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SUCH AS THIS IS (SO LIKE THAT)
by Brett Robertson
Introduction
Introducing the twin, Pride, and the twin, Power. They two, together, are as One: The Twin. Nothing gets by Him!
Synopsis
A disturbance takes place in the town of Devil’s Folly mirroring a revolt in Heaven. The transformation of The Twin suggests that the angels Gabriel and Michael, who monitor the side entrances, might switch guard. The central gates would be sealed! This could signal the beginning of a new kingdom in the world of Is Land.
Thesis
The Twin goes searching for manly talents only to discover that a feminine influence is making his world impotent… that is, until he brings a fraternal order to bear upon the chaos.
(As such, the story offers hope that women might yet be redeemed.)
Explanation
Traditionally, sons are said to enter Hell to save their mothers. In this tragicomedy, the kingdom of mothers and fathers is a parody of heaven. Therefore, the heroes join their world in an irreverent fashion and by a most profane communion. Thus, the story world might be understood as a fallen Eden where all the characters represent different embodiments of a twin divinity, God-Devil (conjoined).
The Science
The Null Hypothesis suggests there is a zero percent chance that we exist… to some degree of error. This is to say, mathematics establishes statistical correlation by denying causation.
In support of this hypothesis, Chaos Theory confirms that all possible combinations of error will occur on the border between chance-existence and non-existence.
However, we may similarly assert that we exist. There is a 100 % chance that we do! And we may claim this with 100 % certainty. That is, we may use the Null Hypothesis to prove causation.
Herein lie the laws of order and the formulae for creating life.
The Backstory (The Fiction)
Somewhere between the polarities represented by a father and a mother exists the potential for new life. But first He-She must have existed, The God-Devil. For certainly, If male and female make they him and her; then, male and female made He-She them?!
Because He existed in all space and time, physical representations of The One (The Father) and temporal permutations of The Only (The Son) were impossible. In effect, maleness could not manifest physically in a pure form. So Adam was created as the one and only hu-man. And man-kind came to embody a masculine spirit.
But for Her: Whereby, the one and only took the form of The One and The Only (coupled). As such, Adam lost dominion. Thus he was ashamed and hid his gender. And thereby, the spirit which breathed life into him came to be known by the emotion of women and couples.
So says the Jealous God!
And though the truth of this might be revealed in due time as it regards the potential of any man over time (that is, regarding Holy Spirit); yet, this book is not that book.
Front Plate
1) All possible combinations of a thing must occur on the border that encircles its two most extreme points and 2) this will be expressed in perfect order (The Law of Order).
Dedication
Because it came to pass, once upon a time, whereby God-Devil became incarnate as The One and The Only. And, for this, it was a miracle by which He-She became a twin. But, for that, He was not conjoined! And, as such, it remains a holy mystery in that the both of them were male.
This book is dedicated to The One and Only.
Preface
Fraternal twins. One coin. Two sides. Chance expressed as coexistent order. And so, any possible eventuality might be decided by a toss of their heads.
Entitlement
The story of how I, a fraternal twin, arrived at my solution to the problem of good and evil:
1. Either The One or The Other. 2. Neither The One nor The Other. 3. Both The One and The Other. 4. But The One not The Other….
SUCH AS THIS IS SO LIKE THAT
The Fellows (Character Types)
The Phalli (The Fellows)
Those of the Devil’s Folly are predominantly intersexuals: Due to interrelationships between males and females most individuals have become mixed. Men and women are coupled together. Many of the boys prefer girls over their own kind. And just as many girls seem to prefer boys.
People hide their genders by covering their sex organs in public. Some are ashamed of their birth sex. Others are afraid of being turned in public. Sexual pleasure is now used to dominate others.
Exclusive one-on-one relationships are formed, until death, to determine which individual will prevail. And so public life has become as a popularity contest where the winner might be chosen according to who receives the most votes. As well, intersexuals may hold group competitions (often of a violent nature) to decide between the winners and the losers. But anyway, the men are superior….
And this has led to the establishment, by women, of a system of just-us. Within this penile system men are re-formed. They are put into cages where they are trapped (as between the legs of a woman) until they submit and demean themselves. And though it is said that men in jail regularly turn out other men; more often, such merely become woe-men (either con-men or queens rather than kings).
