Invading Books on Tape (ratboy I)

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Lovers.
Romeo.
Juliet.
Dressed in red and black and white.
Some point in their lives.
The wind and the clouds.
So much happens.
It's unrecordable.
But it does happen.

I remember a physicist told me about hard drives the size of buildings, recording data from physics experiments and deleting it the next instant. Repeating the process until they find a signature pattern for the reaction they're looking for and then freeze it, stop everything and hold on to all the data for that one particular moment.

The whistling of the pipes sounds like the bugle boy for an army of ghouls and ghosts.

I need a bigger space. I need a city with an edge, with something different outside it. You can walk from the exterior to the interior. But nobody moves like that anymore. Nobody moves like her. She was fatalistic. She read virginia woolf a lot. Her thoughts, to her, were little echoes in the box of her skull before it would all go black for her eternity. And yet it wouldn't even. For she would not be there to experience a blackness. What of the thoughts of the aboriginal peoples. Of the neanderthals. Of wooly mammoths. We will never have their thoughts.

People always want to limit the amount of 'personality' in the universe. They will act like it's odd for an animal to have a personality, meaning a uniqueness, but all animals have personality, meaning personhood, being an experiencer.

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from Ratboy, released December 1, 2010

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