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Pseudodisplay for Voice and Captive

by Michael Hessel-Mial

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“Pseudodisplay for Voice and Captive”
By Static Ancestor, ca. 10,000,000 hours past

ADDRESS: /records/non-operations/narrative_set/prudent/static_ancestor/+2*1/GUIDE

PARSING CREATOR ABSTRACT:
ReDeem And Curse You To Shit And
GloRy … PerForm My Script Or
Not … It Was Set To Be Per
Formed By The Great Ones BeFore The
ClockWorKers And Will AlWays …
Give The CurtSy Un- LIMIT REACHED

ENTRY:

Find a solitary craft with frolicking particle wake
Seize captive, setting minimum weight as criterion

             captureresound
                          love ionizes in movement
                                         in frolicking a
                          starspray

carrybreak

                                       weightmultiplier

Reach light speed without acceleration in the shortest amount of time
Turn into a crystal engine whose periodicity resembles the speech of a babbling fool

             shatterpower

Articulate, in stuttered breath, the Word Address of Total Operation
             (if said Word is unavailable due to generationally fragmented knowledge, steal another ship and crash into gas giant)

Suit captive
             (ample air and water supplies)
Anoint on front of craft, accelerate to .979 sublight

Chant:
             Drive, drive, we crash without speed
             Drive, drive, we crash without speed
             Enemy of weight, director of Ha Ha Ha!
             We shall become the folded light of Migrating Lava Goop

driveplay
             is a refraction
                          bent image that is
                                                    terrorlight

Stop at three systems and repeat as follows for each:
•	Announce regime of interstellar love;
•	Make parallel announcement that the population has failed to live up to cult of interstellar love;
•	Seize their brightest jewel/server and destroy
       (don’t forget to repeat)

Observe captive’s planetary birth cycle using their peculiar time units

                                                    years to hours
                                       to seconds to

             gravity’s ring

Split captive’s sternum at this point

                          effervescent
                                       planetary computation
             nudeleaded

Expose genitals to interstellar vacuum

We Are The Originary Space Civilization

Place the sacrifice in the trajectory of a starborn ship at maximum speed
Make a fountain of light

USER-ADDED RECORD:

Then and now, Static Ancestor’s text—script, poem, scholarly note, personal log entry—continues to scandalize. Never performed ‘in full,’ the first reading of the text took place during a larger ceremony, in which the poet’s friends anointed them the “Last Entrepreneur” of Community of Improvement. The text itself draws on Static Ancestor’s extensive knowledge of the rituals of early spacefaring, with deliberate mistranslations that only other historical experts could notice. Though the poet’s self-appointed role was set to last only for the extremely brief half-life of an astatine isotope, they would continue to be interested in politics, abandoning art to join the Cult of Great Truth. This private force was best known for its sporadic anti-driver violence, and remains a mark on the poet’s legacy. Conductor of the Records, Prudent Era.