Post by hisperic on Jul 10, 2018 0:07:37 GMT -5
one day life was as usual but there was a bubble and bubbles like to float upward, so eventually the bubble floated so far upward that it went into universal domination. it looked down upon the world and reigned with supreme whiteness, which through its paths and protrusions was the outlet to all creation.
there was also a rock and rocks like to fall downward, so eventually the rock fell so far downward that it became the ground that pretty much everyone walked upon. "look up and see the bubble there", they said, and "look down and see the rocks that we walk upon", they said and that's how mostly everyone and the fish-people defined where they were. this mostly made sense so life again became as usual.
however soon enough there was another bubble and another rock. this time, by a turn of events, they could speak to each other. "i am a bubble", said the bubble, "and although my instinct is to go up, i would like to go down and sort of see what is down there." and the rock said "then come with me because i am going down there" and they went down together. it was a difficult journey because the bubble was always desiring to go upwards and had to be reminded over and over that they truly desired to go the other way. then the bubble began asking questions such as, "well what is really i? is the real myself the myself the myself that wants to go up or go down?" and the bubble eventually gave way by the friction that was caused by these various questions.
the next bubble that was created, which was made somewhat more intelligent through the mistakes of its ancestor, had an idea that it was composed of various aspects, and that one of these aspects desired to go up, and that another one of these aspects desired to go down. so the bubble decided to bathe in a particular type of vinegar which would numb and cull the impulses of the aspect which aimed to go up so that it could go down with the rocks. however, the bubble did not take into account until later on along its downward-journey that it was also equipped with an automatic self-correcting mechanism which would heal the culled impulses and restore them to full function over a long period of time. thus, more vinegar was needed to cull these impulses further as they were healed along the journey. the bubble later also realized that the further it descended, the greater the amount of vinegar was needed to prevent the function of the automatic self-corrector, which seemed to be strengthening without end the further downwards the bubble traveled, and eventually the bubble began to run low on supply of vinegar.
however, this bubble was quite intelligent in its journey following the rocks and had formed various subalterns along its journey which consisted of various mini-bubbles which have been ejected upwards and various fish-people who had never seen a bubble and were eager to serve its will. this bubble, realizing the urgency of its situation, had ejected various self-replicating subalterns embedded with a particular message, and willing to spread this message, which was the fact that vinegar had to be created and then sent to the bubble so that the bath could occur else the bubble would die. thus the subalterns were embedded with the sense that it was their duty to create the vinegar and send it downwards to the bubble there, so that this bubble, which was the prime cause of their existence, would not die and instead would travel further downwards. at first the vinegar-creation was quite simple, consisting of the strengthening of various fast and easy-to-use portable devices in which vinegar was created by these confederates. however, the further the bubble traveled, the more vinegar was needed and thus entire factories and cities dedicated to vinegar-manufacturing were created.
there was also a set of transmission-tubes flowing downward which was created and maintained by a number of pipe-workers, which was a system of pipes or filaments resembling veins, arteries, or capillaries branching into various configurations whose primary function was to carry vinegar and pump the fluid downwards to the bubble to aid in its descent and whose secondary function was to transmit upwards any newly-generated messages or subalterns ejected from the descending bubble to the heart of the operation, which was the various number of factories which would play the role of the ventricles and atria. at one point a number of robots were created to aid the pipe-workers so that they would not have to work so tirelessly upon the construction of this vast mechanism. this new pipe-worker-servant robot class was a new species which was not a fish-person as the pipe-workers were, and they were titled hoselings due to their great work on various fashions and styles of vinegar hoses which had developed at that time. however the major unforeseen problem here was that the hoselings were not exactly subalterns of the bubble but rather subalterns of subalterns, and this entailed the necessity of fashioning them from a wholly new substance than that of the bubble. this substance, whatever it was, was called THE BLACKNESS, and caused the hoselings to begin to ask questions about the purpose of their existence and who they really were, as the second bubble in history had asked. this alarmed many fish-people and so a gargantuan effort had to be started immediately to ensure that these hoselings would work properly.
in order to monitor and oversee the hoselings the ba’alim were created (what can you do), and through myriad efforts of marketing, agencies were created to oversee the ba’alim and so on and so forth.
