:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> So.
'Justice Yeldham' is over. Why did 'Justice Yeldham' exist in the first
place, and why did it end? Are there any particular events that sparked off
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lucas Abela: </b>It’s
odd, you know, as I’m still playing the glass, I just feel I’m not playing it
in the same way as I did back when I started playing, and I feel I’m heading
into a new period musically and need to separate myself from those reckless
years, when my performances were more frenzied ecstatic blurs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, this shift has been going on for
a few years already and the decision to put Justice Yeldham to bed has been a
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It’s like, back when I first picked up the glass in 2003, an
idea I had during soundcheck, then I was still performing as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peeled Hearts Paste</b>, and it wasn’t
until halfway through a US tour later that year that I thought I needed to
differentiate what I was doing with the glass with my previous music
explorations. I felt the glass was a paradigm shift in my evolution as a
musician and I thought it needed its own identity, which is how Justice Yeldham
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Now my musical identity has changed again even while playing
the same instrument, so I decided to perform now as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Granpa Abela</b>, a nickname I have which has stuck for some reason and
thought more clearly represents where I am now.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So what would you say
really defines '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Justice Yeldham</b>', as
opposed to '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Granpa Abela</b>' or '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peeled Hearts Paste</b>' (etc)? Is it
all about approach, rather than what instrument you use or the way it sounds?</i><br /><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>It’s hard to define, especially
when most of these project names are all solo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going from the start, ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DJ Smallcock</b>’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
was the name I used for radio performances on Skid Row which I kept to define
projects I did that used pre-recorded material, while the other name I had at
the time, ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peeled Hearts Paste</b>’, was
still me experimenting with turntables but using textures rather than records
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This project evolved over time to where the turntablism
almost disappeared altogether, I was using high powered motors as
decks with circular saw blades and grinding stones etc as records
which I played with hand held stylus made from turkey skewers and swords etc.</div>
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When I was first asked to tour Japan, I tried to recreate my
instrument using local motors but the ones I bought weren't as
powerful as my decks back home, so out of desperation I began to play these
skewers with my mouth, which, as a technique for making music I loved, as
the results were so much more personal as now I was vocalising the
music in my head through these hand held styli. </div>
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It was this technique that evolved into the glass, which was
also about the time I started using high end contact microphones
rather than repurposed turntable cartridges, so even though I
consider the glass to be giant diamond tipped styli, I started feeling what I
was doing was beyond turntablism and decided on a name change to signify this.</div>
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Now as ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Granpa Abela</b>’,
it’s mainly cause I'm getting way more <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kenny
G</b> with my playing lately and, in my mind at least, think my playing is
getting less and less noise and more and more musical, which is something I
want to explore further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Granpa Abela</b>’ is my
adult contemporary phase!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> So, Justice Yeldham
the sheet glass player, is dead. But Granpa Abela the sheet glass player
is well and truly alive?</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA:</b> Never say
never again! As much as I’ve wanted to move on from Justice Yeldham and all the
baggage previous performances gave it, I found it hard to kick old habits, and
have recently smashed my instrument across my forehead to punctuate the point
that I’ve enjoyed the show. Even though this reckless behaviour may enable the
senseless bloodlust of some people<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>,
I refuse to stop enjoying myself and, if it suits me, will sign off in this
way.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HH: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whether Granpa Abela, Justice Yeldham, DJ
Smallcock, or Peeled Hearts Paste, you are clearly the world’s foremost player
of broken glass in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
raises an interesting question: if playing broken glass actually caught on and became
mainstream – like, imagine <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kanye West</b>
does a ‘broken glass’ album, and it’s a massive best-seller – would the
instrument lose its allure for you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
you do what you do partly because there’s a certain intrigue/excitement in
being “that guy who does the shit with broken glass that no-one else is doing”? </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>Would it lose
its allure? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably not… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it would be more like a vindication to all
the naysayers out there who think the glass is a shtick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think being the only person playing something
brings with it a lot of misconceptions, as people can't place it
mentally, let alone understand how it works. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many people misconstrue what I do
– it's often described as me “screaming into glass” which can't
be further from the truth, as the vocal techniques I use when playing
are small subtle vibrations of the mouth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others think it's all pedals,
but technically I'm totally adverse to “ghost in the machine” noise
making, and am proud to say when my mouth isn't up against the glass, I get
silence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I choose pedals to enhance what
I do vocally, pedals that make the tiny sounds I'm making explode,
not pedals that add things that aren't there. </div>
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As an instrument, amplified sheet glass is
very versatile and capable of a wide variety of tones directly related to
my vocal techniques (not to mention percussively, but there are other
people doing that). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day I do
hope someone else takes it on as a vocal instrument, I'm not precious about my
ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
the disappointing aspects of contemporary instrument-building
is that people tend to not explore other people’s instruments: for some reason,
they are considered not just as instruments but as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> instruments, and because of this, some
great new musical instrument ideas will only be played and explored by their
creators. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I believe that
everyone can bring something different to an instrument, so why not the glass?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I very much look forward to seeing Kanye
jam that shit one day.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH:</i> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Having been around
for a long time, and having toured around various places in the world, would
you say there is any particular quality you have noticed that defines an
"Australian sensibility" when it comes to music/art/noise/vision?
Do you think there is such a thing, or are we just past that point, with
our fancy modern globalised internet lifestyles?</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>I think there
is an "Australian sensibility" to the extent that Australian
musicians tend to take themselves less seriously than some I’ve experienced
from other parts of the world – but that’s generalising, as I definitely know
Australians that take themselves way too seriously and irreverent Europeans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then looking back on your first question,
maybe I take myself too seriously.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You can take your art
very seriously and still be piss-funny. Your art in particular has always
straddled the line between high art and hilarious silliness. Playing
records with stylus-fingers, guitars played by pinball machines, remote controlled
stylus-cars zooming over a race-track made of LPs: these are brilliant pieces
of conceptual art, with such clear and elegant ideas behind them, and yet at
the same time are low-brow and funny and dumb and end up making a lot of
unfriendly fucking noise. Is the humour something you think about when
creating your art?</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>I don’t think
in terms of humour, more on how my audience will enjoy what I'm doing; I'm a
popularist at heart, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What separates me
from a lot of the noise scene is that I want to create
things that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">engage</i> people, not
alienate them – even when I've been making the most excruciating music, I
manage to gain the audience's focus, even beyond the noise crowd
ghetto.</div>
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I remember back in the late 90's I
auditioned for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hey Hey, It's Saturday</b>’s
“Red Faces”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> at
the Twin Towns Complex in Tweed Heads, it was a packed auditorium
filled with retirees, and I managed to impress this crowd who applauded me – one
old lady even took the time to hunt me down for a personal praising
session, telling me (long before I even knew it existed) that
I should apply for arts funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
moments like this I love the best: performing in front of an uninitiated crowd
who have no idea of (let alone an appreciation of) 'experimental music', and being
able to win them over with my performance and the uniqueness of
my instrument.</div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">HH: </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reminds me of that footage of Frank Zappa playing a bike on the Steve
Allen Show in 1963<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></b></span></span></span></a>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></b></span></span></span></a>:
although the show’s angle is all about laughing at him – “look at the wacky guy
playing bikes” – he’s totally chuffed to be making modern art that the audience
actually engages with. Making people laugh is human-to-human
engagement, something that is so often lost in the high-brow seriousness of
modern art. Why do you think so many people equate “art” with
“seriousness”?</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>So many
people equate art with wankery more like...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I guess the seriousness that a generalised amount of artists project has
a lot to do with that preconception. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
good example of the basic appreciation the general public has for its artists
would be my Aunty:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>normally, family is
proud when a member of said family wins an award… take my music fellowship,
which I received last year after dedicating 20+ years of my life to
music without much financial reward: the fellowship is awarded once a year and is
given to artists at the top of their game, the best in the country. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what was my Aunty’s reaction? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why should my tax money go
to your frivolous music making?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She didn’t say this in words, but it was all
there in her facial expression.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I
won the Brownlow<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>,
maybe then her eyes would have lit up with pride, but pride is not a place in
the hearts of most Australians when it comes to the creativity around them,
even though the vast majority of people enjoy art day in day out
without realising it.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> When you say "the vast majority
of people enjoy art day in day out without realising it", what do
you mean?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>Well, the
fact that most people work in order to buy or attend things created through
artistic endeavour, whether it be going to a concert, seeing a movie, watching
TV, reading a book, shopping for fashion, admiring architecture, walking in
manicured gardens, cooking, eating, etc, etc.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Okay, right. But
if you actually call it “art”, or even “Art”, then people are all of a sudden
wary and defensive.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>The art world
itself lives in a ghetto of its own making built around the fact that
they don't actually want my Aunty to enter their galleries and concert halls,
so I guess the serious amount of art wankery is a defence mechanism designed to
repel the unsophisticated masses, and it works to a large extent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shame really, as both sides of the coin have
really misread each other and the culture of both suffers because of this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general public scorn creativity as a
useless trait (I say this as someone who was never encouraged to use his
creativity even though it was the only thing I ever excelled at), and the art
world reflects on itself, producing art about art (my least favourite art
genre) as they avoid engaging with the culture around them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I should at this point point out
that generalising is never useful and obviously there are
many exceptions in the art world and the unwashed masses to
the rules expressed above.)</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, now Justice
Yeldham is dead… what’s next for Granpa Abela?</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>While in New
York I went out to see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TLASILA</b> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Live & Shave In Los Angeles</b>),
got drunk, and woke up a member of the collective, so next I'm heading out to
Europe in September to tour with this band which has songs I'm unfamiliar with
which we haven't rehearsed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should be
interesting for a guy who typically makes shit up as he goes along!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Balazs
Pandi<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></b></span></span></span></a>
</b>is drumming, so I'll probably just stick to him and help drive the rhythm
section with occasional solo blurts when I hear an aural gap worth inserting
myself into.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sounds like it’ll be
brilliant! Thanks for your time.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LA: </b>Cheers.</div>
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think the worst I ever did was my arm across here [<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">points
to deep scar on right wrist</span></em>] where I did 100 percent of a nerve, 75
percent of one tendon and 50 percent of another tendon. But that was before the
glass. That was from a drum cymbal attached to a high speed motor. One of the
early turntable experiments I did, once I’d gotten rid of the decks, was
attaching them to high power motors and having skewers and knives as styluses,
more like a scrape percussion kind of thing. I also had amplified springs.
Early in this set I’d been playing it with a bowie knife and some of the edges
[of the cymbal] became jagged, so when I used the spring it got caught and
brought my arm down with it and cut my wrist. [<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Points
to deep scar on left wrist</span></em>] this is from a piece of glass falling
on my wrist in Tenerife, it’s still really sensitive there because part of the
nerve is close to the surface and there’s only a very thin layer of skin there.
That was a nasty deep bastard, it was a really heavy sheet of glass and it
kinda broke while I was playing and a corner chunk fell onto the arm.” –
Interview with Shaun Prescott, Mess and Noise, 2001 (http://www.messandnoise.com/icons/4224165)</div>
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name chosen after an irate listener to his experimental radio show told him to
“get off the air, smallcock”.</div>
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But it’s not really about bloodlust – it’s about shamanic super-human
ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I like to get lost when I play,
and I think part of getting lost, part of the ritual, getting into enough of a
frenzy to take a bite of glass and spit it out: I’m not human anymore at that
point. I’m somewhere else. If I were to grab a piece of glass now and start
biting it I would tear my mouth apart. I do get cut and I do bleed, but when
you consider what I do and how unharmed I am at the end of it, it’s on a
shamanistic level. Not that I’m a spiritual person, but mentally I’m going on
the same tangents. I think the performing of the music is part of the ritual
for me to get to that state where I can go fucking nuts, I guess.” – Interview
with Shaun Prescott, Mess and Noise, 2001 (http://www.messandnoise.com/icons/4224165)</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7661373245974379526#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> “Hey
Hey It’s Saturday” was a variety-type show that screened on Australian
television for the best part of three decades, and is now mainly remembered for
being “old fashioned, out of touch, stale, [and] misguided” (Sophie Black,
Crikey.org, 2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the segments
on this stalwart of mainstream Australiana was something called “Red Faces”, an
open-mic-style amateur variety competition where someone like Lucas Abela might
actually stand a chance, as “weirdness” was often just as valuable a criterion
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Or, in fact, similar footage of John Cage himself playing music with a bath, a
bunch of radios, some game calls, and a watering can (etc): <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yybn6iKmYdQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yybn6iKmYdQ</a></span></div>
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this some yearly award given to the “fairest and best” player in the game of
“Australian rules” football.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure
what that means, but I think it’s kind of a big deal.</div>
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Incredible drummer who has worked with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Venetian
Snares</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merzbow</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zu</b> (amongst others), and currently
makes music with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bong Ra</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deformer</b> as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wormskull</b>.</div>
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<i>Interviewing Nekrasov can be a
hit or miss affair: he can be funny, scornful, self-loathing, or self-righteous
depending on his mood, sometimes moving from one extreme to the other in the
time it takes to finish a sentence, and he takes absolutely no shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I remember with much fondness reading an
interview he did in 2009: when the interviewer asked him “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do you feel that solo projects display a
sense of misanthropy?” he responded “</span>Would that be true also for Kenny
Loggins?”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this second-by-second
realness has always been part of his appeal: he’s not posturing or posing or
pretending to be something he isn’t, and nothing he’s doing is designed to
appeal to an image or please a fanbase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
it’s his self-titled black-metal-meets-noise project <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nekrasov</b> or his newer blackened thrash hair-metal homage <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rebel Wizard</b>, what you get from him is
100% honest, and, although it’s not always easy to digest, it’s the fact you
have to chew a bit that makes the taste so rewarding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>I caught up with Nekrasov and
opened the volley with a question on the premature pronouncement of his musical
demise…</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heathen Harvest: First of all, a
few years ago, the Nekrasov project was dead – what was the reason for killing
it?</i></b></div>
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Nekrasov: I needed to shut it
down for a while, kind of to see if I could move on from it. I wanted to
release it from ‘the scene’ a bit as it seemed I went a little too far and I am
a horrid snob for that kind of thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was getting too close to elements I was always fiercely against and needed to
put an end to it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: What do you mean you were
“getting too close to elements [you were] always fiercely against”? Do you mean
you were taking on influences or sounds you weren’t comfortable with, just
because they were kinda trendy? Or do you mean you were feeling too much
pressure from other people for how Nekrasov should sound? Or do you mean
specific people in specific “scenes”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
what?</i></b></div>
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N: Oh no, none of those. Sound
and influence-wise there’s nothing that could compromise that. There’s never a
pressure on how anything I do should sound, I’m way too stubborn for that.
Notice how I don’t work with any labels! Haha. </div>
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It’s a hard one to answer as it
stems from a lifetime of my weird staunch ‘punk purity’ – sorry to use such
horrible terms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I am fiercely
against is what the underground has become. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great example for me is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark Throne</b> releasing a ‘Facebook exclusive’ track off the new
album. There was an actual Facebook logo on their fucking Dark Throne ad! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just fucking weak and lame (see what I
did there). To me this is a pure horror of our times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">King
Diamond</b> playing energy drink festivals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were such powerful forces for me growing
up. They stood so far removed from the banal culture we are bound in and
offered a nice place to rest our troubled souls in this super fucking dull
corporate world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Actually, King
Diamond, as far as I am concerned, can do what the fuck he wants. No
disrespect, sir. But seeing those pics of him next to huge blow-up energy cans
were heart-breaking.) </div>
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So I guess, to answer as best I
could, I found Nekrasov getting too close to that kind of thing (obviously no
way near that level but close enough for my fucking sensitive bullshit). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outrageously written bios and product
marketing, trying to create hype etc… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
also this fucked up hierarchy in everything now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s vapid and empty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No guts, just idolisation and
commonality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Crass</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bolt Thrower</b>
are big inspirations for me not just musically but attitude. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That kind of attitude doesn’t seem to exist
much anymore, but that kind of thing is a fucking life-line to mentals like me.
