|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OSOAWEEK--ISSUE 156--7/19/97 <-------  ||  OsoaWeek  ||  Issues  ||  Book 12  ||  -------> (Cup OWis156, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = OsoaWeek Book Twelve 13 "OsoaWeek156" by Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana, Tarb 6529 (7/19/97), copyright 1997 OBLIVIANA REGISTRY NEW REVOLVERS None NEW CUPLINES None NEW CUPS SEVERE REPAIR The Carbonize Neighbor 11-20 Honeysuckle Rover 1-10, 11-20 Irregular Shirt 1-10, 11-20 The Waterallidge Edge, 1-10 Quarrel Orchard 1-10 Cardboard Rising 1-10 Foolward Oak 1-10 Friend is Tar Monorail 1-10 (note that within the page ranges listed, the number of Cups can vary from 1 to 10) *OW* LORD OF OBLIVIANA Sun 7/13/97 * 12:00 PM Superior. Time to talk about Superior. Last issue, I talked about how I am going to link Severe Repair and Superior. They will remain separate, but will be considered "sister" works. So I have to develop the way in which Superior will be presented. Superior was the only feature to appear in all 143 issues of the first eleven Books of OsoaWeek. A total of 728 Superiors appeared in these issues. In theis Book of OsoaWeek, Book Twelve, Superior does not appear, since OsoaWeek has changed, and content like Superior, Severe Repair, and Zope appears in their own sections on my website. But as yet, I have not added Superior to my website. This is the last issue of OsoaWeek Book Twelve, and Book Thirteen is just around the corner! So I want to add Superior to the website starting in about two weeks. The 728 existing Superior will form one complete work, tentatively titled "Superior Raw". In addition to Superior Raw, I see two other Cuplines for Superior. One will be "Superior Raw II", which will consist of new Superiors in the "raw" format. The "raw" format simply means that I write the Superiors pretty much off the top of my head and include them in the Cupline without any editing. The other Cupline is "Storm Superior", which will be a set of 209 Superiors, taken from the Raw sets, and modified if needed. I have already modified some Superiors as "B" version in a work called "Superior Thirty", which was awhile ago, and in which I selected the 30 best Superiors, with a few alterations. This "Superior Thirty" is the forerunner to Storm Superior. I should mention Pelter here. In my new system, Pelter is a part of the new "Halfevil Graphics" Revolver. Like Superior, I have raw sets of Pelter, from which I selected 209 "Storm Pelters". With both Storm Pelter and Storm Superior, I plan on additional sets of 209. So, the next set of Storm Pelters will be called "Storm Pelter II". Mon 7/14/97 * 8:34 AM Recent hypnopompic messages: 7/8/97: "Undefined Roots" 7/14/97: "Unravel" It would seem that these messages refer to my progress with Obliviana. This implies that the source of these messages knows what Obliviana should be like. The source could be my subconscious, or some outside source. Regardless, the source seems to want to help me. And since it does not reveal the "true" blueprint of Obliviana to me, I must assume that the experience of discovering it for myself serves to make me into a better and more capable person, so that by the time I truly "get it", I'll be able to do something with it. Mon 7/14/97 * 11:54 PM Well, I've just spent several hours agonizing over Severe Repair Cupline names. Here are the changes I made: Friendly Times --> Cardboard Rising Toggle Joseph --> Foolward Oak Meow of Neon --> Friend is Tar Monorail And the other day I changed: Perspective Quartz Mahoney --> The Waterallidge Edge Of the five Cuplines past the first eight, only "Quarrel Orchard" kept its original name. Also today I created a single text file which contains all 728 Raw Superiors. I figured out that this set can be broken down into 8 sets of 91 Superiors each. I'm not sure if I'm gonna do it that way yet. Also I was reading over "Abaxial Usufruct", a set of 209 poems I did back in 1990. Most of it is really terrible! But there are a few real gems, and most of these I already made into Superiors long ago. But yet, a few remain that have not been "Superiored". The Cupline which I am now calling "Foolward Oak" is about the pirate ship Urbandersnacheron IV and its crew. I probably wrote it in 1990, and even though it is very good, it's a little hard for me to go back and edit my writing from that time period. Also, the same pirate ship and some of the characters appear in what I believe is the last published segment of "Bible II", which was the precursor to Severe Repair. It features Axelrod Vampire, a character that I would not create today, but one who will wind up in Severe Repair sometime. The problem with this piece is that it involves Overwhelm recruitment, and uses a different method from the one I later established. But I'm sure I can fit it all together and make it work. That's part of the challenge with Severe Repair--taking all these disparate and sometimes contradictory pieces