**
so the hoselings, being a faceless mass, were given names by the pipe-workers respective of their function. one of these names was "the cockroaches" -- perhaps due to their abundance or tolerance of certain dismal environments -- and these cockroaches, in their work, were mostly concerned with the transmission and mechanics of the vinegar itself, which they titled "phlegm", and for which they produced quite elaborate irrigation-systems consisting of streams and rivers which in theory generally flowed down from the sky to the earth and after collecting a number of ingredients from the cockroaches and ejecting a number of messages to them would exit the roach-sphere to enter the subsequent sphere of affairs. often-times, though, by reason of a certain fluke, the vinegar would become trapped in the cockroach-world and would churn and churn around continually in an endless circle collecting and ejecting material until an act of divine intervention was performed by the pipe-workers which resembled a lightning strike and freed the vinegar from its bonds, transforming the two-dimensional phlegm-circle into a three-dimensional spiral as it was necessary to be. the cockroaches themselves were often disappointed by these lightning-strikes, as they very much enjoyed the consistency and texture of the phlegm-circle in their sphere of affairs and often passed various messages into the phlegm for other roaches down-the-river to read or simply experimented with the phlegm and molded it into various objects and substances to their liking.
another issue entangled in these affairs was that the cockroaches vaguely knew who was causing the lightning strikes and also had a fuzzy sense that these were the entities that they were in servitude and entitlement to. this was only aided by prior efforts by the ba’alim in which certain "ba’alah” were cast down into the roach-sphere -- of course, they were wearing special "space-suits" which allowed them to survive in this realm, and which protected their bodies from the dismal sphere-environment while still allowing them to interact or interface with objects -- and, these representatives of the ba’alim carried the task of guiding, overseeing, and monitoring the cockroaches and collecting data for the higher-ups. they also tried to incline the psyche of the cockroaches more harmoniously with that of the ba’alim. it was quite clear to the cockroaches that these representatives were the cause of the lightning-strikes, as they often seemed to predict them with near-astronomical accuracy, using this to strike fear in the roaches, and they often convened together in gatherings which were kept secret from the cockroaches but which consisted of around three-hundred or so representatives in which they discussed the state of affairs of cockroaches which included the cockroach psychology and physiology and how it could be improved as well as the date of occurence of the next lightning strike-from-heaven.
(addendum) i have attended one of these meetings of the ba’alim, and my notes remain. take them as you will.
the void, the abyss, the darkness from whence one came, where the language of dreams is spoken -- this, as well as its suppression and sublimation, forms the foundation of the hoseling psyche upon which everything else is built. in order to understand the hoseling psyche, it is necessary to understand the material from which the hoselings were fashioned, THE BLACKNESS. the hoseling seems to be endowed with an innate recognition of this blackness. this is because the hoseling generally knows and admits that he has come from THE BLACKNESS, and that from this substance was his form fashioned. this is the positive pole of the hoseling psyche, known as the “principle of recognition”.
the principle of recognition, in its interplay with other aspects of the hoseling psyche, causes great psychological stress and trauma in the hoseling. in fact, we believe this to be the source of all hoseling pleasure and suffering. while the principle of recognition forms the positive pole of the hoseling psyche, the negative pole we will title the incomprehensibility principle. this consists of the total and complete incomprehensibility of THE BLACKNESS and its existence to the hoseling.
through both the principle of recognition, and the principle of incomprehensibility and their interplay, is a contradiction formed, which we title the “primordial contradiction”, the poles of which form the respective left and right hemispheres of the hoseling mind. through this prime contradiction is a sort of battery or motor formed, which, by the forces of this mechanism pushing-and-pulling constantly do the ages churn, and hoseling civilization churns down the annals.