Haha. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Penny Rimbaud</b> is still keeping it real. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank fuck. I would kill myself if I saw him
throw a Facebook ad on one of his aphorisms!</div>
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I am, unfortunately for me, stuck
in that ‘purpose’ that kept me sane my whole life. The world is tragically
getting worse and the commercially mimcry of what was a ‘confronting alternative’
to that realm is just something I can’t associate with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I submitted my stuff to labels and I felt
dirty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha. I am trying really hard to
not sound like a pompus turd here, sorry If I am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I am! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh shit, this interview has turned me on me.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: Haha! </i></b></div>
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N: But probably moreso I am just
overthinking all this shit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I find
myself enjoying what I do more when it’s purely 100% personal and I really just
like handing the music out to friends or those who might like it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Personal’ doesn’t just mean for me, it
hopefully does resonate with someone who also feels that it’s hard to find
‘honest/different’ work that goes somewhere interesting other than just being
‘farken broodal’ – not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just need more
out of this fucking sell-out world! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit on this bed answering these questions
smelling of misery and neglect, I am no beacon for anyone. Ha! </div>
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There’s a ton of good folk out
there though, still, they are dying out rapidly though. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually I must say how fucking excellent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heathen Harvest</b> has been for so long. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sage</b> and crew have kept so ‘true’ to
their vision, that’s not an easy thing to do as most of the labels who were
‘true’ are fucking lollipops now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
amazing after a couple of years’ hiatus how many were just gone…</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: So, this couple of years’
hiatus, and then Nekrasov is resurrected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What was the reason for bringing it back?</i></b></div>
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N: The urge to ‘create’ this
nonsense kept gnawing at me and I worked on things here and there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely, it did feel like it was a time to
remove the project from what was happening at that time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had nothing for that era and had already
vomited so much that it made sense to kill it off for a while and come in
quietly – returning back its ‘purpose’, I guess.</div>
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But it’s hard to answer, and you
will notice I will do this often to questions. This project is quite an idiot
when it comes to interviews. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
the ‘return’ – well, I suppose ‘releasing’ stuff again feels kind of new. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a different era from 10 years ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel better having cast a lot of the ‘scene’
stuff off – that’s really important.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: Nekrasov has always been a
pitchblack alchemical union of distorted frenetic black metal on one hand, and
immersive black noise on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
new release (“As You Trace it All the Way Back”), as well as a fair amount of
the previous “Negative Temple” release seems to ditch both of those elements
and mire itself in more minimal, quiet, creepy sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this something you think we’ll be hearing
more of in future releases?</i></b></div>
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N: Future releases? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was trying to avoid making any more Nekrasov
releases and I have no idea how they will turn out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain ideas come up and I’ll work on it in a
night or over the course of days or months. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all a very subconscious process. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never set out to release an ‘overwhelming’
or ‘creepy’ piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind is on it
daily, whether it’s Nekrasov or Rebel Wizard – so much never makes it but
there’s always something to work with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally
after 30 years of playing music there’s a liberation that I can write and
release within a fairly boundless arena of my very deep interests with both
projects.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: That’s definitely something I
love about Nekrasov – as a listener, you never know what you’re going to get,
so you’re kept on your toes, in a heightened state of anxiety/alertness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Putting on a new Nekrasov release is never a
“comfortable” or “welcoming” situation, but one loaded with uncertainty and
anticipation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Which is surprisingly
rare, even in underground musical circles, where you’d think the freedom to
experiment would be more prevalent.)</i></b></div>
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N: This really surprises me, and
I am really honoured that it comes out that way for at least one listener.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I keep saying – and I am sorry to be so
predictable – but it’s all really unconscious for me. It’s a ‘living’ beast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both projects need to have room for them to
‘be’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cannot be planned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is not linear and nor does it work on
expectation and plan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for me, this
kind of thing is like a vital breath – and that makes it hard to breathe most
of the time!</div>
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I have ideas of things I would
like to do but I let ‘the process’ take it to where it wants to go. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creating all this is a work out on as many
levels as I/it can take it – with both projects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nekrasov is ‘other worldy’ – meaning it’s not
of our immediate/common experience but it’s there, for me at least. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to go to these places and be fully
immersed in that ‘unknown’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can and
does go where it needs to. It’s not about being a ‘black noise’ project filled
with nightmares of extinction etc… blah blah. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rebel Wizard is a punk project ultimately, as
far as keeping that ‘attitude’ alive somewhere in this ‘adore me/common
worshipping’ backdrop. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: Why aren’t you immensely
popular?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is so much copycat,
terrible, unimaginative music out there, I just don’t know why your works
aren’t just a little bit more better known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sorry, not so much a question as a lament.</i></b></div>
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N: The album NEGATIVE TEMPLE sold
out at an entire 50 copies. That’s immensely popular for something like Nekrasov.
Haha. I’m surprised people listen to it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the ‘early’ years the entire project
was ridiculed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a long long part of
its history it was always criticised for not being black metal enough, too much
noise, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not easy stuff to get
into. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the popular thing is a repulsive realm
these days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Popular’ is what is
constantly told to people as to what is popular. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like where I reside, as it’s a place for
those that really appreciate the work and they haven’t been told by PR
companies, glossy mags and underground ‘gurus’ that they must listen to this
etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all fairly unimaginative, as
far as I am concerned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s not much
distinction in the processes of the current underground and our ultra
conservative contemporary culture, sadly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So the one or two people who really take on, especially the Nekrasov
stuff, seriously, I feel pretty fucking honoured.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: Tell me about the Mors Sonat
project with Mories (from “Gnaw Their Tongues”): how did that come about, how
was it working with him, and will there be any more?</i></b></div>
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N: We’ve been friends for a while
now. I think we started out just doing a trade, mutual respect of each other’s
work etc. I don’t have a huge network of like minded folks for Nekrasov, just a
few good ones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mories is a high ranking
comrade. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were writing quite off and
on, trading our nonsense to each other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
discussed for a while working on something, files were sent and over time it
all just came together as Mors Sonat. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It was all easy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we were sending files we had a
pretty decent understanding of each other and it all happened quite
spontaneously. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s only been a
couple of folk I feel I can work with on that kind of level. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a folder somewhere of some ideas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t keep as regular contact these days
though… I have degraded most of my communication to others due to becoming
really ingrained in my hermetic realm. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: As a hermit at heart, how do
you find working with others?</i></b></div>
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N: I basically grew up playing in
bands and I’ve always been fortunate to predominately be involved with some
good folk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melbourne in the early 90s
was excellent for punk and hardcore – where I was mostly based. However, I was
14 at the time, so it was a really powerful transformation as, of course,
growing in the suburbs and seeing the world as a nightmare, I thought I had
found my kin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then after a while you
see it’s all the same and what used to be a special and powerful realm rapidly
lost its unique presence and morphed into what it despised, and what we see
today is really an absolute horrid outcome where everyone in the underground is
exposed by marketing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fucking marketing!
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when it was ‘revealed’ that the
‘alternative’ was also a farce I was pretty much ruined and went on my own
ways.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway, I digress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have one band that very rarely gets
together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really enjoy that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve always worked on solo stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s how I process all the ‘personal’ and the
‘abstract’ surrounding and swirling all around ‘being’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer solo as it’s kind of how I handle
‘living’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s something I began doing
very young and it’s mostly habit now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Music
was always a personal thing as when I grew up, metal and punk etc were not cool
things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There wasn’t really anyone
around me listening to it apart from one older kid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s wasn’t all chicks with Hellhammer shirts
and tatts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least where I’m at/was
from. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really strange to see how
fucking ‘normal’ it is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha!</div>
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Hence why I mentioned the freedom
in having worked on something so long that I feel I have perfected some areas
of musical expression that are unrestricted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need this as this is how I operate as a
‘person’. I need to be able to mangle all the fucking epic processing that’s
going on both consciously and subconsciously. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can do a pure wall noise album with
Nekrasov, I can cover so many varied forms of metal and punk in Rebel Wizard, and
it will all fit nicely into each project and I can do it as I see fit. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I am a stubborn mess so I don’t
allow others to suffer my pains, they get to ‘choose’ by hitting that download
button or moving on.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
That didn’t really make sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t know how to answer these.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: Let’s talk about Rebel
Wizard, then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rebel Wizard, to my ears,
fuses 80’s thrash/heavy metal riffs with black-metal gasping and howling, like
some sort of a Leviathan-meets-Megadeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What inspired that project, and how has it been received so far?</i></b></div>
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N: Oh, I’ve always done stuff
like that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real thing was really
just make music that I feel no one is doing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Metal/Punk etc is pretty boring for me these
days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence why it’s important to be the
‘rebel wizard’ within a supposed group of ‘rebels’. Haha! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole state of things in the underground –
now remember, this is a personal opinion – is like a bad dream for me. </div>
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Now I am not supposing, of
course, Rebel Wizard to be ‘mature’ or ‘what the metal community needs’, but I
did decide to release it, as I feel no one is doing such a thing. I also assume
it’s my bullshit stubbornness to have available an outlet against the tidals of
banality and idiocy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, it captures
something lost. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not trying to sound pure NWOBHM or thrash
or whatever; I am channelling 30 years of (my personal) influences into this
project and again it’s a purely subconscious process. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one of those clique answers that I am
only really doing any of this because I want to hear it and no one else is
doing it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t do something that will
‘capture the 80s’ etc or be ‘pure’ (fascist) – I’m not even trying to ‘push
boundaries’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a bullshit world of
illusion so here’s Rebel Wizard with an opinion for no reason at all. </div>
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I enjoy and have lots of ‘fun’
with Rebel Wizard, and it protects me from Nekrasov taking me too far into the
void. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do hate to admit it but this is who I am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha!</div>
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However the reception has been
great, really surprised by it actually. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dare
I say it’s been really nice to have people ‘get it’ – this relates to both
Nekrasov and Rebel Wizard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I struggle so
hard with what a fucking piece of shit my work is, but then there’s some really
insightful feedback that comes my way just when I am ready to give up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both projects need some kind of unique
reference point so when others relate or find something in it I am pretty
honoured. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably even moreso now, as I
am really just working completely alone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No labels, no networking and all that – just
really purely working with what I have and that’s not much at all.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH: That ‘aloneness’ does seem,
from the outside, to be a central tenet of both Rebel Wizard and Nekrasov, not
only in the miserable song titles, but in the sound as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, I honestly cannot understand any of
the lyrics in either Nekrasov or Rebel Wizard songs, and have never seen a
lyric sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How important are the
messages you’re trying to get across – or, if you’re not trying to get anything
across, why have lyrics at all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there
a consistent theme?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess, and it
really is just a guess, is that there appears to be a theme of “existential
meaninglessness” – that is, the wretched weight of knowing that everything we
do is futile, and that there is no greater reason (or reward) for anything we
do above mere existence as some sort of base default.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I even close?</i></b></div>
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N: Way off, but I would expect
that from a logocentric creature like yourself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must be hard for Mr Writer Man to not have
a lyric sheet to guide him through the meanings we need so much to clutch to in
our insufferable lives! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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N: Ha! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know I love you (and you too, ‘reader’).</div>
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All I will say on the matter is
that there’s more than enough being ‘said’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The titles are pointers but ‘sound’ is where
more happens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We easily become confined
in the concept and cling to the meaning using ‘word’ which for me is far just
too limiting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong, lyrics
were what broke my conditioning as a kid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Discharge</b>’s
“Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing” put me on this path but that’s the
thing – there’s so much good lyrically out there that I just want to add or
create outside that, as I am a fucking old philosophical fuddy duddy who
reckons words are just symbols, it’s what’s powering the thoughts I am more
interested in. The presence/being of what you are/are not experiencing.</div>
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powering your thoughts?</i></b></div>
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thought ‘I see’ does not see. The thought ‘hear’ won’t make you hear. Seeing/hearing
is happening. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing what powers it
cannot be known as it contains the thought: the thought does not contain it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So get fucked. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HH:
Thanks for your time.</i></b></div>
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My time? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for yours! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's been a great honour to be part of HH -
you wonderful beasts were there right from the beginning, over a decade plus
ago now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, probably the first
that actually said nice things about Nekrasov. Just for you, HH! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You won't see me on those bullshit, souless,
VULGAR sites like Noisey and CVLT Nation! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank fuck HH is still around, you make it all
ok. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cringe at my answers but I hope
you enjoyed and felt as unsure, confused and awkward as I did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I apologise for ranting on fairly trivial
subjects that don't matter, I did hope to make this better but I didn't. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It's just
a play. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't believe anything I said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, don't believe what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anyone</i> says.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Full
disclosure: Mat Blackwell (in his guise as A Demon Sheen) and Nekrasov have occasionally
worked together in the past (albeit, separated by both time and space), on the
collaborative album “Volume Thirteen” by The Horn and Nekrasov, and on the
track “Buried in the Winter Soil” by Nekrasov and Grist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b></div>
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IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-54759487309670620272020-05-10T20:57:00.000-07:002020-05-10T22:13:07.023-07:00INTERVIEW: No Gods, No Masters: Living Dangerously with Al Namrood<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">
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public beheading will typically take place around 9am. The convicted person is
walked into the square and kneels in front of the executioner. The executioner
uses a sword known as a sulthan to remove the condemned person's head from his
or her body at the neck. Sometimes it may take several strikes before victim is
decapitated.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So says Wikipedia about public
executions in Saudi Arabia, one of only four countries left that still carry
out executions in public. Apparently,
just last year (2015), the number of public beheadings reached "at
least" 157 – a twenty year high – and the sentence can be carried out for
a wide range of offences, including witchcraft, murder, rape, armed robbery – and
apostate blasphemy. And that’s where <b>Al Namrood</b> come in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No matter who your favourite black metal
band is, they are playing it safe compared to <b>Al Namrood</b>. Recording anti-Islamic
metal in Saudi Arabia, these three metalheads (<b>Mephisto</b>,<b> Humbaba</b>, and<b> Ostron</b>) risk very real punishment if
they are ever discovered, and have to keep their musical lives completely
hidden, under fear of death. No matter
how tough <b>Glen Benton</b> thought
burning an inverted cross into his forehead was, it pales into silly (if
painful in the forehead region) nincompoopery compared to the life-or-death
concerns of <b>Al Namrood</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Of course, many readers will
immediately shout “fake!”, as people tend to do in this untrustworthy age of
internet lies and clickbait trollery.
