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silveradept) wrote2005-01-27 11:13 pm
silveradept) wrote2005-01-27 11:13 pm
There are still some things that the Rabbit can account for.
You see, while I was still out in the anthro world, a couple things came to mind. The first was that I had, while I was wandering the streets, enjoyed the concept of the Deconstructulator, a device that showed realtime the sprites in memory while I played Super Mario Brothers. Very interesting, but not responsive enough to my Largo side to want to play the whole way through.
After having gone through the portal, I did read some part of the news - apparently a monkey had knocked over a store or two nearby. When I got back, all I could find that was close was a robber in a monkey suit. There's another reason why I'm not sure that I didn't cross into some relatively unknown part of Subreality. If I had, though, I would have been able to exercise my Writer abilities, and those were definitely not there. There was also a fishbowl gelatin recipe in the cooking section. Lots of vegetarians over there, probably with good reason. I didn't see the movie listings, but I heard someone discussing this movie, or something like it with the appropriate anthros being substituted for the humans. The science section had a slow day, or I was reading a satire paper (much like our E3W) because it had an article all about ice spikes as signifiers of some natural disaster.
Plus, technology said that Microsoft's browser was spyware, and that their own tool proved it. This, I think, may have turned out to have been real on this side of the dimensional void. Well, it certainly was strange enough to be true on this side of reality as well.
I don't really need to cross dimensions to have strange things happen to me, believe it. Just reading the stuff about the Beats is enough to make my life go strange - there isn't really too much you can pin down and say "This is Beat." At the same time, I think I'm beginning to understand what Beat was. And that Beat never really went away, it's just that a lot of the things they had as new and frightening, we've been thinking about and living with for fifty years or better now. It's still there, but we've comforted ourselves with the knowledge that it's unlikely to happen - it's improbable. And so we ignored it - Beats didn't.
The conformity culture and the institutionalization of man were starting then - new to them, very old hat to us. So where are our Beats? Have they all been caught by the mainstream and gobbled in this hi-tech, quick-to-co-opt world? Or is it a matter of turning Beat into Beatnik by advertising and quick mainstreaming?
After having gone through the portal, I did read some part of the news - apparently a monkey had knocked over a store or two nearby. When I got back, all I could find that was close was a robber in a monkey suit. There's another reason why I'm not sure that I didn't cross into some relatively unknown part of Subreality. If I had, though, I would have been able to exercise my Writer abilities, and those were definitely not there. There was also a fishbowl gelatin recipe in the cooking section. Lots of vegetarians over there, probably with good reason. I didn't see the movie listings, but I heard someone discussing this movie, or something like it with the appropriate anthros being substituted for the humans. The science section had a slow day, or I was reading a satire paper (much like our E3W) because it had an article all about ice spikes as signifiers of some natural disaster.
Plus, technology said that Microsoft's browser was spyware, and that their own tool proved it. This, I think, may have turned out to have been real on this side of the dimensional void. Well, it certainly was strange enough to be true on this side of reality as well.
I don't really need to cross dimensions to have strange things happen to me, believe it. Just reading the stuff about the Beats is enough to make my life go strange - there isn't really too much you can pin down and say "This is Beat." At the same time, I think I'm beginning to understand what Beat was. And that Beat never really went away, it's just that a lot of the things they had as new and frightening, we've been thinking about and living with for fifty years or better now. It's still there, but we've comforted ourselves with the knowledge that it's unlikely to happen - it's improbable. And so we ignored it - Beats didn't.
The conformity culture and the institutionalization of man were starting then - new to them, very old hat to us. So where are our Beats? Have they all been caught by the mainstream and gobbled in this hi-tech, quick-to-co-opt world? Or is it a matter of turning Beat into Beatnik by advertising and quick mainstreaming?