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    ÉricÉric
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      G3 (short for GGG, which was shorter for Good God Gordy) asked as if to himself “Anyone met the Fisherman yet?”

      :fleuron:

      Gremwick put down the Psychic Politics book he’d taken for his assignment, his five words written on a lemon coloured sticker:

      Oof… here we go, “state — briefly — fisherman — library — pigeons”… There’s a bit of challenge here. he sighed, mostly uninspired.
      “Perhaps I should have stayed with the easy words like ‘more, is, less, think, true’”.

      :fleuron:

      “Do you mean the Fisherman’s coming? How long has it been already?” Ann started to count briefly on her chubby fingers.
      “Well, I guess if you’d be more assiduous in Pr. Rose’s class in bird divination, you’d found out that the pigeons’ flight was unmistakably precise on that matter.”
      “I tried, believe me, I tried to pay more attention,…” Ann said, “but frankly, I prefer direct experience of the broom cupboard to the draughty corridors of the library…”
      “Oh, I should say I’m a bit disappointed at you; I’ve always believed the state of dustiness would have been an incentive to you rather than a deterrent.”

      “Don’t underestimate the incentive of detergent” Monica said almost mischievously under her breath.

      #2047

      In reply to: Scrying the Word Cloud

      TracyTracy
      Participant

        Dark….
        common?
        Keep images;
        hear others…

        Eyes

        Recent movements.
        Heard,
        Follow…
        Kept questions.

        Individuals

        Library ~
        Thanks, come fact!
        Littleton smile:
        deal?
        feeling… rather….

        Cat!
        Ones eye…

        Accept self.

        #2547

        In reply to: Strings of Nines

        TracyTracy
        Participant

          Ann wasn’t altogether sure what Godfrey meant when he referred to her new interest in continuity. Ann had always been interested in connecting links, yes, of that there was no doubt, but with so very many connecting links, and so many possible strings of connecting links, with so many possible divergences into yet more strings of connecting links, Ann really couldn’t fathom how anyone could possibly keep track of all those threads of continuity. Even a seemingly discontinuous assortment of unconnected links, once connected into a nonsense thread, became another continuity string. Furthermore, Ann continued ~ in a continuous fashion ~ to ponder, if everything is connected, then what, in actuality, was all the fuss about continuity? What exactly then WAS this concept of continuity? It seemed to Ann to be more like a string of barbed wire, or one of those flimsy but effective electric wire fences, boxing in the free flow of continuity, so that the objectively perceived continuity stayed rigidly within the confines of the preconceived tale. The inner landscape knew no such boundaries, although admittedly the inner landscape was far too vast to map.

          Ann smiled to herself as she imagined trying to push pins into various inner landscape locations, tying strings from one to another, in an effort to map and label the inner continuity connections. Of course she was imagining it in a visual manner, because it was hard to imagine all those connections and strings being invisible and not taking up any space, and before long Ann’s inner map of pins and strings quickly resembled a tangle of overcooked spaghetti, perilously speckled with sharp pointy pins.

          The image of the glutinous tangle dotted with sharp shiny pointers led Ann off on another tangent, but it was a tangent that soon became utter nonsense. Or was it, she mused. Perhaps it was those symbolically sharp pointy bits that in fact pointed out the immense variety of potential other continuity threads to choose from. Indeed, it could easily be said that having one of her characters dumped in Siberia in the previous story, painful though it was, was not unlike being pricked by a pin amidst the tangle of sticky pasta, a brilliantly effective pointer towards unlimited new directions.

          Whichever way she looked at it (and Ann was aware that she might have gone down a side string) she simply couldn’t comprehend how anyone on this side of the veil could possibly even begin to understand the ramifications of the concept of continuity at all. Or how there could ever conceivably be a lack of it.

          What was really intriguing Ann at this particular juncture of the experimental exploration of the story was the concept of the World View Library. This wasn’t unconnected to the continuity issue, far from it, it was all tied in (Ann sniggered at the unintentional pun) and connected. There were any infinite amount of potential continuity threads leading from, say, one persons desire or intent, to a particular world view in the library.

          AHA shouted Ann, who at that moment had an ‘aha’ moment. Pfft, it’s gone, she sighed moments later.

          Ann tried to catch the wisp of an idea that had flitted through her awareness. She had a visual impression of the library, endlessly vast and marvellously grand, with countless blindfolded characters dashing through, grabbing random pages or sentences, bumping into each other, snatching at phrases willy nilly, dropping notes along the way, and racing back out again into the ether. A stray thought here, a picture there, a name or a date, all on separate bits of crumbled paper clutched in the sweaty palms of the blindfolded characters as they rushed headlong back to their own realities to proudly share the new clues. Like magpies they were, snatching at anything that glittered brightly enough.

