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 ===== The Book as Manifesto =====
-While [[mark_scout|Mark S.]] is at work, Ricken and [[devon|Devon]] leave an advanced copy of the book on his doorstep. Mark's neighbor, [[harmony_cobel|Mrs. Selvig]] secretly steals the book from the porch and brings it to the [[svr_d_floor|SVR'D floor]] of Lumon to have [[seth_milchick|Seth Milchick]] examine it for any hidden messages to Mark.
+While [[mark_scout|Mark S.]] is at work, Ricken and [[devon|Devon]] leave an advanced copy of the book on his doorstep. Mark's neighbor, [[harmony_cobel|Mrs. Selvig]] secretly steals the book from the porch and brings it to the [[severed_floor]] of Lumon to have [[seth_milchick|Seth Milchick]] examine it for any hidden messages to Mark.
-Following [[helena_eagan|Helly R.]]'s failed attempt to escape the SVR'D floor, the book is forgotten by Milchick and is soon discovered by the [[macrodata_refinement|Macrodata Refinement]] team. Instead of following procedure and turning the book in to Milchick, innie Mark S. keeps it in his desk, perhaps because it bears an inscription from Ricken mentioning him by name.
+Following [[helena_eagan|Helly R.]]'s failed attempt to escape the severed floor, the book is forgotten by Milchick and is soon discovered by the [[macrodata_refinement|Macrodata Refinement]] team. Instead of following procedure and turning the book in to Milchick, innie Mark S. keeps it in his desk, perhaps because it bears an inscription from Ricken mentioning him by name.
-> TO MARK, INTREPID CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MIND. – Ricken
+>TO MARK, INTREPID CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MIND. – Ricken <WRAP attribution>[[The You You Are]] (18:25)</WRAP>
 Over the next several days and weeks, innies Mark S. and [[dylan_george|Dylan G.]] both secretly take turns reading from the book. The text becomes a kind of manifesto for a workers' revolt, inspiring the MDR team to attempt a daring plan to trigger the [[overtime_contingency_protocol|Overtime Contingency]] and awaken three of the four of them while outside of Lumon. Page 197, in particular, slaps.
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 > Should you find yourself contorting to fit a system, dear reader, stop, and ask if it's truly you that must change, or the system.
->Chapter 1 It's said that as a child, Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy by slamming his head in a piano. Don't worry, my research for this book has proven the claim untrue. As your heart rate settles though, consider the power an author, heretofore referred to as "me," can hold over a reader, heretofore called "you." But what, indeed, //is//... "you?"
+>**Chapter 1**
+>It's said that as a child, Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy by slamming his head in a piano. Don't worry, my research for this book has proven the claim untrue. As your heart rate settles though, consider the power an author, heretofore referred to as "me," can hold over a reader, heretofore called "you." But what, indeed, //is//... "you?" All creatures from the leaping cat to the cowering shrew think of themselves as "you," a logical center for the universe. Yet the cat eats the shrew, and we, like Schrödinger, live on to wonder what it means.
-> All creatures from the leaping cat to the cowering shrew think of themselves as "you," a logical center for the universe. Yet the cat eats the shrew, and we, like Schrödinger, live on to wonder what it means.
 > Our job is to taste free air. Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but, my friends, the hour is yours.
->Chapter 5: The You You Are, by Ricken Hale
+>**Chapter 5: The You You Are**
 >Destiny - an acrostic poem experience by the author Ricken Hale
 >**D** is for dreaming, the start of it all
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->Chapter 12: On Learning To Be Emotionally Nude In Front Of My Wife
+>**Chapter 12: On Learning To Be Emotionally Nude In Front Of My Wife**
 >A partial reconstruction of the last page of chapter 8 of The You You Are by Ricken Hale, with possible content suggestions.
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 >[The gift was not received well. The] mundane meal wheel keeps spinning, and when it stops, it [lands in this humble Italian farmhouse on the] all too familiar chicken. How to stop the meal wheel, give…typical cure for this monotony would be to add variety, but [it was verboten to add] another protein choice to the dining gauntlet per [Fabie’s parents. So I suggested we] subtract. Do you even need dinner? [We need food as fuel] to live - but should we [center] all social [intercourse around the consumption of food? That requires money, and in this world, to have money, one must have a job. And I did not have either of those things.]
+>A fuller reconstruction of the first chapter of [[The You You Are]] as excerpted in [[The Kier Chronicle]]:
+>(All typos as presented by the //Chronicle//.)
+>It's said that as a child, Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy by slamming his head in a piano. Don't worry. My reseaerch for this book has proven the claim untrue. As your heart rate settles, though, consider the power an author, which we'll refer to as "Me" can hold over a reader, heretofore called "You." But what, indeed, is "You?" What is the empirical definition of the word? How can "You" mean different things to millions of readers around a vast Earth? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we stop wars? To paraphrase the great Stephen Hawking, "It is better to think of the world in terms of mathematics than poetry, because publishers will often ignore great poems, but scientists are required by law to publish correct math problems."
+>As such, let's break down the lingustic term "YOU" in Dr. Hawking's preferred language: Mathematics. At its core, the word "YOU" is made up of 3 letters: Y, O, and U. I have no doubt my more astute readers have already noticed that the English pronunciation of the letter "U" (yoo) corresponds exactly to the original word: "You." What a funny and mad language we speak, in which "U" is part of "You," and yet also its own whole. Please take note of this fact, as it will be important in the following paragraph.
+>So let us remove "U" from "You," and see what happens. If we remove the letter, we are left with "Yo," a common greeting I myself sometimes employ after a glass or two of wine!
+>But switch the "Y" to an "I" (the two are interchangeable in linguistic circles) and you get "Io." Well, this is nonsense, yes?? It sounds like end of a children's song about a farm! I suppose you may as well return this book for a refund, as the experiment is clearly moot! Except; it is not.
+>Here it becomes necessary to reference my time abroad. As a young collegiate, I donated a semester of my studies to a cultural exploration of the nation of Italy, in hopes of healing the painful divides that had grown between the country and my own throughout the 1990's.
+>One of the most bizarre and fascinating things I learned about Italy during my time there was that they have not one, but two words for "Me." The first is "Me," which is identical to the english [sic] translation. The second, puzzlingly, is used when the speaker is referring to himself as the subject of the sentence: Io.
+>Consider for a moment--and please, don't forget to breathe--that according to Dr. Hawking's own laws of mathematical trueness, removing "U" from "You" creates "Io," which is translates to--"Me." Or, for the layman, "You" minus "You" is "Me."
 ===== See Also =====
 Some of Ricken Hale's previous literary works include:
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 [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60841708|"The You You Are" on Goodreads]]
+{{tag>Objects Writings}}

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