Collectively, this culminates in war. Wars are mass entertainment for The In-humans. Of everything they understand, they understand opposition best. Such enslave mortal souls and send boys, in the prime of their lives, to kill their own in mass quantities or to be killed themselves. Sometimes these also return with their gender intact… mercifully.
So, cross dressers and transgenders are just a few of the fun and interesting characters one may find in Devil’s Folly. There are women who degrade themselves for money. And there are men who use weapons and other phallic substitutes (including special drugs) in an attempt to recover their masculinity. Plus those of natural talents sometimes put on displays.
Spectators respond by showing their teeth. Though, due to widespread impotence, this is no longer perceived as a threat. As such, it doesn’t indicate dominance or superiority. In fact, it is considered a sign of sociability: One emasculated individual often greets another this way in recognition and acceptance of our shared humiliation.
The Scion (An Offshoot World)
The DNA twins operate by a process I might call fraternization. In fraternization (as it is commonly understood… with a twist), two people from diverse backgrounds interact (loosely ‘mate’… in effect, they gossip ‘over the fence’). The resulting ‘child’ memetic idea (a combination of ideas which, perhaps, hasn’t been tried before) may signal the creation of something revolutionary (a new genre of music, for example… WE WILL ROCK YOU and the birth of rap… assuming Freddie Mercury wrote the song after fraternizing with an African American boy). Though perhaps it (also) creates a new epidemic disease (AIDS… ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST).
NOTE: The twin (fraternal) DNA also produces a (an evolutionary… or revolutionary) talent as a side-effect.
NOTE: AIDS operates by a similar process (AIDS DNA double helices are created, or translated, from single strand RNA… very unusual). [Am I suggesting here that the technology is a potential cure for AIDS? This universe is an alternate universe to the AIDS universe? Surely, within the world of AIDS, such ideas might arise.]
NOTE: Synthetic insulin was created by this method (an interesting story, the synthetic version isn’t as good but they took the natural insulins off the market thereby forcing people to use the synthetic version [This story gives a glimpse into the ethics of creating synthetic life]). Anyway, this is important because there is a name for the protein derived from such a process (and insulin is an example of this protein). If I want to use the correct terminology, I will have to pay better attention to the research (however, the simple story I began with is now starting to sound like a medical novel).
NOTE: Being utopian (heaven on earth) rather than dystopian, there are indications that certain negative social phenomenon are passing away (or have been done away with) namely war and jail… though perhaps even more telling, money (already mentioned) and… MATING?!?! [The story on one level is about a process that is LIKE human reproduction, genetic replication, but it is proposed as a technological advance to reproduction].
In fact, fraternization has modified [or is a modification of] (religion… religious) communion [a comparison between twins and marriage and a contrast between communion and consummation… only regarding that which is consumed, or transubstantiated as the case might be]. And so it is either a sacrilege, an improvement on creation [similar to how replication is an improvement on reproduction. A re-creation] (a god DNA) , or even the process for bringing about a second coming (JESUS’ DNA).
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Telling a story places the narrator at the center of conscience.
One may have a conscience, it is said. And one may be aware of ones conscience as a thing which operates independently of oneself. That is, one may be self aware and also self conscious. As such, one becomes conscientious (or consciously aware) and, perhaps, selfless.
So: The conscience exists in some relation to the self which is conscious. And it operates in some realm of the awareness. But it functions in a way that goes beyond oneself (and such that it seems, itself, to be conscious). In fact, the conscience is a self-sustaining process. It is the mechanism by which (self) consciousness leads to (self) awareness.
The way it does this is by reflecting those things which are selfish back to oneself (through self reflection) and so by attributing (or projecting) those things which cause one to be self conscious to the act of being conscious (or upon consciousness, itself). This is to say, conscience attributes degrees of self consciousness to the fact that one is conscious of oneself, to the degree that one is conscious of oneself, such that one is (only thereby) conscious.
In effect, the conscience removes self from the equation (self-conscious-awareness) allowing one to be consciously aware…. to be indirectly aware of the conscience… and so to be passively self aware (or aware of oneself as a person of conscience… and as one who is therefore capable of acting in a conscientious manner).
