(And because of ajay's #11 which made me so happy, here's another.)
LOOK
You see three long mountains and a wood.
TURN AROUND
You see three islands in a bay.
TRACE LINE OF HORIZON
You see three long mountains and a wood.
SEE MORE
You cannot see over these things.
TOUCH THESE THINGS
What, with your bare hand?
Y
You cannot quite touch these things.
Your breath comes short, and scarce at all.
LIE ON BACK
You lie upon your back.
You see the sky.
LOOK SKY
You look your fill into the sky.
The top of the sky is here.
LOOK TOP OF SKY
You see the top of the sky.
It is not so grand.
TOUCH SKY
You reach up your hand.
You feel your hand touch the sky.
SCREAM
You scream.
Infinity is here.
Infinity comes down and settles over you.
Infinity forces back your scream into your chest.
Infinity bends back your arm upon your breast.
The Undefined is here.
Immensity made manifold is here.
LOOK IMMENSITY MADE MANIFOLD
Like you have a choice?
LISTEN
You hear whispering.
Friendly Spheres are here.
You hear gossiping.
You hear creaking.
You hear ticking.
LISTEN TICKING
You hear the ticking of Eternity.
The Universe is here.
LOOK UNIVERSE
The Universe is cleft to the core.
PROBE UNIVERSE
Are you sure you want to do that?
PROBE UNIVERSE
You probe the universe.
You have omniscience.
You must pay the toll for omniscience.
WHY?
You must pay the toll for omniscience.
PAY TOLL
You have infinite remorse of soul.
INVENTORY
You have all sin.
You have all atoning.
You have the gall of all regret.
You have the weight of every brooded wrong.
You have the hate that stands behind each envious thrust.
You have every greed.
You have every lust.
MOURN
Mourn for whom?
MOURN FOR ALL
You mourn for all.
You see a man starving in Capri.
You see a great fog bank.
Two ships are here.
LOOK SHIPS
The two ships strike and sink.
SCREAM
You scream as with a thousand screams.
INVENTORY
You have hurt.
You have death.
You have each last breath.
You have compassion.
You have all suffering.
You have all suffering's rod.
You have pity.
Infinity is here.
Infinity presses down on you.
You suffer death.
DIE?
You cannot die.
DIE
You cannot die.
Time passes.
LIE ON BACK
You are already lying on your back.
The earth gives way beneath you.
You sink into the earth.
WHERE
You are six feet under ground.
You are lying on your back.
Your tortured soul is here.
A great weight leaves.
Your tortured soul bursts forth.
LOOK TORTURED SOUL
Your tortured soul has fled.
Dust is here.
LOOK DUST
Dust is swirling all about you.
REST
You rest deep in the earth.
DIE.
You are apparently already dead.
You are glad.
The pitying rain is here.
LISTEN RAIN
You hear each pattering hoof.
It has a friendly sound.
LOOK
You are in a grave.
WHO
You are here.
The pitying rain is here.
There is no one else here.
KISS FINGERS OF RAIN
You'd have to be alive to do that.
CRY OUT
To whom?
CRY OUT TO GOD
What do you want to cry out to God?
GIVE ME NEW BIRTH
Anything else?
AND PUT ME BACK UPON THE EARTH
Heavy rain pours down.
Your grave is washed away from you.
You are upon the earth.
You hear something.
LISTEN
You hear a sound as of some joyous elf singing sweet songs to please himself.
LOOK ELF
There is no elf here.
LOOK ELF
It's a simile, silly.
You feel a sense of glad awakening.
The grass is here.
The grass is whispering to you.
The rain is here.
An apple-tree is here.
Your soul is here.
BREATHE SOUL BACK IN
Do you know how such things can be?
N
OK. You breath your soul back into you.
SPRING UP
You spring up from the ground.
HAIL EARTH
You hail the earth with a glad cry.
You see someone here.
LOOK SOMEONE
Someone is disguised.
LOOK DISGUISE
The disguise is dark.
LOOK CAREFULLY DISGUISE
You penetrate the dark disguise.
You discern God's radiant identity.
God is here.
TOUCH GOD
You cannot touch God.
PUSH GRASS APART
You push the grass apart.
You lay your finger on God's heart.
LOOK E
The world stands out on this side.
LOOK W
The world stands out on this side too.
ESTIMATE WIDTH
Of what?
ESTIMATE WIDTH OF WORLD
The world is about as wide as the heart.
LOOK UP
The sky is here.
ESTIMATE HEIGHT OF SKY
The sky is about as high as the soul.
LOOK
You see the sea.
You see the land.
You see the sky.
PUSH SEA AND LAND APART
With what, your bare heart?
Y
You push the sea and land farther away on either hand.
SPLIT SKY
With what?
SPLIT SKY WITH SOUL
You split the sky in two with your soul.