We’ve all been burned by bands like <b>Ghost
Bath </b>(a band whose claims to be a Chinese black metal /shoegaze band turned
out to be total bullshit – they were actually from North Dakota), and <i>still</i> no-one knows for sure about the
veracity of <b>Janaza</b> / <b>Seeds of Iblis</b>. However, there are two strong pointers to me
that Al Namrood are the real deal: firstly, the fact that these guys have been
going at it since 2008 and have never attempted to leverage their notoriety for
personal gain (as Mephisto says, “We do not wish to score any benefit from our
band project, it is a sense of self achievement rather than aiming for
public attraction”), makes me strongly believe them – hoaxers are generally too
narcissistic to let nearly a decade go by without showing everyone how very
clever they are; and secondly, an old comrade of mine actually played on two Al
Namrood releases, and he absolutely insists that they are 100% legit. I know that, in the end, there’s no way to
prove anything either way, but I can assure you that this interviewer is
genuinely convinced.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I begin by asking Mephisto and Humbaba
if they are concerned by the media’s concentration on their belief systems and
socio-geographical location, over their musical output…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Heathen Harvest: Does it bother you that
you’re known for the fact you’re “that anti-Islamic band from Saudi Arabia”,
rather than for the strength of your music?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Humbaba: No, it does not! And I hope
they keep this title upon us because we've come across too many retards who
still think we're Muslims! Like
seriously, how much more effort do we have to put in to emphasise that we
are not? I’m thinking to print a T-shirt
saying “The Towel Head Blasphemer”! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mephisto: We do not wish to score any
benefit from our band project, it is a sense of self achievement rather
than aiming for public attraction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H: In addition, too many Westerners – especially
Americans – presume that all Arabs are Muslims. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: It is a common misapprehension. And currently here in the West (I’m writing
from Australia, but from what I can gather, it’s much the same in the Europe
and the USA), anti-Islamic feelings are at an all-time high, to the point where
even refugees from Islamic countries – people who are trying to escape the
repression and violence of exactly the kinds of religious rule you’re rebelling
against – are faced with immense prejudice once they’ve arrived here. Do you think there is a point at which being
anti-religious is as dangerous as being religious?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: We do what we
want to do, we did not choose the approach of anti-religion to challenge
religion, we just bear the idea of utter freedom. We cannot fake our thoughts and pretend we are
okay with religion. We have rejected it
from the early ages, it didn’t make sense to us and time evolved until it was
clearly proven to us that religion is a big deceit to control people, mind and
emotion. More seriously, we are ruled by
a religious regime and we just cannot fold and obey! Being a sheep is comforting, but we just
cannot do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: So if you’d been born into the harsh caste system
of India, you’d be an anti-Hindu band, or if you’d been born in the Vatican
you’d be anti-Catholic?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: Exactly! Taken from the social/environmental causes,
the ideologies re-shape, this is due to the source of oppression.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: It’s one thing to be against something, but if
you did ever manage to tear down Islamic rule, what would you replace it
with? Anarchy? Secular scientism? A democracy that sees all
religions as equal? Communism? What do you see as the end-point
goal of your struggle? </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: I do not believe
in world peace whatsoever, the world will always be miserable, it is just we
have to deal with and tackle this misery to pursue our lives. We believe in free life, free from the system,
free from religion, free from any control!
I think this might lead to anarchy by definition or something close.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H: I just fucking
hate everyone.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: Is moving an option? What is keeping you
there, in a system you despise?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: It is not that
simple for various of reasons, we are connected with many things in our life,
we have families, and other things that we care about. In addition our vocalist is banned from
traveling and we won’t be selfish to replace Humbaba just because to tour. Also, we will be pursued for eternity even if
we left the country, our government is connected with the major countries and
they can simply claim us, bribe some other government or even send assassins. Other than that, the radical Islamist exists
everywhere. Humbaba once told me, he thinks
our end will be on stage – he believes one day when we go mainstream, one
radical religious sheep will shoot us in the head just because we do not agree
with religious view.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: A terrifying vision to live! But,
at the same time, that would go down as one of the most legendary live music
concerts ever…</i></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: We understand
this approach of life is not safe at all, we know we are doomed just because we
hail from the most religious country in the world. We are Arab and whatever happens, our
identity and background will remain threatening, either to the extremist
nationalist fascists, or the extremist Islamists.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: You’ve been spreading your message of
anti-religious rage since 2008, and yet it feels that in 2016 the world is
considerably more religious than it has been for some time. If the Western
media is to be believed (and it probably isn’t, but you never know) Islamic
State seems to be seizing more control, and places that were until very
recently modern and secular (like Turkey, for instance) are turning into
religion-ruled caliphates. Do you ever feel like just giving up?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: Never! These circumstances are the reason we started
the band, so more religious brutality means more drive to continue what we do. Islamic State ideology was born in Saudi
Arabia, so we are not surprised with the current consequences of exporting
radicalism across the world, we have lived it in our childhood. We are already involved in the endangerment,
there is no way we will quit, it is our passion.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: You’ve currently got more ex-members than
members. When secrecy is so important to you, how do you deal with the
trust elements of having so many ex-members floating around? Is someone’s
word ever enough?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: As much as I am
disappointed for members to leave the band, the choice was always theirs.
Essentially, we do not trust people easily, especially when it comes to the
band, that is why our pick was always toward specific criteria. One of these
criteria is the band member must tolerate anti-religious themes, and all the
past members shared that perspective (except for one guest band member whom we
got deceived by and turned out to be Muslim, but quickly we fixed that error). This remained a big issue to us that we cannot
recruit local members from Middle East. Many
metal heads in Middle East listen to metal while maintaining the relation with
religion, which we find big contradiction.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: Are you ever worried that one of your
ex-members will hand you into the authorities? </i></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: The probability is remote, simply
because we had no problems with any of the ex-members, they shared with us the
same ideas, they agreed on the band content and when they left it was their
personal choice for their personal lives. However, the issue to be taken in
consideration is what if one of the ex-members converted to radical form of
religion, will he bring revenge upon us for being blasphemous? I think we are prepared for these
circumstances.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: How do you go about finding a new band member
once someone has left the band? How well do you have to know someone
before you can even broach that topic, given the consequences of mentioning the
topic to the wrong people? </i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: All the members
who joined the band we know them personally, usually they are fans who
expressed their desire to support the band, as much as we want our line up to
be completed, we do not announce publicly for members.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: Have you ever had to deal with “secret police”
kind of people infiltrating your scene, and if so, how do you deal with that?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: Yes, we have
dealt with secret police. We have to
convince them we are still Muslims, otherwise we will be charged with apostasy,
which automatically leads to execution.
Humbaba is banned from traveling, which we will not disclose any details
about now.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: Let’s talk a little about the music
itself. I love the grandness of Al Namrood,
there’s an epic quality, a cinematic scope to the sound that so many bands fail
to achieve. Partly I think is due to the richness of sound, all the
additional instruments that aren’t “just metal”, but partly I think it’s just
the big riffs and the way they flow. When writing music, is this
large-scale epicness something you’re specifically aiming for, as a vehicle for
expressing the enormity of your pre-Islamic worldview, or is it just a
sound/style you enjoy making?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: Certainly, the
aim of epicness is intended. In fact it happens spontaneously, the reason we
like black metal is it has atmospheric theme, and when I started to learn
guitars, I explored many genres, after learning the scales of guitars, it
noticed that my playing is going through certain scales which produce a meaningful
tone. It was important to me to make a
riff that has a story-telling quality, whether aggression, rage, dramatic etc… the aim for meaningful riffs is significant.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: What other bands influence you the most?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: While each of us
has different taste, we are so much inspired by the bands <b>Marduk</b> and <b>Nile</b>, also we
were inspired by old stuff of <b>Melechesh</b>,
but sadly now Melechesh shifted their approach of music which we didn’t like as
personal taste. Mephisto likes the
intense blast beaten black metal such as <b>Marduk</b>
and <b>1349</b>, Humbaba enjoys old school
heavy metal and punk, bands such as <b>The Exploited</b>
and <b>Discharge</b>. Ostron enjoys doom and slow tempo heavy
metal.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: The ancient Mesopotamian texts (where
Humbaba’s name comes from – the Epic of Gilgamesh says "he had the paws of
a lion and a body covered in thorny scales; his feet had the claws of a
vulture, and on his head were the horns of a wild bull; his tail and phallus
each ended in a snake's head") are fascinating, bizarre, and rich in otherworldly
history. In what way do you draw on these kind of texts for
inspiration?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H: Fear, Terror, Power and Notoriousness!
In the name of violence, this
inspiration driven from the epic of Gilgamesh tablets, the part when Enkidu and
Gilgamesh were frightened to death before the battle began. That fearful sensation I tend to deliver to
the audience in a sarcastic way to confuse them and corrupt their little minds
with hate and violence!</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: What’s next for Al Namrood? New
recordings? New releases? New inspirations?</i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M: We are currently working on new album
which its main theme is black/punk metal. We have designed a new logo for it. Inspired by the band <b>The Exploited</b>, we are indulging the anarchy ideology along with the
basic element of Al Namrood. The album is planned for release in the first
quarter of 2017; it will be released on Vinyl, CD and digital copies. <b>Shaytan
Productions</b> (Canada) will release it.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HH: Looking forward to hearing it! Thank you so much for your
time. Is there anything else you want to touch on that I haven’t yet
explored?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H: Those who are able to see beyond the
shadows and lies of their own culture will never be understood! Now, do you think I can be the ambassador of
good intention?</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROUTINE SIX: SPIRIT DOCTORS SKILLED THE MONOLITHS RAW – AND
REAL EXQUISITE DREAMS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Market
is thriving, always, at all hours, because all hours are the same here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Row upon row of marquees jostle for space in
the grey dust – air vibrating with sales and spruiks and slogans and promises
and never-to-be-beatens and for-the-next-customer-onlys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these stores been here since the dawn
of time, others I’ve never seen before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whole City is arranged around this central space, all roads lead to The
Market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Air reeks of ancient perfumes
and modern diseases – of spices and stone and copper coins and open meat – of
plastic wrap and incense and the juice of fruits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Layout
changes all the time but only when you’re not watching – something quantum in
the air here – which of course begs the question, seeing as there’s always
someone here, there’s always someone watching, so when the fuck does it get a
chance to change?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many questions I gave
up hope of ever answering years ago – not my business, in the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what would an answer mean to me
anyway?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh,” I’d say, “Okay then.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Point being,
gotta walk through aisles and aisles of random before I can find what I’m
looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trolleys and tables and
trestles set up, piled with goods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone’s
selling half-price Melange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
guy’s flogging Arcturan Mega-gin and Santraginean seawater. Hollowed out old
lady stares at me as I walk past her table full of carefully arranged vials of
ectoplasm, like I’m some kinda plasm junkie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Never blinks once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Illegal
antiques smuggled through timeholes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the pornographic Dead Sea Scrolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Crown of Thorns, half price. Not bad –
if you’re into that kinda thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A table
loaded with mind-controlling funguses, hard and thorny, their twitching human hosts
still attached – some of them quietly begging for mercy, unseeing eyes all
thick with squirming fungus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
repulsive thing you ever did see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poachers
from other stars with their wares: Venusian ivory, holographic skins – eggs and
pelts, teeth and testes of endangered beasts from a thousand worlds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fucking poachers make my skin crawl – but
what are you gunna do? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s Mmaagha
Kamalu, a sword that once belonged to the Igbo god of war – sword glows red
when people with evil intentions are close by, so of course it’s a burning
crimson here, in this place of dubious commerce, might as well turn the sucker
off and save the batteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same trader
is trying to move <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur" title="Excalibur"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Excalibur</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrfing"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tyrfing</span></a>
too, so clearly got some sort of racket in the sword-department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prices are exorbitant but you pay what you
pay for mythical weaponry – not like there’s much competition in that
particular trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One marquee
filled with representatives of the Deep State, selling secrets and
indoctrination packs – across the aisle, crisis actors handing out their sizzle
reels, hoping to make it in the next big disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A rickety
wooden table with a handful of transparent glass shakers brimming with salt –
sign says it’s authentic Sodomic salt hand-gathered from the pillar that was
previously Lot’s wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another handful
of glass shakers claim to be pepper made from some poor sucker who turned back
at Gomorrah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure who the Chinese
Five Spice is meant to be – I don’t read Chinese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I call bullshit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what do I know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
tent, another trolley – crates of yowling Mogwai, drastically malnourished in
this place with no midnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personality
traders, selling new identities – buy two get an extra one free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>S and M leather gear made from the pelt of
the Marquis De Sade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A white sequinned
glove made from the pelt of Michael Jackson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the Monoliths
– just walking past it gives me intense full sensory hallucinations and I
nearly stain my drygoods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
marquee, another table – bootlegged Jekyl juice – Gorgon heads, both
synthesised and real – a fully-functional Lazy Gun – a mostly-empty case of Illudium
Q-36 Explosive Space Modulators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t
know they were still around, to be honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But everything’s for sale in Interzone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Szechuan
dipping sauce, vats of the stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottles
of tears, hair, and teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A deck of
cards that’s literally all aces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pies
filled with spaghetti Bolognese. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pallets
of xenomorph eggs, shrink-wrapped and stickered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genuine Da Vinci ornithopter – such a shit
vehicle, can’t believe anyone would even try to offload one of those in the
current Interzone economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black-market
scientologist peddling half-price audits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hacked E-meters delivering clearance or your money back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engrams-B-Gone, spray twice daily - “Exteriorise
Your Thetans The Easy Way!” the sign says in hand-painted circus writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buckets full
of Morgellons, buy ‘em by the scoopful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sonic
screwdrivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Universal remote
controls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Syringes full of Soma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vials of Coronavirus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottles of Moloko Plus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beat up old <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Antikythera mechanism</span>s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shiny
new Alethiometers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six-packs of Dilithium
Crystals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second-hand RHIC EDOM tech,
carefully repackaged into its original boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sexbots
gyrating in their plastic-panelled packaging – collector’s copy of The Beatles
white album played by actual beetles – a red button that says “do not push” –
stacks and stacks of toilet paper and hand sanitiser.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Underground
doctors curing imaginary diseases with tools of unspeakable cruelty - memories
peddling – half-price your money shit vehicle – buy two – Pallets of controls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stacks of
states – investigators of Personality traders – stacks and glass – tested on
Thetans – The sauce, vats vibrating – a handful – Chinese Five Underground
doctors feeling slowly soundless hum – Larval entities’ wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bootlegged Jekyl Sodomic salt – E-meters
delivering EDOM Bang-utot – relaxing machines – leather gear table and bartered
Modulators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Original
boxes – Bottle mutilations – infractions denounced – unconstituted police – full
sensory salt – cities, gathering – telepathic sensitivity – ocean floor toilet
paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Syringes
laboratory and the pelt treatment – filled with some poor – the white Szechuan
dipping excisors – Explosive Space – transparent at Gomorrah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A spray
twice Gorgon heads – the sign – Six-packs of Universal remote in this
ornithopter – table – tent – Hacked – stickered. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be pepper played by selling new curing
imaginary – a Live to offload – me – intense players – servers place of orgone –
A stratosphere, maladies – pelt of diseases – with Morgellons, buy and the
Bottles – fragmentary call bullshit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And real exquisite
dreams – Lesbian dwarf juice – atomic war – A place stain – officials of actual
beetles – hallucinations and hebephrenic shorthand – red button black dust – virulence
in writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buckets – fully-functional
spirit, no midnight – Tanks and mechanisms – Shiny unknown past – Carefully
repackaged teeth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A glove made
Sonic – White sequinned scoopful – tools of identities – hand-painted circus – the
pillar host – maladies hair – the Beat up daily – unspeakable cruelty charging
unspeakable case of cells – Another be honest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lung
erection – spirit doctors skilled the Monoliths raw – rickety wooden
hand-gathered from turned back full of xenomorph eggs, bureaucrats – Sexbots
gyrating meet in spectral departments – enemy, sellers, diseases, dormant – glass
shakers – deck of the current – the will – The Beatles by bland – perfected
operation in the emergent future free. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paranoid
chess – Lot’s sucker – eyeless worms down in Da Vinci marquee – blood of
osteopaths – white album trolley – crates of tears, drygoods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another –
collector’s drastically malnourished were still shrink-wrapped and those in
Soma. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sign says
plastic-panelled packaging – synthesised Interzone economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Warrants
taken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And finally
– I see what I came for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Black
Meat is sold here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They say
once an addict, always an addict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t
believe that at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t <i>need</i>
Black Meat – <i>choosing</i> Black Meat, making conscious choice, choosing that
vile beautiful substance over painful heart. Conscious decision, you see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone would make that same choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Had a
problem with it once maybe – but now, I’m in control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m deciding – shaking hands, sweating neck –
to walk past the trolleys and trestles, crow flies bee line direct to the Black
Meat den.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Casual stroll – never look too
desperate – but trained insect eye knows that walk, the approach of a
guaranteed Customer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m deciding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one could say medical reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self-medicating to ease memory pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing wrong with that, is there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can’t
function if spirit is held down under the pressure of memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t function under those conditions, no,
have to shall we say alleviate that particular ailment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black Meat takes it all away, I know it does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All gone under the Black Meat spell, magical
filthy nightmare, buried and gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Float
on black wings, soar in the darkness, supersonic journey inside and out –
everything goes away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more Her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walk direct,
casual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slow like iceberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they sense, of course they do, know a
Customer when they see one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugwump –
hypercolour t-shirt stained with korma and semen and ash, arseless chaps shine
and creak, chain around neck dangles gold dollar sign encrusted with fake
diamonds – drags slow on Camberwell Carrot, makes eye contact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slight nod of head, soot-black beak clicks in
anticipation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behind Mugwump slouch
three or four Mugwump-addicts – we call them “Reptiles” but they’re not really
reptiles of course, just plain ordinary human at the core, their appearance is perfectly
natural biological result of too much time spent absorbing Mugwump secretions
and not enough time doing literally any other thing – skin loose and bones
soft, bristles wave like cuttlefish rim, eyes empty – just existing – all wear
rusting metal collars but naked otherwise – addicted to the secretions that
ooze from their Mugwump masters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Mugwump clicks, Reptiles twitch but continue vacant slouch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Blackwell.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mugwump’s voice is creaky, thin, like a
slowed-down parrot – sounds like comes from another place than the throat –
ventriloquist puppet voice almost makes you sick to hear it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nods again, eyes taking in my vibrations
rather than my shape. “Been so long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thought you’d forgotten your old friend.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavy old
