Boomtime, 5 Aftermath 3169 (Maladay)
... Suddenly the place became devoid of light. Then an utter silence enveloped them, and a great stillness was felt. Then came a blinding flash of intense light, as though their very psyches had gone nova. Then vision returned.
The two were dazed and neither moved nor spoke for several minutes. They looked around and saw that the bowlers were frozen like statues in a variety of comic positions, and that a bowling ball was steadfastly anchored to the floor only inches from the pins that it had been sent to scatter. The two looked at each other, totally unable to account for the phenomenon. The condition was one of suspension, and one noticed that the clock had stopped.
There walked into the room a chimpanzee, shaggy and grey about the muzzle, yet upright to his full five feet, and poised with natural majesty. He carried a scroll and walked to the young men.
"Gentlemen," he said, "why does Pickering's Moon go about in reverse orbit? Gentlemen, there are nipples on your chests; do you give milk? And what, pray tell, Gentlemen, is to be done about Heisenberg's Law?" He paused. "SOMEBODY HAD TO PUT ALL OF THIS CONFUSION HERE!"
And with that he revealed his scroll. It was a diagram, like a yin- yang with a pentagon on one side and an apple on the other. And then he exploded and the two lost consciousness.
Go read the rest.
Meanwhile, on Blogshares, I'm turning minds to goo! Hail Eris!
Setting Orange, 3 Aftermath 3169
Boomtime, 73 Bureaucracy 3169
There's TONS of interesting stuff here; I'll be going back to dig through the archives as time permits.
Prickle-Prickle, 65 Bureaucracy 3169
"Kick your own ass. The universe neither cares about you nor recognizes any
obligation to you. It is fixed and blind, a mad robot programmed to kill.
You are free and seeing; you must outwit it at every poor turn."
Prickle-Prickle, 60 Bureaucracy 3169
That is all,
Your Humble Pope - Gregoire XXIII
Boomtime, 58 Bureaucracy 3169
The horrifying part is how thoroughly and frequently we can be duped.
I've also got to wonder just what side effects we'll see from all the cognitive dissonance in California, where some of the same republicans who wanted Clinton run out on a rail for cheating on his wife now find themselves just as aggressively supporting a guy who's already up against accusations of statutory rape, supporting naziism, and groping everything in sight.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ...
...the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?
