tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48538808766420438862024-03-13T19:15:29.198-07:00Thee Void BlogBen Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-64865700058627713362012-03-19T07:00:00.007-07:002012-03-19T10:55:03.775-07:00The Uncanny: An Introduction - Nicholas Royle<div style="font-family: inherit;"><style>
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">The Uncanny can mean weird, strange, alien as the dictionary defines it as.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Royle also states that it can be the combination of something familiar co existing with something unfamiliar</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">“<i>The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced. Suddenly one’s sense of oneself (of one’s so-called ‘personality’ or ‘sexuality’, for example) seems strangely questionable.</i>" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">How does this relate to Edward?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the beginning of the story Edward is questioning his very existence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Questioning the rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where it comes from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Royle also states that the uncanny is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">'<i>...a peculiar commingling of the familiar and unfamiliar. </i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> An example of this is when the crew go to each plain, for the plains are versions of the plain they know but with slight changes the more and more enlightened they become. A good example being Benjamin Bottle, a dolphin, which is very familiar but he talks which is familiar but not for a dolphin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-78171545007024497062012-03-19T06:40:00.001-07:002012-03-19T10:23:07.814-07:00The Artefact<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>Day 1</u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Raining.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Where does it come from?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: 72.0pt;">Rain.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Is there a vast aerial ocean above our heads? <span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Pondering as I sit alone.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thinking about the life I have lead. <span style="font-family: Rainforest;"></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">66.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What an age to reach.</div><div class="MsoNormal">My Rose has left our island home to be on the mainland. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She is gone.</div><div class="MsoNormal">They have both gone.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Mother and Child.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I look over to above to fireless mantelpiece to see </div><div class="MsoNormal">the skeletal remains of the Chimera staring back with a hollow, soulless stare.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"> 19.</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">Nineteen years.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nineteen years since the day Casso and I captured </div><div class="MsoNormal">the creature.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I miss the crew. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I miss her. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> I’m getting old. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> What have I achieved so far?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Have I achieved nothing?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"> I thought I’d found my purpose.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Is this the end of my life?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> How do I find out what the purpose of my life is?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">WOOSH! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sobering touch of rain and salted–wind upon my face as my door was flung open and a friendly face smiled at me. It was Miss Daze.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Since the fateful day that my Rose left me I have not wanted to go back to the main land. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Without being aware of it </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"> I was slowly wasting away, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 288.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 288.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">heartbroken with </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> only my thoughts </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 180.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> and the sea, </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> which I was once master of, </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"> as companions. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">That was until, intrigued by St Nicolas and its apparent dormant interior, the kind, inquisitive Loriette Daze rowed her happy self into my world. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She lives in a lovely little cottage on the mainland. </div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">70.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Retired now but from what even she doesn’t know, she’s done so much with her life that it’s hard to distinguish what was her job and what was her life. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">From that day onwards we became friends, she came round every fortnightly Monday with a wooden crate of fruit and vegetables that she grew in her allotment, as well as the other essentials - milk, bread, eggs, flour. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And unbeknown to me today was a Monday, and not just any Monday, for as I wallowed in my own mental mire of questioning; Loriette came in with her usual package, </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">plus more?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Cake? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> What?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Why? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Is it my birthday?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">It is my birthday. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Miss Daze cooked up a sort of birthday stew with extra vegetables she’d brought with her. She also put in a strange looking vegetable I’d never had before; a courgette - it was like a robust cucumber. Once we’d both finished and mopped up the residue, we had a considerable slice of cake each.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But once that had been devoured my mind snared me again within its grasp</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">I miss the crew. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I miss her. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> I’m getting old. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> What have I achieved so far?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Have I achieved nothing?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"> I thought I’d found my purpose.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Is this the end of my life?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> How do I find out what the purpose of my life is?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Stone Haven’</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Her presence pulling me out of the world of deep thought again. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Loriette continued to describe that Stone Haven is an island that her father, the great architect, built. No one knows exactly where it is, apart from her for her father passed down no only the knowledge of the island’s existence but a map of its location. As for the purpose of the island, Miss Daze said that – </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">‘It is where people go to live out the rest of their days and find the meaning of their lives.’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">To find out the meaning of their lives.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The answer to all questions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 324.0pt;">Complete. Enlightenment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ted.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ted. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Edward!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What do you think?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A calm evening.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We push the pea-green rowing boat into the surf. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I got in first, with Loriette holding the boat as to not let it float away, and got comfortable then with one clean movement the lady of the boat pushed off and then vaulted in like that of a woman half even quarter of her age. She took up each oar and started rowing with consummate ease. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">Looking into the endless </div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">nothingness of the clear night’s sky.<u> </u><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Day Four</u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The alarming abrasive sound of the boat coming into contact with something solid.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I woke.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Where am I?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The familiar face of Miss Daze smiling brings me back to reality. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">Three Days.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’ve been asleep for that long? