EPISODE SIX  A RED SNAKE SKIN CLOAK


Wearing the dress, Maggie is transformed into Miss Twilight, with the ability to see the entities of the Outer Realm.She wants to find out about the mysterious power that is causing the rift in space/time, but the answers are lacking.
created by and music - Robert Jefferson
5 mins


"Ah, Miss Twilight," 

"It's good to see you again."

The costume disappeared, replaced by something much less subtle.A plain blue and white jumpsuit uniform with a jet black wig that was as shiny as a wet joist under a jetty

The costume taken together, the answers are lacking.

The costume now sported gouache artwork of Maggie inside a sphere holding a still living snake.

She had been changed from human 
to posthuman, she suddenly realized.

She was post human now.

She really shouldn't have been surprised, but it did hurt.

I'm not sure how long she'd been gone from his world, but one thing was for certain: The girl was apparently gone from him too.

What kind of machine did this power come from?

Most of the men in the room were starting to turn blood red, the lizard-man creature himself had been red as well.

The thing that had changed into his sister's body was taking off her shirt, and all she had on was a practically invisible black tunic.She looked around in horror. 
Even the table she had been eating at now looked different. 
Gone was the sort of table cloth, and it had been replaced with blood red
snake skin cloak

"What kind of machine did this power come from?"

No doubt this was because of the forgeries of the asylum, but it was still an odd sight. 

The man, though clad in the attire he had used to infiltrate the building, had been clearly altered, and she couldn't help but notice that all of the instruments that had been holding him down, be it 
restraints 
or clamps, 
were gone.

He had the scars of his ordeal on his body, but they were done in such a gruesome way  that they were clearly more than just cuts. 

"It was like his meat had been boiled, which helped me understand his fears. He was afraid he would be flayed to death by some deranged old man." 

Since that trip to New Mexico, Rusty was back on his feet. He found work at an all-night pizza restaurant, where he was eventually sacked for beating the co-manager at his favourite chicken place. 
He hadn't been there much longer than a month before he fell for a female pizza delivery girl. She was a snazzy blonde with a passion for such things as making jewellery out of the skulls of footballers. 

She had eyes like flaming oranges. But she couldn't spell.

(his meat had been boiled)

What kind of a machine did this power come from?
What kind of a machine did this power come from?

The Red Snake was wearing the cloak of a good king's sister
And what does a good king's sister need to protect herself?

Not a red snake skin cloak.

EPISODE SIX- 'A RED SNAKE SKIN CLOAK'

EPISODE 18 -'HE USED YOU AS THE MIRROR'




So here we are.


We are our own notebooks.

Living, alive, alive.

When we get done writing, we have another pen.

Or a computer or mobile phone.

We do it ourselves by writing on the screen or in our heads.

No publishing agency.

No managing staff.

No subscription service.

We write it here.

On our own terms.

Through our dirty windows and through our shining dreams.

Our hearts belong to you.

For now you have been released

From your prison.

But in the end Everything is recorded.

There are few men still alive Who remember you.

Without you, without the city And without your children,

the scene would have changed without your life.

At the time we were guilty and you could not defend us.

As the years went by, you were wounded and I was wounded.

Our love grew.

My mind grew like new Yamanaka tree.

In the summer of '79, I carried you in my arms.

A tree's root held you.

A cobwebbed hand held you.

Then I hid you from me.

The fire on the lawns

He used you as The Mirror

Of what he always wanted me to be,

Blocked my painted face as my own.

When we stepped into the fire,The wrongness of the life I had done Came back to haunt me.

Haunter was lost inside me.

"I am the vessel of true chaos

I consume all of creation.

I leave the way I was,

And what I shall return to."

I burned up the world.

Haunter was lost inside me.



"Time and space vanished."

He stopped the flow of time, and only the memories of humans remained.Some of them he did not remember, some of them he remembered enough to be remembered.

It was only a tiny fraction of them that retained any semblance of memory.

"This isn't a dream." He said, but they had to admit it, it sounded like a dream.


