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SERIES 101798A: Communication with the Living, Part 2.
Title 1: Internet killed the cable star. We wonder how many of you have found a way into the compound. This fall feels nothing like the summer and we are strapped for provisions for the coming season. Mechanics harvest the last of the grenades from the banks of oil-drenched rivers and take cover in alien dens. These hosts do not like our recipes for merriment and we might be out-staying our welcome in this place. If you are receiving this, please send a transmission to our board of directors.
Title 2-1: There is no time like the present.
Title 2-2: There is no time like the present.
Title 2-3: There is no time like the present. Recruiting agents scour the known universe in search of order. There are those of us who wonder whether armageddon is close at hand but certain mechanics don't pay any attention. Some of us have to stay detached enough to pilot the rig into port.
Title 3: You might not be good enough, but you are the only one left. There aren't any more leaders except you, and you had better stop waiting for your life to be on the line. By then it will already be too late. Stop banging your head on the academy gates and stop daring everyone else to do a better job. It doesn't matter how badly you've been treated. There is no excuse left and not one that matters when your future is being determined by some collective fear. You will fail; just accept it. And do it anyway.
Title 4: It's getting away. There was a point at which prosolar mechanics could have offered some protection from another night of dreading the next morning at work. But they weren't convinced. (Endorsements are slow to follow mechanics who show little interest in the asian economy.) There is nothing left to entice them with except the product that is slow to reach the bread bins. There's no need to stand in line any longer if you have a modem and an evening free from anticpated phone calls.
Title 7: Enough is enough. As I gaze upon another industrial sunset, across the street a 5 year old boy whacks the dead branch of a small tree with a plastic wrench. I ask, "What are you doing?" "Fixing it," he pronounces. "What's wrong with it?" "It's broke," he explains. "Are you some kind of tree mechanic?" "Yes." Whack, whack.
Title 8: Communication with the living. Training in transuniversal communications allows the individual access to any point in time through a readjustment of the temporal perception lens. More tests are being conducted in order to ensure the procedure's safety before the FDA will allow it on the market.
Title 9: We hear better
in the dark. The mechanics
are currently testing the relationship between light and sound. This procedure
requires maximum security restrictions for the labs because intruders
are just as difficult to detect when one's eyes are closed. There was
a point to determine somewhere along the way but in the daily living it
became obscurred by this notion of getting by. (Sometimes, light is just
another excuse for leaving one's bed.) There is a specific formula
one can follow in order to measure the degree of disorientation associated
with sound in the dark.
Step 1: Turn the stereo up.
Step 2: Turn the lights off.
This experiment can be tried at home with proper precautions provided for (see note 101898-T9a).