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June 10, 2013
The film called “ANGEL 22”, embedded on the title page of the...
The film called “ANGEL 22”, embedded on the title page of the E-Book’s Part VIII (which comprises mini-chapters 95-103)
This film is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-viii
In it are coloured shadows for Part VIII as a whole, being just one lens’s suggestion of Jaymi Peek tuning in to Angel Deon.
The film’s audio/text is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-viii/film-audio-text (and comprises an extract from mini-chapter 22 “No enchantment without ordeal”).
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June 9, 2013
103. “Theft six, with ambiguous bowing and curtseying”
The...
103. “Theft six, with ambiguous bowing and curtseying”
The freeze-frame animates, all of a sudden, as the thirteen in sequence make respectful bows or curtseys at me, each in their own way. Then some of them titter at me, slapping one another’s hands high and low, somewhat undermining their respectful obeisances … and so I drift to sleep.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 103 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook103.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 103 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook103.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 103 is at http://www.wattpad.com/18073896-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-99-120-103#.UbRqKPk3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 103: Alone with Jaymi after a final quick studio recording of material from Kim, Pippa, Angel, and Shigem, Alaia seems sad and emotional, but still the wall between her and him is not quite breached. In bed, Jaymi reflects on the global reach of his two broadcasts and the contrastingly local colour of the characters he has met and so intimately spied into, but drifts to sleep before he can puzzle out the meaning of it all.
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June 8, 2013
102. “Shigem’s unimprovable situation”
After a while you squirm...
102. “Shigem’s unimprovable situation”
After a while you squirm around to face the other way, so the pair of you are curled up front-to-back. His hot strong arms come around your neck and shoulders; his legs entwine with yours, adjust and are still. And there you lie together, in an eloquent communication of absolute silence and stillness.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 102 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook102.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 102 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook102.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 102 is at http://www.wattpad.com/18073849-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-99-120-102#.UbL9a_k3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 102: In contrast, Jaymi tunes in to Shigem, to maintain a watch over him, and finds him lounging in affection with Kim before they go to bed, where Shigem’s mind sinks through lovely nonsense into sleep.
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June 7, 2013
101. “Desire as disease in Angel Deon”
And here in the cellar,...
101. “Desire as disease in Angel Deon”
And here in the cellar, out of sight or sound of help, Lucan douses you with kerosene by candle-light, and clamps himself around you, a muscled insect incubus positioning its sting among the folds of inflammable, delirium-inducing, evaporated kerosene…
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 101 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook101.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 101 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook101.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 101: To keep an eye on the Angel-Lucan household while Shigem is still in town, Jaymi tunes in to Angel in the midst of another fight with Lucan. During the physical abuse Lucan inflicts, Jaymi delves deep inside Angel, perhaps for the last time, as Angel blacks out while dreaming of an infernal descent. Angel’s return to a delirious consciousness of Lucan’s continued sadistic play has such a flavour of death and sensual entrapment that Angel sees it will never let him out and will probably kill him.
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June 6, 2013
100. “Evelyn’s dance, with minimal effect”
You project to them a...
100. “Evelyn’s dance, with minimal effect”
You project to them a picture of you stroking shut their eyes and then kissing them—you know their eyes deserve it, for your own are the same. If everybody else did this… Of course you don’t forget that their hands may stab you, while you’re stroking shut their eyes; so you’re ready all the time to dodge away or stab them back.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 100 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook100.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 100 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook100.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 100 is at http://www.wattpad.com/18073656-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-99-120-100#.Ua_snEA3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 100: Jaymi meets Evelyn in the night-time hallway and asks if she thinks Alaia has been planting the wax models, since he himself is not allowed to tune in to Alaia. Evelyn bids him look at himself and Alaia and see if he realises something. She lets slip that she will be giving Marc not only the master recording of the first broadcast but also the “secret” recordings—confirming that these were instigated and known of by Marc all along, not done by Jason behind Marc’s back. Departing, Evelyn urges discretion on this; and he tunes in to her as she drives away, taking in the rhythmic sunlight within her.
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June 5, 2013
99. “Pippa a zombie through internal damage”
I recline on my...
