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March 4, 2013
These snippets from The Imagination Thief will include 11 short...
These snippets from The Imagination Thief will include 11 short films that are embedded within the E-Books of the novel. One of those films is called “PIPPA 50”, because it focuses on the internal world of the character Pippa—and we’ll get to it soon enough, at its appointed moment in the whole shebang. In a dangerously spontaneous and uniquely out-of-sequence move, however, I’m also going to post it today now, independent of the rest of this numerical sequence that’s unfolding here … for the simple reason that I’ve just received a version of this film “PIPPA 50” that’s been mixed with some seriously cool ambient music, which I think we should hear sooner rather than later: https://vimeo.com/35728209
The music is the entire track “Nixon” by Johnson Somerset and Peter Godwin, from the as-yet-unreleased album Ten Presidents by Johnson Somerset, which features an extended sample of a speech delivered by Richard Nixon. Johnson has been a long-time producer for Bryan Ferry among many others, including co-producing Ferry’s 2010 album Olympia; and his remixing work has recently included Katy Perry. The track also features guitar played by Peter Godwin, whose vocals and writing on his solo albums and in the band Metro have been followed by much further music including the co-writing of Steve Winwood’s 2008 album Nine Lives (you can check out Peter’s rich output at http://www.facebook.com/PeterGodwinFans).
The spoken part of the audio, taken from The Imagination Thief’s mini-chapter 50, is a slice of the lonely but enchanted imagination of Pippa Vail, whom I love: a sweet, depressive dreamer whose rich inner life unfolds in the context of her spending much of her external life sitting on her high-rise tower-block balcony in silence…
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13. “The silver van to the ghost town”
We turn our heads to...
13. “The silver van to the ghost town”
We turn our heads to opposite sides, as daylight fades away, an underpass slants up in streaks on left and right, and the van swoops down to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 13 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook13.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 13 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook13.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 13:
Evelyn Carmello picks up Jaymi and Alaia in her van, to drive them to the extremely run-down seaside resort of Asbury Park. The high-end General Network sound-stage facility there, inside what looks like a disused hotel named the Metropolitan, is where they will stay until the second broadcast, having been instructed by Marc to remain indoors to prevent Jaymi being recognised and the building being mobbed.
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March 3, 2013
12. “Relentless wakefulness in the belfry”
“Nonsense. This is...
12. “Relentless wakefulness in the belfry”
“Nonsense. This is show business, Jaymi, you have to crank it out!” He cackles raucously.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 12 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook12.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 12 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook12.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 12:
The day before the broadcast, now named Sound & Vision, Marc alarms Jaymi by telling him that a second big broadcast event has already been set up for next Thursday night.
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March 2, 2013
11. “Lunch with a shark”
I notice that I’ve been waving the...
11. “Lunch with a shark”
I notice that I’ve been waving the small gherkin around on the end of my fork, rather dangerously, and I stop this.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 11 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook11.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 11 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook11.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 11:
By threatening to kill the broadcast off, Jason blackmails Jaymi into agreeing to use the Asbury Park trip for a secret, second purpose: he must pick four unknown townspeople; spy into their minds and imaginations; and then project this material into camera using the kind of projection he used for the broadcast, thereby recording/thieving it. This imaginative stuff, once digitised, will be used in a piece of artificial imagination software being developed by a big commercial client firm as a new interactive corporate logo or spokesfigure (a “spokes-sheep”, as it happens)—a use of his gifts that Jaymi finds tacky. Jaymi is not to mention this to anyone, including Alaia and Marc.
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March 1, 2013
10. “Angles of glamour”
“OK Jason, picture me a face like the...
10. “Angles of glamour”
“OK Jason, picture me a face like the sound of the slinkiest and coolest pulse of electronic music, with space between the cheekbones of its high flicks of treble and a wet bass weight within those lips I want to kiss upon a poster on my bedroom wall!”
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 10 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook10.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 10 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook10.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 10:
Jaymi and Alaia meet the General Network’s V.P. of Live Events, Jason Carax, whom Marc has anointed as executive producer of the project. Jaymi has a brief cautious tune-in to him and is tickled by the smoothness of operations on view there. The broadcast is to be recorded at an Asbury Park sound-stage.
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February 28, 2013
9. “Alaia gets excited”
The pipe is next to me, so her face is...
9. “Alaia gets excited”
The pipe is next to me, so her face is suddenly right in mine and our gazes latch onto each other from very close up in a split-second’s freeze-frame that hits us both, with her eyes asking Where are you taking me, Jaymi?
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 9 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook9.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 9 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook9.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 9:
In contrast with that kind of active and forcible hypnotism, Jaymi explains that if he’s with somebody or knows their identity and appearance, then he can also tune in passively to them, seeing inside much of their mind, imagination, motives and fantasies without their knowing he is doing so. Recovering, an amazed Alaia consents to collaborate with him on this live broadcast.
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February 27, 2013
8. “The statue of black sugar”
You can’t coil around the...
8. “The statue of black sugar”
You can’t coil around the hovering Jaymi viewpoint, because it is just a viewpoint and you are just sugar; yet it seems that you want to.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 8 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook8.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 8 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook8.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 8:
As proof and demonstration, he whirls them both through a couple of her own private memories and an intimate fantasy of hers.
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February 26, 2013
7. “Telling Alaia what’s hard to believe”
Her dark eyes flash...
7. “Telling Alaia what’s hard to believe”
Her dark eyes flash with defiance for an instant, of course; then they grow serene and widen, as I take control.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 7 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook7.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 7 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook7.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 7:
Jaymi tells Alaia the amazing news of his powers and the broadcast, and asks her to look at him…
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February 25, 2013
6. “My absent default personality”
“Hey,” she says, and at the...
6. “My absent default personality”
“Hey,” she says, and at the sound of her sleek familiar voice I feel a touch of sanity.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 6 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook6.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 6 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook6.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 6:
Jaymi arranges to visit Alaia. While on the subway he analyses the basic parameters of his new powers, with fear and excitement, and realises that he has lost something of his natural instinct for how to behave and speak as himself in his own default personality.
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February 24, 2013
5. “How to slap a mogul around”
This has the feeling of a shark...
5. “How to slap a mogul around”
This has the feeling of a shark swimming right through me; those tripod legs have streamlined into fins…
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 5 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook5.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 5 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook5.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 5:
Jaymi surprises himself as well as Marc, when he whirls Marc on a hypnotic journey around Marc’s imagination. Then Jaymi makes an outrageous proposal for a live, prime-time, one-hour broadcast next month, after international publicity, in which exactly this kind of mesmerism will be served up to a global audience through of a close-up of Jaymi’s face in real time, staring into the camera lens, to the live soundtrack of Jaymi’s friend Alaia Danielle doing the kind of powerful and beautiful wails and swoops that have started to earn her a cult following in New York. Every viewer will be hypnotised by it differently, according to their own imaginative landscapes. Jaymi appeals to the tycoon’s profit motive, but also presents this project as furthering man’s self-knowledge and evolution. Marc says yes.
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