update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/qoheleth/Ioan/006-b.md

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 **Ioan**: Fair, yeah. Don't suppose you would be able to do what you do today back then.
 
-**Dear**: Not at all, no. It does still cost some minuscule fraction of credit for one to fork now, but I digress. We began as Michel and did the things that Michel did 
+**Dear**: Not at all, no. It does still cost some minuscule fraction of credit for one to fork now, but I digress. We began as Michel and did the things that Michel did, forking infrequently. It was actually a few years before the distinctions between strategies started up. Most everyone was a Tasker back then by virtue of the markets.
 
+**Ioan**: It's hard to picture you as a Tasker.
+
+**Dear**: [laughter] Right, yes. As everyting started to get cheaper, though, those distinctions began to emerge. By then, Michel had a few long-lived instances, tagged as you are, Mx #c1494bf.
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+**Ioan**: [laughter] Thank you. This was before the Ode?
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+**Dear**: The Ode itself existed. That came before we uploaded.
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+**Ioan**: Before the Ode clade, though?
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+**Dear**: Right, yes. Michel and her forks existed, but the very idea of clades was new at the time. At one point, though, she and a few other founders began to describe their trees as such. The larger trees grew --- for those who maintained long-running forks, that is --- the more unweildy tags became, and folks decided on names. Some folks settled on simple standards. The Jonas clade, for instance, uses syllabic prefixes. Ar Jonas, Ko Jonas, and so on. Leading vowels the first forks, then leading consonants, then the vowels following the consonants, *et cetera ad infinitum*.
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+**Ioan**: And you chose the Ode.
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+**Dear**: Michel did, yes. She had picked up a contrarian streak during the whole lost saga.
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+**Ioan**: Did she play a large role in that?
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+**Dear**: [taken aback] Did her name not come up in your research?
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+**Ioan**: Not on the lost, no. Just on the founders.
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+**Dear**: [frowning] Well, alright. Yes, she played a role, but time softens all rough edges, I suppose. Either way, she chose the Ode to name her instances while remaining Michel, herself. She started with the first lines of each stanza, then let them create and name their own forks from there.
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+**Ioan**: Thus the limited Dispersonista style.
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+**Dear**: [nodding] Right. Each stanza became a small family of Taskers, in a way. We, the Odists, create our own forks as needed, but don't let them live long. Or aren't supposed to, at least.
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+**Ioan**: "Aren't supposed to"?
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+**Dear**: Oh, I'm sure a few of us have created long-running forks while everyone else has turned their head.
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+**Ioan**: Have you?
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+**Dear**: [smiling, shrugging, mu-gesture] By virtue of our set-up, though, such forks are not members of the clade. Those forks are not named as such, and likely not in communication with any other cocladists aside from their downtree instance.
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+**Ioan**: Is the Ode available somewhere for me to read?
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+**Dear**: Of course. I'll give you a copy. That's hardly secret.
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+**Ioan**: And the clade, how long has it been since you have all been together.
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+**Dear**: This will be the first time there have been more than half of us together in one spot.
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+**Ioan**: Ever?
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+**Dear**: [nodding] Ever. Some dispersionistas are families. I mentioned the Jonas clade before; Jonas Prime has set up regular intraclade communication. Some are just clades.
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+**Ioan**: Are you in touch with any of your cocladists?
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+**Dear**: I'm assuming you mean "in normal times"? Right. One or two. Serene and I get along quite well, and I talk with Praiseworthy --- Those That Lived Are Forever Praiseworthy, the first line of my stanza --- with some frequency. Michel and I have talked a few times. She comes to my exhibitions.
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+**Ioan**: Ever talked to, um...
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+**Dear**: Qoheleth?
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+**Ioan**: Yes. I was going to say "Life Breeds Life" but forgot the line.
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+**Dear**: Names are important, Ioan. If he has decided on Qoheleth, then Qoheleth it is. 
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+**Ioan**: Right, sorry. I was in the mindset of the lines. Have you talked with him?
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+**Dear**: Before this? No. Not knowingly.
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+**Ioan**: And how do you feel about seeing the whole clade together?
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+**Dear**: I would be surprised if we manage to net all of them. [laughter] But I suppose I feel excited. Not necessarily because I have never met so many of them so much as because it feels like we as a clade have a goal in front of us. Seeing them is secondary to them --- to us --- actually doing something. Accomplishing something.
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+**Ioan**: And what do you hope to get out of it? This gathering?
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+**Dear**: [smiling] A story. Others want answers, and I suppose I do too, but I mostly want a story. I want *the* story. I want to be the audience and a character. I want to dive into the story and bathe in it. I want a story.

writing/post-self/qoheleth/index.md

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     * [X] Chapter: [Qoheleth 001](Qoheleth/001)-a --- Spying on Dear and Ioan
     * [X] Chapter: [Carter 004](Carter/004) --- Planning to visit Johansson
     * [X] Chapter: [RJ 007](RJ/007) --- Sleeping in the auditorium
-    * [X] Chapter: [Qoheleth 001](Qoheleth/001)-b --- archive
+    * [X] Chapter: [Qoheleth 001](Qoheleth/001-b) --- archive
     * [X] Chapter: [Carter 005](Carter/005) --- Pub with Johansson
     * [X] Chapter: [RJ 008](RJ/008) --- clothing from school
     * [X] Chapter: [Ioan 003](Ioan/003)-c - trying to figure out archive with Dear, gets in, finds pgpkey. Frustration at another encryption method, discussing diff between exocortex and archive.
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     * [X] Chapter: [Sasha 002](Sasha/002) --- things are moving quickly
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 013](RJ/013) --- struggling with numbness, trying to learn to manipulate the dream, memories.
     * [O] Chapter: [Carter 008](Carter/008) --- At work, viewing everyone with suspicion, DDR votes changing
-    * [ ] Chapter: [Ioan 006-b](Ioan/006-b) --- Story of gathering Odists, perhaps flashback to/story from Dear about clade's formation?
+    * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 006-b](Ioan/006-b) --- Story of gathering Odists, perhaps flashback to/story from Dear about clade's formation?
     * [.] Chapter: [Carter 009](Carter/009) --- Carter calls out, Prakash warns, works with Sasha and Debarre, Sasha gets lost, seen by Carter gives hint to mirror rig
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 014](RJ/014) --- explores memory instead of will, finds deck in eir exo, then way more, struggling to forget
     * [ ] Chapter: [Carter 010](Carter/010) --- Messages Caitlin and Johansson, heads to UMC, threatened by mooks