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Excerpt from Rough Draft
Jun. 10th, 2004 03:00 pmMiddle of a conversation for all of you. I’m happy where this is going and what I’ve got done on it, but here’s just a fragment for you. Please discuss. And all you LiveJournal junkies? Would it kill you to jump on my lists? >:p
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“I can hear cel phones, shortwave, walkie-talkies, all of it. My brain is constantly humming with the voices and noises, people whispering love to each other, secret military transmissions, music from Pakistan, it’s all in the air around us. Which means it’s all through my body and all in my head. It would be enough to drive a normal man mad.”
“So how do you handle it?”
“I’m not a normal man. And I’m already mad. It’s just a matter of training yourself to filter the noise and listen to the sound you want, you know? Like how people can listen in on a single conversation across a crowded restaurant.”
“So, you can do this with ambient signals, right? What about things like the internet? Can you get on, through wi-fi?”
“Wi-fi is cake. But I also have over 15,000 dial-up numbers for around the world in my head at any given moment. All I have to do is stick my finger in the jack and think one really hard.”
“You’re shitting me.”
“Nope. My body, as a result of my…unfortunate condition which we spoke of earlier…carries a vaguely controllable electric charge at any given moment.”
“How do you log on?”
“How do you breathe?”
“What about DSL?”
“Still need a modem for it, I’m afraid. But I gotta be careful with that…T1, cable, all of it. That shit’s like a drug to me. I get too much and it’s hard to get out. And hitting 56k after that is like begging for heroin and being given a menthol light.”
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There you go. Trust me, it’s going somewhere. And it’s been somewhere.
benjamin sTone
Urbana, Illinois, 2:56pm
Current Music: “Yuen and Kong” from the HARD-BOILED soundtrack
Last Movie: Rewatched BOONDOCK SAINTS, gonna watch MY SASSY GIRL
Current Book: Christ, what’s a book? DaVinci code remains unfinished, picking up speed in Ha Jin’s IN THE POND.
benjamin writes to compositemolecules@yahoogroups.com
Everybody else comments at dead-horse@yahoogroups.com
Also archived online at www.livejournal.com/users/benchilada
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“I can hear cel phones, shortwave, walkie-talkies, all of it. My brain is constantly humming with the voices and noises, people whispering love to each other, secret military transmissions, music from Pakistan, it’s all in the air around us. Which means it’s all through my body and all in my head. It would be enough to drive a normal man mad.”
“So how do you handle it?”
“I’m not a normal man. And I’m already mad. It’s just a matter of training yourself to filter the noise and listen to the sound you want, you know? Like how people can listen in on a single conversation across a crowded restaurant.”
“So, you can do this with ambient signals, right? What about things like the internet? Can you get on, through wi-fi?”
“Wi-fi is cake. But I also have over 15,000 dial-up numbers for around the world in my head at any given moment. All I have to do is stick my finger in the jack and think one really hard.”
“You’re shitting me.”
“Nope. My body, as a result of my…unfortunate condition which we spoke of earlier…carries a vaguely controllable electric charge at any given moment.”
“How do you log on?”
“How do you breathe?”
“What about DSL?”
“Still need a modem for it, I’m afraid. But I gotta be careful with that…T1, cable, all of it. That shit’s like a drug to me. I get too much and it’s hard to get out. And hitting 56k after that is like begging for heroin and being given a menthol light.”
---
There you go. Trust me, it’s going somewhere. And it’s been somewhere.
benjamin sTone
Urbana, Illinois, 2:56pm
Current Music: “Yuen and Kong” from the HARD-BOILED soundtrack
Last Movie: Rewatched BOONDOCK SAINTS, gonna watch MY SASSY GIRL
Current Book: Christ, what’s a book? DaVinci code remains unfinished, picking up speed in Ha Jin’s IN THE POND.
benjamin writes to compositemolecules@yahoogroups.com
Also archived online at www.livejournal.com/users/benchilada