of writing and quilting them all together. So anyway, reading all this older writing of mine has put me into a little bit of a funk. It's hard to avoid getting emotional over my writing. I sometimes feel euphoric after a writing/editing session. But sometimes I get all weird of bummed out. It's 12:06 AM, Tue 7/15/97. Less than two weeks to go for the "Launch of Obliviana". It's clear to me now that this launch will take place over the course of the next year. I feel very strongly that Severe Repair has the potential to become quite popular. But there's no sense in promoting anything till I have a good enough setup to keep people interested once they come to Obliviana. I want to talk a little now about the "Themed Interpretation Magazines" (TIMs). I came up with the idea to apply to Severe Repair, but I am coming to realize that it can and should apply to all of Obliviana. These TIMs are gateways into Obliviana. And now I see that my idea for eight themed Racetracks merges with the TIM idea here. I have often stated that I do not want Obliviana to be all things to all people. But with TIM, I am trying to embrace many idfferent demographics. Shoult TIM then be separate from the themed Racetracks? No... I think that TIM and Racetracks should be merged. I think that there will be a sense of belonging and stuff. I will be targeting a realistic range of demographics--that is, the range of people I think will be interested in my work. Going to bed. Thu 7/17/97 * 12:35 AM Finished up the current material in "Honeysuckle Rover" and "Foolward Oak". Editing my older writing is somewhat unsettling for me, while editing my newer work is somewhat exhilarating. Man, some of my prose from circa 1990 was pretty bad. The story involved was good, but the prose was quite immature. Especially the forest scene in "Foolward Oak". I corrected some of the more glaring problems, such as redundencies and run-on sentences. But I realized that I couldn't change the prose too much. The pre-Liss Quile stuff in "Honesuckle Rover" is totally whacked-out. I changed it very little. And while I wouldn't write like that today, I think it adds to the overall texture of Severe Repair. Anyway, I was pretty bummed-out today, I kind of dull numbness, kind of enjoyable, kind of mellow. I don't know. I'm so insecure about Severe Repair, but also very confident. I'm staking a lot on Severe Repair and all of Obliviana. And I've been working hard on it. I've listened to Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill" on my commute for the past few days, during Howard Stern commercial breaks in the morningtime, breaks that seem to go on for over twenty minutes. Morrisette's music is interesting to me in a number of ways. But I think it might have contributed to my blue mood. Here is a singer, a girl, who is clearly obsessed with fame and fortune, and then gets it. I have a feeling she's not very happy now, but that's just a feeling. And I thought of myself, also somewhat obsessed with fame and fortune. And will I be the same as I imagine her to be, sad and lost? But no! I have Obliviana, which is a system through which you can directly address your need for wonder. So I manage to escape the terrible imagined fate of Ms. Morrisette. I was in a Borders Books & Music the other day and I overheard a loser say "Alanis Morrisette--I don't get it--she's ugly, she untalented, she can't sing--I just don't get it." Very original ideas, loser. One line that puzzles me from "Pill" is, I believe, "...now that I'm this thing, now that I'm this zillionaire, you scan the credits for your name and it's not there..." She must have written and sung this BEFORE becoming a true "zillionaire", right? So she must have been thinking along those lines long before she GOT what she so craved. Also on the bus, listening to this song, I got a very brief flash of powerful emotion about how much people need what Obliviana has to offer. But the emotion was gone before it was able to bloom. If it had continued on, I know that my eyes would have welled up with tears. On the subway earlier an old guy stuck his cane in the doors as they were closing, and the train left and he didn't get in but the rubber end to his cane was stuck in the door. So I took it and placed it on the platform at the next station, with the idea that he might look for it there. I thought it was a good thing to do, and I felt kind of good about it. Then on the bus the guy next to me tried to turn on his light, but it was busted so I offered to switch seats with his so he could read. And again, I thought it was a good deed and I felt good about it and myself. What's up with me? Goodnight. Mon 7/21/97 * 12:16 AM Well, OsoaWeek Book Twelve has come to an end. This week, I'm uploading a ton of Severe Repair Cups, and by next week, there should be 209 Cups of SR online! That's approximately 400 pages of writing, my friends! Anyway... Get all Obliviana! *OW* -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----