from the two prime poles of the hoseling psyche arise a few auxiliary mentative aspects. the most prominent one of these is the hubris or numbness principle. this, we believe, arises out of a type of friction between the two prime poles of the psyche -- which causes a gentle yearning by the hoseling to ease the stress of this contradiction. by the numbness principle is the contradiction anesthetized by two effects: firstly, the primordial mind-battery is relegated to the back of the mind rather than the front -- secondly, in front of the back of the mind is formed a smokescreen or a blank-slate which acts as a membrane to direct influences back to front or vice versa. we have generally found that, in this case, the front of the mind acts as a theater for the back of the mind to direct as it wills, and for various structures to be erected within.
we believe that the hubris or numbness principle, which acts as a sort of system of energy dissipation for the hoselings, should be eliminated from the psyche, or at least sublimated, so that the divine light of the hoseling may shine through and so that the hoseling may work at maximum efficiency through the complementary coaction of the prime contradiction. on the other hand, if this principle were to be rather deposited, it will result in the formulation or clothing of a five-pointed star within the organism, where as is stated in our holy texts, “the first point takes what is taken, the second point gives what is given, the third point circulates, the fourth point commands and the fifth point obeys.”
(end addendum)
eventually the tension between the cockroaches and the ba’alah grew so high that various so-called conspiracies were disseminated among the masses which consisted of roaches claiming that they saw a lightning strike come directly from the physical body of a representative, or that they heard the representatives talking about lightning strikes, and belief-systems such as the one "that all roaches had a right to freedom of phlegm without lightning strikes" or what have you began popping up in the minds of the cockroaches. a prominent ba’alim meeting in the higher spheres, featuring an assembly of well-respected ba’alim members from a number of backgrounds, was held to discuss this issue, in which it was predicted -- according to the extrapolation mechanisms of various noetic gearworks -- that in the future, the cockroaches would likely lash-out physically and violently to attack the ba’alah (representatives of the ba’alim) if the strikes-from-heaven continued at the rate they were occuring now. after much discussion among the representatives, it was finally decided that in solving this fluke, the very pipeworkers that were responsible for the creation and design of the cockroaches and their physiology and psychology would be punished and that the ba’alah and ba’alim would remain unscathed. a marketing effort was offered to the pipeworkers by the ba’alim in which it was stated that one could "go on a vacation to the cockroach sphere" and that it was very interesting to explore the dismal environment especially with the wonderful space-suit acting as an interface that was given to them, onto which were latched features consisting of inlets and outlets, air-filters and tubes. the vacation was offered at a very discounted price to many of the pipeworkers who designed the cockroach physiology and psychology, who were likely eager to see their creations and to interact with them, and who were likely eager to enter another world for a colorful change-of-pace from their current somewhat banal and retired style of living anyway. (and as always, this congregation of ba’alim ended in supreme veneration and honor of the jacuzzi bubblebath on thirty-second street.)
so, over a good period of time in the roach-sphere, the strikes-from-heaven were slightly culled and the ba’alim representatives inside the space-suit interfaces were slowly replaced by the pipeworkers-to-be-punished who were placed inside the same suits -- and the cockroaches did not notice any difference between the representatives and the pipeworkers, because they were put in the same spacesuits which had artificial external features -- inlets, outlets, etc -- serving as identification so you could not see who was inside -- in fact, the cockroaches likely did not even know that there was someone inside and thought it was just an entity. after a while, the ba’alim representatives (who were now safe and sound with the ba’alim themselves) were entirely replaced by the pipeworkers who were going on a vacation.