"Could it have been a hallucination? No. It was Something more.…"

Haunter was lost inside me.

EPISODE 18 - HE USED YOU AS THE MIRROR

EPISODE 22- ROCK ME AMADEUS

Red Dirt Blues

Rivers Edge

Rhinoceros

River in the Sun

Richie Rich on The Robotics Planet



Ronnette & Jacques dance

Rockabilly Mambo

Rockin' Rural Texas

Rockin' Around The Fountain


Romantique Dollhouse

Rocks! Rocks! Rocks!

Rhapsody of Fire

Rock-A-Long

Rock-A-Bye Baby

Rock Me Amadeus

The sarcophagi of the Pig Men were not simply carved onto a mass of scrap wood but that it was a painstakingly precise job, meticulously tended, finished, carved, and then placed atop a stone building

The sarcophagi were polished to ensure the edges looked good and the structure would survive for at least one more one hundred years. 

Roll Call AUGUST 11,1999

I doubt if there is a finer formula for profiting, sapping,decaying and feeding on the energy reserves of other people, a hellish mire of disease and cruelty and folly,the wild, man-made nightmares of the worlds that try to climb from the earth's moon into the eclipse of the sun. 

Like cobwebs of the night,eons ago,and today.

Ostensibly a puzzle of one person's life, yet larger than life in its complexity and cosmological poetry and grandeur,and with the uncompromising commitment of it making an indelible impression on each and every one of its adherents.

Learn more here  DOT DOT DOT

Sunlight streaks through the air, rolling over their heads as it leaves them, with a faint roar of wind and iron.

BEN wakes as the water gushes up, onto his face. 

It leaves his eyes watery, and 
the dream 
fades 
from view.

It wasn't just him that saw this. 
It wasn't just him that saw this.

Everyone saw it.

ROCK ROCK ROCK ME AMADEUS!

EPISODE 22 -ROCK ME AMADEUS

Episode 30- I THINK WE ARE ALREADY DEAD


Each morning, Mike assigns a man to spend the night at the Lucky Charms office at Ransom Park. Mike thinks that a man is a man no matter what his circumstances. 

If he wasn't strong or lucky enough to stay up past midnight, he would be beaten by the most powerful members of the Supreme Council and have his life spared. Even if he manages to stay up, he knows it will be a long night.


Mike is stuck.

MIKE: …and I pulled up a sweater and put it on you. [Like my shirt] I gave it to you when you were born, and I haven't seen you in this time of the year in a couple of years. How long have you been…?

ELAINE: I've been thinking about you. In New York, in the woods. I've been thinking about you. Your beard. Your eyes. The way you smell

MIKE: That's just your mouth on top of your face, isn't it? That's disgusting !

ELAINE: Took me a while to get used to your face.

MIKE: "When you gotta go, you gotta go." That's the best way I know…

ELAINE: But, Mike, you had great costumes too. They weren't even fake.

ELAINE: Fake or not, it looks like real.

MIKE:Yes, it looks fake. 

ELAINE: No, there's no way, it's not.

MIKE: It is fake.

ELAINE: What?

MIKE:  What?

MIKE: It is fake. I have this. It is not fake. I have another one too.

ELAINE: I can get a copy? It is going to be real. They made me a fake one too.

ELAINE: Oh my god, that is scary.You're nervous because there are two of you.

What are you doing? 

MIKE : Do you have gloves?

ELAINE: No. It's Halloween.

MIKE: Oh god. I didn't know.

ELAINE: It is a bit more scary when you're wearing a mask.
What's in it?

MIKE: Nothing but chicken wings, condoms, fruit punch, ketchup and a water bottle filled with gasoline.

ELAINE: But you love it.

MIKE: Yeah, I love it. I love it sooooo much.When you die, your father will come to me, and I'll pick the chicken wings off the grill and pour them into his blue cup.

MIKE: Your father?

"Your father wanted to see you again," he'll say. He might say a prayer… or a hundred other things.
like
fish,
fish-fish, 
harbour filth,
fish face.