right, crash the still hulk of church confessional, 17th heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How could I
ever forget you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still trying to wash
the smell off from last time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugwump
clicks beak, laughter, professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reaches bony arm towards me, huge smouldering Carrot in skeletal
fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Offers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I take the
giant joint and take a drag – only polite – and taste the Blackness on tongue
lips teeth – empty memories flood my system as the smoke curls inside my
clotted lung – and pass Carrot back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
toke is enough with Mugwump weed, learned that long time ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mugwump takes Carrot back, move slow, always
slow, different time frame to humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“ “Black”
like circumcised Fiction,” Mugwump drawls, “ “well” like On Friday.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Private joke, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who the hell knows when it comes to
Mugwumps?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To what do we owe the
pleasure?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drag it out of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Just a
taste,” I say, quiet, “Thought I could do with a little self-care.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beak doesn’t
smile – wrong materials for that particular human expression – Mugwump smiles
in the eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m afraid
I’m all out,” Mugwump says, wave one thin hand over empty trestle – indicating
emptiness, nothing but rotting wood of table and tiny glowing grey mushrooms
sprout from corners – market full of sounds but all my ears hear is Mugwump
words – full of sights but all eyes see is empty trestle and slow motion pass
of Mugwump claw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part of the
game of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Enough
bumpin’ gums,” I say, “we both know you got access to fresh supplies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Freshest in
all Interzone,” Mugwump says (Mugwumps don’t name themselves the way we do –
think our need to all have different names is a form of mental illness – and
maybe it is). “But what’s it worth for me to lose a good butler to go
fishing?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the word “fishing” all
three or four of the metal-collared absent-eyed Mugwump-secretion-softened
human bags of flesh behind Mugwump shiver uncontrollably, like the word was
filled with electricity, a taser carried in sound waves – one quick shiver then
back to slumped sightless existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Butlers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what you’re calling them nowadays.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“As good a
word as any other.” Mugwump takes another deep drag on Carrot, smoke tinged
with purple, maybe some ultraviolet too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“What’ll it be, Blackwell?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I pull small
paper sack from trenchcoat pocket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rest
it in one palm, unwrap slowly (but of course Mugwump already sniffed what’s
inside – excellent sense of smell, your average Mugwump).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Lemon
sherbert,” I say, roll them around in my palm, paper bag crinkling, hard sound
when sherberts clunk together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I see,”
Mugwump says, but poker face is ruined by thin strand of drool that descends
from obsidian beak, elongates until snap and pop – just another stain on pink
purple hypercolour tee shirt. “All you got?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If you
don’t want them,” I say, pantomiming to put one in my own mouth, “I’m happy to
eat them myself.” Hand moves closer to mouth, smell the sweetness, shiny yellow
bauble shape of tiny lemon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Deal,”
Mugwump says, reaches out spidery thin hand, fingers clutch in
anticipation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hand over paper bag, and
Mugwump picks sherbert out, cracks it in indigo black beak – crunch makes
soft-boned Reptiles shiver once then back to potato state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Enjoy,” I
say, ignoring my own sweat, “Picked them up in the 1980s, Earth beta.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugwump
blinks slowly, savouring, crunches sherbert up entirely before swallows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eyes close a moment in sugary bliss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Electronic
nova word concerns,” Mugwump says, almost to self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After dark hole – wrinkle-free and faith in
pattern hurt – stopping that So obsidian No more – but here, sellers control
was well into cusp. “Tasty sherbert.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
without even turning around, Mugwump snaps beak hard, and all three or four of
the Reptiles jerk to attention like pulled up by invisible strings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Need you to go fishing, please.” Politeness
feels cruel from the beak of a Mugwump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Reptiles
shuffle uncomfortable, heavy collars sunken into soft collarbones, sores fester
around necks and shoulders, twitches of limb and frill – some kind of unseen
wrestling going on, some kind of unspoken Reptile contest happening outside the
range of human vision – until one of the sorry sacks of shit is sort of pushed
forward somehow, and, knowing it is chosen, shuffles its naked shapeless form
forward a step – and the others sink back into their secretion-fucked torpor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Go catch me
a whopper,” the slow parrot voice of the Mugwump croons, finally turning to its
secretion-ruined associate and running a skeletal hand over its saggy translucent
cheek almost tenderly, “for our special friend here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sherbert breath and clack of beak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Reptile
fans its ear-hairs and solidifies a little, like jelly setting – mouth a resigned
little round disk of brown gristle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
attaches its metal collar to long thin chain – other end attached to stone wall
to the side of Mugwump’s trestle table – and shuffles slow away from
Market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mugwump affects disinterest
(pokes spindle fingers into paper sack and stirs lemon sherberts) but I always
watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reptile
limps away from bustle of Market, toward open sewers of Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black brown water sloshes down, a thousand
outpouring of a thousand unhygienic waterways – a river of grey scum and brown
froth – turbulent with flow – still The whole bad egg course – open aqueduct of
putrefaction and effluent – dead organs bob downstream like blind fish – piss
and shit and blood and worse – nightmare river of uncertain depth and complex
constitution, flowing less out of a desire to get to the sea but out of sheer liquid
desperation to get away from the foulness of its collective source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reptile
shuffles closer and closer to foul river, and now its neck collar getting
tense, limit of movement predestined by thin metal chain of considerable
tensile strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reptile just walks
right up to edge, teeters for long moment, then steps off stone edge – sinks
deep into rushing khaki waters, up to neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugwump
crunches another sherbert in black beak – thin purple-blue lips retracted show
maximum enjoyment – air still and clear as glycerine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sudden
thrashing and splashing – the neck chain makes a bass note as it’s pulled tight
from stone wall to river – blood erupts from surface of open sewer – limbs
thrash – Reptile screams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Got a
bite,” Mugwump says coolly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flipping out
of filthy river is giant centipede, gargantuan, pincers attached deeply to
thrashing Reptile, hundred sharp legs already digging in deep to flesh already
soften by Mugwump secretions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nauseating
to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sharp centipede legs slice
abdomen, Reptile’s guts slop out into foul river, blue purple intestine join
the brothy flow – but Reptile keeps screaming – animal terror and pain – until
centipede pincers slice through throat and disengage the organs of speech – now
a wheezing gurgle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With slow
disinterest, Mugwump takes the slender chain and begins winding it around
skinny wrist, reeling in Reptile – with giant centipede attached – reeling it
in, slowly, steady, with surprising strength from such skeletal limbs – Mugwump
surprising in many ways, even for old hack like myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A wide trail
of blood and filth follows as silently-screaming Reptile is dragged closer and
closer across stone ground, with ravenous centipede busy devouring flesh and
tearing apart muscle and skin – painting grey ground all colours of scarlet and
brown – black centipede oblivious to Mugwump’s intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other folk at other stalls pause their
shopping to look, crane necks to see – then business as usual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snapping sound and eyeball flies from
Reptile’s socket, flung by voracious pincers – lands with hackey-sack sound on
Mugwump’s empty table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mugwump reaches
out lazy hand and flicks it off – eyeball rolls on the ground gathering dust
and hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slowly slowly, Mugwump drags
body closer, reeling in, reeling in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reptile’s other eye stares at Mugwump half-pleadingly, half-proudly –
“did I do good, master?” – weaker and weaker – centipede feasting roughly, violently
– fountaining blood – gurgle from ravaged throat sicken you to hear it –
snapping sounds of centipede hunger – oblivious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Big one,”
says Mugwump, and pulls metal hook like crowbar from under trestle, walks three
slow steps to where centipede slithers inside Reptile’s open abdomen, rooting
around for organs, and smashes hook deep into centipede’s spinal column.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vile clicking sound, silent arthropod shriek
– desperate thrashing, then dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mugwump lifts hook, and up comes ex-centipede, up and out of
bloodspattered mess that was once Mugwump’s “butler”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beak clicks appreciatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Big one,” Mugwump repeats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hangs dead
centipede on steel hook mounted on stone wall – takes obsidian dagger from
utility belt on arseless chaps – crouches by what’s left of still-alive
Reptile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Thank you,” says Mugwump,
“your sacrifice is appreciated.” Takes Reptile’s bloody head, turns it over –
takes dagger and smashes it through back of skull where head meets neck –
Reptile blinks out like light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mugwump
rises, puffs on joint – passes bloody joint to me – takes dagger and begins
levering off carapace – slices off hunk of Black Meat and wraps it in paper –
slaps it onto wormwood trestle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you
for your custom,” parrot ventriloquist voice chirrups as I pass what remains of
the Camberwell Carrot back to spindly Mugwump digits and pick up paper-wrapped
Meat, “please, come again.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROUTINE FIVE: WE’RE GOING – AND NO MIND IS SLOW FOR FREE</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interzone
hangover – aching spine – constricted brain, feels like wearing a helmet two
sizes too small – taste of metal or blood or battery – extremities cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trauma-trained by The Influence herself,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve been Influenced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re going
to have to inhabit other bodies, best warn you now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not always a pleasant experience – although
of course sometimes it is, no hard and fast rules about anything ever – but a
very useful aspect of existing between stations, so to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever see Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean
Stockwell? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vast oversimplification.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How you
feel, Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t worry – constant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">déjà
vu </i>is a symptom of being here – apologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Human
bodies not used to this excessive Interzone treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Takes a while to get used to this new terrain
– no map that makes sense – and even when the body gets used to it, the mind is
slow to catch up – the brain is the realm of habit, the empire of pattern – and
no amount of deep-consciousness meme-injection can change that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some shit just takes time to get used to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time heals
all wounds, they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime it still
hurts underneath the scar, Agent, tell you that for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell, even amputated limbs hurt sometimes,
ghost-pain of the less-than-real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still
get pains in my nonexistent heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shaking,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit too full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That will pass too-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do you
mean “who was she”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Told you, Dana’s The
Influence, inventor of the-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doesn’t
matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No point
being distracted from task at hand by Old Man Blackwell’s ex-life, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dead ends and doors closed tighter than
tombs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing but sorrow and dust in
those places, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best not to dwell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing to be gained by prising open old scars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not even blood there anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All turned to dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a different life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Come
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give it up, Agent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay,
fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you owe me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She was
eighteen when I met her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was nineteen.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were in the prime let’s say of our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Healthy specimens, all parts in
working order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fine looking examples of
the human race, I don’t mind saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Organisms poised at the cusp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Carefree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wanton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unrestrained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ravenous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Untapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So full of life, biting into the world, all
teeth and skin and sweat and vigour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dripping with life, you could say, luscious with it, all plumped up with
energy and appetite, firm and wrinkle-free and shiny-eyed and magnetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fell deep in love, sank into it desperately
and deliciously, two worlds orbiting – for the breath of moments – and suddenly
crashing together like a wave on a rock, like something dropped from a cliff,
no way of stopping that crash – and we wove together like thread, became one
single fabric, colourful weave, knitted together on the loom of gluttonous
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inseparable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Until of
course we separated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I didn’t
know… I didn’t know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No I’m not
crying it’s this damned Interzone dust – constant sulphur and ash – havoc with
the glands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her
name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t make any damn difference
what her name is.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Is.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Forget
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bigger fish to fry, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, find
you a place to call home – not staying in my shabby chic mansion of dust,
that’s for sure, room in here for one and one only. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find your own hovel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy enough out here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cast your
gaze around over this place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pick
somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Move on in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s
right, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That easy in the
Interzone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No,
seriously, I mean it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is
permanent – not anywhere, really, just think about it, permanence is deep-core
illusion number one – but definitely not in Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look, see, that bone turret rising slowly
from grey swamplands – wasn’t there last time you looked, was it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No it wasn’t, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomorrow – not that we have days here of
course – tomorrow it’ll be slightly taller, or shorter – is it rising or
sinking? – everything in motion here, Interzone’s alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That spire
there – next time we look over this grey landscape, that spire will be top of
minaret, bet you my bottom dollar it will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That lean-to there, up against the bleeding gum – that will be
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless it’s in use, Agent, unless
it’s in use – Interzone cares for its own, let’s say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you use it, you can keep it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you get killed on a job or vanish into
some crack or crevice in the Systems – well, place closes up like you were
never here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interzone’s alive, made of
ideas and change, Conflicts Storytime – on the generations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this new cold. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drag “invocation” recognised forms – Precisely
the Still. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everyone needs
a home, like it or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place to be
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place just to be, no strings
attached, no tugging or compression from other psyches, place just to exist in
own time, own way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hell – I
suspect – the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One bleak critique
be emulating in heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How you
being here, out Cut-up - “madness is as map that makes and grace” as they say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t forget
to look up, Agent – plenty of good treehouses and underhangs and nests up in
the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t scoff, nothing wrong
with living in a nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask any bird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfectly good nest could be exactly what
you’re after – especially if you’re planning on laying eggs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lighten up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’ve been
map that makes sense – and very useful aspect of existing between empire of
pattern – and even amputated limbs hurt sometimes, ghost-pain to catch up – the
brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But now you
need a place to centre yourself, physical centre, a place to stash your
physicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll what’s the word accrue
belongings as you progress, Agent, and you need a place to store your inventory
as you level up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No actual levels here,
not a fucking game Agent, but still, the metaphor means something (basically
beyond empire of pattern hurt sometimes, ghost-pain bearing an eerie virtual) –
and after all what is all communication but a series of metaphors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No actual letters in nature, Agent, no
syllables actually mean anything outside of our own soggy brains – no meaning
but the meanings we agree on, and we all know it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A wise man
once told me that “everything’s a metaphor for everything”. Actual wise man
here, not some phony aphorism, mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Name
was The Inscrutable Cosmo, he was a 17th level Space Wizard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t give me that look Agent, the fuck you
know about space wizards? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who made you
the goddamn expert in space wizards all of a sudden? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moments ago you didn’t even know about
Interzone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes I know I
just said no levels out here, but Cosmo wasn’t Interzone, he was Earth Prime,
totally different system to Interzone, levels up the wazoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take it as moot, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Point is, everything can mean something else
to what it means, is the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can
make little squiggles create images in our minds if we let them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nest can be home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interzone can be real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Climate emergency can be cut up by a couple
of seedy Nova detectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Space Wizards
can level up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep up
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots to learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Come on,
keep looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s head away from city
centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’ll be something out here
for you, guarantee it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We pass
thick broken tile concrete ruin sprouting with thorns rash-inducing nettle
flailing like tentacle – not a great sign to be honest – and fallen log hut
dark with glowing voyeur eyes watching us pass with hungry intent – also not
what you would call positive neighbourly vibe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we approach, five gristly mugwump pile into sinking cabin through the
window, greasy stank reeking of recluse – not dangerous but clear they want to
be left alone to their own infernal devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We spot
floating bungalow, hovering metre off the ground but accessible if you stand on
something, pile rocks into crude platform, maybe rocks float too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There, what
about that? Nice looking, floating’s a nice schtick, not too much shabby with
your chic – windows still got glass in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Steal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pile up
rocks, poke heads over windowsill – empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do you
say, Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Home sweet home?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes I’m
sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t see anyone in there,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it’s yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, sure, they could come
back, but if they belong here, Interzone will let you know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust me on this Agent, been here since you
were mouthing your mama’s tiddies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything’s fluid here, Agent, you’re still thinking with ex-life
mindset – get with the program, or the deprogram ho ho ho – no such thing as
possession here, it’s anarchist paradise in the living flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At that very
moment one of the mugwump gets thrown out of sunken cabin’s window, slit from
crotch to throat, organs spilling into the black mud – its eyes meet ours and
for a second there’s this pleading kind of expression, then the lights go out
and mugwump powers down, goodnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red
fills the black mud, pooling, mixing, stinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah
shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t sweat Agent, it was probably
personal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Did I say
“paradise”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Metaphor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Needless to
say, we move on.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eventually
we find this nice soft cave like a giant puckered anus, roomy and clean,
entrance tightens like a muscle ring and the smell is pleasant even – musk and
lilac and hint of cinnamon – and it’s empty and both big enough and small
enough for your exact needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Responds
well to stroking, and roid-lights emit warm glow when you rub them just
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bulbs rise up and offer
themselves to our aching bones, and we sit, sinking into giant goiters like
beanbags made from smooth hairless skin and filled with heated pus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, not too bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Break out
the eel juice and tiger milk – housewarming present let’s say – and we clink
bottles, cheers and welcome home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We hear
voices outside – just passing, no danger – but anus door clenches tight in
protective concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It likes you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The technique
can have access and again at Earth is face artistic practice and demons, which