now, with the pipeworkers in covert costume of the ba’alah, they decided to formulate a number of ‘regal crowns’ and other power symbols to signify their rulership with a firm hand over the cockroaches. the space-suits were updated to incorporate these power-symbols. the pipeworkers enjoyed their newfound power symbols and thought it was only natural given the fact that they created and designed the cockroaches. life continued for a while and on a special day chosen and foreshadowed by the ba’alim, twenty-seven different lightning strikes from heaven were cast down onto the phlegm in an escalating sequence, and the final lightning strike was so dramatic and theatrical that nearly all the phlegm in the phlegm-circle was hurled into a gigantic and ferocious whirlwind which began to form into multiple tornadoes and hurricanes which destroyed valuable roach-property and killed a number of cockroaches. consequently, the roaches reached a psycho-traumatic tipping point and a section of cockroaches began to riot screaming you killed by family, you destroyed my house, etc etc, and they began to see the regal crowns and power symbols, and their anger just grew with the snobbish behavior of the pipeworkers. the cockroaches decided enough was enough and lashed out in a violent rebellion against the mystery spacesuit men, and all of the vacationing pipeworkers were likely killed. in the riots and confusion, a clever move was executed -- a few organs were implanted by the governing ba’alim into the cockroaches to edit their psychology and ensure that such a large fluke would not happen again (it was enough to implant the organs into just a few cockroaches, really, as it would be genetically passed around)
firstly, a telepathic apparatus was inserted into the cockroaches to ensure that the cockroaches would monitor themselves and their own thoughts and feelings because one of the original causes for fluke was that the cockroaches did not mentally understand each other enough and began to lash out against the representatives to remedy this. secondly, a psychokinetic faculty was embedded in the cockroaches to allow for phlegm-manipulation to that they would naturally thrash and convulse the phlegm around rather than lightning strikes being necessary for this purpose.
--
you awaken, and finally remember what you arrived here for: the garment! the garment of garments, the ornament of ornaments! you bypass the mechanisms and struggle past the window-creatures, swerve past the potholes and penetrate the concrete-mounds guarded by the sphinxes-with-the-robots-on-their-shoulders, run across the landforms which remember all done atop them and dive into a deep pool which appears as a metallic glimmering liquid interflowing with itself, and this feels like descending into warm water.
at the bottom of the pool there are numerous clamshells chomping open and closed periodically, some with skulls inside them, others with mirrors or spirals expanding and shrinking. amidst the clams there lies an octopus who sits silent for a while, then tells you that you have descended into the ocean of aliens and mermaids, that the garment is compressed onto the bridge, and that you must obtain the skeleton key to decode and encode the state codes, which will either equate to a component of “3”, “2”, or “1” and when the clock strikes seven o’clock exactly you must expand the tentacles on your face and look through your triple rotating eyes upon the subtle movement of your knee.
and here it is! i have found it! the garment of garments, the ornament of ornaments, through which the fluid flows!
there was also a rock and rocks like to fall downward, so eventually the rock fell so far downward that it became the ground that pretty much everyone walked upon. "look up and see the bubble there", they said, and "look down and see the rocks that we walk upon", they said and that's how mostly everyone and the fish-people defined where they were. this mostly made sense so life again became as usual.
however soon enough there was another bubble and another rock. this time, by a turn of events, they could speak to each other. "i am a bubble", said the bubble, "and although my instinct is to go up, i would like to go down and sort of see what is down there." and the rock said "then come with me because i am going down there" and they went down together. it was a difficult journey because the bubble was always desiring to go upwards and had to be reminded over and over that they truly desired to go the other way. then the bubble began asking questions such as, "well what is really i? is the real myself the myself the myself that wants to go up or go down?" and the bubble eventually gave way by the friction that was caused by these various questions.
the next bubble that was created, which was made somewhat more intelligent through the mistakes of its ancestor, had an idea that it was composed of various aspects, and that one of these aspects desired to go up, and that another one of these aspects desired to go down. so the bubble decided to bathe in a particular type of vinegar which would numb and cull the impulses of the aspect which aimed to go up so that it could go down with the rocks. however, the bubble did not take into account until later on along its downward-journey that it was also equipped with an automatic self-correcting mechanism which would heal the culled impulses and restore them to full function over a long period of time. thus, more vinegar was needed to cull these impulses further as they were healed along the journey. the bubble later also realized that the further it descended, the greater the amount of vinegar was needed to prevent the function of the automatic self-corrector, which seemed to be strengthening without end the further downwards the bubble traveled, and eventually the bubble began to run low on supply of vinegar.