This passive self awareness may also make one self conscious in the sense that one has the feeling that one is being watched. And because of this, one may remove oneself from ones social reality and approach reality as one so removed. Such often become dissociated (they break from reality). But, they may break only to fix themselves. And they may fix themselves by fixating (fiction).
Transfixion is a fixation on death (by degree of unconsciousness). Cross fixation is transfixion upon a savior, or father figure (self reflection as introjection). Crucifixion (the prototype of cross fixation) is where the self finds itself in relation to death or mortality (introjection is thus understood as an internalization of the father… as conscience). And so cross transference is blame for crucifixion (self as father to oneself, or son as sire). Thereby, one may be with scion in a new consciousness, or con-scion).
Scion fixation, then, is the beginning of science fiction. (whether scion is understood as king, son, or graft).
We have found two paths to consciousness! We have become as one walking within consciousness. Perhaps we even create that consciousness as an alternate reality. We have seen how this can be accomplished through fixation. When the narrative involves an alternate time line, this kind of fixation is called fiction. And when that fiction also involves an alternate (social) reality, that form of fiction is science fiction.
Conscience is con-science is con-scion. Fixation is fiction. And scion fixation is science fiction. In science fiction, the alternate reality formed most often centers around a new technology because the scion, or son, is the father extended through time. This is to say, the first in line is the individual as archetype. And so the technique of the scion is science (such that the archetype is also the prototype).
A scientist shouldn’t create an invention which would kill himself. And, perhaps, this is prohibited by conscience. Well, military intelligence doesn’t invent… it steals inventions from ‘the enemy’. Anyway, a writer shouldn’t write so as to create a reality within which the story ‘dies’ (perhaps the reason some stories work and others don’t).
If the story crucifies the characters, then a dystopian society is indicated. And so, dystopian literature requires a hero who is outside of society. Yet in the world of science fiction, the realm should exist unto itself. And, as such, science fiction is utopian literature.
Science fiction is utopian literature. The science fiction writer creates a viable alternate reality. As such the reality of the science fiction writer is prophetic. And so the SciFi writer, himself, plays a part in the salvation of the world (even, perhaps, while creating a new earth… and a new heaven).
Medium and Message (Story Development)
CLOTHING:
People dress like their favorite historical figure. There are popular historical figures of the day: Some groups all dress in one particular style. But some fads [appear to] occur spontaneously. The development of these fads [may] parallel a historical time line. But some can be attributed to [the development of] contemporaries [some of] who are relatively unknown.
Neckties, are they tributes to people who were hanged?
*The medium IS the message.
(Paper or Plastic?)
LANGUAGE
I have a ‘twist’ model [in limbo] that shows how phrases like ‘Paper or Plastic?’ apply differently to people at different social classes. The particular meaning indicates the person’s station in life. And the difference in meaning keeps the one from advancing to the next level (without going through some change).
I could create a new form of joke (the twist).
*The joke IS the language.
[The intension / intention is in the play of words... the word play / joke... teleology / tautology... teleo tautology... jokes and riddles... the geek (yet more list making)]
PLAY
The most obvious example of this is that when a war is about to break out, army toys become popular again.
*The toy IS the person.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
People repeat quotes from movies. Or remember plot lines. Interesting, because I can’t. They laugh with each other and discuss different movies… repeating lines from them. This sounds completely out of place in context [to the reader] because the context is an abstract ['fame' or 'importance']…
*The movie [drama] IS the context.
(the book is about the development of DNA Television).
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
likewise a poor person who says raahther instead of rather might have a strange effect on people though they might not understand why. Perhaps it portends his eventual rise to riches / though it makes him sound odd in the context of the group he’s in. Nonetheless, this shows a tendency toward [imprinting / impressing] (has he deliberately picked this up from someone… or does it just happen naturally).
*The lampoon IS the social structure (for example, the club scene is more real than real life)
In my case, cartoons seem to be mockeries of my own experiences (kind of a turn around on this idea).
OR: People mock others… say things in funny voices (the old man voice, the stupid person voice). Others laugh. People who do this are popular. ‘Look at me. I wear concert t-shirts. MAN! (ha ha ha)’.