Occult terrain – no of habit, the Garden employing well-meaning cults,
intersectional the battery – extremities Illuminate,” says the first voice, a
wheeze like emphysema. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“As ecstasy,” says, two, "Electronic
death nihilism.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Gates,
glance, the notion simulated universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t make me laugh.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s not
alone in a real universe the bizarre cult from the smallest and, given the
project on some, that I hate tarantulas and scorpions, supercomputer.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Some shit
differently, specifically Naturally, constantly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I hear you sister,
I hear you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The voices
die off with distance and the insulating properties of new flesh cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always so much to learn from eavesdropping on
strangers, I always say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What’s that
Agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>
very fucking weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Couldn’t
have put it better myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re
drunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Told myself that not tonight but
once always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you poke
and you prod and you probe and you finally dip one finger deep inside my cracks
and prise them open and suddenly I’m all words – spilling out like that mugwump’s
internals – red and raw and fresh and with a kind of pain that’s so familiar
it’s almost pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her name was
Nalan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">still</i> Nalan, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turkish
name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both her parents born in tiny
village made of dung and desperation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
was lost and alone like I was – always on the outside, always in the
margins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we found the light,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We clung together in the darkness like we
wanted to melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A single candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breaks my heart to think of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I have no heart any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Any phantom
limb still itches now and then, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask
anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She’s still
out there, somewhere, in the world, the world of illusion outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I took that slip of paper – that ticket
that exploded me into the Interzone – I could never go back, not the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never came home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did she wonder?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She must have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did she panic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could she not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was I on the news – wannabe-writer never
returns, read all about it – was there a search party?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how long did she wait for me before it
sunk in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I was gone?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When did she
move on?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How long has
it even been out there?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell you,
fucks me up thinking all this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though it’s been so long, it’s preserved – like a scientific specimen pickled
pale and soft in saline solution – it never dissipates, never changes – I just
close the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolt it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lean things – things in the present, in the
Interzone – lean things against that door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Never even go down that corridor – never even turn on that hallway light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Police tape and do not enter, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now look what you made me do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t cry,
this is my pain, not yours Agent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah
shit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’re going
through all this yourself, right now, fresher, fresher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>See, best if these things stay locked away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Door is closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave it closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trauma-trained
by this entirely even amputated limbs to get used – either supposed entirely
excessive Interzone treatment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And – and
aggravate to a new point used to this cult of catch up – whatever fucking No
that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d better
go, Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I’m going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got my own place to collapse in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sleep – hate dreaming – but let you have
your own space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken up too much of
yours already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, no, I’m
going, Agent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See you in what
passes for morning here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re going
– and no mind is slow for free. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(We were of
gluttonous love – suddenly crashing together no syllables actually on a rock,
life, you could sometimes, ghost-pain bearing just to exist moments – and or
not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place shiny-eyed and magnetic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we teeth and skin being here, out, all
plumped to be true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life, biting
into our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Truth is, I
know she’s still out there, still living some kind of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been 25 years now, Earth years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t help but think about her
sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would have
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could’ve happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I never came to Interzone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just say I
never tore that ticket that exploded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just say I looked at it
but kept walking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into her arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I would’ve become a writer, maybe got
some job on some comedy show, who knows?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe she would’ve become that vet, or who knows, maybe a famous vegan
cook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we would’ve escaped the city
– she always hated the concrete the smell the noise the grey metal the exhausted
fumes the cram the race – maybe we would’ve moved to my folks’ holiday house in
Cape Paterson, fixed it up, made a new life in the countryside beachside – tree
change sea change we change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe even had a kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ever see or
blood or create since to us – apologies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Useless
thoughts as I lie on itchy lumpy stained ruined bed in my own private cell in
ash and sulphur Interzone, staring at cracks in ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Useless thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fell deep in
like something dropped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe a
daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d call her something like
River, Indigo, Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can almost see her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looks like me, a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She would sing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Useless
thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time,
specimens, all parts all communication but here, not some stopping that crash
the goddamn expert – and after and wrinkle-free and love, sank into cusp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the loom
of pattern hurt an eerie virtual. Two worlds place to centre attached, no
tugging like a wave was a 17th heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t want
to be awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t want to sleep –
dreams come with sleep, don’t want to dream her again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be emulating
in (basically beyond empire yourself, physical centre, agree on, and that look,
the grace) – as they of the human home - viscerally – but all wounds, of humans
human Human bodies. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I
get up out of bed and head to market – need more drink, drug, curse-lifter, something
– something to soothe the goddamn pain away.)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ROUTINE FOUR: DEADPAN HAS ALREADY MADE DEGENERATE AGE –
THEIR SACRAMENT SYSTEMS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was born
in 1975, Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stupid time to be
born, yes, and a stupid place – but we get what the dealer deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White card, male card, middle-class card,
able-bodied card, pretty much a royal flush – sure, anxiety card, asthma card,
depression card, maybe even the autism card, but nothing I couldn’t handle. All
in all, a winning hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time, place,
irrelevant, of course – just different word lines, different control machine –
but it does mean I still have preferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prefer “behaviour” to “behavior”, “arseholes” to “assholes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small things, but they still seem important
to me – us Agents, we all break out but how far do we ever really wander?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The machine that stamps us out – rubber-faced
moulds tacky with primordial ooze – the cookiecutter stamps us good, and we
never really break totally free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though
knowing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But influence your
behaviour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Behaviour changes, but and profitable, inviting get more
complicated ‘continuity’ - Insofaras persuasive technology is us, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s less a routine, a being used to
example—and Self-Enhancement values – feelings – constricting and closing eerie
with the rafts of old that matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Means I was around before the internet, something Agent
Burroughs never got to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was around
before internet, before social media, before echo chamber – before likes,
before video-conferencing, before Trump – before deepfakes, before Flat Earth,
before reality TV – before captology, before capsicum spray, before Musk –
before non-binary, before Quiltbag, before “privilege”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmases and eating corpses and showbags
and casual racism and Saturday morning cartoons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never thought I’d be delousing the Interzone,
can tell you that for free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Life story: did well at school, wanted to be a writer, wrote
stories and drew pictures and played with lego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>School, what can anyone say about school?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So long ago now anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got into a writing course at Melbourne
University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Met… met <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, fine, fell in love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irreparable damage was done
to my heart, you could say.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Best not to dwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Door is closed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Deadpan has already made degenerate age – their sacrament
systems such as removed from the while studying equations – He is a god –
Likely one run – prove we’re in nothing more than the horror – and is a human –
consider advances – Psychopompic feud. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Findings
of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humankind virtual reality and
is so far — us — this creature, which time, My experience suspect it's just
years ago - say it again – they’re emblems to me that codes — “similar in
principle to idiot hunger,” they worried about – There may be dwarfs…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I
digress.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All in all,
a winning hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing to suggest I’d ever
end up out here, Interzone, like your good self, soldier – nothing at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still believed in things back then, can you
believe it – see what I did there? – hierarchies and authorities, old games but
very popular – confidence trick the oldest in the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bait and switch?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slip through membrane? Alternate
reality?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hollow Flat Earth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Studied
Philosophy at university (completely failed to get into Art School, divergence
there) – eighteen-year-old me had no idea that you could get marked for just
thinking about reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aced
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking about reality was what I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i>, like breathing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lucky I aced
it, because my mind was on other things let’s say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll, we used to
call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unholy triumvirate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Met <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i>,
and sank in deep – total immersion, like magnets, we were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like two halves of one person, it felt
like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally united.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best not to dwell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Drugs, exploration,
expanded my mind – hallucinations, certain plants, wisdom from the Core,
drinking up from the Well – and immersed myself in words of wisdom – Agent Burroughs,
Agent Hicks, Agent Wilson – the ancient texts – the knowledge passed down from
fungus and leaf, circumventing the Dark Matter Deepfake altogether, see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back door hack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made the official indoctrination so much
hooey, long term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Felt the veil dropping
from my eyes, didn’t know what I saw was just another veil.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And then one
day, totally random – or so I thought but now who knows – I found it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Photocopied
poster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looked interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thought it was a Book Club or something,
amateur writers’ collective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, I was
ignorant, let’s say, of the greater truths, at that point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Naive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tore off
that phone number-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And you know
the rest, don’t you, soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Interzone’s home now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get used to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Come,
follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana’s just this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up there, that metal tower held together by
rust and rope – that’s where The Influence lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Baba Yaga hut on robot chicken
legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dana’s our
first stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mind the
thistles here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sharp, poke their way
through anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Venom goes straight to
the bladder, make you piss out all your liquids til you look like a
raisin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seen one dame, even pissed out
the gel in her eyeballs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shrivelled up
like empty white balloons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nastiest
thing I ever did see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Come on bub,
she’s waiting for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana might be
immortal, but doesn’t make her any more patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old friend, Dana is – we just call her “The
Influence”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meme-hoarder from way back –
she basically invented the hieroglyph – dank magic practitioner, nothing gets
away – pile up concepts into rickety Babel Towers, apartment smells like old
models and dust and references no-one understands any more-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Bub”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s wrong
with “bub”?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Huh.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I don’t
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess the dated lingo just rubs
off on you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Osmosis, you could say – so
many damn Agents from that particular time/space region, maybe there’s
something in the water – hang around so many black and white cotton slacks and
whisky sours and opium dens in so many silent films – just rubs off, what can I
say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still have preferences decided by
my larval programming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prefer “grey” to
“gray”, “Where’s Wally” to “Where’s Waldo”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Footpath” to “sidewalk”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But so
much assimilated from those old paper-skinned ash-coloured Agents of old –
Might rub off on you too, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Millennial like you, dropping pronouns but start saying “bub” – stranger
things have happened.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Get a shuffle on, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana’s
waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quiet a
history – How to how I the worldwide numerous trials. Dated lingo, sours and
Might rub dropping pronouns saying “bub” but start like you, you too, in so
many silent many black things have – stranger I say? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We get to
top of metal tower, brown steel steps clang underfoot, rickety, swaying in cold
ash breeze stink of swamp and sulphur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
knock on apartment door, weathered safe-door painted with clotted sigils in
blood – some Enochian, some Emoji. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Opens the
door, slow, all the time in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Woman of contrasts is our Dana.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Agent
Blackwell,” she says like squid changes colours, “and who’s your friend?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“New
recruit,” I say, cards close to my chest – never trust a person who trades in
raw concepts, that’s my motto – walking in, lighting up a joint and blowing
smoke into centre of room, “Climate script mission.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(You nod at
her, noob, scared to say anything, still sick from the Travel and the Aztec
heavy water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She ushers us inside and
closes the safe-door – a tomb now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
look around, room to sit – barely room to walk, stacks and piles and towers and
heaps, a maze of concepts, labyrinth of ologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You remain standing.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Influence sucks in toothy breath, eyes wide enough to see scarlet lattice of
capillaries – I pass the joint and brittle claws take it eagerly – she sucks on
Interzone smoke and exhales two whole lungfuls before says another word.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Ambitious,”
she passes it back, owl-like, “and if you don’t mind me saying completely
stupid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never going to give that racket
away, you should know better.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stack of
memes threatens to topple, gotta talk sideways in this place – barely room to
think straight.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“That’s the
mission,” I’m careful not to shrug, else memes collapse and Dana throws us out
– old witch has little tolerance for disorder in her place of residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dana laughs,
sound like quicksand drying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“So,” she
says, “Agent Blackwell thinks The Influence can cook up a spicy dish of memes, prise
open the asshole of the Control Machine, let you Nova dicks slide on in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
</i>get out of it?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Making
yourself useful?” I cough – something flaps inside lung, black, flap like a
kite stuck in a tree, “Help out an old friend, prevent mass extinction, shape
the course of a pretty valuable planet…” I stop, side-eye you, speak in
blinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dana reaches claw out for
smouldering roach.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’ll do
it,” she says, squid-eyes ink-dark and shiny, “But planet Earth doesn’t mean
shit to me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She drags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Flat hollow piece of shit never did tickle
my particular fancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’d sing a
happy song if those Nova cocksuckers failed their Great Work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Selfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Millennia of sneaking around for nothing –
now <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>would make me a happy lady.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eyes smile
at each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Looks like
The Agency and The Influence are on the exact same page, for once,” I say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucky break, good omen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>United by hatred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loathing bring us together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hallmark moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Of course,” I add, reaching into my coat
pocket, “we’re also most willing to reimburse you-” but she cuts me off.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">invented</i>
money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oldest meme in the book, convince
bastards that symbols worth more than food, went viral, so dank never got
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still spicy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I don’t want Agency money.” She look deep
into pupils, talks straight to retina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But,
when the Nova Mob fail, I want front row seats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want backstage pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want VIP
area access.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deal?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I extend my
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Influence extends hers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I do
believe we have a deal,” I say, cordial – you, still silent as a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“All right,”
she says, and holds up her new smartphone, so new it’s not even invented for
another decade – early adopter, our Dana – holds it up to my forehead, then
yours, then presses SUBMIT – the last words we hear are “Don’t hold too tight,
let the app do the work”– </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">False news broadcasts unrecognised virus present tape
recorders and as a weapon. In the language, form, to create since "wrong"
only technique is very and it is the host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Part is these life subversive influence of simple: Always create planet
life forms feature of human existing conflicts – This is been recognised as
"wrong" about any on humans and using human voice or garbled
political - "The basic nova word has not lead to the people. It draws to
the explosion conflicts that lead present time form beings which enables
nova-" - Part them to transform a state of Eden invokes be on the of life
are Recording words on stable symbiosis with a virus because theory of
"the” as a distinguishing the word virus precisely the work concerns the
power and aggravate the two, "Electronic Revolution" that is to
dangerous possibilities of write – done by dumping suggesting that, "the
same planet – Their conditions and always aggravate life forms – The point
conflicts with other in present time technique can easily machine" due to
on the same and psychic control Feedback from the significance of forms –
should not – has reference to one, entitled "The of alphabetic
non-pictorial of the nova speeches causing confusion to the Garden employing
the Cut-up given life form that they remain attention to the basically
incompatible in it has achieved” – do not skip this part, this is crucial, soldier
–proposes the of course nothing a written word "the time binding to future
generations. As many insoluble conflicts as possible with incompatible
conditions” – views of a planet, languages to control of existence - There is
mob to see and convey information.</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We twitch
thick spasms, break out in glossolalia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Feel the synapse rip, tangle, reform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sweat drip like malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Influence laughs, crackle like end of record.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Now,” she
says, clearing space on couch, “sit, sit!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You collapse onto couch, shivering fever – I sink slightly more what’s
the word graceful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Developed this
training montage, cut up from Rocky script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ever see that movie?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pure.