however, this bubble was quite intelligent in its journey following the rocks and had formed various subalterns along its journey which consisted of various mini-bubbles which have been ejected upwards and various fish-people who had never seen a bubble and were eager to serve its will. this bubble, realizing the urgency of its situation, had ejected various self-replicating subalterns embedded with a particular message, and willing to spread this message, which was the fact that vinegar had to be created and then sent to the bubble so that the bath could occur else the bubble would die. thus the subalterns were embedded with the sense that it was their duty to create the vinegar and send it downwards to the bubble there, so that this bubble, which was the prime cause of their existence, would not die and instead would travel further downwards. at first the vinegar-creation was quite simple, consisting of the strengthening of various fast and easy-to-use portable devices in which vinegar was created by these confederates. however, the further the bubble traveled, the more vinegar was needed and thus entire factories and cities dedicated to vinegar-manufacturing were created.
there was also a set of transmission-tubes flowing downward which was created and maintained by a number of pipe-workers, which was a system of pipes or filaments resembling veins, arteries, or capillaries branching into various configurations whose primary function was to carry vinegar and pump the fluid downwards to the bubble to aid in its descent and whose secondary function was to transmit upwards any newly-generated messages or subalterns ejected from the descending bubble to the heart of the operation, which was the various number of factories which would play the role of the ventricles and atria. at one point a number of robots were created to aid the pipe-workers so that they would not have to work so tirelessly upon the construction of this vast mechanism. this new pipe-worker-servant robot class was a new species which was not a fish-person as the pipe-workers were, and they were titled hoselings due to their great work on various fashions and styles of vinegar hoses which had developed at that time. however the major unforeseen problem here was that the hoselings were not exactly subalterns of the bubble but rather subalterns of subalterns, and this entailed the necessity of fashioning them from a wholly new substance than that of the bubble. this substance, whatever it was, was called THE BLACKNESS, and caused the hoselings to begin to ask questions about the purpose of their existence and who they really were, as the second bubble in history had asked. this alarmed many fish-people and so a gargantuan effort had to be started immediately to ensure that these hoselings would work properly.
in order to monitor and oversee the hoselings the ba’alim were created (what can you do), and through myriad efforts of marketing, agencies were created to oversee the ba’alim and so on and so forth.
**
so the hoselings, being a faceless mass, were given names by the pipe-workers respective of their function. one of these names was "the cockroaches" -- perhaps due to their abundance or tolerance of certain dismal environments -- and these cockroaches, in their work, were mostly concerned with the transmission and mechanics of the vinegar itself, which they titled "phlegm", and for which they produced quite elaborate irrigation-systems consisting of streams and rivers which in theory generally flowed down from the sky to the earth and after collecting a number of ingredients from the cockroaches and ejecting a number of messages to them would exit the roach-sphere to enter the subsequent sphere of affairs. often-times, though, by reason of a certain fluke, the vinegar would become trapped in the cockroach-world and would churn and churn around continually in an endless circle collecting and ejecting material until an act of divine intervention was performed by the pipe-workers which resembled a lightning strike and freed the vinegar from its bonds, transforming the two-dimensional phlegm-circle into a three-dimensional spiral as it was necessary to be. the cockroaches themselves were often disappointed by these lightning-strikes, as they very much enjoyed the consistency and texture of the phlegm-circle in their sphere of affairs and often passed various messages into the phlegm for other roaches down-the-river to read or simply experimented with the phlegm and molded it into various objects and substances to their liking.
another issue entangled in these affairs was that the cockroaches vaguely knew who was causing the lightning strikes and also had a fuzzy sense that these were the entities that they were in servitude and entitlement to. this was only aided by prior efforts by the ba’alim in which certain "ba’alah” were cast down into the roach-sphere -- of course, they were wearing special "space-suits" which allowed them to survive in this realm, and which protected their bodies from the dismal sphere-environment while still allowing them to interact or interface with objects -- and, these representatives of the ba’alim carried the task of guiding, overseeing, and monitoring the cockroaches and collecting data for the higher-ups. they also tried to incline the psyche of the cockroaches more harmoniously with that of the ba’alim. it was quite clear to the cockroaches that these representatives were the cause of the lightning-strikes, as they often seemed to predict them with near-astronomical accuracy, using this to strike fear in the roaches, and they often convened together in gatherings which were kept secret from the cockroaches but which consisted of around three-hundred or so representatives in which they discussed the state of affairs of cockroaches which included the cockroach psychology and physiology and how it could be improved as well as the date of occurence of the next lightning strike-from-heaven.