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> Was I really that tired?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> </div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">How did I sleep through the entire journey?</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 288.0pt; text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Magic</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The magic of the island.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A place no one should know about until it’s his or her time. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We pulled the boat far enough onto the beach so that even if it was high the sea couldn’t use her tidal claws to drag our vessel away. Once I’d got my breath back I looked in front of me and what I beheld was a shear wall of greens and browns.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Forest.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So dense only the most concentrated rays of sunshine could penetrate through this thick hided foliage creature. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">THE ISAACS SISTERS</div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Three giantess oracles.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Past. Present. Future. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The ladies of Stone Haven.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We slowly made our way through the vast entangled mire of the forest but Loriette seemed to know where she was going.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The location of the sisters. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the distance. </div><div class="MsoNormal">A light.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The light of day. </div><div class="MsoNormal">A small amount to begin with but as we waded forward.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The forest getting more open.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Like the trees were bowing to a power from within this glade. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Then I saw them. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Three titanic stone figures, each so different to next. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Past. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Long flowing hair.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Short dense hair. </div></td> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 141.95pt;" valign="top" width="142"><div class="MsoNormal">The Third. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Future.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">So life like for stone. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What?!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">Did their eyes just focus on me?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> Or was it a cloud moving across the sun?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Casting a shadow across their faces. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Yeah. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> That must be it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Just stone.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">They have stone animals around their person.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EDWARD MAGPIE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WE ARE </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE ISAACS SISTERS.</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I, PAST.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I, PRESENT. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I, FUTURE. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WE KNOW WHY</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU’RE HERE. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BUT WE CAN’T TELL </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOUR PURPOSE IS. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BUT WE CAN TELL</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> YOU WHERE YOU </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FIND IT. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Simultaneously the sisters went into some sort of trance. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Above the plane that we exist on there are many other planes. Nine. When we pass we are reborn again into a higher or lower form depending on the life you have lived. Once you have reach your ultimate form on one plane you ascend to the heaven, which is actually the ocean the next plane, you start again as the most simplest form of life, plankton. Though because only the good people can transcend, this plane is more enlightened than the last. This process continues until the person gets to the ninth plane, where complete enlightenment can be discovered and the purpose for our very existence is found. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Though below the plane that we exist on there are also another nine planes, for not all of us can be reborn into higher forms for we have not used our lives in an enlightened way. If this happens you transcend down to the HELL, WHICH IS ACTUALLY MANY plains of burning oceans. It is possible to ascend once again on the path of enlightenment though this would take a miracle especially the further down in the plains of hell you are. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">I stood silent. </div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THOUGH THERE IS A </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WAY OF BY PASSING </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THIS PROCESS.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">At that point I felt a spherical object fall into my pocket. As I took it out I saw it was a hermit crab in the roundest shell I’d ever seen. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">IN YOUR HAND YOU </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HOLD HERMES THE </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HERMIT KING.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HE WILL TAKE YOU </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TO THE NEXT PLAIN. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">How? </div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THROUGH HIS SHELL</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> HE HAS THE POWER </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FLIGHT. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ANYONE WHO WEILDS </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HIM ALSO GAINS HIS </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">POWER.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THOUGH THIS IS NOT</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> ALWAYS THE CASE.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HERMES DOES NOT</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> ALWAYS FLY. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HE ONLY USES HIS POWER</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> TO ESCAPE FROM DANGER. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ESPECIALLY WHEN</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> CONFRONTED BY HIS</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> GREATEST FEAR. </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE TWO HEADED </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SNAKE. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">USE THE TWO HEAD SNAKE</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TATTOO THAT YOUR FIRST </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MATE HAS ON HIS ARM – </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TO SCARE HERMES</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> INTO USING HIS </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">POWER TO ESCAPE </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WHAT HE THINKS </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">IS DANGER. </b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">How did they know about Casso’s tattoo?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"> I guess they are oracles, thus see and know everything. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And with that the sisters stopped their focus on me and when back into more of the distance gaze that had before. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">OH.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BEFORE YOU GO. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TO USE HERMES TO GET</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> TO THE NEXT PLAIN.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU MUST FIND THE </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CORAL FOREST. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE ONLY PLACE WHERE HERMES </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HAS EVER USED HIS POWER.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOOD LUCK.</b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Day 9</u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Before the crew arrived I made sure as always that all the necessary precautions were made to ensure that as much good luck surrounds this coming voyage as possible. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">I ticked off my usual checklist to guarantee that I don’t forget anything:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Step onto the ship with my right foot.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Put a silver coin under the Masthead.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Pour wine on the Deck.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Put in my gold earring.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Put Horseshoes on the Mast.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Spit generously overboard.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Choosing a crew to accompany me on this vast voyage wasn’t very difficult, I already had a very strong crew already behind me on my ship the Stultifera Navis:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Robin Casso – My First Mate and the best friend a man could ever ask for. He is an expert fisherman; if there was something to be caught he’d catch it, birds, fish, women. Although there was only one woman for him, the beautiful Cleo Casso, although some of the other members of the crew said that he wasn’t married to her because he would always be betrothed to another, The Sea.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Peacock Le Vent – A man whose fingers were the most nimble I have ever known or seen. A world renowned Artist but also just as good surgeon, net weaver, and expert in knot tying. He’s never been completely happy with me living on St. Nicholas Island for his Grandfather was sentenced to life imprisonment there and so of course never has or ever will set foot in the storage area whether it was renovated or not. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Gulley Cooper – A damn fine Ships Cook and ruler of the part of the Navis that the crew have dubbed ‘Gulley’s Galley’. <br />