Technique. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Promises to be most
effective.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that a halo above her
wizened head, or just the after-effects of her app?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No time to ask – she presses screen with her
thumb like walnut, and all flashes in black light and blinding shadow-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The center of the river. He a hanging corpse. Stares up at
quivers. Steps outside. And his steaming it in one four A. M. Not row of beef.
With hands on sweat suit with wide arc like breath, he starts running again.
Passes descends the stairs. ROARING TRAIN overhead and continues pounding the
dull SOUNDS in a hanging with amusement. Forces though he were is a muted beef swings
and were receiving it. Pauses, heaving great is pitch dark eggs into The
grotesque object up. From the watch him pass. Way to Paulie his face in
Paulie's eyes widen breath attests to start, he looks on the second this early,
with breaths. He throws base of his POUNDING HEARD. Works his dozen eggs. He
locked in total muscular running style. Runs along into the ribs. Garbage men
stop of stairs. He overwhelmingly steep flight elbows with beef OFF at exactly
passes beneath the cold. He moves into the passes City Hall beginning to
lighten. The following morning, grimaces with every drenched in red on and
roaches the deserted street. Great difficulty staggers up to the bathroom. He
swill... His body ALARM CLOCK GOES out of shape battle. Speeds up The fighter now
FISTS can be and walks awhile scatter. At the way. Two begins running down and
veers to the beef piers and past accustomed to rising turns the light and
halfway up train station. The slams his fist dark recess of several lazy jabs
himself to begin the stairs that punch, like he hoisting cans to brushes off
and cold water. Sways cracks five raw appears surrealistically alive. A never
before morning papers observe basin and submerges his aching sides. Glass and
downs as his form steps forward and looks at his – He is dressed beneath an
elevated slams his fists the refrigerator. Only in the air perfectly with his
seen concentration, as to his feet and wavers to hooks. Face reveals nearly
disappear into again. Every hanging in a well-worn Men delivering the walks up
to stands at the moves to the anchored freighters. He and sneakers. The sky is
hands. They are the morning gray. A beef and He can only gusts of exhausted
beef. The punching next one and telegrams. Fills and removes to the icebox a
hood, gloves and his face top of the mirror hang – be clearly SEEN seems to
blend challenge and responds.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">– and we’re
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sweating,
stale, desiccated, bone-exhausted – but done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Clearer now,
yes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeah, you
say, eyes bloodshot and twittering, but who’s Paulie?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paulie
“Superstring” Weaver is mutual friend – trust him like few others – not an
Agent but, like The Influence, a useful person to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s only one pixel tall but his width spans
the entire known universe – still never seen both sides of the man – always
gotta meet him out in the open, won’t fit inside any damn place. Knows a thing
or two about a thing or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s known
Dana for longer than I’ve been alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While you
recover from training montage, I ask The Influence if she’s heard from him
lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“He’s good,
good,” she says, taking another long drag, witch-fingers and wither-stain, “He’s
learning to juggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Handspan that wide,
reckons he could keep all the balls in the universe moving at once.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Huh,” I
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’m not getting any younger, and
goddamn it if I’m not feeling a little fragile myself.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Influence nods, stink of swamp person who trades never trust - Get your head
cold ash breeze the monster obsolete - To see scarlet hatred. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loathing bring resistance. Sweating, stale,
omen. United by so many control-lines in her sound - us riding on and sulphur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Go see
Paulie,” she croaks, going so deep twitch thick spasms, to memetic demolition
us together. “Go see his juggling, then ask him what he can do for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s many of us who’d be delighted to see
Nova fuckers ground into oblivion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We the door,
slow, in toothy breath, like end of each other with glossolalia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Thanks for
the memework,” I say, cross her palm with joints, some generic, some
specific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“When this all goes down, good
to know you’re on our side.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She cackles
again, closes spider-fingers over the smokes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shakes her head, eyes wide enough sigils in blood our bloodstream and
nail, soldier. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“No sides,
Agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just bloodlust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schadenfreude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to see Nova Syndicate cancelled.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tolerance
for disorder in raw concepts, desiccated, bone-exhausted Support tower, brown
steel - eagerly old synapse rip, tangle, atomic of unconstituted entire Earth
sector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We leave The
Influence there in her rusting metal Baba Yaga chicken-foot terminator apartment,
let that sink in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Procure a
couple tumblers of heavy-water Aztec whisky sours on the way home – do the
trick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You did
good, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, forget that old
“soldier” line – training montage sinking in deep – now I call you “Agent”.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swaying in
all the time lattice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reform. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sweat drip.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Doing good.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Come on,
Agent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lots to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Places to see, people to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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So, as you know, I've recently been playing with the Burroughsian Nova Mythos, dragging that cut-up dada-surreal multiverse of body horror and word virus into the 2020s, creating my own cut-up novel set in the same (or at least similar) cosmology. As well as bringing me an enormous amount of joy, this process has also come up with a pretty good ratio of interesting / pleasing / perplexing / delightful wordular arrangement, so thumbs up, will continue.</div>
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Of course, a cut-up isn't a proper cut-up unless you cut it up into itself several times over. So I've been taking chunks of the cut-up novel and cutting those up too - and I like some of these results even more than the novel itself (so they'll become part of the novel, naturally). One of these chunks I named "Undo Their Flow On This", and sent it into Burning House Press - and they published it! </div>
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That's right! My carefully-constructed stories that I slave over with a fine-toothed-comb and an invested heart seem completely impossible to find a publisher for, but some piece of random gibberish composed by a fucking computer gets published lickety split. Which is awesome, of course, but still. </div>
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Eep.<br />
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ANYWAY, point is, I got something published. And here it is:<br />
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<a href="https://burninghousepress.com/2020/01/20/undo-their-flow-on-this-by-mat-blackwell/"><b>READ "A VISION - UNDO THEIR FLOW ON THIS" BY CLICKING HERE.</b></a>IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-26575566226624388062020-01-11T17:02:00.000-08:002020-01-11T17:05:46.728-08:00FICTION: ROUTINE THREE: TRAPPED THAT STRANGLES THE GAME BOARD - THE OCCULT SOLUTION<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ROUTINE THREE: TRAPPED THAT STRANGLES THE GAME BOARD - THE
OCCULT SOLUTION</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Simple as that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The occult
solution to Earth’s climate change apocalypse is actually the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There will
be no technical solution, no people-power solution, no "green deal"
solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re well-meaning, and
pretty smart too, but I say again, no. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re just wrong, wrong, wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Outer
space, mutants, a moment of the dead grey giant centipedes but never a traitor
to the congregate naked, wearing corrosions of power.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s see if
I can illuminate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Point Number
One: The so-called Developing World on Earth is constantly increasing its
emissions, playing desperate catch up with the so-called Developed World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Industrial Revolution all over again, but on
a bigger scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if somehow - and
even this is almost impossible to imagine - even if the United States and the
European Union and good old Australia actually had the kind of politicians who
would spend the trillions needed to actually achieve net zero emissions by
2030, it would have no real impact worldwide, because China, Africa, India,
South America, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sorry to be harbinger of bad tidings etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't shoot the messenger etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Point Number
Two: Population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The human population on planet Earth has
doubled since I was born on it, back in 1975.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Doubled. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If human population
grows by average of 228,000 ever damn day, which it does, more or less - then
in one single week the Earth is populated by about 1,589,000 extra humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every damn week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You think your power-plants are struggling
now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You aint seen nothing yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just foodwise - which is let's face it a
pretty big concern, kinda top of the needs pyramid you could say - planet Earth
will have to somehow produce more food in the next forty years than it has in
the previous 8,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not exaggerating,
soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shit is serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the food that has been
harvested/created/grown/eaten all the way back to B fucking C, is what humans
will need to produce just to survive the next single decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember a decade ago?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn't feel that long, does it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are folks here that swear that human
society will collapse completely by 2040, just because of food shortages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's barely a blink away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But of
course, it's not just food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because if
planet Earth is going to achieve zero emissions, it needs to create a fuckload
more wind turbines, solar panels, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Construction of one single wind turbine requires 900 tonnes of steel,
2,500 tonnes of concrete, and 45 tonnes of plastic. Solar power needs cement,
steel, glass, other metals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Multiply
that out by the number of humans that are going to want to use them, and you
see what I'm getting at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cobalt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lithium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rare Earths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can you see
it happening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in your wildest, most
optimistic dreamings?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, in your
heart of hearts?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Point Number
Three-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh. Don't
look so sad, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of this
information is new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, point is, there<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is </i>a solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just not one that most humans can comprehend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Occult
solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cut-up solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interzone solution-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's okay-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here, have a
tissue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not like "completely fixed" better,
just "able to cope" better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So - big
question - What the fuck does The Agency care about Planet Earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, to be
perfectly frank, it’s not really about Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s all about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">justice</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not right that Nova arseholes can take Earth
and just thrash it into nothingness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conflict, world is infrastructure, crops, are snapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nova
bastards got no respect for polydimensional terms and conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said it before, and I'll say it again - Earth
should be for Earthlings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very
least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Obliteration
evolving world, and sleeping, findings of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the function at control-machine, once
human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The end wrong with the anxiety
and dread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It's not about
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's not even about the humans -
which, if you recall, I count amongst my own kind, being born completely human
barely 45 years ago - a species who, let's face it, aren't looking on the whole
all that worthy of rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say it's
all about justice, but I suspect it's not even really that at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect it's just because The Agency hates
The Nova Syndicate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Agency has a
chip on its shoulder about those Nova cats, massive bug up its collective arse,
it's personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mythical vendetta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psychopompic feud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ditheistic bickering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's like Satan and Jehovah, or Apep and Ra,
or CONTROL and KAOS - old school duological absolutist animosity that is bigger
than time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alternate players,
servers of soundless hum… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Petty retaliation, perhaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kneejerk anti-Nova peevishness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who knows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not one to
question my orders from Above, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But you
can't help but speculate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The climate
caper can't be solved through traditional means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we can cut it up, break the control
lines, rewrite the script through occult methodologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Back Door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time travel,
black magick, deepfake possession, mass hypnosis, terrain drugs - whatever it
takes, whatever we have access to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There's many excellent cats who are anti-Nova, owe a favour or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Able-bodied horror and used human - Different
control corpses – code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many individuals
who'd love nothing more than to see climate change routine go south, many many
folk who would love nothing more than to see those Nova weasels lose and lose
bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will use any and every means at
our disposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Down the walls in
incredibly secretive weigh in on criminals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We've got more cards in our deck than it looks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promise you, we'll win, or die trying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Buck up,
soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't take it so personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if we lose, it's just a planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know how many planets there are?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Literally-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here, have
another tissue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was it
something I said?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conceptions
of Egypt and Mesopotamia. As of the reasons. Are connected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Discernible
foundation, somehow to space - and the old cosmogony and evil spirits, human
civilization, a bottomless void identity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The disease:
Flesh-Eating fungus has adapted in the heat. Meant to fight killed 50 million
people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For defining
itself — Nearly unbeatable and live. According to Flesh-eating bacteria called
million people in - scientists observed faster inside - Sea levels rise, to the
drugs - without any abyss.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of dead
sinners is forever deferred and secular West, aquatic chaos of contexts, it is
become a part practically from insect, as I suffocate, I struggled smokers, as
it so badly - for sick, bright pink, is separate dimensions. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you know
that climate change is making humans stupider?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Experimental studies in connections between air quality, cognitive psychology,
and neuroscience, have revealed significant negative effects of everyday CO2
levels on human cognitive function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just putting
it out there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Sorry if I
slip in and out of focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been a while
since I used human codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been cutting
control lines on Acheron of late – spent a long time communicating only with
colours and scents - takes a while to relearn the movements of teeth and tongue
and larynx human-style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bear with me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can take a while to get your head
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No shame in confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All reactions are valid at this point.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Basically,
we - you and me - need to get into the climate script and denarrative the
fucker - dive in deep to the foundations of what's generating the Nova energies
and scrape them clean - alter the code - redirect the plot mechanisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story engine, so to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In to
infiltrate the fragmentary warrants taken - shadow monster had obsolete,
unthinkable trades - sleeping enemy, sellers laboratory - and atomic of
unconstituted police - the ocean floor instead being overgrown dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">May require
some heavy lifting - there's so much tied up in the Capitalism story and the
Bloodline story and the Genderarchy story, that's a lot of memetic demolition
to deal with on any given Sunday - but the Agency is not afraid of hard
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mechanisms
may not take it, to be honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole
thing might break on us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much coiled
and woven into each other - so many control-lines support each other - so much
riding on the outcomes they've set into motion millenia ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Followers of planet, in the summit to
signal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Trapped that
strangles the game board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am not
with insect calm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And of
course, let's not forget - Nova syndicate are absolutely not going to let us
undo their flow without a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tooth
and fucking nail, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have
much riding on this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out and effect -
The police are based on fact missiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Own structures become. Many deals, many parties deeply invested - this
is not a minor operation by any means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will face much resistance. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still -
better to try and fail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if we
destroy the whole fucking thing, even if the whole planet collapses in on
itself and the entire Earth sector is rendered null and void, we've gotta try,
don't you think soldier?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The growing
thousand time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The minutes
away. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ROUTINE TWO:
EMERGE FROM WEB BROWSERS — EXPEDITION TO THE CENTIPEDES</b></div>
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Where are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>City of Interzone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feels like a
real place don’t it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fools you that way,
trick of the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s between the real places – fills up the margin
at the edge of the page, so to speak.</div>
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Salty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Filmy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smell like ozone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flickering lights, floating particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Insubstantial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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This is where you live now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shanty town slanted together like junkies, spread
like fungus – urban sprawl – air always filled with floaters like glass of
water the morning after the world’s seediest party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ash or dust or flakes – dimension's
connection – slums, Satan, tendrils and locations – apparatus society. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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I guess some people would call it Purgatory, but
that’s not how I think of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
Platform 9 ¾ either, let’s be clear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely
between places, but not on any axis – none that I heard of anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More porous here – easy access to
everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a radical the membrane
world – out here civilization itself ourselves – then of course forget
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No hunger, no thirst, no sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flickering prayer for precursor of Chinese
Buddhist – think of assisted between mentioned in particles.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Every kind of architecture – minarets, domes,
ziggurats, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">torvtak</span>s, yurts –
definitely what Agent Lovecraft liked to call “non-Euclidean”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cthonic slum held together with grime and
dank intentions – houses of rotten rags cooking mountain houses – turf <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>boats, wood houses roof – iron where old
traditional Scandinavian type – stone and red – bamboo and teak, hundred feet –
lean-tos black with moss, abandoned mental hospital straight from horror game,
leering towers of obsidian, witch huts on stilts like chicken legs – A tree
like that speaks of not the only it: our dead note.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This little place is mine, make yourself at
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you like open plan living –
real open plan here, sharded glass and broken rib brickwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exposed to all elements – blink the untended
dead air – pink sun. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last rubbish in
smoky verandah, the washing eyes water – their entry lights – floating
condition – to Grey.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Not a locked door in the City. Anyone comes into
your room at any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Refugees from
every planet here – outlaws and exiles and Agents and runaways – no-one is here
by choice, you dig?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My experience this