(addendum) i have attended one of these meetings of the ba’alim, and my notes remain. take them as you will.
the void, the abyss, the darkness from whence one came, where the language of dreams is spoken -- this, as well as its suppression and sublimation, forms the foundation of the hoseling psyche upon which everything else is built. in order to understand the hoseling psyche, it is necessary to understand the material from which the hoselings were fashioned, THE BLACKNESS. the hoseling seems to be endowed with an innate recognition of this blackness. this is because the hoseling generally knows and admits that he has come from THE BLACKNESS, and that from this substance was his form fashioned. this is the positive pole of the hoseling psyche, known as the “principle of recognition”.
the principle of recognition, in its interplay with other aspects of the hoseling psyche, causes great psychological stress and trauma in the hoseling. in fact, we believe this to be the source of all hoseling pleasure and suffering. while the principle of recognition forms the positive pole of the hoseling psyche, the negative pole we will title the incomprehensibility principle. this consists of the total and complete incomprehensibility of THE BLACKNESS and its existence to the hoseling.
through both the principle of recognition, and the principle of incomprehensibility and their interplay, is a contradiction formed, which we title the “primordial contradiction”, the poles of which form the respective left and right hemispheres of the hoseling mind. through this prime contradiction is a sort of battery or motor formed, which, by the forces of this mechanism pushing-and-pulling constantly do the ages churn, and hoseling civilization churns down the annals.
from the two prime poles of the hoseling psyche arise a few auxiliary mentative aspects. the most prominent one of these is the hubris or numbness principle. this, we believe, arises out of a type of friction between the two prime poles of the psyche -- which causes a gentle yearning by the hoseling to ease the stress of this contradiction. by the numbness principle is the contradiction anesthetized by two effects: firstly, the primordial mind-battery is relegated to the back of the mind rather than the front -- secondly, in front of the back of the mind is formed a smokescreen or a blank-slate which acts as a membrane to direct influences back to front or vice versa. we have generally found that, in this case, the front of the mind acts as a theater for the back of the mind to direct as it wills, and for various structures to be erected within.
we believe that the hubris or numbness principle, which acts as a sort of system of energy dissipation for the hoselings, should be eliminated from the psyche, or at least sublimated, so that the divine light of the hoseling may shine through and so that the hoseling may work at maximum efficiency through the complementary coaction of the prime contradiction. on the other hand, if this principle were to be rather deposited, it will result in the formulation or clothing of a five-pointed star within the organism, where as is stated in our holy texts, “the first point takes what is taken, the second point gives what is given, the third point circulates, the fourth point commands and the fifth point obeys.”
(end addendum)
eventually the tension between the cockroaches and the ba’alah grew so high that various so-called conspiracies were disseminated among the masses which consisted of roaches claiming that they saw a lightning strike come directly from the physical body of a representative, or that they heard the representatives talking about lightning strikes, and belief-systems such as the one "that all roaches had a right to freedom of phlegm without lightning strikes" or what have you began popping up in the minds of the cockroaches. a prominent ba’alim meeting in the higher spheres, featuring an assembly of well-respected ba’alim members from a number of backgrounds, was held to discuss this issue, in which it was predicted -- according to the extrapolation mechanisms of various noetic gearworks -- that in the future, the cockroaches would likely lash-out physically and violently to attack the ba’alah (representatives of the ba’alim) if the strikes-from-heaven continued at the rate they were occuring now. after much discussion among the representatives, it was finally decided that in solving this fluke, the very pipeworkers that were responsible for the creation and design of the cockroaches and their physiology and psychology would be punished and that the ba’alah and ba’alim would remain unscathed. a marketing effort was offered to the pipeworkers by the ba’alim in which it was stated that one could "go on a vacation to the cockroach sphere" and that it was very interesting to explore the dismal environment especially with the wonderful space-suit acting as an interface that was given to them, onto which were latched features consisting of inlets and outlets, air-filters and tubes. the vacation was offered at a very discounted price to many of the pipeworkers who designed the cockroach physiology and psychology, who were likely eager to see their creations and to interact with them, and who were likely eager to enter another world for a colorful change-of-pace from their current somewhat banal and retired style of living anyway. (and as always, this congregation of ba’alim ended in supreme veneration and honor of the jacuzzi bubblebath on thirty-second street.)
