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Abal: Before the Sun

       i. Island   
Morning here is a brightly lit kitchen  where a redheaded woman  drinks black coffee and smokes by the window,   
half asleep but eyes open  for the mail boat and for the sun.  Her lips taste like salt.   
Things are less real out here;  the walls move with the wind  and light shoots out from the window —   
to the mainland, where men live, and farther:  to where the sea is distant and the memory of her  is worth no less than everything.   
 
       ii. Ma

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In the Year of Our Lord 1921Aug. 2  Two weeks out.   
This far north  the sun barely touches the horizon  before it rises again.   
No wind now for three days.   
We have not seen the skipper since friday night,  but we can hear him screaming from his cabin:  "The sea has many gods!"   
The sea is oddly calm;  his voice carries for miles.   
    
Aug. 13  No fish.   
This morning we dragged up  the bloated corpse of a sea lion.  The first mate stared long at its body  before he decided that it was not a mermaid  and we threw it back overboard In the Year of Our Lord 1921
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I want a third pill

Journal Entry: Thu May 1, 2008, 2:08 AM
I want a third pill


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»But the choice between the blue and the red pill is not really a choice between illusion and reality. Of course the Matrix is a machine for fictions, but these are fictions which already structure our reality: if you take away from our reality the symbolic fictions that regulate it, you lose reality itself.



»I want a third pill.



»So what is the third pill? Definitely not some kind of transcendental pill which enables a fake fast-food religious experience, but a pill that would enable me to perceive not the reality behind the illusion but the reality in illusion itself.«


  — Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (Sophie Fiennes, 2006).



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I was watching Tin Man, SciFi's ›re-imagining‹ of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, yesterday. It made me think of something I've always found interesting about The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939), and which Žižek mentions in passing in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: even after Oz is exposed as a fraud, he still solves all Dorothy's and her companions' problems. The reality in illusion, indeed.


Of course, it was all just a dream. At least until the sequel (the sadly underrated Return to Oz (Murch, 1985)).



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There is a website, raquo.net, whose only purpose is to list different encodings of ›»‹. For some reason, I find this very comforting.



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Be seeing you.



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  • Current Age: 8.20497e08 seconds (give or take) on 9 Jan 2008.
  • Current Residence: c. 59° N, 14° E
  • Interests: BtVS, Poetry, Religion, History (esp. Swedish), B5, &c.
  • Favourite movie: Cube, Dark City, F for Fake, INLAND EMPIRE, The Trouble with Harry, &c
  • Favourite band or musician: Tori Amos, Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Ladytron, Pink Floyd, &c.
  • Favourite artist: dreamer (old skool, huh?), Dave McKean, Jan Stenmark, Toulouse-Lautrec.
  • Favourite poet or writer: L. Cohen, PKD, T.S. Eliot, Å. Ericsdotter, C. Falkenland, S. Plath, T. Tranströmer, RAW.
  • Favourite style or digital art: www.mono211.com/st-00/
  • Operating System: Slackware Linux 10.0 & 12.0, AROS, AmigaOS, Haiku, MacOS X, ReactOS, Ultrix, WinCE/XP/Vista.
  • MP3 player of choice: Software: Amarok. Hardware: iRiver.
  • Shell of choice: bash, AmigaSHELL.
  • Wallpaper of choice: Portia Frickin' Perez
  • Skin of choice: Choice?
  • Favourite game: A Mind Forever Voyaging, Mass Effect, skate, and SW: KotOR I & II.
  • Favourite gaming platform: Amiga, GBA, N64, NES, SNES, and Xbox 360.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Hobbes, Death, Faló, Fray, V.
  • Personal Quote: Remember: KING KONG died for your sins.
  • Tools of the Trade: Code: GCC, GNU Nano, Perl, PHP; art: the Gimp; poetry: GNU Nano, Kate, various perl/bash scripts

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Wow, just toyed with your CSS editor and it's amazing! Well done and thanks for the tool. You should take a screenshot so it could get some :+favlove: and the like...

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`xork:iconxork: Aug 1, 2007, 1:33:57 AM
Now you've made me wish there were a Paperinik emoticon. ;)

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I would love to see this town in the autumn. I think Crabbeville in autumn would look quite magnificent. I would have made tiny little leaves — oak, poplar, maple, chestnut — and spread them across the town of Crabbeville. Magnificent.
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`xork:iconxork: Jun 29, 2007, 3:24:44 AM
Aw, shucks. All I did was not piss anyone off for a few years -- well, not too much. Anyone can do that.

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I would love to see this town in the autumn. I think Crabbeville in autumn would look quite magnificent. I would have made tiny little leaves — oak, poplar, maple, chestnut — and spread them across the town of Crabbeville. Magnificent.
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`bananaprincess:iconbananaprincess: May 22, 2007, 9:38:20 PM
This one made me think of your comic:
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