He decided quite some time ago that unlike his forefathers he wasn’t interested in the making of barrels but what was contained within them, thus becoming the size and shape of one.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Christopher Crowe – The youngest of the crew, when he’s aboard he lives, eats and sleeps in The Crowe’s Nest, playing his guitar which keep moral high on deck which at certain points is the greatest strength we have. A quiet, reserved man but with the eyesight unmatched by any man I’ve known. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -2.0cm; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">I have missed them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -64.8pt;">Before all the men came aboard I made sure of a few things to continue my checklist:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Has everyone avoided red headed and/or flat-footed people today.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: -64.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Then Casso showed his tattoo of the two head snake, the one thing that Hermes is most afraid of. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">The Navis started shaking. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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<u>Plain 1</u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Darkness.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> A Void.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The bottom of an alien ocean.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The light of Hermes had become like a shell of its own around the Navis, not allowing any of the water to get through it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We continued rising. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Creatures started to swarm around us, drawn in by the light. I thought I knew all the creatures of the sea but this was defiantly a new world. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I partially recognised all the animals that made up the encircling horde but they were different. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> More eyes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> More limbs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Extra Heads. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We continued rising.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> The water becoming clearer. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We still had schools and pods following our rise to the surface.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As creatures left the mass new ones joined.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The surface.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The light slowly retracting from around the ship as it was being replaced by the rays of the sun.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sun.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Warming my skin once again from the cold of the deep.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The crew and I decided that whilst we were here we could explore and also be the first crew to catch and bring back a creature from another world.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was hot.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sun continued to shine.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We all decided that the best thing to do was to go for a swim. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Though there were questions on whether it was safe or not. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Once we got into the water we became aware that the water was not as safe as we thought. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> FANGED WHALES.</div><div class="MsoNormal">They were coming straight for us. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">It ended up that on this plain the fanged whales were like common whales on our plain.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Not man-eaters. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The crew held on to their fins as they passed by taking them rushing through the water. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We ended up sending all day in the sea.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Once we got back aboard the Navis the sun, still being prominent in the sky, dried us as we talked of what we could eat. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">At that very moment a Solar Fish leapt out of the water into the sky almost eclipsing the actual sun and landed on deck. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Delicious. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Gulley had just lightly fried the fish with a squeeze of lemon with a selection of Daze’s home grown vegetables. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After that everyone slowly fell into a deep sleep with the evening sun beating warmly on our skin, covering us with a blanket of reds and oranges.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We woke to another fine day though I was aware that we had spent quite a bit of time on this plain and we needed to get to continue up to the next plains. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I took Hermes out of my pocket and again Robin showed the tattoo.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">Something was wrong</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">The hermit crab seemed unphased.</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As I looked around that the crew my grip must have slackened only slight but at that very point an eruption of light.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermes shot into the air like a comet and then in an instant dropped into the sea. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Trapped.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">How are we going to get home?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"> Lost in paradise. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HE WAS NEVER MEANT TO STAY WITH YOU.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THIS IS WHERE HIS KINGDOM LIES.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FOR HE IS AFTER ALL THE HERMIT KING.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We looked down into the water to have two massive green feline eyes stare right back.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A lions face made up from sea weed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The lion of the first oracle, Past.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">How are </div><div class="MsoNormal"> we meant</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt;"> to travel</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt;"> to the</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt;"> next plain.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I WILL TAKE YOU. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It felt like a gigantic wave had hit the ship as the lion scooped us up into its mouth, leaped out of the water and shot into the sky.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<u>Plain 4</u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Darkness once again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The sound of the lion breathing. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> The rush of the water. Outside of its tightly shut mouth. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Even though it sounded like a thunder storm around us everything inside of this behemoth seemed calm.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The water that the Navis was floating on was undisturbed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Not even a slight ripple could be seen.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Brilliant sunlight. </div><div class="MsoNormal">As the jaws of our guide opened.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Allowing the Stultifera Navis to float gently into unchartered waters once again. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOOD LUCK.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With that the lion leaped out of the water again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As it did so its seaweed covered skin started to dry and the weed started going golden and then turned back into fur and the colossal creature took the form it had the day I saw it on Stone Haven. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It then became merged with the rays of sunlight that were stinging our delicate eyes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What are we to do now? </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Have we gone from being stuck on one plain to another?