Rohan Quine's Blog, page 7
May 1, 2013
67. “Overheard through the corn-chips”
That animal immediacy,...
67. “Overheard through the corn-chips”
That animal immediacy, that play of flesh and electricity combined, that scything sharpness and tang within a wrapping of organic yield and warmth, which knew that it grabbed your own gaze and licked it back.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 67:
A lot more stoned than he intended, Jaymi finds himself tuning in spontaneously to Lucan and Angel while he eavesdrops on them, catching intense memories of their first meeting each other. In the course of this, Lucan mentions to Angel that Alaia “gave us the wrong disc”, indicating that he has seen the whole DVD and is assuming that Alaia hadn’t intended to give him more than just the Angel material.
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April 30, 2013
66. “Rain on corrugated iron”
So tonight you will dance,...
66. “Rain on corrugated iron”
So tonight you will dance, transcending all that needs transcending, till your stark black Angel’s wings will lift this whole smoky den up over Asbury Park and out across the USA. Lucan smiles and winks at you across the red and yellow space; you smile back weakly, hot and swirling in the dimness, wishing it could always be as now and never change…
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 66:
Lucan’s party is swinging and surprisingly relaxed. Jaymi tunes in to a dancing Angel and is pleased to find him blissed-out for once, adoring the music and luxuriating in Lucan’s unusual geniality, albeit aware that this won’t last.
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April 29, 2013
65. “Home in a nowhere town”
“Who wants to be safe and contrived...
65. “Home in a nowhere town”
“Who wants to be safe and contrived and always know everything’s going to work out nicely? It’s never too late for a nice little plane-crash, just like it’s never too late to start smoking…”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 65:
Shigem tells Jaymi and Alaia that last night Lucan made another self-decapitation gesture at him, more aggressive than the first, which has left him terrified. Without mentioning the disc she delivered, Alaia says she hopes Lucan’s heat will be withdrawn from Shigem because she visited Lucan today and vouched for Shigem’s presence in Paradise on Sunday night at the hour the first head must have been left in Downstairs.
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April 28, 2013
64. “Big Bang: run to the sun”
And there I shall leave us:...
64. “Big Bang: run to the sun”
And there I shall leave us: running to the sun, with the sprites for a soundtrack. Oh, you know you want it! My face fades to black on screen, Alaia’s voice fades out, and Big Bang glides to the smoothest of halts.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 64:
Alaia confirms she delivered the disc to Lucan. Then she and Jaymi record the third and final official session for Big Bang, for which he takes the lead, ending the project by conjuring up visions and sounds of indescribable grandeur and incomparable exuberance.
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April 27, 2013
63. “I puzzle out Alaia’s subterfuge”
Kev looks from person to...
63. “I puzzle out Alaia’s subterfuge”
Kev looks from person to person with vague uncertainty. He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. “Some people…” he states, shifting from foot to foot and frowning. “Some people just can’t stand the heat from my flame.”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 63:
Returning to the Metropolitan, they pass Lucan’s crowd and observe a crass attempt by Kev to pick up Pippa, which meets with general derision. Jaymi realises Alaia picked up that wrong DVD because she reckoned that if Lucan saw the full extent of the spying, then he’d react in some extreme or unpredictable way that would sabotage the whole imagination-thieving project.
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April 26, 2013
Text of "The Imagination Thief" being unrolled at Wattpad
Just a reminder that The Imagination Thief’s 120 mini-chapters are currently being unrolled, one mini-chapter per day, on Wattpad, in sync with the unrolling of the video-book and audio-book versions of those 120 mini-chapters on Tumblr. Those Tumblr postings are also propagating onto Twitter and onto Facebook. Despite the above roll-out of text and accompanying audio-visual fun, the best thing of all is of course to snap up a copy of the E-Book itself, however, because the E-Book includes all the above material inside the text itself — and at a mere snip of a price! Luckily, this can very easily be done, via http://www.rohanquine.com/buy/. And if you get a bit of pleasure from The Imagination Thief, either via the above links or from the E-Book itself, then many warm thanks from me to you, for any good words you may perchance feel moved to tap out, at http://amzn.to/WuP6RQ, http://amzn.to/XP4IfS and http://bit.ly/XHNwrK. Rx
62. “Pleasure to be you”
Through the sparkle of your eyes, slick...
62. “Pleasure to be you”
Through the sparkle of your eyes, slick and fine, it always seems you are sticking up two rude fingers at the world, while you kiss the world.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 62 is at
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http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook62.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 62:
As Jaymi and Evelyn walk, he doesn’t mention that wrong DVD. They meet Flames, and Jaymi tunes in to Flames’s consciousness of the sunny centred pleasure Evelyn takes in her own body and mind.
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April 25, 2013
61. “Alaia bites the bullet and calls Lucan”
She hangs up and...
61. “Alaia bites the bullet and calls Lucan”
She hangs up and stares at us. “I didn’t sound very cool and collected, did I? So much for the Sound & Vision ice-goddess.”
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 61 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook61.php
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http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook61.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 61:
Alaia calls Lucan and says she will come to his door to give him a DVD proving she learned of his fight from Jaymi’s sight, not Angel. Lucan invites them to his party tonight. Jaymi notices that the disc Alaia is about to deliver to Lucan is one of those onto which all four targets’ material was copied, not one of those containing just the promised Angel material. Before he can work out why she took this disc from the studio, Evelyn puts him onto the phone with Marc and then asks him out for a walk.
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April 24, 2013
The film called “KIM 42”, embedded on the title page of the...
The film called “KIM 42”, embedded on the title page of the E-Book’s Part IV (which comprises mini-chapters 51-60)
This film is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-iv
In it are coloured shadows for Part IV as a whole, being just one lens’s suggestion of clubland in Kim Somerville’s memories.
The film’s audio/text is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-iv/film-audio-text (and comprises an extract from mini-chapter 42 “The last music Kim heard before Shigem”).
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April 23, 2013
60. “Rik’s and Evelyn’s genius at hang-outs”
“Two pretzels were...
60. “Rik’s and Evelyn’s genius at hang-outs”
“Two pretzels were walking down the street,” says Rik. “One was a salted.”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 60:
Jaymi enjoys a funny and good-natured hang-out at Evelyn’s and Rik’s flat upstairs.
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