          :magpie: :magpie: :magpie: :magpie: :magpie: :magpie:

          “I thought you said they were blindfolded?” interrupted Franlise.

          Ann ignored the interruption, and continued ~ in a continuous fashion ~ to ponder the imagery of the library.

          What the undisciplined purloiners of random snatches didn’t notice on their pell-mell excursions into the library were the characters in the library who weren’t wearing blindfolds. They smiled down from the galleries, calmly watching from above the mayhem that the news of the unlimited library access had occasioned, chortling at the scenes of chaos below. They smiled indulgently, for they too had first visited the library blindfolded, snatching at this and that, and racing home again to inspect the booty; they too had fretted and pondered over the enigmas of the incomplete snippets. Eventually (or not, it was after all a choice), they had bravely removed the blindfolds, slowed the mad race into a sedate stroll through the library, opened their eyes and looked around, sure of the way back home now, and not in a desperate hurry to blast in, snatch anything, and run back home.

          After awhile, they began to realize that all the enchanting glittering jewels scattered around to catch their eye would still be there later, there was no urgency to grab them all at once ~ although, as Ann reminded herself, that too was a choice ~ some may well choose to be eternally snatching at glittering jewels.

          Ann frowned slightly and wondered if she’d lost the thread altogether, and then decided that it didn’t matter if she had.

          It was a choice, therefore, to remove ones blindfold, and stroll through the library ~ a choice to perhaps choose a book, sit down at a polished oak table and open it, a choice to stay and read the book, rather than ripping out a page and dashing back home. That would be one choice of continuity, a coming together of strings.

          Ann wondered whether that would then be called a cable, or a rope ~ well perhaps not a rope, she decided, that had other associations entirely ~ but a cable, yes, that had associations of reliable and regular communications. There were always strings of continuity, then, strings of connecting links, between anything and everything, but when one stopped dashing about clutching at the sparkley bits, one might form a cable.

          Or not, of course. Thin strings of continuity and connections were not ‘less than’ thick cables of reliable and regular communications. It has to be said though, Ann reluctantly admitted, that thick cables often made more sense.

          She decided to hit send before embarking on a pondering of the meaning of Sense.

          #2179

          The scene was recreated, the characters had not disappeared… They were only shifting.

          The cloud puffed words out:

          “mouse escape sort library getting silly
          finally play gloria added sometimes coon
          speak skull try mongoose open later read
          otherwise mad”

          Note to self: premature shifting can be traumatic.

          #2034

          In reply to: Scrying the Word Cloud

          TracyTracy
          Participant

            Library ‘light’ words,
            Party step ~ hope real.
            Knew, done: liked room.
            Months dead portal getting human:
            Obviously involved!
            Wanted:
            Away Case.

            #2029

            In reply to: Scrying the Word Cloud

            TracyTracy
            Participant

              A moment later she fell in the pool, slipping on some loose change. The part had been a free for all, and her host had alot to answer for. lots of drinks had been given to the grey goat and mavis didn’t give a shit. she meant during the days that followed to find salome, to be able to find some meaning to the story about leonora. It was a fine day for a plane ride she thought as she waited in line feeling excited until she noticed a red working lamp advertising love, but she never noticed how much easier it was during the news. The finn connection had her smiling as she thought to try creating calm and stay present and breathe as she looked around and noticed her arms were far from normal. suddenly shhe was walking away. the goat forgotten but wrick managed to save the library which was full of fresh air known only to sri who was to sort it all out although he laughed about the wood fire of the 19 planets and she was behind herself all the way

              (oops, said Bea, I forgot to indicate which of the words was from the word cloud and which were mine. Oh well, never mind….)

              #1146

              “Oh My God” exclaimed Bea. “I had a dream about the DOOR!”

              “Oh, well done! The question is, did you remember it?” asked Leonora.

              “As a matter of fact, Leo, I did!” replied Bea with a happy smile. “As a matter of fact, although I’m not too sure how factual matter really is, but anyway, I did remember the dream, and I wrote it all down.”

              “Gosh, up early this morning, weren’t you?” asked Leo, who was sipping coffee at the kitchen table and watching the sun come up over the mountains through the open door.

              “Oh I didn’t write it down this morning, silly! I wrote it all down last week.”

              Leo placed her cup on the table and rubbed her eyes, frowning. “Wait a minute, let me get this straight…..”

              Bea laughed ~ she was in rather a jolly mood, despite the early hour. “I had the dream last week, Leo, but I only just realized this morning that the dream was about THE DOOR

              “So what did you learn about the door, then?”

              Bea frowned. “Well I’m not really sure. But it seemed so significant because it was that scary door, you know, the dreams I’ve been having for years about that door in that bedroom that’s too scary to get near, never mind go through….would you like to read it? Maybe you can interpret it for me.”

              “If I must” sighed Leonora “You better pour me another cup of coffee then and pass me those cigarettes.”