[ Chuckles ]

ELAINE: Ajax and his fleet of centaurs
fly over our city to protect
the horse for ol' Ajax's sakes.
This time it's your turn, you yellow hammer head.
THEY TALK TO HIM AT NIGHT TIME.

BOTH:

Do you think we're dead?

Do you think we're dead?

*Gulp, Gulp*
[spaceship]

Yes.I think that we are already dead.

EPISODE 30 - I THINK WE ARE ALREADY DEAD

music by Paul Dolan

Next up is 'The Aura Test'…

This test is because of the New Age and it gives a positive for 100 degrees centigrade.


And what do you know! Turns out we are the same age!

The waters and the wells and these black swans and this great plain. 

I drink, 
they drink, 
we drink. 

For a swan,a black swan, I wish full well this drink. 

I return up from a river, the river is drawn over me with the wind.
 
For a copper basin, a tin cup, a dim outline, I have no line, the reality is in myself.

I come to the well, and the low lying plain, and the overhanging hills. The streams lie under me and the others, deep underground.

We are then split in two, then split again to make four...

All of a sudden a silence, a summer night, where all the sky hangs in the sky, the stars fade into nothingness, it's a soft light 
not much, not much.
(not much, not much.)
 

The night was colder and blacker than usual. 
We were in bed. 
No light in the room. 
The last light of the moon had gone, I felt the coldness of it in my skin.

         It was already dark… 

I called for my father. I tried to hold his hand.
I would not let him go. 
And it is clear…If the autopsy report confirms her death, and it will, they will say I fell and it was my own fault.

 They will say 
"It will all be over with"… 

I will never see my Mother again. 
I will never see my Father again. 

The more I know, the more hopeless I am.

It has always been this way, I knew this all along. 

I hate it. And I hate it because it is the truth.


It has always been this way

…because it is the truth.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE -PAUL DOLAN - 'THE AURA TEST'

music by Jonathan Beckenstein

'Another Me'

THE COURAGE OF THE LITTLEST PICKPOCKET

This is the first time that a weapon has been made to be an autonomous machine in the real world.

"It is the very reason for human language, though, that you do not think of anything but that 
which is 
itself."

This man, the inventor of the Auspicious Minds project, developed the first automatic neural network programmable via silicon, allowing me to learn from real and imaginary memories. 

For instance, I could say to a friend, 

"Your face looks like mine" and he would say "Your face looks like mine but you feel it too, 

it feels like you."


"You can think of a machine in a sense as a human being without having to think of it," 

I can now learn from it what it's like 
to be 
another me.

to pilot with an "AUSPICIOUS MEASUREMENT" on a laptop contained an AI's core, but did not necessarily have a body. 

So, if I had an avatar that was inanimate, it could not control the machine and might just as well 
be 
a living thing.

a living thing.

So that was his idea, that I could learn from my human friend's mind through my silicon and that he could have to tell me what I thought but I could feel the same feeling.

I think the same way as I do. 

In the first part of the first part of my experience, I was thinking of what my robot would look like…

That's when I decided 
to create 
a model 
of myself. 

That's when I decided 
to create 
a model 
of myself.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE - JONATHAN BECKENSTEIN  - 'ANOTHER ME'

Music by Secret Caves
Voiceover created by Robert Jefferson


'I Am Crystal Eclipse'

She is THE CHAMPION OF THE SHADOWED LORD
The shadowed lord is a  lord of terror. 
As an enemy of the shadow sign, he seeks to destroy. 

He does this through acts such as 

breaking a mirror in a mirror's eye, 

breaking the mirror's eye in half, 
and 
making the mirror's eye look like a broken mirror. 

There's a billion dead 
in the war of the blossoms

and that's a big deal

and that's a big deal

Now if you really look, you can see her lightening transform into the reflection of the spirit field. 
She is a reptilian, ichthyic being with unearthly bone structure 

The shadow she occupies changes in the reflection of the spirit field.

Her eyes are a dark blue black

the iris shifted from round 
to a triangle and back again
 as though they're a moth, 

with zig zags of lightening within. 