99. “Pippa a zombie through internal damage”
I recline on my bed, restless. My room is uncannily quiet. I close my eyes and shoot my sight out to hover over Pippa where she sits on her high-rise balcony, spotlit like a wax dummy, high in the night, with a golden angel ornament nestling on her lap, looking out with her dead glassy stare across town in exactly this direction.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 99 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook99.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 99 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook99.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 99: Jaymi calls Alaia with trepidation, so much in hiding does she now seem; and this impression is not belied by his brief visit to her, despite her not-unfriendly account of phoning Lucan to “report” that Evelyn has no wax-modelling materials. Restless and sensing change in the air, Jaymi tunes in to a glassy-eyed and corpse-like Pippa, who seems to be staring straight at him here in the Metropolitan, and he sees into a sinister dream of hers, including a glimpse of a pit of vile horror related to that narrow door in her hallway.
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June 4, 2013
98. “Porch-geese and Vietnam”
“So I ran, and heard it blow up...
98. “Porch-geese and Vietnam”
“So I ran, and heard it blow up close behind me with a burst of green smoke. Then the sun shone down pale green, through a green sky; dogs barked, birds screeched and body parts rained down. The sirens started wailing and the dogs wailed back at them, in time with the wailing of the newly mutilated—a sour flame of pain in a garden of evil.”
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 98 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook98.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 98 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook98.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 98 is at http://www.wattpad.com/18071813-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-1-98-98-porch#.Ua3NT0A3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 98: Abandoning his plan to accompany Kim home, Jaymi boldly visits Lucan’s henchman Damian, to maintain a look-out for any plans there in Shigem’s direction. Damian’s paranoid manner has an element of comedy until he gives an eloquently grim description centring on what he saw while serving in Vietnam.
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June 3, 2013
97. “Lucan and Angel on the big screen”
“This man commands, from...
97. “Lucan and Angel on the big screen”
“This man commands, from a screen near you. See The Imagination Thief.” That scarlet script unfurls again, across the screen’s entire width, “THE IMAGINATION THIEF”. Your gaze returns, scouring the horizon, left to right above the camera lens—and freeze-frame.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 97 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook97.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 97 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook97.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 97 is at http://www.wattpad.com/12362278-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-1-98-97-lucan#.UayiWUA3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 97: To seek any damage brewing for Shigem, Jaymi tunes in to Lucan, but all he can find there at the moment is the screening of a trailer for a Hollywood action blockbuster movie starring Lucan himself, which is incongruously broken into by Angel.
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June 2, 2013
96. “An inferior decapitation gesture”
This strangest of books...
96. “An inferior decapitation gesture”
This strangest of books is bewitching you, I see, Kim, and making you resolve that you’ll answer it in writing yourself one day, across the decades and the languages: head to head, toe to toe and mouth to mouth, your own chants will meet these and dance with them, somewhere in an evil dawn of gold.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 96 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook96.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 96 is at http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook96.php
The Text of this mini-chapter 96 is at http://www.wattpad.com/12362223-the-imagination-thief-mini-chapters-1-98-96-an#.Uat5L0A3un8
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 96: To monitor Kim’s and Shigem’s wellbeing, Jaymi tunes in to Kim while lying in the sun, and explores how Kim’s contentment at his own general good fortune doesn’t stop him looking forward to death, as bringing the cessation of a struggle whose design has so many cruelties. Jaymi joins him and they set off for Shigem’s, passing Kev who makes a Lucan-style self-decapitation gesture at them.
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June 1, 2013
95. “Spanish baboons and tiny creatures”
A rabbit in the...
95. “Spanish baboons and tiny creatures”
A rabbit in the moonlight beckons to the two of you and leads you to a lake upon whose surface little creatures caper (ponies, zebras, unicorns), flowing through the silken water; tiny bunnies slide down the slopes of the wavelets. A waterspout of tentacles is sprouting and shrinking at the centre of the lake, while white-eyed lungfish wheeze in the mud around the shore.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 95 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook95.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 95 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook95.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 95:
Meeting Evelyn, Jaymi tunes in to her and sees an enchanted dream she awoke from this morning, which featured her ex Flames.
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