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Why would the sisters do this to us?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">HELLO GENTLEMEN. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A posh, well-spoken voice.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Who’s voice?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I looked on board and it was only the crew and I. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">DOWN HERE.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">IN THE WATER.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">PORT SIDE. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We all looked over port side.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Only a Dolfin.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">HELLO.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What?</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">HELLO.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What?</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">H – E – L – L – O.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I AM BENJAMIN BOTTLE.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">AND YOU ARE?</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Edward Magie.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is my crew.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I said as bold as I could though this came out more like a bleak whisper. </div><div class="MsoNormal">After all this was my first time talking to a Dolfin.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">AH YES.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">THE CREW OF </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">THE STULTIFERA NAVIS.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I SEE IT IN YOUR EYES.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">YOU DESPAIR SO.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">THOUGH ALL IS WELL. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">COME.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW ME.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And with that Benjamin amazingly started pushing the ship along to </div><div class="MsoNormal">an unknown point </div><div class="MsoNormal">on an unknown map</div><div class="MsoNormal">in an unknown world. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As we were being pushed along, the crew discussed the matter of that if there was a way of getting home, to our own plain, we should do it.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Food and fresh water was low. </div><div class="MsoNormal">In general moral was like the surface of the sea we were being pushed over – </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Continuously up and down.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We stopped. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">HERE WE ARE GENTLEMEN.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Again we were left as the Dolfin swam down into the depths. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Curses.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Many curses surging in my mind.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I did not know if I wanted to cry.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Or shout.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Or even just laugh.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We were back to square one.</div><div class="MsoNormal">That is if we knew what square one actually looked like anymore.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU DESPAIR.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WHY?</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Another unknown voice from a hidden source.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Where are you!?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Show yourself!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As these words were bellowed into the void, the clouds above us started to swirl and eddy. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It looked like the beginning of a hurricane. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Slowly, they took the form of a bear.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The bear of the second oracle, Present.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Will you not help us?!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I WILL. </b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WHY DISPAIR THOUGH? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sisters have sent us on a wild goose chase for enlightenment.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Going from plain to plain with no real answers.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Why would they do that?</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A small smile seemed to appear on the nimbus bear.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU THINK THIS IS HELL?</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">OK.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I’LL TAKE YOU HOME.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">It then dived out of the sky into the sea.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It then surfaced and the Navis seemed to merged with the pelt of cloud of the creatures back.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We dived again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We plummeted into the deep.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The surface of the bear’s back.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Unlike the jaws of the lion of past. </div><div class="MsoNormal">A tempest.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Giant waves of cloud tumbling on deck.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Not damaging.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Like a fine mist.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Down.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Down.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Down. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Through water and air. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><u>Hell 6</u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We seemed to be getting faster.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We must be.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The mist seems to be getting warmer.</div><div class="MsoNormal">More and more like steam.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is becoming harder to see.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The heat is coming unbearable. </div><div class="MsoNormal">We should be home soon.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Its been an enlightening journey. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Though I do not think its my time to know the ultimate question.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Heat.</div><div class="MsoNormal">So very hot.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WE ARE HERE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The bear hit the water.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Instantly turning into steam.</div><div class="MsoNormal">As the steam rose it reformed again into the bear.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Again the form it had on Stone Haven.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is not home!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Where are we!?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Where have we been taken?!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THIS IS HELL.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AND NOW YOU MUST ENDURE IT.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With that it bound away into the crimson sky.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Navis was slowly eroding away in the boiling hot sea.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Parts of it alight with fire lapping at the bow. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What have I done?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I have damned us all.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> We will spend eternity in hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Burning. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 44.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 44.0pt;">‘<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">It is possible to ascend once again on the path of enlightenment though this would take a miracle especially the further down in the plains of hell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 44.0pt;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> you are.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 44.0pt;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span>There is very little chance of escape now.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Dead.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Chard bodies float on by.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe this is what the meaning of my life is.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> My enlightenment comes from being alight.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> In pain. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Maybe that’s all I deserve.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The ship slowly sinking.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I don’t want this to be the end.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>AND IT IS NOT.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I looked up to be confronted by the light of a blood moon.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The light of hell.</div><div class="MsoNormal">A shadow came over it.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Turning it into the face of an owl.