Rohan Quine's Blog, page 10
April 2, 2013
40. “Alaia gives me a grilling”
Evelyn croaks out a laugh as...
40. “Alaia gives me a grilling”
Evelyn croaks out a laugh as dirty as a drain. “You won’t think long, let me tell you! Come on, girl, you gonna get all high-maintenance on us? Jesus, cut us some slack here! This is how life works—and life’s too short to try and change life. At least mine is.”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 40:
Having had Jason’s imagination-thieving project confessed to her by Evelyn, the high-minded Alaia expresses her resentment at being kept in the dark about it, and her disapproval of this spying into private minds and thieving their intellectual property. Jaymi says Jason would otherwise have sabotaged the broadcast, and Evelyn implies that Alaia is stuck-up; but the discussion ends in hilarity.
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April 1, 2013
39. “Your painted face alive and smiling”
To the drum-beat...
39. “Your painted face alive and smiling”
To the drum-beat inside you, you shake your hips, flick your long black hair through the air, and run with no gang. It seems you hang with everyone, and yet you are a lone wolf, a sunny band of one. Good god, you’re beautiful.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 39:
After talk of the curious arrival of the General Network facility in Asbury Park, Jaymi tunes in to Evelyn, seeing the raucous good times she had partying here in Asbury Park while growing up, then her gritty survival through working the streets with Angel, then her coming to work for the Metropolitan.
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March 31, 2013
38. “Kim’s amber days”
The hazy amber days you lived there were...
38. “Kim’s amber days”
The hazy amber days you lived there were a gorgeous alcoholic social haze of serious fun. You wasted not an instant of those years, and nothing can alter that. They’re sealed—yours—and perfect.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 38:
Jaymi finishes his tune-in to Kim, seeing his halcyon days at college and afterwards in London.
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March 30, 2013
37. “Flash of weasel eyes through the keyhole”
So I bent down...
37. “Flash of weasel eyes through the keyhole”
So I bent down and peered in, and I nearly screamed, because inside was some kind of toilet cubicle, and it was just dimly lit, but there was a person sitting there, naked in a wheelchair, right close in front of me, staring at me with these weaselly eyes, level with the keyhole…
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 37 is at
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 37:
Kim tells Jaymi that through the keyhole of a closed narrow door in Pippa’s hallway he saw a dim cubicle in which somebody resembling Angel’s identical twin sat naked, staring back at him with weaselly eyes as if in a trance, like some vegetable, while a smear of red stickiness sat on the door-handle.
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March 29, 2013
36. “Kim’s dead suburbia”
Drunk or stoned, you and they went...
36. “Kim’s dead suburbia”
Drunk or stoned, you and they went through the kitchen to the back garden terrace, each of you making jaggedly politicised tracks among the others, trapped tiringly together; while you, saying nothing, just drank in the clean, cool, clear, black, non-human sky like a draught of freshest water.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 36:
While games are played with camcorders and the TV screen in the apartment, Jaymi tunes in to Kim, seeing a childhood that featured considerable solitude in bland suburbia.
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March 28, 2013
35. “Cheap champagne at Evelyn’s”
She cracks up with laughter....
35. “Cheap champagne at Evelyn’s”
She cracks up with laughter. “Jaymi you doofus, Rik’s in this with us! He was our cameraman this afternoon, remember? So please tell him Alaia and I have gone to sniff coke…
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 35:
At a celebratory gathering at Evelyn’s and Rik’s apartment, a slip of the tongue by Jaymi means that Evelyn is obliged to take Alaia aside to explain to her that the secret imagination-thieving is happening.
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March 27, 2013
34. “Big Bang: song of death”
This friend is yours alone—exotic,...
34. “Big Bang: song of death”
This friend is yours alone—exotic, from an ancient place, with eyes that see what you see and silence swelling loud beneath the wailing of its passage through the fields with you. It constitutes a procession in itself, dark, bejewelled and smiling at you, though you still can’t turn to face it.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 34:
Rik records Jaymi and Alaia in the first of the three official Big Bang recording sessions. It comprises darker material than Sound & Vision, mostly because Alaia takes the lead in their performance.
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March 26, 2013
"JAYMI 17" film with music
https://vimeo.com/36119129
The film's audio/text, from mini-chapter 17 "Sound & Vision", is at:
http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/12-films/film-audio-text/
The film will get posted later on in this sequence, in its rightful place; but just for fun I’ll post it right here now too, ahead of time, because this version of it is a version I've received whose audio/text has been mixed with a nice bit of musical ambience by the group Wah Gwan, wahgwanonline.info.
33. “Theft one, and how to be ignored”
On the emotional side, at...
33. “Theft one, and how to be ignored”
On the emotional side, at the start of my projection of each imagination I have a feeling of “confessing” things that I’m not guilty of myself, but in each case this soon turns into an exhilarated awe at that internal landscape … then an understanding of how it ticks … then through that understanding, a growing love.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 33 is at
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http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook33.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 33:
Without Alaia’s knowing, Rik films Jaymi’s first secret projection of material he absorbed last night from Angel, Shigem and Pippa, which turns out to be rather an emotional process for Jaymi. He learns that Rik and Evelyn avoided watching his eyes for more than a moment at a time during Sound & Vision, so as to stay focused on the job of filming. Jaymi tells Alaia he is thinking of tuning in to a few people here, to re-learn the possibilities of normal human personality; of which “spying” she disapproves.
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March 25, 2013
32. “Evelyn picks imaginations to thieve”
“All right, I’ll...
32. “Evelyn picks imaginations to thieve”
“All right, I’ll choose,” she says. “How about Pippa, Kim, Shigem and Angel?”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 32:
Evelyn and Jaymi discuss Jason’s secret imagination-thieving deal, and she selects Pippa, Shigem, Kim and Angel as targets. The fact that she chose these as the “balanced, family-rated” targets Jason asked her for suggests to Jaymi that she is no more keen on this project than he himself is.
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