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April 22, 2013
59. “Theft three, and Alaia lands Angel in the shit”
Evelyn...
59. “Theft three, and Alaia lands Angel in the shit”
Evelyn claps her hands to her mouth. “You did what?” she hollers… “Oh shit, you don’t know what you’ve done. ‘Lucan’s better nature’! What better nature?… Why didn’t you say you were going to go and do that? Now the shit’s gonna hit the fan.”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 59:
For his third secret recording session Jaymi projects new material from Pippa, Angel, Kim, and Shigem. Upset by the abuse she sees Lucan inflict on Angel, Alaia leaves the studio without warning, phones Lucan and begs him to stop it, revealing to him her knowledge of a detail of his and Angel’s fight. When she returns to the studio and says she has done this, a horrified Evelyn explains that Lucan will now assume Angel gossiped about their private fight and will punish him even more. Wanting to stop this, they agree that the only way Lucan will believe it’s their spying rather than Angel’s gossip that’s to blame for Alaia knowing the detail about the fight is if they give Lucan a copy of the Angel footage showing this detail. So Rik burns some copies of the footage onto DVDs and Alaia leaves the studio with one of these.
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April 21, 2013
58. “How Shigem met Kim”
But you saw him a second time, by...
58. “How Shigem met Kim”
But you saw him a second time, by chance, in the nightclub one week later, on the occasion of Kim’s first memory of you; and then for you, just as for him, a new continent inside you began to unfurl while you watched it.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 58:
They chat about the figure Kim may have seen on Pippa’s balcony and the creepiness of her apartment. Having just tuned in to Kim’s memory of his first meeting with Shigem, Jaymi now tunes in to Shigem while the conversation continues, to compare their different memories of the same time.
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April 20, 2013
57. “How Kim met Shigem”
The things you said aloud to him were...
57. “How Kim met Shigem”
The things you said aloud to him were in-control things, but the things that your mind yelped inside itself were different, as they escalated upward by the minute and the hour: “Beautiful friend,” your mind said. “I long to hold your hand in the rain,” said your mind to him.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 57:
Jaymi tells Alaia she was right to fear Lucan’s abuse of Angel. They visit Shigem, who is packing his life up for London. Shigem admits he has been stressed since Lucan’s decapitation gesture, especially in view of Lucan’s suspicions about Shigem’s culpability in planting the wax heads. Jaymi tunes in to Kim, observing the beauty and excitement of his and Shigem’s recent meeting and romance in London.
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April 19, 2013
56. “Lucan’s and Angel’s sumptuous fight”
Around your mansion’s...
56. “Lucan’s and Angel’s sumptuous fight”
Around your mansion’s ballroom floor, waltzing mannequins grimace, by themselves or in internecine pairs, on jerky rails, while a poisoned orange light from the setting sun blasts through the terrace doors from far beyond the lonely claustrophobic furthest end of the mile-long enclosed Linden Alley carved westward through your forestlands…
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 56:
His curiosity piqued, Jaymi tunes straight in to Angel, wondering whether he will find himself on Pippa’s balcony or behind a keyhole, but instead finds he has chanced upon an extremely violent emotional and physical conflict between Angel and Lucan, in the midst of which Jaymi delves deeply into Angel’s mind and marvels at the decadent grandeur he sees living within the injury and poison there.
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April 18, 2013
55. “A sighting of the weasel”
She was lit up bright by a...
55. “A sighting of the weasel”
She was lit up bright by a balcony light on one side of her. Then on the other side of her, in her shadow, was a small, darkish figure, and I swear it looked like it was in a wheelchair. I was certain it must be that weasel-eyed thing I saw in the toilet cubicle—that vegetable Angel, or whatever it was.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 55:
Kim calls Jaymi to say that late last night, from near Pippa’s high-rise, he saw her sitting on her balcony beside a smallish swarthy figure—surely the weasel-eyed Angel he saw in that cubicle.
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April 17, 2013
54. “Big Bang: return of the giant ship”
A dragonfly flicks in...
54. “Big Bang: return of the giant ship”
A dragonfly flicks in lazy arcs across my vision. The hyphen’s tiny lights shimmer subtly, when I turn my head to face the right; but over on the left, just the ocean shines, out from this boat to the edges of the world where it leaps into nothing at the calm black horizon.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 54:
For the second of the three official shorter sessions for Big Bang, Alaia’s vocal music takes its lead from Jaymi’s projections, which present visuals of equal sublimity, centring on the reappearance of a magical giant ship from Sound & Vision.
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April 16, 2013
53. “The meaning of a spotlight”
“That is so fucking weird!” she...
53. “The meaning of a spotlight”
“That is so fucking weird!” she squeals. “There are Jaymi’s eyes as usual, but then there’s a great whoosh of Shigem spraying out of them, or a whoosh of Angel or—that is just a mind-fuck, Jaymi!”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 53:
Jaymi and Alaia watch Sound & Vision, awed by it. He sees that his projections, aside from stirring up the audience’s internal magic, were a celebration of his own world view, whose meaning consisted mostly of his good luck in being the one enabled to express it. With Evelyn and Rik they then view the imaginative material recorded last night, which amazes Evelyn as she knows all the subjects well. Alaia confides worry to Jaymi that Lucan is mistreating Angel, which she can sense from the material.
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April 15, 2013
52. “Morning picnic with vodka and burning tyres”
One of the...
52. “Morning picnic with vodka and burning tyres”
One of the mini-wheels on her plate has a tiny smear of something red and sticky on it, I notice; she must have nicked her hand with one of the knives.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 52:
Jaymi and Pippa have a surreal and gently drunken lunchtime picnic on a miniature golf-course in one of the most wrecked areas of town, enjoying the whimsical side of each other’s character. He notices a tiny smear of blood-red stickiness on one of the mini-wheels of Laughing Cow cheese she has just picked up with those black silk gloves she always wears. He promises to lend her a DVD of Sound & Vision.
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April 14, 2013
51. “Evelyn’s fling with Flames”
On your pale brown skin a...
51. “Evelyn’s fling with Flames”
On your pale brown skin a simple golden band necklace hung and flashed in the sunlight, and when you saw him watching you, from some way away, you knew what he was thinking: Oh girl, he was thinking, how beautiful you are.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 51 is at
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 51:
As Jaymi walks with Pippa to the picnic they have arranged, he notices Evelyn and Flames on the street, and in Evelyn’s memory Jaymi looks at the brief but elegiac fling she and Flames once had.
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April 13, 2013
The film called “MARC 5”, embedded on the title page of the...
The film called “MARC 5”, embedded on the title page of the E-Book’s Part III (which comprises mini-chapters 31-50)
This film is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-iii
In it are coloured shadows for Part III as a whole, being just one lens’s suggestion of Jaymi Peek on a mission.
The film’s audio/text is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-iii/film-audio-text (and comprises an extract from mini-chapter 5 “How to slap a mogul around”).
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