so, over a good period of time in the roach-sphere, the strikes-from-heaven were slightly culled and the ba’alim representatives inside the space-suit interfaces were slowly replaced by the pipeworkers-to-be-punished who were placed inside the same suits -- and the cockroaches did not notice any difference between the representatives and the pipeworkers, because they were put in the same spacesuits which had artificial external features -- inlets, outlets, etc -- serving as identification so you could not see who was inside -- in fact, the cockroaches likely did not even know that there was someone inside and thought it was just an entity. after a while, the ba’alim representatives (who were now safe and sound with the ba’alim themselves) were entirely replaced by the pipeworkers who were going on a vacation.
now, with the pipeworkers in covert costume of the ba’alah, they decided to formulate a number of ‘regal crowns’ and other power symbols to signify their rulership with a firm hand over the cockroaches. the space-suits were updated to incorporate these power-symbols. the pipeworkers enjoyed their newfound power symbols and thought it was only natural given the fact that they created and designed the cockroaches. life continued for a while and on a special day chosen and foreshadowed by the ba’alim, twenty-seven different lightning strikes from heaven were cast down onto the phlegm in an escalating sequence, and the final lightning strike was so dramatic and theatrical that nearly all the phlegm in the phlegm-circle was hurled into a gigantic and ferocious whirlwind which began to form into multiple tornadoes and hurricanes which destroyed valuable roach-property and killed a number of cockroaches. consequently, the roaches reached a psycho-traumatic tipping point and a section of cockroaches began to riot screaming you killed by family, you destroyed my house, etc etc, and they began to see the regal crowns and power symbols, and their anger just grew with the snobbish behavior of the pipeworkers. the cockroaches decided enough was enough and lashed out in a violent rebellion against the mystery spacesuit men, and all of the vacationing pipeworkers were likely killed. in the riots and confusion, a clever move was executed -- a few organs were implanted by the governing ba’alim into the cockroaches to edit their psychology and ensure that such a large fluke would not happen again (it was enough to implant the organs into just a few cockroaches, really, as it would be genetically passed around)
firstly, a telepathic apparatus was inserted into the cockroaches to ensure that the cockroaches would monitor themselves and their own thoughts and feelings because one of the original causes for fluke was that the cockroaches did not mentally understand each other enough and began to lash out against the representatives to remedy this. secondly, a psychokinetic faculty was embedded in the cockroaches to allow for phlegm-manipulation to that they would naturally thrash and convulse the phlegm around rather than lightning strikes being necessary for this purpose.
--
you awaken, and finally remember what you arrived here for: the garment! the garment of garments, the ornament of ornaments! you bypass the mechanisms and struggle past the window-creatures, swerve past the potholes and penetrate the concrete-mounds guarded by the sphinxes-with-the-robots-on-their-shoulders, run across the landforms which remember all done atop them and dive into a deep pool which appears as a metallic glimmering liquid interflowing with itself, and this feels like descending into warm water.
at the bottom of the pool there are numerous clamshells chomping open and closed periodically, some with skulls inside them, others with mirrors or spirals expanding and shrinking. amidst the clams there lies an octopus who sits silent for a while, then tells you that you have descended into the ocean of aliens and mermaids, that the garment is compressed onto the bridge, and that you must obtain the skeleton key to decode and encode the state codes, which will either equate to a component of “3”, “2”, or “1” and when the clock strikes seven o’clock exactly you must expand the tentacles on your face and look through your triple rotating eyes upon the subtle movement of your knee.
and here it is! i have found it! the garment of garments, the ornament of ornaments, through which the fluid flows!