              Leonora read from Bea’s Dream Journal:

              I was sorting winter clothes out on an upstairs landing of a cottagey gabled house,
              and decided to use the upstairs bedroom instead of the downstairs one.
              The bedroom was a recurring dream one, gabled attic with dormer windows kind of room.
              Then I saw the door and remembered this was the door I was always too terrified
              in dreams to open; it was so scary that I always wanted to use this bedroom
              but never could because of that terrifying door and whatever lay beyond it.

              “Didn’t you do a waking dream and go through that door?” Leonora asked. “Oh, yes here is is…”

              Remembering that I had done a waking dream and gone beyond the door once,
              I marched up to the door, flung it open and strode through.
              Suddenly an almost overpowering fear and dread stopped me in my tracks
              but I carried on anyway.

              “Oh, bloody well done, Bea! Good for you, girl!” Leonora could be a bit waspish at times, but she was a kind old soul underneath.

               It was a bit like a old slightly shabby but once grand hotel foyer, high ceilings
              (not the same as when I went through in the waking dream, which was then rows
              of closed doors on either side).  The foyer opened out on the left into a large old
              fashioned restaurant dining room, with one person over on the far side sitting at
              a table.  I carried on straight ahead through opaque etched glass double doors
              onto an upstairs outdoor terrace.  There was a city scene below.  On the left
              was a shallow ornately shaped ornamental pool.

              “Reminds me a bit of our trip to Barcelona, this does, eh” Leo commented.

              “Yeah, I’m sure that had something to do with the gargoyle imagery” replied Bea.

              A woman squeezed past me holding a small thick book and I knew she was
              going to jump off the terrace which was several storeys up.  She collapsed into
              the pool, writhing backwards, baring a flat white breast and dropping the book.

              “Flat breast, hahah Bea, that weren’t you then, obviously, was it!”

              Bea chuckled. “Not bloody likely! I reckon that bit slipped in the dream because I can’t find a comfortable bra lately”

              “You and me both” replied Leo. She continued reading from the journal.

              I picked up the book, and somehow ended up with two books, which seemed like guide books. I couldn’t hold onto the two books with the creature in my hand, which was weird, like a very heavy small furry grey reptile, or gargoyle.

              “Maybe it was a baby dragon?”

              “Don’t say that!” retorted Bea, who had a horror of dragons. “The thought did cross my mind too, though” she admitted.

              I was holding it with one hand round its middle and the fat grey belly of it
              was bulging out under my fingers.  It was unbelievably heavy for such a small creature
              and I didn't want to hold it, so I passed it to a boy. (Twice I was holding the creature,
              and twice I passed it to the boy, but I can't recall the other time)
              Back inside the building, I followed the boy down a big wide staircase that
              curved round to the right at a landing below.  I started to fall down the stairs and
              knew it was because of the book that I was holding that the woman had been holding
              when she collapsed into the pool, so I threw the book down the stairs to save myself,
              and felt the tumbling down from the books perspective, although I stayed in
              the same place, clutching the banister.

              “Well I am amazed that you remembered so much, Bea! Going through the doors and finding the books reminds me of Jane’s Library you know”. Leo was starting to go into an altered state.

              “Are you going into an altered state, Leo?” asked Bea. “Are you channeling Juani Ramirez again?”

              “The creature, the gargoyle, was representing ‘a different species of awareness, of consciousness’” continued Leonora, as Bea hastily started taking notes. Leo wouldn’t remember what she’d said while she was channeling Juani, so it was essential that Bea record what was said.

              “The weight was a marker to help you recall the creature, as well as being symbolic of denseness”

              Bea couldn’t help making a snirking noise. Dense eh, she said under her breath.

              “The door” continued Leonora “Is a signpost, a marker.”

              Just then the phone rang, snapping Leonora out of the trance. Bea picked up the telephone, but there was nobody there.

              “Pffft” said Bea.

              “More coffee?”

              #1095
              Jib
              Participant

                She put her hands on his balls, and her hungry look said more to him to any love whispers he had ever heard before.
                “I love your 2 big pink balls”.

                Noise in the corridor.
                Finnley looked suddenly afraid.
                Lady Theresa’s coming”…
                They fumbled upon each other, trying to get back their clothes but could only half do it before she entered the library.
                She gasped at the scene before her eyes.
                Finnley! what on earth?..”

                #1093
                TracyTracy
                Participant

                  “….he took care of Finnley in the library in no time.” Becky read, wondering just what “took care of” meant in this case.

                  #1092
                  Jib
                  Participant

                    Finnley’s wig had fallen over the carpet, and actually she was bald. Her false eyebrows had fallen also and revealed a neat and gracious line of feminine eyebrow.

                    — You’re a far better catch Finnley than I could have hoped for with Lady Theresa… I don’t regret our encounter in the library.