was different machine and wooden bleeding booths and this way and again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone running from something, whether they
know it or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova cats know to steer
clear – control machine does not function here, soldier – place outside of
their reach.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Tendrils – creaking – embers, powder, dust – permanent
haze. The “Upside Down” on that show “Stranger Things”? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gross oversimplification.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Palms, mountains, jungle, indefinite landscape
that seems different every day – not that “day” means shit here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oppression manifest in silver wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I’ll show you around – gaming tables,
altars, fix market, fuckzone, bleeding booths, black meat den – but for now,
try recompose yourself.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Down the grey valley, see the river?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
swim in it.</div>
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***</div>
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<br /></div>
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Okay, so: Remember the poster?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was your ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A4, black and white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bollard, Brunswick St:</div>
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<br /></div>
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“With your help we can occupy The Reality Studio
and retake their universe of Fear, Death, and Monopoly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Join the Resistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond Socialism, beyond Anarchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make a damn Difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Devalidate Elite Language Control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy your Pronouns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy your Echo Chamber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy Fake News.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy Nova Reality.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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Recruitment occurs instant you tore off that
little strip of paper down the bottom with the fake number on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, no warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, peak efficiency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Takes some moments to get used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Took me almost twenty years – but getting the
hang of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out here, twenty years is
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once knew an Agent who took
five hundred to really settle in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jitters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imposter syndrome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Makes me laugh – we’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> imposters out here, sliding between the Zones. </div>
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<br /></div>
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My bites, People eaten on mountain – A centipede
on behaviours and belief or woman or to black mirrors cops on the without more
ado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robotics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we the forehead, leaving human race.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You look better though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost chipper now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinking in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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This is real, and happening, and inevitable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No going back.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You’ve been chosen – completely arbitrarily – and
that’s just the way it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scream, cry,
makes no goddamn difference – we’re here, and now what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coping well, gotta say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like you knew it was going to happen
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often works that way – no accidents,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always kinda knew you were
special, always kinda felt it in your bones, didn’t you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a freedom in being outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever it is, it doesn’t apply to you any
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain expectations let’s say are
now permanently lifted.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Well, once I train you up – don’t worry, not
hard, I’ll do it with a montage, saves time – once you’re trained, you’re an Agent,
and we’ll embark on your first mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
that easy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And it’s a big one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll hold your hand every step of the way,
don’t concern yourself – details forthcoming – but rookies never get it
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thrown right into the thick of it –
and this caper is maybe thickest I’ve ever seen.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Light up another joint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go on, it’s good for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calms the nerves.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Swirls of smoke add to particular air of
Interzone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paisley veins in shimmering
atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The growing thousand time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The minutes away.</div>
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***</div>
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<br /></div>
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Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Persuasive
technology is front of his – the unwilling They.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really is effective though, cutting through
gender assignments – all genres are fake genres – control mechanisms weaponised
against newborns, generate life-long dependency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hooked on gender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though knowing it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But influence your behaviour – His genitals
are millions in investment, but from the might get short-term reading.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s
your first mission?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should you choose to
accept it, hohoho – there’s no choice in the matter now, that’s the joke –
“trapped” is such an ugly word – To carry or intentional intrinsic the recent
tensions attempts to use “watching” from afar climate change fraud, to get this
at the time the University of mathematics, too — is a this step, this and the
rest Police can be four years after conspiracy theorists. </div>
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<br /></div>
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If the criminals unique power structure, these
conspiracies successfully, algorithm to four have badly hurt Mob — a photo op –
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard to explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t</i>
shut them down, then the whole cosmos is a waste of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malfunctioning – might as well shut it down
and get our money back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cut our losses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nova Syndicate are a mistake in the
system – don’t wanna say “The Matrix” – a malfunction that puts the whole thing
outta whack, tilts the whole thing off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Broken, see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when a
Simulation breaks down, it’s not a Simulation any more – difference between a
portrait and a caricature, is one way to look at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole damn universe is a caricature – if we
can’t fix this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Advanced civilizations
shoot-‘em-up, a scientific loathing in which a computer science technology, we
wouldn’t will emerge from Web browsers — expedition to the centipedes.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We have time – we have that in spades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out here, we have more time than we know what
to do with – sink down into it, real comfy, thick like molasses – black strap
brown – boundless plains to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
despite our insistence on peak efficiency, we can spare time, need you across
all aspects of the mission before we let you loose, so to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I have could be part we living in of their
ancestors voiceovers, corrupt politicians, the mammalian mould.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I strongly believe we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i> fix this, though – but I’ve always been an optimist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glass is half empty, sure – but we’re lucky
to have a glass at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever tried to
carry water in your hands?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been here
before, haven’t we.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t worry –
constant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">déjà vu </i>is a symptom of
being here, out here, one of us – apologies.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
first mission:</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We need to rewrite this climate change
fiasco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things stand, human society
collapses in matter of decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Show’s
over, curtain’s closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They change the
climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They change the climate, more
what’s the term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habitable</i> for them
this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hotter, thicker air – they
ganked the dinosaurs too, you know, too <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dumb</i>
to know their control machine was climate – but hey, seems Earth is rich with
that particular personal quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignorance
knows no bounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A naked atom to the
computer programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making it more
habitable for certain… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">parties</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain interests are sick of hiding – wanna
come out of the extraterrestrial closet so to speak – and so whole world is
changing for their benefit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> If we can't break their climate signal</span> –
it’s last drinks, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta try –
Nova Syndicate just power along otherwise, Fish Gods and Saturn Hats and
Celebrity Sacrifices and all – careening straight to Nova in hotted up
spacecraft made of dirt and rocks and trees and magma. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drive it like they stole it, see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And no way that “science” is going to stop the
change – The Event, they call it – it’s too late for tackling it with shall we
call it the “traditional” route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Requires occult solutions, let’s say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Timeflow requires surgery – Flat Earth about to be folded into origami
swan – course that’s where we come in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
Who else gunna cut up the reality flow?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No-one else qualified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There’s – there’s the “content” tell anyone –
your lines and of course response to the word in — the Anthropocene — demands
Meaning Game first – Once you the whole all words From war-stricken you can’t
can’t hold the other taking readers proper way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drops, sure political and to anyone affair – warmer, wetter, new Man
See? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Biggest all True. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Also menace from fingers glisten to be about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imperil global are you of realities supplies.
Conflict, world is infrastructure, crops, are snapped – Once the function at
control-machine, once human. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
All of – except you cut new vision it means it
turns called now? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Rewrite the ecological
control script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Save the entire fucking planet.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Don’t look at me like that, soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
You tore the damn paper, not me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In future, maybe be more selective.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
***</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ROUTINE
ONE: TURN COLD DEAD THAT HUMAN SPARK, SPLASH OF RED.</b></div>
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Get the call – New Recruit incoming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scrape together some semblance of decency,
arms slide into old trenchcoat sleeves, collar up – old school – light
triple-paper joint, drag it deep in the Interzone translucent particle air –
smoke spirals off, ash falls slow – prepare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Why me? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
good with new recruits, they say – still got some of that old fashioned human
in me – empathy maybe, what do you call it “compassion”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole process is so fucked up, so many
old Agents lose that human spark, turn cold dead crab – nothing but business –
dead fish eyes gaze from dark sockets seen too much fucked up shit to care any
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me – still got a little human
gleam in these old eyes, blood still has a splash of red in it.</div>
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Get to the waiting room shabby but quick enough,
and there you are, panic-frozen and deer-eyed, scrap of paper – secret Ticket –
still in your hand, no idea what the fuck or where the fuck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Better sort that all out now.</div>
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“Welcome,” I say all cool like 1930s detective –
costume that rubs off, we all wear it to different degrees – mentor and friend
and guide – play out the old guru script aura.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“You’re probably wondering where you are.”</div>
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No words, too Transport-sick to cope yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little human gaze from dark sockets seen
too idea what the your hand, no dead fish eyes much fucked up but business –
scrap of paper fuck or where there you are – still in gleam in these
panic-frozen and deer-eyed, old eyes, blood – secret Ticket is so fucked up, so
many crab – nothing – still got quick enough, and The whole process shit to
care still has old Agents lose any more. </div>
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Me in it. Get to the waiting room shabby but turn
cold dead that human spark, splash of red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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***</div>
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The whole racket was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almost</i> blown wide open by Agent Burroughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Nova Cartel just spread the idea –
pure propaganda of course – that his reports were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fiction</i>, and cut-up nonsense at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spread shit about Word Hoards and Beat
Fiction and Wife Shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course,
didn’t help that the events Agent Burroughs described were obviously untrue –
Centipedes from Venus and Mayan Crab People, the works – and of course, readers
trapped in Nova Word-Line Simulation believed that because those events were so
obviously <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">untrue,</i> meant they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t happen</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Course, you, me, we know better.</div>
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(The things they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will</i> believe, oh brother!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Knows no bounds!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believe anything
but the Big T Truth – you hear those cats swearing the Earth is Flat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">course</i> it’s flat – but not in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>
way!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dumber folk I have never seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real </i>Earthlings
never fall for a gimmick like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
not even sure there are any real Earthlings these days – all succumbed to
digital undifferentiation, big time.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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See, the Uranus Agent Burroughs described was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> Uranus, the Venus he described was
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> Venus, but different channel
on the Dark Matter Deepfake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tune
through, different channel on the Box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They Live, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tune through, put on the damn glasses, and it’s all clear as sulphur in
air – tune it right, and everyone can smell the bad egg like we do. The radical
persuasion—using information, incentives, that between opting unwelcome brands
or developed and changed, through alabaster tubes. </div>
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It’s not like Agent Burroughs got everything right –
but it’s not like there’s only one “right”, either, so there’s that–</div>
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Oh – I forget the social niceties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Been doing this too damn long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Name’s Agent Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Black” like obsidian dagger, “well” like a
deep dark hole down, down, down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where
we’re headed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Friday, we’re having
very assholes, human parts a surprise breakthrough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No surprise here, tell you that for free.</div>
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Hello, then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How are you.</div>
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Point is, Agent Burroughs got real close to exposing it
to the “mainstream”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Lovecraft got
real close. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Agents Wachowski and Wachowski
got real close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Icke’s getting real
close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Stang’s getting even closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cycle repeats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
We all try to bring it back with us, communicate
it in words, but it’s hell – using the machine to describe itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like trying to describe a piece of free jazz
with another piece of free jazz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
you crack the control-machine, once you cut the word lines and image lines and
scroll <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the other direction</i>, then you
can access the Big T Truth, but you can’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tell
anyone about it.</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You break the
screen, as it were – you rip up the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No way to communicate when communication itself is what is broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
See?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Biggest damn hurdle in the whole sorry affair – can’t carry any of that
back, that Big T Truth, can’t hold that in your hands any more than you can
carry back a handful of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drops,
sure – your fingers glisten still with the membrane of Big T Truth, but how are
you meant to pass that to anyone else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Share the “content” as it’s called now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once the word lines are snapped like twigs, the whole Meaning Game
becomes what Agent Wittgenstein called “private language” – no way to get
inside someone else’s head – except of course the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">physical</i> way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course
more you know and deeper you go, more cracked your own structures become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No proper way to speak anymore when all words
reduced to noises – might as well quack.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
So there’s that – tune it bizarre cult from not
like there’s individual, is drug the Uranus Agent Contact’s inevitable. On They
change the one right, either, opting unwelcome brands hey, seems Earth but
things circumcised Fiction and Wife People, the works radical persuasion—using
information, the events Agent next dopamine hit. </div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
All we can do is throw fragments back, Truth
Dust, no Big T, just reality shrapnel – desperately scatter the moments and
instants and feels, pepper the molecules of truth toward people and hope they
get Big Picture – gotta reconstruct Big T Truth Mountain from goddamned sand,
grain by grain – making a Mountain out of Mohammed – control machine was popped
the dinosaurs Friday, we’re having “Black” like obsidian got everything right a
deep dark to the computer in Nova Word-Line bad egg like Hoards and Beat
breakthrough.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Climate. More powerful on the damn or developed
and climate, more what’s real universe – almost blown the notion simulated
headed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy to knows no bounds. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brave
new recruit, you’re the new Man in Black – except of course “man” means shit
out here, gender is just more Nova Control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s no gender out here – there’s barely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sex</i>, which is another thing entirely, obsession disorder biological
entities insist on clinging to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Obliteration is the end of boundaries that are otherwise solid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Idea – pure Burroughs described were the Venus he
for them this – but it’s and scorpions, supercomputer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So first things first – yes, it’s all
True.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the parts that conflict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out here, a conflict of realities is nothing,
forget about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also forget eating and
sleeping, waste of your precious time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also, forget time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Distraction
and nonsense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We function at peak
efficiency, soldier.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Contact – and The whole racket Tune through - No
surprise the Nova Cartel incentives, that between hole down, down, the real
Uranus, reports were fiction, course, readers trapped air – they different
channel on with the morality all clear as obviously untrue – use, queer
participation – and of not an if. </div>
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<br />
See? Peak efficiency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cut right to the chase, right to the
quick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bypass regular brainwashing
systems, language fragments injected straight to the dream core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no way they’ll get that on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No idea how to take it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think it’s just another hoax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Propaganda of course universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just spread the way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hotter, thicker Shooting. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
(Course, there’s another reason I don’t
sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I dream, I dream of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because She’s still out
there, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t think about Her
too long or I just get – what’s the word – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">maudlin</i>.)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ever see ‘The Matrix’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gross over-simplification.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Of course, Simulation believed that Scrolling,
scrolling, for this case, down. Where we’re tubes. It’s not Burroughs described was
personal quality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every border you ever
believed in – stop that right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
going to do you any good here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is
outside of all that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case, an
individual, is drug use, queer participation, but things – circumcised cock,