God is here.
You see the face of God shine through.
East and West are still here.
The sky is still here.
INVENTORY
You have a soul.
LOOK SOUL
Your soul is not flat right now. Good thing, too.
I has three long mountains
I has wood
I can has turn around?
I has three islands in a bay
I can has line of horizon?
I has three long mountains
I has wood
I can has see more?
N
I can has touch these?
K
O noes!
Bref too short!
I'm under ur sky,
lookin' mah fill.
I can has touch sky?
O NOES!
I can has screamz
Infinity
iz not respectin
mah screamz
DO NOT WANT!
The definition of the Undefined iz here
pressin' on mah mind
O NOES!
Eternity has ticking!
I has a Universe cleft to the core
I can has probe Universe?
Teh Universe has a flavor
O NOES!
I can has omniscience?
O NOES! Hurt kitteh is hurtin!
I has infinite remorse of soul
DO NOT WANT!
I'm in ur sinning
pwning yr greed lust envious thrust
I'm in ur suffering
pwning yr death
I can has mourning?
kthx
LOLkitteh pwns man in Capri
hunger has a flavor
Fog bank pwns 2 shipz
O NOES!!1
Hurt kitteh is hurtin!
I'm in ur last breath
meetin ur cry
I iz compassion
Yr suffering
Ah pwnz it
I has a pity
Infinity has a weight
DO NOT WANT!
Sufferin kitteh is sufferin
I can has death?
N
I can has death pliz?
N
O NOES!!1 Earth opens!
Kitteh is underground
emitting tortured soul
I has a dust cloud
The earth haz a cool hand
Gladly dead kitteh is glad
I'm under ur pitying rain
lovin da sound
plz be respectin
mah peace and quiet
Can has kiss rain fingers?
Can has world again?
Can has new birth?
I has heavy rain! KTHX!!11!
Grave gone! kthxbai
Can has moar rain pliz?
Has rain!
Rain has a noize and a color
Mah grave
Ah does not mourn it
Gladkitteh is glad!
I'm tiptoe in ur grass
listenin to itz whisperin
Can has soul back?
Kitteh is alive again FTW
YAY!!!1
Hai God
I'm in ur grass
layin mah finger on ur heart
World has a width
Sky has height
Heart can has strength for push things apart
Soul can be splittin ur sky
Hai God
I'm under ur bifurcated sky
seein ur fac3
Rebornkitteh is reborn
pliz be respectin
mah tent-pole soul
silentz has a flavor:
invisible meaning!
I don't have a intarweb to give you, but you wins my heart with this one.
#194 Abi, it was the sort of thing that a person can do if they get it right, and you did.
It's
> ping brother richard
> [AFK]
that slew me utterly, by the way. Oh, the whole thing pwnz0red, yes, but that's where I lost it, and each repetition sent the glee mounting higher.
Asterisk, please? All I can come up with is Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and I know that's wrong.
Oh, man. #37 pwns me. Mary Dell, I would thank you if I had words, but mostly I just got giggles right now.
Patrick's right, #96 pwns too.
#103: Howard, your LOLbeatz have me all squeaking with delight. Especially the first one.
#111 Pangur Ban!! Nice, Eimear!
#117 Howard, that got a loud shriek.
And Abi, #156 is pure gold. Himself would be pointing it out to me in that offhand tone that meant he was tickled by something.
Ajay: Yup. Just so.
Seth: That reminds me of
Free, free
A trip to Mars
For 900
Empty jars...
... which also got somebody in trouble, if memory serves.
"See, that's almost what I would say, except that I would say the problem is the continued necessity of having rural communities. Specifically, it's painfully clear that growing food is a horribly inefficient way to turn sunlight into chemicals suitable to power humans [1]. Substituting some more efficient process for agriculture would mean that we no longer had any compelling reason for a quarter of the land surface to be devoted to agriculture. Let the former farms go back to wilderness, maybe add some megafauna from Africa to flavour (or perhaps genetically engineer some giant predatory flightless birds, because they tend to be prettier than drab mammals) and it's win-win!"
My God. I don't know whether to scream or vomit.
Here's your ammunition, if you feel like tossing a small incendiary or something: Yeah, I live in a city now. Yeah, I'm not planning to move out of it any time soon. (And for the record, out of the city would mean back to the country, for me, since suburbs are Not An Option for me. Kind of like kryptonite, personally. Or anti-matter. Or just the bucket of water thrown over the witch. Whatever.) And yet...
OK, go ahead and tell me you don't hate rural life and rural people (farm folks, and folks from little farm towns). You probably don't. But God, reading something like this just gives me the shudders, and makes me never want to talk about where I'm from, or what I think about it, or how I still care about it, in front of somebody who could react to its eradication with just glee.
I'm done. Going to go make some art until I am fit to talk to people again.
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