                    He was titillating her nipples thoughtlessly and pinching them at times triggering an expression of pleasure on Finnley’s face.
                    She was beautiful after… well, what they did.

                    #1090
                    Jib
                    Participant

                      Hector suddenly felt outside of his body and became only a spectator of his own life.
                      It was like he was a master in karate (whatever that was) and he took care of Finnley in the library in no time.

                      He realized Finnley had a real breast, and quite generous… A surge of adrenaline overflowed his mind and all he remembered after that was the feeling of the carpet on his naked knees and the generous forms of Finnleys in his hands.

                      #1089
                      TracyTracy
                      Participant

                        “Damn it, where’s Phlynn!” Finnley muttered under his breath. “Plan 57 isn’t bloody working! We won’t be able to lure Sir Coon into the library now with the promise of a little clandestine titilation, we will have to use force. But I can’t do it alone! Where is PHLYNN?!”

                        #1088
                        TracyTracy
                        Participant

                          “That sinister Finnley had plans to do away with Sir Hector, in the library, before dinner.”

                          “Perhaps I should amend that entry”, Becky mused.

                          “What’s that you said, Sugar Plum?” asked Gayesh, nuzzling her ear.

                          “Oh bugger off, Gayesh, can’t you see I’m busy?” Becky snapped, moving her chair away from the amourous doctor. “I have to attend to this before it all gets changed. Now shut up and back off.”

                          The unflappable Gayesh smiled, and poured the powdery contents of a vial into her drink, and waited.

                          #1087
                          TracyTracy
                          Participant

                            Phlynn was late. “You just can’t get the staff these days” grumbled T’Eggy. Where was the dratted man? All she wanted was a quick leg-over before dinner, and now that Hector wasn’t coming after all, she could have spent more time with Phlynn.

                            Unbeknownst to T’Eggy, Phylnn was in the stables, struggling into his pistachio green jewel studded sari. He was late for the rendezvous in the library, and in his haste to don the disguise of a sultry voluptuous sultana, the endless yards of fabric wrapped around his long legs in a hopeless tangle.

                            #1083
                            TracyTracy
                            Participant

                              Finnley was momentarily non-plussed. Sir Hector had seen through his disguise almost immediately. Finnley had assumed that Sir Coon’s notorious reputation as a rampant ladies man, unable to resist anything in a skirt and stockings, would ensure that he would follow Finessa (aka Finnley) into the library “toot sweet”.

                              #1081
                              TracyTracy
                              Participant

                                As soon as Finnley was out of sight of the potting shed, he ran like the wind towards the servants quarters below stairs. There wasn’t a moment to lose. Hector Coon would be arriving soon at Pilston and Plan 57 was about to be launched. Quickly Finnley unbuttoned his butlers jacket, dropped his sober grey trousers and inched himself into the pink tutu. Now all he had to do was lure the unsuspecting Sir Coon into the library….

                                #1080
                                TracyTracy
                                Participant

                                  That sinister Finnley had plans to do away with Sir Hector, in the library, before dinner.

                                  #1713

                                  In reply to: Synchronicity

                                  ÉricÉric
                                  Keymaster

                                    :mouse: A rat/mouse sync with Tracy’s last comment
                                    Got an email from my mum this morning calling me “the Rat” (an affectionate term coming from “library rat” as I was devouring books after books when I was a kid). Of course, it’s the Chinese rat year too :D
                                    Another thing I found this morning on a random website was the name Smintheus (Σμίνθειος) an epithet of Apollo, sun god of the Greeks, possibly derived from the Smintha, a city near Troy, or from sminthos; the mouse (- exterminator/protector). :weather-clear:

                                    ( ref ) [Footnote 7: An epithet derived from σμίνθος, the Phrygian name
                                    for a mouse: either because Apollo had put an end to a plague
                                    of mice among that people, or because a mouse was thought
                                    emblematic of augury…]

                                    #1686

                                    In reply to: Synchronicity

                                    Jib
                                    Participant

                                      Hahaha so many comments on the morning when I wake up!!!
                                      I had a few synchs this morning, the first was with a dream in which I was seeing the number 533 and I was laughing as it was a combination of 53 (me) and 33 (Elias)… and I realized people couldn’t understand it :)

                                      Well this morning, when I opened my mails, I found 2 mails, one was posted at 5:33 !!!
                                      And the second one was posted at 9:21… I thought of Francie and as I called her Finn yesterday when I YM’ed her, I was surprised by her last comment in which Finn was speaking…
                                      And in the mail (the 9:21 one), the subject was : “The biggest dog”… and when I opened the attachment it was a powerpoint document speaking about the dog of Mr FLYNN, that was an English mastiff and was called Hercules, just grew bigger and bigger from his birth on…
                                      Apparently this is a hoax , but I thought the synch was really fynn ;))

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