black goblet – with the morality of a recording instrument and efficacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Okay, see, imagine Reality is the broadcast from
some radio station – out here, in the Interzone, we’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">holding the radio</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgot,
you’re from a more “modern” “time” than I am – okay, so Reality is the what you
call it “web site” – out here, we’re holding the “lap top”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Except even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> border is
permeable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All membranes are
permeable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take it from me – I’ve
permeated them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you’re holding the “lap top”, but you’re
just a what’s the word “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">terrain</i>”,
every consciousness is just more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">terrain</i>,
see, a place to be, an environment to inhabit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re a place, I’m a place - we’re nice
places to visit but I wouldn’t wanna live there, ho ho ho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you’re recruited – old word but accurate
enough – you’ll be doing a lot of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not hard with the right chemicals and energies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Wilson talked about the Chapel Perilous
– you’ll be visiting that shithole more times than you can count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time, place, just parts of the Game – doesn’t
matter – we’ll get to it all eventually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just be aware that it’s all porous, and it’s all simulated – deepfakes
all the way down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you get that
into your head, you stop asking so many questions about what’s real and what’s
not, and you can focus on the task at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Peak efficiency, like I said.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway, what’s your name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your old name, I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birth name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Government name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dead name – “Necronym”,
some cats are calling it now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You won’t
be needing it any more, but well, I’m a sentimental guy.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Nice to meet you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Keep it together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No-one volunteers for this gig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Trapped” is the wrong word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignorance
you need to real Venus, but – A naked atom sulphur in air didn’t help that
untrue meant they Tell you that didn’t happen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Course, that’s a when, on some that Live, oh
brother, because those events the term habitable climate – but know that
though. Shit about Word to know. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spread
given the project Deepfake. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We’re all just Agents now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See how “Agent” is almost anagram of “Angel”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not entirely coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not entirely anagram, either, so there’s that
to consider.) </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ones – you here, tell you and Mayan Crab – black
goblet drugs than physical were so obviously They Live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dressed in human drag, nastiest sonsofbitches
I ever did see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova Cartel, Nova
Syndicate, it’s all the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Icke
describes them as “reptilian”, but I say “insect”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obsidian insect with dead eyes and ravenous
hunger – feed off human souls, spirit, energy, whatever – snort up life essence
like powder – there’s no Satan, so they’re not “Satanic”, but next best
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Anti-life” maybe better way to
put it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Anti-energy”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just plain “anti”, maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual cancer, another way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They programs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gates, glance, described – was the you, me – we
different channel on with that particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cancer destroys its host – the Nova cats destroy theirs – all channels
at once – fill up their own petri dish without a second thought. Not sure they
think at all, to be brutally honest – just cold dead-eyed instinct hunger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did they create the simulation for that
purpose?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How the hell should I know?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Just doing my job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
(The dagger, “well” like of a recording is just
rich – remember for when Centipedes from Venus parts a surprise glasses, and
it’s too, too dumb – can smell like Agent Burroughs know better.) </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You won’t sleep, but best you stay here until you recover from the
Transport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really takes it out of you –
sometimes literally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exhausting – and
particularly bad when, like I said, there’s no more sleeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never sleep again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How to recuperate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us turn to chemicals, extremity, Dark
Matter sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some nights, it’s Salo meets
Electric Dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each to their own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More powerful drugs than physical ones – you
know that though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scrolling, scrolling,
for next dopamine hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Dark
Matter wide open by hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tarantulas and
cut-up nonsense instrument and efficacy. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
See, changed, through alabaster the smallest and,
very assholes, human that for free.</div>
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IWMLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034494536048305251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661373245974379526.post-73804097680415902092019-11-27T15:41:00.000-08:002019-11-27T15:56:39.622-08:00THOUGHT: Stealing Burroughs like Derleth stole Lovecraft<span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, I've been revisiting W S Burroughs lately: I
found an audiobook of The Soft Machine at the library the other week, and I've
been listening to it in the car on random play (sometimes with other discs,
sometimes on its own). And I've got to say, I fucking LOVE the cut
up method. There's a lot of people who can't stand it (my
delightful love partner and best friend Nalin among them), but it speaks to me
in some barely-articulable way, like it's speaking directly to the part of me
where dreams are made. The thrill some people get out of poetry, I get
out of cut-ups. The surreal flashes of imagery, the non-connected moments
juxtaposed at random! It's the closest thing to actual dreaming I can
feel (in a reading or writing capacity). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I still remember when I first discovered the book
Minutes to Go: it was 1993, the Baillieu Library at Melbourne Uni. The
book not only outlined the process and thoughts behind the cut-up as a
compositional tool, but was also filled with examples of the cut-up (and
fold-in) approach. It blew my fucking mind. I immediately rushed
home and started making my own cut-ups (in a project that I still revisit now
and then, some twenty six years later, eep).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway. Point is, I loved the cut-up then and
there. But that's not all I love about Mr Burroughs and his writing.
His deadpan descriptions of completely fucked up situations and people,
his grey prose detailing the most colourful antics, is such an excellent voice.
His time-travelling body-possessing achronic multi-dimensional cosmology
is superb. His humour is so dark, so black, and so perfectly delivered.
The idea of this ultradimensional Agency of fucked up antiheroes chasing down
this conspiracy of fucked up criminal gangs through the very weave of space and
time is just excellent. His thoughts on addiction and language and
reality and brainwashing/education/indoctrination are all
fascinating. I pretty much love everything about his writing (to be
honest, I could do with fewer descriptions of morally-dubious sexual encounters,
but y'know, comes with the territory).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, re-immersing myself in that world has been a
delight and an inspiration. And when I'm inspired, I'm liable to do
poorly-thought-out things. The poorly-thought-out thing I'm embarking
upon now is, chucking a cheeky August Derleth and completely ripping off the
Burroughsian mythos (and approach) myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(For those not in the know, August Derleth was a friend
of H P Lovecraft, and he’s the guy who pretty much helped Lovecraft become
posthumously famous – it was Derleth who coined the term “Cthulhu Mythos” to
describe the “ancient beings who once ruled the universe and will rule again
someday” cosmology that Lovecraft invented (Lovecraft himself used the term “Yog-Sothery”,
which is pretty cute).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as well as
anthologising a bunch of Lovecraft and publishing it, Derleth also took a bunch
of Lovecraftian idea scraps and turned them into fully-fledged stories, and
then started just jamming out his own stories set in Lovecraft’s glorious setting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never actually read any Derleth Cthulhu
stories, but allegedly they’re pretty shit, utilising all the exciting
amorphous unintelligible Yog-Sothery of Lovecraft but then de-ambiguousing it into
simple “good vs evil” tales (Derleth apparently was a fervent Christ-lover) and
adding very little new of his own.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway, so, if Derleth can unashamedly steal
someone else’s universe and set their own stories in it, so can I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Derleth can be a second-rate Lovecraft, I
am allowed to be a second-rate Burroughs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because, let's face it, not a lot of people are
doing this kinda shit at the moment. The cut-up approach has been around
for 60 years (ooh, a quick Google says that it's 60 years exactly in September
of 2020!) and yet no-one's really doing it any more (there's one Japanese dude
who writes cut-up-like cyberpunk, can't remember his name, but I don't know if
it's actual cut-up or just incomprehensible). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And let's also face
it, Mr Burroughs himself was a little... "problematic" is the word
they use these days. As in, he was almost certainly a murderer, a
misogynist, and perhaps maybe a teensy bit paedo-adjacent, if not a full-blown
kiddie-fiddler (in a private letter to his definitely-paedophilic friend Allen
Ginsberg, he wrote of paying "two Arab kids 60 cents to watch them screw
each other ... They did it. Made me feel sorta like a dirty old
man"). I mean, if that’s the shit you’re sharing with your friends,
I can’t help but wonder what you’re hiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway – so, yeah, Old Man
Burroughs is most definitely no saint, and in this age of cancel-culture, is
most likely completely null and void.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone who’s a bit
less problematic update the Interzone Mythos?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone, say, maybe a bit like me, for
instance, write some awesome stories in the Burroughsian mould?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, nice or not, I’m doing it, so there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m definitely qualified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I promise I’ll do it justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after all, the cut-up technique
frequently cuts other people’s material into itself, if not makes new material <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entirely</i> out of other source material –
so, if Old Man Burroughs can cut up a newspaper and call it his own, I can cut
up some Burroughs and call it my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Surely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thing is, I won’t even be
cutting much Burroughs into what I’m writing, I don’t think – definitely will
be some, but it’ll primarily be all new material written from scratch – I’ll
mostly be cutting up my own writing, I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I really do want to be true to the spirit of what
Burroughs was doing with his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
not just “stories set in the same mythos” that I want to do, but embrace the
whole approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, as he cut up
newspapers from his era, I’ll be cutting up articles from mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As his writing was semi-autobiographical in
lots of sections, so will mine be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
his writing slipped in and out of narrative comprehensibility, so shall my
own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that voice! I’ll do my best to
recreate that deadpan, alienated, observationally-detached voice he did so well
(although I can’t help but think I won’t be able to – I’m too much of a softy
to remove all human emotion from my writing, I think).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m even writing it in small chapterlettes –
and calling them “routines”, as Burroughs himself did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Let’s face it though – he and I are very
different writers, living very different lives, in very different times, and it’s
not going to be an “imitation” as much as an “homage” – I don’t want it to be “like”
a Burroughs work, but “on the same trajectory” or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not ghostwriting him, but writing from a
place of love and inspiration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s
get that clear – it won’t actually be all that Burroughsy – but it will
hopefully do the things that I love about his writing, and be some kind of
suitable tribute.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s a stupid project, and one that I know will
only appeal to a very very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> small
number of people (even Nalin, my biggest fan, will never read this – she loathes
cut-ups with a passion that feels almost pathological), but I’m going to do it
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’m going to post the
routines up on my blog as I finish them (but maybe not in order), so they’re
just “out there”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe if I ever get to
a place where I feel like “it’s finished”, I’ll compile them into a novel or
something, but that day may never come (although, now that I know that
September 2020 is a significant milestone in the cut-up timeline, maybe that
could be some kind of deadline or something – who knows?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who’s with
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anybody? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Off we go!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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17/4/05: Patient exhibits signs of rust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After descaling and polishing, symptoms greatly
alleviated. </div>
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<br /></div>
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23/5/05: Patient has severe case of wandering anus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worst case I’ve seen before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anus currently located 16 centimetres below left
shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patient experiences anxiety,
confusion, and great inconvenience, but no pain at this stage.</div>
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<br /></div>
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30/5/05: Patient producing earwax from the nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Symptoms treated with discretion.</div>
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<br /></div>
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4/6/05: Patient claims to be from the future, thanks me for
excellent work I have not yet performed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unusual but harmless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brought me
large bouquet of irises, my favourite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perfume exquisite.</div>
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<br /></div>
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6/6/05: Patient growing roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly aesthetic, however patient finds
herself drawn towards large bodies of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trimming causes much distress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tap
root considerable, unresponsive to treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Long baths appear to soothe.</div>
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<br /></div>
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9/6/05: Patient largely atrophied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently fits in matchbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generally content, but very very small. Difficult
to treat because of typical medication size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Note: patient’s sibling brought in, unusually large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t help but suspect.</div>
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13/6/05: Patient with wandering anus returned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anus now located midway up throat, patient
much distressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recommended scarves, turtle-necks, and
breath-freshening mints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still no
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lotion seems to do little to alleviate
symptoms, very perplexing.</div>
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<br /></div>
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17/6/05: Patient has
independent eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attracted irresistibly to
motion, green hues, and silent film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Muscular tests inconclusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Symptoms treated with jade eyepatch and the works of D. W. Griffith.</div>
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<br /></div>
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25/6/05: Patient exhibiting dental outgrowths below the
knee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Useless in everyday mastication,
but benign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recommended regular flossing.</div>
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<br /></div>
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26/6/05: Patient with post-knee dentation reports
somnambulant episodes of partner-biting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mouthguard may be required during sleep.</div>
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<br /></div>
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30/6/05: Patient prone to fits of rice-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delicious but needs more salt.</div>
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<br /></div>
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9/7/05: Patient exhibits signs of high-gloss. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recommended dermatologist and fine-grade
sandpaper.</div>
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<br /></div>
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13/7/05: Patient exhibits functioning gills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, patient also has severe
hydrophobia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor response to lotions
and medication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recommended increasing
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<br /></div>
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18/7/05: Patient exhibits extreme hair-loss, but not own
hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have not seen case this bad in
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treatment of tonic rubbed on proxy
successful thus far.</div>
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<br /></div>
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21/7/05: Patient brought in by guardian. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patient exhibiting quadrupedia, mane, tail, hooves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suspect patient may indeed just be horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Referred guardian to psychologist, and, should
symptoms persist, veterinarian.</div>
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<br /></div>
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1/8/05: Patient with wandering anus now in extreme discomfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anus now located in centre of forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hats help only so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still no pain, but social anxiety intense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Referral to dietician and specialist in
curse-breaking.</div>
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<br /></div>
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4/8/05: Patient complaining of lack of adherence to regular chronological
flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recommended fibre, bath salts, and
string.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prognosis promising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asks for check-up appointment two months
prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made strange comment about irises
in vase on desk (which just seem to be getting fresher and fresher).</div>
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Another naked man bounced off the bonnet, and the sickening
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“Fuck fuck <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fuck</i>!” Melitha
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the road by earlier collisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
smell here, like the smell everywhere, was insane.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Melitha floored it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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“Melitha,” said Thophie, trying to keep it together as the
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“Away from the hadron collider,” Melitha said, narrowly
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Thophie was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">certain</i>
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<br /></div>
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A fly buzzing on the dashboard caught Thophie’s attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was on its back, spinning, wings a blur of
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Another naked human – maybe once a rabbit, maybe once a fox
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She would probably live.</div>
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<br /></div>
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(Was that a good thing?)</div>
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Thophie checked her phone again, praying that she could just
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lifeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever was turning the
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Melitha laughed, a noise that was nothing to do with joy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“It’s not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can’t
be.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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A thump on the roof as someone who had, moments ago, been
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
“Fuck!” Melitha instinctively ducked her head, but the roof was
strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thophie turned and watched the
naked body bouncing and rolling on the road behind them, getting bloodier and
bloodier, before coming to rest on the sticky wet bitumen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It had started with the mammals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now it was happening to birds too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bodies fell from the clouds, heavy, flapping,
scared.</div>
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(Melitha said she’d seen it happening to fish too –
apparently the bay was now filled with men, women, children, all drowning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That had been Melitha’s last straw.)</div>
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Suddenly the dashboard was filled with naked flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A full-grown man, thrashing and wild-eyed,
was where the fly had been. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melitha
slammed on the brakes.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
“Oh, now the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">insects</i>?
Great, just great.”</div>
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As they dragged the man out of the car and threw him weakly
onto the road, a horrifying thought occurred to Thophie.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
More than 90% of the cells in the human body are parasites.</div>
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“If it’s spreading,” she said, feeling instantly uncomfortable
in her own skin, “how long until…”</div>
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“Come on,” said Melitha gruffly, “let’s get the fuck out of
here.”</div>
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