Ever stop
And think?
Segregate yourself
From the main stream?
Why are we here?
To wander aimlessly?
To be prodded along
Like cattle
By popular culture
Until we graze
Upon something
Something mundane
That we “need”?
Be spontaneous.
Separate.
Observe.
Refuse
To be cattle.
Think.
Independently.
You can do it.
I am not a genius
Nor will I claim such
But I will say this much
That a mind is a terrible thing
To waste.
Repression is waste.
The mind is a tool
Shiny, sharp.
Dulled en masse
By propaganda
Fed us by the system.
Refuse the meal
Excuse yourself
From the table.
Purge the filth.
Knowledge cannot be taxed,
Gross your share,
Net the world.
The textbook is a start
Not an ending point.
Art is born.
Can you see
Outside your box?
For ‘tis true
The world is flat:
With six sides and bars
If you cannot see
Beyond your nose
And smell the dung
Disguised as gold.
Where does an ellipse fit
With a world of cubes?
Seeking adventures
To fuel the dreams
Of my next life
Subliminal memories
To remind me of another time
Past
And encouragement to keep on
Dreaming of the future
[[Arcane/the-inheritance/monologue/THE INHERITANCE|THE INHERITANCE]]
THE ARCANE DIARY needs: A Heist, Hauntings (St. Frances-co Psychological testing ground, miasmic memories)
[[The adage “if it isn’t on paper it didn’t happen”]]
For every ton of horseshit, you have to find at least a pebble that’s worthwhile, depending on your perspective.
Nick & Xander gel so well because both have powers they cannot explain. Xander has always been able to coerce others with mind control to get whatever he wants, while Nick is a chameleon-like shapeshifter who can blend himself into anything with the ability to algebraically plot large impossible schemes quietly from the shadows. What they share is a guiding sensitivity to events and people.
[[The real problem I find is in differentiating between memories, dreams, thoughts]]
DREAM: a younger brother who never got to grow up lives in a dream, kicked garbage and got blown up – one of several recurring dreams that ends with Nick waking to the sound of his mother’s voice screaming hoarse in his mind.
[[Nick is a patient of the would-be psychiatrist X. Mercurio]]
Nick is a patient of the would-be psychiatrist X. Mercurio, whose Doctorate dissertation is a theory that schizophrenia = reality, albeit a different one, and that 99.9% of our brains that we do not use is the storehouse for the universe’s secrets (Akasha) stored in the nearly infinite format of the mitochondrial DNA, our brains are an organic storage system, and Nick’s mind is the key to unlocking both Xander’s career and untold secrets for humankind. Xander must challenge traditional psychological understanding by looking at Nick’s parapsychology and following him into his “unreal” world.
[[the day I found out my father died was a turning point]]
Nick: the Avatar, an information gatherer, a spy, master of infiltration, able to isolate key factors remotely and sabotage; a catalyst. Disguise is a morphing personality that has a bearing on appearance.
Hermes: the assassin
Sophia: the handler, spymaster, androgenous
KILLING: whistling a tune triggers a programmed mind – the living dead, easier than Necromancy.
[[The earth is a theatre of flux]]