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The owl of the third oracle, Future.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>EDWARD.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>WHY SPEAK WRONGLY OF THE SISTERS.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>WE WERE ONLY TRYING TO HELP.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I did not mean to.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>WE KNOW.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>AFTER ALL WE DO KNOW ALL.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>FOR THAT IS WHY I AM HERE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>THIS IS NOT THE END.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>THOUGH IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Half the hull had already been eaten away.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> My life slowly crumbling away under me.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What must we do?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>NOTHING.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>JUST KNOW EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>ONCE AGAIN TRUST THE ISAACS SISTERS.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We do.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> We really do.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I do.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I really do.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>GOOD.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The owl then swooped down and took what remained of the Navis in its talons.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<u>Plain 9 </u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In an instant we were shooting up through the different plains.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was getting cooler.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thankfully.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I realised then that as we were rising the Stultifera Navis was returning to its former glory.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Once it was completely restored the wood that made up the ship started changing.</div><div class="MsoNormal">GOLD.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE NINETH PLAIN.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENLIGHTENMENT.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE ANSWER.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE VOID FILLED.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ship was now completely gold.</div><div class="MsoNormal">My mind felt like gold.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Enlightenment.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything made sense.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I saw in the eyes of my crew that they were there too.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Enlightenment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I DEPART.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FAREWELL.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Wait.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> How do we get back home?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THERE IS NO GOING BACK.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU ARE NOT OF THAT PLAIN ANYMORE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YOU ARE MORE.</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As I said the words it all made sense.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">We are dead.<span style="font-family: "Edwardian Script ITC"; font-size: 48pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Edwardian Script ITC"; font-size: 48pt;">Fin.</span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-73259674739500640442012-03-19T04:40:00.009-07:002012-03-19T08:52:56.920-07:00Bibliography<div style="font-family: inherit;"><style>
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</style> </div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Books</b></u></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alighieri, D. (2008) <u>The Devine Comedy.</u> Oxford. Oxford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Avery, C. (2010) <u>Charles Avery: Onomatopoeia. The Port.</u> Buchhandlung Walther Konig. Berlin. </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bachelard, G. (1994) <u>The Poetics Of Space.</u> Boston. Beacon Press.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beckett, S. (2000) <u>Waiting for Godot/Endgame. </u>London. Icon Books.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blyton, E. (2007) <u>The Faraway Tree.</u> Glasgow. Egmont Books.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bryson, B. (1998) <u>A Walk in the Woods.</u> London. Black Swan.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Burns, C. (2005) <u>Black Hole.</u> London. Jonathon Cape.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frey, J. (2004) <u>A Million Little Pieces.</u> London. John Murray.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gaiman, N. (2008) <u>Mirrormask.</u> London. Bloomsbury.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jacques, B. (2006) <u>Redwall.</u> Red Fox. London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Martin, G.R.R. (2011) <u>Game of Thrones.</u> London. Harper Voyager.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">McCarthy, M. (2006) <u>The Road.</u> London. Picador.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Milton, J. (2003) <u>Paradise Lost.</u> London. Penguin Classics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pratchett, T. (2003) <u>Monstrous Regiment.</u> London. Corgi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pullman, P. (2008) <u>His Dark Materials Trilogy.</u> London. Scholastic. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Royle, N. (2003) <u>The Uncanny: An Introduction.</u> Manchester. Manchester University Press.</span> </div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Stewart, P. (2006) <u>The Edge Chronicles.</u> London. Corgi.</span><br />
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<u><b>Films</b></u></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Jason and the Argonauts. (1963). Directed by Don Chaffey. USA: Columbia Pictures. [film].<u> <b><br />
</b></u></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 1cm;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Peter Pan. (1953). Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske. USA: Walt Disney. [film]</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Pirates of the Caribbean (2003). Directed by Gore Verbinski. USA: Jerry Bruckheimer. [film]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Plays </b></u></span><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The Master and Margarita. </u>by M. Bulgakov. 2011. [play]. 17 November. Plymouth Theatre Royal.<u><b> </b></u>Director: Simon McBurney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Games </b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">SCE Studios Santa Monica. (2005). <u>God of War.</u> [disc]. Santa Monica: Sony. </span></div></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-83302954791540116212012-03-19T04:29:00.001-07:002012-03-19T08:35:44.150-07:00Waiting for Gogot/Endgame - Samuel Beckett<div style="font-family: inherit;"><style>
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</style> </div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For the stage is a place to wait. The place itself waits, when no one is in it. (Beckett, 2000 pg75)</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beckett, S (2000) <u>Waiting for Godot/Endgame. </u>London. Icon Books</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><br />
</div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Defining what the void is a place a space? If no one is there does it exist?</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><br />
</div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does Stonehaven exist is it a stage that is waiting for Edward? </span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><br />
</div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">It relates to the planes, all these worlds exist and the reason they exist is because they are waiting for people. Is each plane/place different for each person.</span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-85056468313997065822012-03-19T03:43:00.003-07:002012-03-19T08:35:44.150-07:00The Uncanny<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The Uncanny – something beyond the ordinary or the normal </u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="dnindex" style="font-size: small;">1.</span><span class="dnindex" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: </span><span class="ital-inline" style="font-size: small;">uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span class="dnindex" style="font-size: small;">2.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange: </span><span class="ital-inline" style="font-size: small;">Uncanny sounds filled the house. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-40747109280539114702012-03-19T03:26:00.006-07:002012-03-19T11:43:36.821-07:00Conclusion<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">The aim of this study was to investigate what ‘the void’ is, through this I hoped to the see how ‘the void’ can be explored as a concept in narrative. The key points of discovery throughout this research project has been to further my understanding of the void in a more in depth way. To do this I needed to first understand the theories and language around ‘the void’. The main theories I used in my research were Bachelard’s <i>Poetics of Space </i>and Royale’s <i>The Uncanny. </i>Through using these theories I was able to gain a greater understanding of what ‘the void’ might be. