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<h1>Zk | Idumea</h1>
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<p>Pinocchio escapes Samsara by giving up humanity. Except Pinocchio is a tenth stanza Odist and Geppetto is a seventh stanza Odist and the blue fairy is Dry Grass.</p>
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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
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<p>A version of Pinocchio told sys-side in reverse: someone unhappy with humanity endeavoring to lose it, goes through all the plot-beats in reverse order.</p>
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<p>Question: how heavy-handed should it be? Should it be very little? Someone naming themselves Occhioni P.? Trying to turn themselves into a literal puppet? Designing sims to include the big fish? Finding their Geppetto (G from Oteppe, Belgium) who unmakes them, and then a blue fairy, a sympathetic systech kicks them into quitting? Or they turn into a tree? Told as a fairy tale? Quote the first lines of the original?</p>
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<p>Once upon a time there was—</p>
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<p>“A king?” my little readers will immediately say.</p>
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<p>No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not fine wood, but a simple piece of wood from the wood yard,—the kind we put in the stoves and fireplaces so as to make a fire and heat the rooms. </p>
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<p>More at https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-pinocchio-is-a-story-about-art-and-god</p>
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<h2 id="epigraph">Epigraph:</h2>
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<div class="verse">And am I born to die?
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To lay this body down?
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And must my trembling spirit fly
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Into a world unknown?
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A land of deepest shade,
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unpierced by human thought,
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The dreary regions of the dead,
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Where all things are forgot?
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Soon as from Earth I go,
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What will become of me?
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— Charles Wesley, 1763</div>
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<p>At the end,</p>
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<div class="verse">Eternal happiness or woe
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Must then my portion be;
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Waked by the trumpet’s sound,
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I from my grave shall rise,
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And see the Judge with glory crowned,
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And see the flaming skies.
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How shall I leave my tomb?
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With triumph or regret?
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A fearful or a joyful doom,
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A curse or blessing meet?</div>
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<h2 id="characters">Characters</h2>
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<li>The Woman (End Of Endings) — suffering some severe mental health stuff, wants to rescind her humanity</li>
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<li>Her Friend (No Hesitation) — her companion striving to help her in general, accidentally helping her in particular</li>
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<li>The Blue Fairy (Dry Grass) — helps with the forking process</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="outline">Outline</h2>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="001.html">001</a> — The Woman’s life is too real, and she would like that to not be the case / Living forever waiting for time to come/as a real person — 2339</li>
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<li class="done1"> <a href="002.html">002</a> — The Woman runs into Her Friend, who is having a very bad day, and shares her idea / Saving Geppetto</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="003.html">003</a> — The Woman sees why Her Friend was having a bad day (seventh only ever says talk to a therapist rather than offering friendship, tenth does the same sometimes, narrator starts to peek through), has a similar bad day / Swallowed by the big fish</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="004.html">004</a> — The Woman aims for greater pleasure to try and re-ground herself, narrator questions pleasure vs productivity / Pleasure Island</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="005.html">005</a> — The Woman tries being creative with Her Friend to create meaning, narrator really showing through by now / Puppet show to prove no strings/earn money for Geppetto</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="006.html">006</a> — The Woman muses on the clade and her past, the ways she was taken advantage of, narrator talking about obsessions and balance / Honest John and Gideon the cat</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="007.html">007</a> — The Woman begins to wish for an escape from the cycle, and Her Friend has feelings, narrator talking about urges to quit (both storytelling and suicide) / Comes to life after a wish</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="008.html">008</a> — The Woman talks with Dry Grass with her idea, who mentions Serene, they talk and she turns into a tree, unclear if she quits, the narrator struggles with how they feel about this, modern vs postmodern, earnest vs ironic, subversion vs playing straight, living vs not / Carved from wood</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2024-02-25</p>
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