Pull The ShadesA Divine Tragicomedy in 3 Parts
A story of
                Intelligence,
Artificial Life,                   'Techne',                     and the Role
of Fortune Cookies                                
                                  in      Salvation

 



Book 1
Lurid
Book 2
Sordid
Book 3

Torrid


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    I've only been working on this project for a short while, but it is a big part of my thought-life. I have big plans for this trilogy... I want to write three mega-novels, basically trying to weave a narrative and theme-fest/thought world as intricate and devastating as one of my biggest inspiration's in writing, Neal Stephenson's 'Baroque Cycle' Trilogy.

As a work in progress, with my belief in literature as a living art, meaning the process at least as important as the finished product, at least, to me, if my ideas could be viewed as I wish I could 'capture' them as I form themes and concepts and, yes, sentences... It's like a kaleidescope in many ways. It but does see...? Through...

LURID - /lyoorid/

• adjective 1 unpleasantly vivid in colour. 2 (of a description) shocking or sensational.






DERIVATIVES luridly / adverb &
 luridness / noun. 
  — ORIGIN originally in the sense pale and dismal: from Latin luridus, related to luror ‘wan or yellow colour’.

             

  

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BOOK
1 LURID

0 Intro Ini tialThoughtsoftheCreator :
APortraitoftheArtistasPortraitist


01Ificial Intelligence

1.1 Tectonic

1.2 TheTheoryoftheMuse

1.3 Hacker Ethic

1.4 Songs of Innocence and Experience Points

1.5
The Philosophy of 70's Cinema Heroes and Anti--

1.6 The Right Hand of God

1.7 MK-Ultra Test Subject 26a, Norrin Rad, and Paul Tibbets
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brain - computer - interface (BCI)

wetware

BOOK                                                   
2 SORDID

02

2.1 Socrates is sent to death and wakes up in modern day hungover on a bus

2.2 The Ghost of the Scene

2.3 When I hear the word culture

2.4 Overnight Parking

2.5 The Potato Peeler's Union

2.6  Asian vs. Oriental vs.

2.7 Cyber Punk
BOOK
3 TORRID

03 Arcadia

3.1 - The Juice Bar

3.2 Richard III time travels to Troy and regrets the power of wishes

3.3 Open Source

3.4 Careers in criminology

3.5 Flying Dutchmen?  In this day and Age?

3.6 What the Dormouse Didn't Say

3.7
Design