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">The nature of the void means that it is impossible to give a definitive answer to my question as each exploration of the void through a concept in narrative would be different. Simply, through my own journey into filling the void with narrative I have been able to explore how it could be filled. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">The wider implications come now that I have answered one question on the void, through my research an infinite number of new questions have now been created. The significance of this research is that through my exploration and by making my artefact the area of the void that was unexplained has now been explored and understood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">I felt the only way it would be possible for me to explore the void and my question in a creative and fluid way is through making an artefact. I would not have been able to do this through a written research project. To be able to show the void as a concept in narrative it was important that I used the methods of narrative and story telling to try and answer my original question.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">The limitations in my research was that it could been seen that I only used a small amount of theorists to try and understand ‘the void’. However I feel that it was important for me to focus on specific theorists that were completely relevant to my research than explore a wider range of theories that might be too expansive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">In the future I would like to research into more theories about ‘the void’ and use it within my work. I hope to continue my exploration of the adventures of the Stultifera Navis, through this I intend to make a collection of works that are not only rich in content but also in theory, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">with parents reading it to their children but also academics reading it as an example of the void being used within illustration and narrative.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"></span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-18069920769033766302012-03-06T02:38:00.001-08:002012-03-19T08:35:44.151-07:00Artist Research - Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delight<u></u>When thinking about what the plains would look like I thought of this image, to me it looks very uncanny, with familiar things like people, birds and fish doing unfamiliar odd things. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WGyR_RvZw3A/T2dCeBpu7_I/AAAAAAAAAcY/y4ql4DLmDkY/s1600/bosch+garden.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WGyR_RvZw3A/T2dCeBpu7_I/AAAAAAAAAcY/y4ql4DLmDkY/s400/bosch+garden.png" width="400" /></a></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-36243278412678453812012-02-28T06:26:00.006-08:002012-03-19T12:07:17.375-07:00Introduction<div style="font-family: inherit;"><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">For this dissertation module I will be trying to find the answer to the question; what is the void and how can it be explored as a concept in narrative? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What I understand from this title is that the void is nothing though still a setting where a story can go on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The outcomes of this dissertation are an artifact that supports my answering of the question; to tie into my practice this artifact will be an illustrated story. The story continues on from the story of Edward Magpie and his ship the Stultifera Navis, which I created in the contextual module in my second year. This story in turn will be supported by research into the theory to answer the question more thoroughly and to understand what the void is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The research questions that I would like to answer are:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What is the void?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">How can it be explored as a concept in narrative?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What is the uncanny?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This is an area of importance and interest for within my practice I am creating a selection of illustrations and zines/stories centered around the sea that I have entitled ‘Nautical Tails’. The reason I like the setting of the sea is the fact that it is a void in itself, a surrounding where anything is possible and in some cases no one can prove other wise due to areas of the sea still being undiscovered, a hidden and mysterious world. I am motivated to choose this topic because I want to learn more on the theory of the void so that I can use it in future projects for I’d like to continue with the ‘Nautical Tails’ and also stories of the Stultifera Navis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The approach I have taken to research is to firstly look into the dictionary definitions to get an initial/general idea of what the void, the uncanny etc mean. I have then looked into other artists that I interpreted to have used the void as inspiration in their work. I have then looked into deeper theory at the same time as writing my artifact story, this method has been continued throughout this project. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> The main theorists I researched for my written project were Gaston Bachelard whose book, 'The Poetics of Space' where, amongst other things, talks a lot about the void in a variety of different contexts and Nicholas Royle who explains the uncanny in his book 'The Uncanny: An Introduction'.</span><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The topic I looked into was ‘the void’ and how it can be explored as a concept in narrative. This is an interesting area of research for me as through my degree I have been creating my own worlds where limitless possibilities can exist. Through my research I have established these limitless possibilities is the definition of 'the void'. My aim was firstly to understand what ‘the void’ is and what it means, with particular attention to how it is used within narrative. The methods I used to further my knowledge was through researching into the theory of 'the void' and also of 'the uncanny'. I then actively used this research to help me progress my ideas within a illustrated story, continuing on from my second year research project. This project was titled ‘Thee Voyage of the Stultifera Navis’ with a focus on the life of it’s captain Edward Magpie who wrote his diary about the adventure that he went on with crew to find enlightenment. <br />
The key theorists I looked at was Bachelard's <i>Poetics of Space</i> (1994) to explore the void and Royle's <i>The Uncanny: An Introduction </i>(2003). The results and conclusion I made is that the void is limitless possibilities and can be used in a vast amount of ways within narrative. Through my artefact and the narrative I created, I believe I was able to fill the void.</span></span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-74881566759164270502012-01-23T09:27:00.008-08:002012-03-19T08:38:03.633-07:00Plan too<style>
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</span></span>He still lives on St Nicholas Island but his
wife and child have left to the mainland, Tim died of old age. (A void in his
heart and body)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>It’s a rainy day, Ted is looking out of the
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</span></span>Loriette Daze, Edward’s friend shows him a map
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</span></span>He sets off to The Stone Haven, where people go
to spend the last years of their life. There he goes to see the Isaacs sisters,
giantesses who can see the past (Brown, long hair, shortest, with Lion),
present (blonde, short hair, tallest, with spirit bear) and future (Red, semi
long hair, with owl), able to read and interpret the void of time and what
fills it. </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>They tell him of the 9 parallel plains above the
one we live on. As you go up through the plains life becomes better and better
until on the 9<sup>th</sup> plain (the opposite of the 9 circles of hell) you
learn the meaning of YOUR life (The ultimate personal void) – You can never
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</span></span>He gets the Navis’ crew back again – making sure
of all the superstitions again.</div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-28276908979261114452012-01-23T09:25:00.011-08:002012-03-19T08:35:44.152-07:00The Void<div style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><style>
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Adjective</b></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1.</b><i> Law</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">. having no legal </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/force">force</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"> or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2.</b> Useless; ineffectual; vain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3.</b> Devoid; destitute (usually followed by </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of </i></span><span style="font-size: small;">): </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a life void of meaning.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4.</b> Without contents; empty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>5.</b> Without an incumbent, as an office.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Noun</b></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>8.</b> An empty space; emptiness: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He disappeared into the void.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9.</b> Something experienced as a loss or privation: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>His death left a great void in her life.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>10.</b> A gap or opening, as in a wall.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>11.</b> A vacancy; vacuum.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Verb (used with object)</b></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>12.</b> To make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to void a check.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>13.</b> To empty; discharge; evacuate: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to void excrement.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>14.</b> To clear or empty (often followed by </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of </i></span><span style="font-size: small;">): </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to void a chamber of occupants.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>15.</b><i> Archaic </i></span><span style="font-size: small;">. to depart from; vacate.</span></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-91015907375836100282011-11-15T04:59:00.013-08:002012-03-19T12:41:08.061-07:00The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Too much space smothers us much more than if there were not enough.' (Bachelard, 1994 p221)</i> </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The void - empty space, space to be filled, is space smothering </span>