*The cartoon IS the experience.
People seem to be caricatures. They may be known by nicknames that accentuate their oddities (big nose, elephant ears, Bucky [buck toothed], etc).
**The joke is the anachronism.
Even within a ’scene’ (an 80 s style disco), there is an order to things. A person might wear polyester bell-bottoms and a silk shirt with a big collar… but he wouldn’t wear cowboy boots or he’d look odd and out of place. Nickname: Urban Cowboy or Night Fever (Travolta… Hoffman)
But a 70 s style ‘pimp’ (with a velvet hat and fur coat) might fit in with both the gangster rappers and also the black panther movement of the early 80 s or even a 60 s hippy protest. If he also wears a cape, he’s ‘Rick James, bitch’.
*A parody is a scene.
And when (if) I put things into the book (pretentious to say that I’m writing a book)… if I create an anachronism, then how does it play?
As a character flaw?
As something unique?
As a thing that makes me pretentious?
As a thing that makes me historically significant?
I think the world of the characters in the book can be a mix of things taken out of context and so mistakes will read as a clues to the development of the story (ironically… because they are insights into the limitations and inclinations of the author)… clues to the historical trend.
Because the (Indy) movement makes it obvious that people are being pretentious. They can be part of a scene but not call themselves Indy. That is, the worst thing an independent could do is to step outside of his role (like a transgender has to be called a woman or else she’s a boy who dresses like a girl. VERY embarrassing!).
But, the scene itself is a parody of a person (Grunge IS Kurt Cobain). So the ideal would be to become that person; though this is also the ultimate insult (Who do you think you are? Kurt Cobain?). Thus the caricatures and nicknames.
[The person as contrasted from the scene within which he finds himself... this is the formula for determining the unique characteristics of the individual; and, re-creating the formula is as difficult for the copy as it initially was for the original].
God DNA (literary device)
God DNA:
The process is a variation of cloning. Strands of (pure) DNA double helices are created in a lab using caloric* energy to naturally ‘marry’ amino acids into neutral pairs (these lack any specific genetic encoding). The synthetic DNA (sDNA) strands react with human RNA in the body… restoring the body to health.
*I’m trying to think of a reason to kill the husband and wife… perhaps the elixir needs to be heated to the exact temperature produced by burning a human body (or incubating in a human, dead or alive)… calories as nutritional value, etc (not sure if I’m going to use this idea)
The RNA ‘unzips’ the sDNA breaking it back down into its component amino acids thus releasing caloric energy (one amino pairing at a time). In this way, replicant RNA (rRNA) and synthetic RNA (sRNA) ‘half strands’ are formed [Like sex chromosomes, which likewise contain only half of a human gene].
These ‘prostitute’ chromosomes amass great amounts of caloric energy to temporarily weaken the host. Then, by a process known as transubstantiation (that is by releasing bursts of energy at specific wavelengths as they come into contact with each other), they cause free aminos to combine according to certain (mutative / evolutionary regressive) pairings in the host body.
[As a side reaction and defense] Precursor DNA (the ‘twins*’ srDNA and rsDNA) are formed. These ‘convict’ genes empower the host’s body as they combine and recombine ‘lawlessly’ (in an almost infinite number of possible ways) and ‘aggressively’ (in a deliberate and ordered succession) to evolutionarily re-create the hosts original and unique genetic code (restoring the body to its original healthy state).
*this suggests that I should introduce twin characters… not sure if I will. Seems researching this process would help me write about it! Also (as an alternative to calories, should I use twins, it may be that the elixir has to be injected into twins so as to extract the God DNA… however, I’m leaning in the direction of Man and Wife (natural offspring gets God DNA from his parents… and also, apparently, the church has a method for performing this without being in a lab).
As a side effect, individuals often display a previously undiscovered talent to an extreme degree of proficiency. Some explain this side effect as an evolutionary throw back (resurrecting genius from our evolutionary past). Some explain it as an evolutionary progression (the creation of a superman or super race). Some say that, either way, it proves the existence of a supreme intelligence (one which is beyond physical space and outside of evolutionary time).
