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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. | 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 |
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' | 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' | ||
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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. | > 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 " | + | >**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 " | |
- | > All creatures from the leaping cat to the cowering shrew think of themselves as " | + | |
> 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. | > 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 | >Destiny - an acrostic poem experience by the author Ricken Hale | ||
>**D** is for dreaming, the start of it all | >**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. | >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.] | >[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 // | ||
+ | > | ||
+ | >As such, let's break down the lingustic term " | ||
+ | >So let us remove " | ||
+ | >But switch the " | ||
+ | >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' | ||
+ | >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 " | ||
+ | > | ||
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
Some of Ricken Hale's previous literary works include: | Some of Ricken Hale's previous literary works include: | ||
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