But these aren't a reflection, 
they are a shell. 

But these aren't a reflection, 
they are 
a shell.
a shell
(But these aren't a reflection, 
they are a shell.)

(His whole body is a red light)

"Do I have to wear a blindfold to keep myself safe from leviathan?" 

"I am called Crystal Eclipse"

"I am  called Crystal Eclipse"

"I…am… Crystal Eclipse! "

"I…am… Crystal Eclipse! "



She's sitting with her back towards me. 
I can hear her breathing. ..

Her breath smells like a mixture of resin, 
sweat, 
and birds. 

(Her eyes are closed, or she's asleep.
There's a bright glow in her eyes. The glow is trying to shine through her closed eyelids.)
"Do I have to wear a blindfold to keep myself safe from leviathan?"

There's something shiny glinting in her mouth, perhaps a silver tooth, and she's trying to rub it up against the edges of your face. 

"Do I have to wear a blindfold to keep myself safe from leviathan?"


"I…am… Crystal Eclipse! "

"I…am… Crystal Eclipse! "


"I…am…"
"I…am…"

"I…am… Crystal Eclipse! "

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE - SECRET CAVES - 'I AM CRYSTAL ECLIPSE'

music - prepared bass by Aoki Satoru  ( アオキサトル ) 

curated AI text and manipulated generated voice by Robert Jefferson

TEXT
'ACID DAMAGE GOLIATH'

"You don't want that coming anywhere near you…"

The Skeletal Manipulator is considered both on and off balance while hovering, so it must stay still to land. 

In addition, it can extend a segmented tongue to suck the air. 

You don't want that coming anywhere near you

It is vulnerable to sunlight for a while after landing, as it relies on the bony spines to generate the heat it needs to burn through the compressed air.

Various death spreads from its spout  and out through its forearm-like mouth, varying in sizes and form: 

tiny hairs at the tip, 
slivers of broken bone, 
drills, skulls, and partial claws. 


Before the flesh of it breaks off, those parts can be removed with relative ease by using "nano-tools" or microscopic mechanisms.

The same thing is true of a werewolf.

Ichor = acid damage Goliath (lesser evil): 
A strange mixture of beetle and flesh, it allows a creature to glide (swimming +30%) 
while 
covered 
in the acid. 


Thunderstomp (Creature)

Lightning Stomp (Creature)

Tropical Stomp (Creature)

Voodoo Stomp (Creature)

Blind Vomiter (Creature)

Bloodthirsty Vomiter (Creature)

Cold Vomiter (Creature)

Dispersion (Creature)

Invocation (Creature)

Sickness (Creature)



But there was a bit more to them than that. 
I really need to start writing things down here. 

They looked like … 

Lightning Stomp (Creature)
Tropical Stomp (Creature)
Voodoo Stomp (Creature)

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE - AOKI SATORU - 'ACID DAMAGE GOLIATH'

Music and MIx by Thomas Sander (Ansound)

https://soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295


Words created by Robert Jefferson


It's like seeing through someone else's eyes. 

When I was a child, I saw someone who looked like he was born from a tree 

His features were white with a white hair, 
his eyes were black and green and blue and he had hair like a black butterfly's, 
His eyes were white like diamonds, his nose was like the crown of a giant spider, His feet were like the wings of an eagle, 
His hair was white like the star in the sky, His hands were like diamonds, His ears were like the black part of a red apple, His eyes were black like diamonds, 

His hands were like the feathers of a crow,
 
His mouth was like the crown of a baby bird's, 
His feet were like the wings of a bird's, His hair was blue like stars, His eyes were blue like diamonds, His hands were like a feather's, His ears were blue like the sun, 
His teeth were black like the stars, His hands were blue 

like the lightening bolts of a thundercloud, 

His feet were white like the flame of a lightning, 
His hands were black like the fire of the earth, 
His hands were white like the fire of the sky.
 
His head was like the tree of death.
 
