dire wolves encouraged by the foresight and generosity of a dwarf pronghorn

aware of word origins to some extent:

Call it courage (Armstrong Sperry)
He is being worked on in the Page Museum laboratory.
We work 7 days a week with 5 paid staff & a number of volunteers.
Chester Stock, PhD Paleontologist January 28 1842 - December 7, 1950
Who, encouraged by the foresight and generosity of G. Allan Hancock, Inspive his many co-workers in developing and preserving the treasures of Rancho La Brea.

The Palliser Novels, The Barsetshire Novels Anthony Trollope
Gardner - Guitar World, Martel - Ralphs, Poinsettia, La Brea - Ross Happy Ending.
pattern of blaming other people. grief. being good pressure.
Use it in a positive way for other situations.
Still more of the baby mastodon we've been finding recently
A skull from a giant sloth (Like the statues to your left.)

Q: Have You Found Anything Today? A: Yes!
The Latest in Box 14's Herbivore News
Recent Fossil Finds Include:
- A tooth from one of our more uncommon herbivores, an extinct dwarf pronghorn
- A lower leg bone from an adult ancient horse
- A piece of jaw, still with teeth, from a young bison.

"I don't believe I ever said that but if I did, I was speaking metaphorically."
I know you want to hear this. Just not yet. You will start wanting to know at some point. It is bad though.

page 3

Very quickly you fall back asleep and experience a fitfully intense dream. There is very little discernible of your situation in this dream that you won't really remember. Even while asleep, part of you remembers the phrase you heard recently that you ruminate over, "privileged access" is the short version and the one that speaks itself the loudest in your head. You also know, "privileged access to yourself."

Someone didn't believe that people have privileged access to themselves despite what most people believe. You don't know that it was Errol Morris quoted by Chuck Klosterman. You never knew that.


to follow the dream the way it comes at you, go to page 5. to dig deep into the true echo memories that underlie the dream go to page 13.

formatting

one idea is to just write and not worry so much about the format. the other was to get one of the official books and copy one of their formats verbatim. here is a picture from a site that has detailed explanations of the plots and the layout of choices going one or another place



anyways, I think that the entries with labels other than narrative proper should probably count towards the end word count. of course there is silliness here with a blog and not a word processor. I did edit a bit page one. I don't know about details for maybe a thing where there are edits done. I am adding another page from that website which I am stealing too much from. The domain is samizdat and it is dot cc so that makes me seem they are cool with shit. I don't know.


I have this feeling of wanting to take advantage of this. And for me the way that a story is told or the way that I would choose to make things go forward.

Ok, for me, I wouldn't learn a story in a straight narrative. I enjoy the side details and ok side details is wrong - parts that speak truth in giving a window into what it was actually like to experience the thing.


so much of history is completely misunderstood by the people doing it at a time. That is a bit silly sounding because I don't really fall into the camp of people are wrong about their motivations for shit (Marx vs Feurbach on people's experience of religion in their lives) but that say, Robert McNamara really thought that the Viet Nam War was about communism and still does not understand that they were fighting an anti-imperialist freedom struggle

you get this weight of the past. and that is a big part of the themes I want

more an overview

in the choose your own adventure style,

you are a sixteen year old Tracey Fletcher who wakes up one morning to find most people gone. Over time it transpires that there are a number of people remaining. but it is less than a percent of all people. I just told Elise about the rest. it is this extendid daydream I had all through like junior-high-high-school a little bit into college
but so like there will be like a group of you in whatever neghborhood and you'll be it as far as society is concerned - not totally

and at first there are all sorts of cool things like driving cars that you don't have to buy to stores with bunches of stuff.

but then there are problems because like you have to sort of rebuild parts of society and graft other things onto existing infrastructure

and so there is refrigeration, getting new food becomes more of a long term issue

My original hope is to have it be a generic city type neghborhood/ american suburb but more like a suburban city if it is that where there is enough of a center

I hope to solicit collaborations on certain lines of the choose your own adventure style. like you could do a 80-180 word page continuing on or making a new choice or some people/persons could control a longer area/span.

so then there are other tribes that come in and there are varying levels of morals

I'm trying to stick away from apocalyptic stuff - funny yeah - but stearing away from thunderdome style stuff at least for the first third which is more about you - a not specified whether male or female Tracey

and you go to your high school for the main thread of the choices and so there is learning and books and a sense of community as the you becomes more adept at applied knowledge, practical math and physics and engineering. (try maybe not to have just some "computer whiz who can just do anything by tapping at any computer screen.)

And it is in a while about the possibilities of industrial society on top of agrarian society but without all of the institution-driven forces on top of you you begin to regain your agency and feel your power and limitations as an individual, as a part of humanity and as a society as a whole with tribes and communities and an attempt for localization to win out - even as there are presumably wars and people arguing to be in charge. you miss a deal of that going on on other continents and news travels slowly at the speed of a human traveling.

and the limits of going beyond what you have been socialized to think and feel and value when given the freedom for new social relationships and situations

It is super fucking juicy and there are many different possible avenues of inquiry - which I think dovetails into the choose your own adventure bit.

No zombies - at least - it isn't mainly a zombie thing. the people just disappeared and there isn't a good explanation for it - and while some may be clinging to that past and some may wall themselves away in religious asceticism the main thrust is of a communnity with you in it trying to formulate a way to live, a way to live rightly, and a way to live with quality of life. the how when and where phases ; how do we eat, why do we eat, where shall we have lunch , survival, inquiry, sophistication

k

will use google docs - prob a spreadsheet too.

the start page 1

You wake up and it is dark and quiet. This is the seventh time that you have woken up this morning. As you settle upon being awake you are dimly aware of having gone back to sleep twice.

The first time you were sweaty and had just had -not a bad but- an intense dream. The second time was about twenty minutes before your alarm and you thought about getting up in order to get a long shower to deal with your extra sweat that you felt all sticky.

You fell back asleep and now you begin to panic because you feel the alarm should have happened already. You check and this is true. Also, why isn't there more noise going on. It should be lighter. You feel unsure.

To get straight out of bed and into the shower go to page 2. To stay in bed and let haziness return go to page 3.

WIth Apologies to the Real People

Choose Your Own Muffled Rumble

You are Tracey Blair


with Jonathon Fletcher
and Sinclair Lewis
and Dorothy Magee
and Elwayn Blair
and Alexander Blair
and Eric Blair
and William Blair
and Amary.


a tortuos affair of the mind

allowed to play out upon the backdrop of a fantastic novel.

more of a journey
and a shared day dream

choosing which way to go

Trying to hit up NaNoRiMo

and going to get choose your own adventure books to plot out which pages go where and what are the routes to what ends
with a view towards if collaborators are willing to write a page or more on certain limbs.

I don't know how much of a sketch to get out here tonight. It is just 1:18 am PST here on November 1 2010. I decided that this month is a gift from whatever god is and there are opportunities to use this time.

So I am going to try and dive into this. And also possibly dally.
daily

Things are the way they are.

Things are the way they are.

if you wish they were different

if you believe they are different

if you pretend they are different

if you want them to be different.

Things are the way they are.

That said,

actions change future things that then are the way they are.

but not necessarily the way you wished pretended wanted acted planned ...