<div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">How can I use space in the layout of my text </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do I need to consider the way space effects emotions, I want the layout of my pages to be evocative of what is being talked about </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I have a section of text where Edward or another character feels smother could I use more space around the words</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Intimate space loses its clarity, while exterior space loses its void, void being the raw material of possibility of being. We are banished from the realm of possibility.'</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Bachelard, 1994 p218)</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The void holds the possibilities of being, without the void there are no possibilities to be. </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is Edward banished from the realm of possibility? Where is his journey taking him? To the void? Away from the void? </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">If he is dead does the void exist?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">As he goes up and discovered each plain which in itself is a void does it no longer exist as a void?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is the void and how can it be explored as a concept in narrative? So through exploring the void through narrative I am filling the void with narrative </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">If the void is possibilities I am exploring one possible way of filling the void. By choosing one ‘possibility’ do all other possible ways of filling the void cease to exist? </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Am I extinguishing the possibilities by choosing one</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Narrative has to be linear, therefore certain possibilities are no longer viable. But strands of narrative could sill be explored creating new voids So by extinguishing one void countless new voids are made</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">If void = possibility then when void is filled/explored - through that unmeasurable new possibilities arise</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'...that the daydreamer transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.' (Bachelard, 1994 p183)</i></span>
</div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is Edward moving outside of the immediate world into infinity (the plains)?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Possible start to story - Edward thinking/dreaming by himself beginning of his journey </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Him becoming enlightened is in his mind, enlightenment is a spiritual/mental change therefore his is (^ quote) through his journey of enlightenment he is being transported outside the world/ to infinity </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The plains themselves show him becoming more enlightened - as he is being physically transported through the plains his state of mind is also moving</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is Edward dying?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">As he becomes enlightened he is dying - if you want to know the meaning of life you have to die<i>.</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'The world is large but in us it is deep as the sea' (Bachelard, 1994 p183)</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The imagination - using the example of the depth of the sea - endless? So the world becomes endless</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Physically the depth of the sea = infinity</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sea = imagination/infinity = endless possibilities = the void</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nautical tales links to the sea, links to ^</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once he sets sail from stonehaven, he is always on the sea whenever he is on the plain he is still on the sea.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because of the links in the story to Edward and the sea he is....</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Existing within a void, existing within enlightenment </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enlightenment is void</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The void is not knowing the meaning of your life?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense. Indeed, immensity is the movement of the motionless man.' (Bachelard, 1994 p184)</i></span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Immensity is the movement of the motionless man. </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Immensity = infinite possibilities = void</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is Edward motionless - his moving through the plains is him dying so is he already dead therefore motionless? </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">As he’s going through the plains the physical movement means that his mind is growing. </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">A motionless man has infinite possibilities</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">A moving man would be taking the possibilities therefore the void is filled.</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The void is the void?</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Circular theory - balance </span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Simultaneous equations, to find out the unknown you use the constants (the things that are know)</span></div><div class="Body" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 23.2pt 0.0001pt 23.55pt;"></div>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Bachelard,
G (1994) <u>The Poetics Of Space.</u> Boston. Beacon Press.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-22649808050978858962011-05-05T11:40:00.001-07:002012-02-28T02:45:22.112-08:00Plan<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 0 (Doesn’t exist = void) </div><div class="MsoNormal">Name: Edward Magpie, </div><div class="MsoNormal">(When people are unsure about something, have a void in their knowledge, they turn to religion/ superstitions, one of them being how many magpies they have seen and the amount corresponds to an amount of, or lack of, luck) </div><div class="MsoNormal">Age: 47</div><div class="MsoNormal">(An age that feels incomplete)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 1</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Breakfast – boiled egg and dippers (Dipping into a life that never was), pouched fish </div><div class="MsoNormal">Breakfast made by my wife, Rose Magpie. </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Get the Stultifera Navis ready to sail.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Leave St Nicolas Island. </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Make sure bad superstitions don’t effect the voyage</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Silver coin under masthead ensures safe voyage.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Pouring wine on deck; a liberation to the Gods. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><u>The Crew</u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tim the Cat – Good luck Black cat</div><div class="MsoNormal">Robin (Casso – Latin for void) (Sounds like Robinson Crusoe)– First Mate, expert fisherman, if there was something to be caught he’d catch it, birds, fish, women. </div><div class="MsoNormal">(Peacock – the feathers are meant to be connected with luck) (le Vent – French for ‘the wind – the wind is a void never actually seen only seen through the movement of other things) – Artist, surgeon, net weaver, expert in knot tying, has very nimble fingers. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Gulley (the void between two large land masses) Cooper– Ships Cook, ‘Gulley’s Galley’, he decided that unlike his forefathers he wasn’t interested in the making of barrels but what was contained within them, thus becoming the size and shape of one. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Christopher (St Christopher – patron saint of long journeys) Crowe – lives in The Crowe’s Nest, plays guitar, a quiet, reserved man but with the eyesight unmatched by any man I’ve known. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Dolphins (mad whales) seen, meant to be souls of dead sailers </div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 2 </div><div class="MsoNormal">Still got void in him, If only rose was allowed on deck</div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Mallet headed shark (illustration)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 4</div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Hoofed manatee (illustration)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 11</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tale of how islands are grown. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Crabs (illustration)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 13</div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Seeeinhorn (Illustration)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 20</div><div class="MsoNormal">Explain storm (cat licking fur a certain way makes the weather change according to superstition) and then Stay on <span lang="EN-US">Jasconius, giant whale (illustration) ; thinking it’s an island.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Tale of Larus Island<span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 27 </div><div class="MsoNormal">Go to Larus Island to stock up on food and fresh water, I do hate the taste of distilled sea water, no matter how much you get rid of the salt something always stays, Cooper always said that’s the thing that makes fish into leviathans. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 29</div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Ketos - <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/01219/Grkmythpics/Cetuspics/Cetus8.jpg">http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/01219/Grkmythpics/Cetuspics/Cetus8.jpg</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 38</div><div class="MsoNormal">To stop cabin fever, Play a game of Ship, Captain, and Crew, also known as Ship of Fools,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 41</div><div class="MsoNormal">Go past the Bermuda triangle (illustration of eye – all seeing eye) Tell the tale of Atlas and Atlantis</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 44</div><div class="MsoNormal">Caught: Bearded Whale</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 47</div><div class="MsoNormal">Catch first sight of the Chimera (lion, snake, horned animal) (Main illustration)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 60</div><div class="MsoNormal">Try and catch the Chimera after chasing </div><div class="MsoNormal">Day 77</div><div class="MsoNormal">Catching the Chimera. Casso and I fought with the behemoth.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fin</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-63074167590023798142011-03-24T06:55:00.001-07:002012-02-28T02:46:12.243-08:00Maps and Sea Monsters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h3JF7zFpEfg/TYtOV4ULAeI/AAAAAAAAAP4/xyRQ7LaMYoI/s1600/old-world-map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h3JF7zFpEfg/TYtOV4ULAeI/AAAAAAAAAP4/xyRQ7LaMYoI/s400/old-world-map.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>When looking into 16th century maps of the world there seems to be a lot of weird sea monsters dotted around the place. One reason for this could be that it is like a diary of where the crew have been and where they saw each monster. Another reason could be that when they were making the map they put the monsters where they hadn't explored and was unaware of what was there, therefore the monsters were a symbol for the void of the world.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rUjPEzcWvk4/TYtOhKH-TgI/AAAAAAAAAP8/zs65ad0RRFA/s1600/sea_monsters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rUjPEzcWvk4/TYtOhKH-TgI/AAAAAAAAAP8/zs65ad0RRFA/s400/sea_monsters.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-641313708390014262011-03-24T01:26:00.001-07:002012-02-28T02:46:37.261-08:00The SublimeThe sublime - possibly the sea and the sublime<br />
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<ul style="color: red;"><li><b>Longinus</b>, writing in the classical historical tradition says that the sublime implies that man can, in emotions and in language, transcend the limits of the human condition. </li>
</ul><ul style="color: red;"><li><b>Kant </b>says that sublimity does not reside in anything of nature, but only in our mind, insofar as we can become conscious that we are superior to nature within, and therefore also to nature without us (so far as it influences us) </li>
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Pen Arts - Dominion [what does this mean?- <span style="color: red;">A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm.</span>] Angela CockayneBen Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-55534136650585969672011-03-23T14:53:00.001-07:002012-02-28T02:49:57.273-08:00In the Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sYOftmaf5QY/TYpqQlgFYfI/AAAAAAAAAP0/B9gUFTTWn_E/s1600/drakes-island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sYOftmaf5QY/TYpqQlgFYfI/AAAAAAAAAP0/B9gUFTTWn_E/s320/drakes-island.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I want the Stultifera Navis (Ship of Fools), the name of the vessel the crew is sailing on, to set sail from St Nicholas Island.<br />
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This is because for as long as I can remember i've always wanted to not only explore the island but live there. Also because of this the island itself is a void.Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-46435830379977142092011-03-03T01:42:00.001-08:002012-02-28T02:50:48.770-08:00Void?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EIzZg1xlXJs/TW-A6_4h_1I/AAAAAAAAAPw/QqsUycDPirI/s1600/34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Using literature - how entities emerge from nothing. Almost like a feeling of paranoia that is something bigger, more limitless. that's the idea of the void, and the scale of the limitless.<br />
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Working out a way to figure out the mass of the earth - the size of black holes. When we try to desribe something<br />
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Melville, H., (1957) <i>Moby Dick. </i>2nd ed. London: WM. Collins Sons and Co Ltd.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.strangescience.net/stsea2.html">http://www.strangescience.net/stsea2.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/patten/sublime.html%20">http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/patten/sublime.html </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.angelacockayne.co.uk/">http://www.angelacockayne.co.uk/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dominion">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dominion</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.workhardened.com/project/92/Mastodon/Leviathan%20LP">http://www.workhardened.com/project/92/Mastodon/Leviathan%20LP</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.dan-mumford.com/index.php?id=38">http://www.dan-mumford.com/index.php?id=38</a><br />
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http://www.plymouthdata.info/Drake'sIsland.htm<br />
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http://pacificoffshorerigging.com/nautical_superstitions.htm<br />
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http://caribbean-pirates.com/nautical_superstitions.php<br />
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<a href="http://mymemory.translated.net/t/English/French/dust%20in%20the%20wind">http://mymemory.translated.net/t/English/French/dust%20in%20the%20wind</a><br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasconius<br />
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http://tikimachine.blogspot.com/2010/06/ketos.html<br />
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http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Karkinos.html<br />
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa/cells/cells3.shtml<br />
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http://www.rhymes.org.uk/the_lion_and_the_unicorn.htm<br />
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http://ireland.mysteriousworld.com/History/Christianity/Saints/Brendan/Voyage/Voyage-10-Jasconius.asp<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">“From the beginning of time man has been involved with the sea. Fishing, hunting and a natural curiosity to explore has led man to the great oceans, where huge sea-monsters, the Leviathans, were seen. “ <br />
(Andrews, 1972 p3)</div><div class="MsoNormal">This book goes in depth describing such things as Sea Monsters, early oceanography and the deep oceans. All these topics, as well as others, I’m interested in, seeing as though all this information will be used in my ‘void’ project for a believe the sea is the biggest void just below space/the universe.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">“The oceans are on average two and a half miles deep, and some parts are nearly seven miles deep”<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u>Reference</u> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Andrews, K., (1972) <i>Beneath the Oceans</i>. 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. London: Macdonald & Co Ltd. </div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853880876642043886.post-60846244537000361832011-01-20T01:05:00.001-08:002012-02-28T02:48:18.542-08:00whatcha mean, what's a zine? summary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_voTyZjrTgrA/TTg_VHjXnqI/AAAAAAAAAO4/7NdRpMNg3qM/s1600/whatcha-mean-whats-a-zine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_voTyZjrTgrA/TTg_VHjXnqI/AAAAAAAAAO4/7NdRpMNg3qM/s320/whatcha-mean-whats-a-zine.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">This book shows how to make small time comics and what can go inside them. There is also advice and instructions from over twenty creators on how to make lots of different styles of zines/ comics. The layout of the whole book is very easy to follow and is in a comic style with lots of illustrations to demonstrate and liven up the information. </div>Ben Challenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422461912755191531noreply@blogger.com0