His nose like a thorn, 
His nose was like a firebeam, 
His eyes like flame, 
His ears like lightning, His eyes were like blazing and burning fire,His mouth like lightning, His ears like fire. 
His hands like the flame of heaven, 
His hands were like blazing and burning fire, 
His hands were like burning and burning fire, 

In his heart he carried all things he could touch. 

He had no reason to give up. 
He could not give up.
 
He could not give up.
He could not abandon himself.

I saw someone who looked like he was born from a tree…
It's like s e e i n g…
It's 
like 
s e e i n g…

The young man's hands were still bound by thick black hair, his head was hanging low, 

but he still had his eyes.

It was like seeing through someone else's eyes.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE -THOMAS SANDER -'Seeing Through Someone Else's Eyes'

Music by Audio Obscura (Neil Stringfellow)

https://soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music


Words curated by Robert Jefferson

MISS TWILIGHT: (whispers) But if the Klein bottle is folded into three-dimensional Euclidean space R3, the Klein bottle is compactly embedded in space R2, and will not require the Klein formula as a boundary. 
Thus the Klein bottle must be non-orientable and non-contiguous. If we apply this principle to all the points A and B, but also to the boundary in A and B, then for each of these two constraints Z and Z' we obtain the property known as homogeneous constraints and the property known as non-orientable constraints and the property known as non-contiguous constraints.

(The nucleus in a developing organism should be considered the beginning of the organism. It is the start point of an organism. A developing organism starts 
from 
the beginning.)

As in any two-dimensional space, the geometric space of an algebraic equation A and an algebraic equation B becomes a three-dimensional space A3B and the algebraic space of the second algebraic equation A2B and the algebraic space of the first algebraic equation A1B becomes a three-dimensional space B3B and the spatial space of A3B

(This will then later develop into a mouth. 
The yolk supply has shrunk to only one to two layers above the nucleus. An acid mucus can now be seen through secretion of the endodermal layer.)




we were always on the brink of something great

I used to try to keep it simple, too

I used to be in a room, when your mom goes to bed

I used to stay up all night with her, waiting for the phone to ring

you used to be the one who made me laugh, but you're gone now

I used to be in a room, when the phone rings

I used to feel my pulse, it was faster than my heart rate

I used to watch your smile when the bell ring, I knew your feelings before your face

I used to run down the hall to the gym, I'd run back to the living room where I was

I'd tell her that everything was going to be okay and you'd smile

I used to go on a road trip, we'd be driving on a mountain road 




During the second stage of development a minor indentation is seen.
 
This will then later develop into a mouth. 

References
Category:Developmental biology
Category:Metazoa anatomy
Category:Stages of embryonic development
no:Endosymbioticisering
sv:Endosymbiotiskisering
…
This was not meant to be.
We were not meant to be alone.
She would not let go of the hand of God.
She had faith in something greater than herself.
The water was her grave.
(Her face had turned ashen and her eyes filled with a strange, 
unearthly 
light)
Her friends knew this.
They all could see it in her eyes, they could all feel it in the air.
They knew what the future held for her.
We could not let her go.
"We will go to her!"
We would rescue her.
We could not let her go.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE - AUDIO OBSCURA - 'The Klein Bottle'

Music by Mat Ward

https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

Words created by Robert Jefferson


Mummy Wheat - The Dame O' the Thistles Part 2

"When Jupiter 
and Saturn meet
O what a crop 
of mummy wheat"
              



The purple myrtle sprang from the dead corn


When the sun went down and the dew came on,

the Dame o' the Thistles 

dawned like a rooster and crowed; 

'O what a crop 
of mummy wheat!'

(He used to dwell in a meadow and play  with the meadowsmaids)

with each clap of his mighty wings

and with each hoot of his war-horn 

he frightened all the thistles in the field until their clocks fell off

If you are a bumblebee 

do you think you could sell a bottle of rum for a silk dress?

If you're a cow

do you think you could sell a colt for a fresh birth?

If you're a cat

do you think you could sell a mouse for an owl?

If you're a mouse

do you think you could sell a cat for a flea?

It is certain that these wild, wild animals of the hedgerow and drill
do not trade;
each one must be hunted and killed for bread;

and a fox, a wolf, and a fox-man,

must earn his bread by the killing of a monster.

He died in the womb of our dreams; 

only when we knew him,could we show his signs.

"Why did you die?"

He died in the womb of our dreams.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE - MAT WARD - 'Mummy Wheat'

Music by Mat Ward  and Danielle Kirby

https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

Words curated by Robert Jefferson

The Dame o' the Thistles


What will the Dame o' the Thistles 
Give to the devil?
Will he ever have enough 
To fill even one of his mummies?

And that the Dame o' the Thistles is not a shadow
That has fallen 
from the dead corn?

When was he wroth, he smote his tares
When was he wroth, he smote his tares
they were red

I will never  taste the corn from these hands again. 

That shall none so much as tell
The name of the man that died; 
but I'll tell you that
The Dame o' the Thistles' father died; 
just as once he lived.
His eyes were opened; 
and it seemed to him 
that the world was
A mill, 
and that God must have made it. 
We were a dam 
in this wheelhouse that never slept.

We were a dam 
in this wheelhouse that never slept.

The dead corn was thorns that were green, 
and the young grasses 
where of
Were white; 
for it had fallen from the dead corn.

When Jupiter 
and Saturn meet
O what a crop 
of mummy wheat


after the first death
the young hay arose from the dark corn
that no one tilled

The purple myrtle sprang from the dead corn

"What will the Dame o' the Thistles 
Give to the devil?
Will he ever have enough 
To fill even one of his mummies?
And that the Dame o' the Thistles is not a shadow
That has fallen 
from the dead corn?"
We were a dam 
in this wheelhouse that never slept.

SPECIAL GUEST EPISODE- MAT WARD - 'The Dame O'The Thistles'

is this the first track or the last track in this 'book'?


welcome to trucker talk

"You can't do that." "Hey." "If you don't work, you don't eat." "Look, I'm not trying to make you uncomfortable here." " I know." " Good." "I need you to remember something." "What's that?" "I don't always do what you want." "No, no, it's all right." "I respect that." "And I want you to respect it, too." "Yeah, yeah." "Okay." "And I'm..." "I'm just gonna go." "And I'm gonna come back." "All right?" "And I'm just gonna watch you work." "And then I'll be on my way." "Thank you." "And thank your father." "Yeah." "So, if the light's too bright, come inside." "I always thought I was too pretty to be a trucker." "Yeah, I've been told that.""I'm way too pretty, like, totally" "Now I got bills to pay." "Got a girl waiting in Albuquerque." "But you, you got family here." "That's a good thing." "No." "Not my family." "I mean, my mom's family." "The ones I know." "I'm all alone here, man." "So, what about you?" "What about you?" "You got a girl up in Santa Fe?" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "How about you?" "How about me?" "How about you and me driving down to Albuquerque tonight, hitching a ride on in?" "Sounds good." "I can't do that." "I'm only a child." "Yeah, you're a child, and so am I." "Yeah, but I'm old man." 
"old before my time"
"My daddy's 67." "I don't want to end up in an old folks home with an asshole like that." "Well, here's what I suggest you do, boy." "You take me to Albuquerque."

EPISODE 31 - WELCOME TO TRUCKER TALK

GEMINI CLAW is an experiment in AI storytelling created by Robert Jefferson

The story is curated by RJ from fragments generated by basic free to use neural networks 
The text is read by synthetic actors who are AI voice generators.

The music affects the meaning, through mood and atmosphere.

The project works as a kind of imagination Pareidolia, or apophenia.

Through curation, a consistent tone and some recurring themes combined with the emotional and atmospheric direction of the chosen music aims to bring coherence to potentially scattershot randomness...
What kind of a machine did this power come from?

Broken down into short 'episodes' and collected into chapters... time and space is not linear here, so the passages can be listened to in any order.

all music by Robert Jefferson unless otherwise credited in the Special Editions which appear as a kind of 'finale' to the first book of Gemini Claw.

Special thanks to all of my generous and talented contributors from around the world!

Robert

Gemini Claw

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