|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- FOREMAN ITTENER PIER--CUP 29--"FUTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRE TEAPOT HEGEMONY" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Foreman Ittener Pier  ||  -------> (Cup SRfi029, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "What was the book about?" Lunatether asked. "Well," I said, sitting up on the bed, "It's about this guy Poale. He's raised in the mountains of this distant land--his parents were visiting for some unknown reason, but they died. So these monks of an ancient mythology took him in and taught him their ways. And he was a natural. In fact, if he'd been just a little bit better, they'd have declared him the rebirth of God or something." "Huh." Lunatether said, and she plopped down on the bed next to me, the sweet, pungent scent of her sweat exciting me. "Yeah, so anyway, this guy Poale was so pure, so high, that he could do all this amazing stuff. Like, they had this idea that each of us is both male AND female--and if you were pure and focused enough, you could shift back and forth as easily as opening and closing your eyes. Poale could do this, and in both forms, he was... they said he was very beautiful." "Yeah?" "Yeah. And... and he could talk to animals and plants--especially trees. He could FEEL all the life and energy around him. He was just so sensitive to anything--he was on the brink of infinity." "What was it that made him not be a god?" "I forget. Something about the time of his birth, his lack of ability to speak with planets, his susceptibility to certain forms of spirit dust, you know. Some very minor things." "Uh-huh." "Anyway, this weird organization, FOFTH, the, uh, Future Organization of the Fire Teapot Hegemony, they, uh, they contact Poale and his fellow monks, and they send him on this mission to a faraway country where a new hedonistic occult drug music lifestyle is taking over. And he's convinced by his teachers that he should do this. So he goes there, and the thing is, it's pretty cool, he has to infiltrate the organization both as his male self, Poale, AND his female self, which is named Finfora." "Two names?" "Yeah. The monks came up with it. Anyway, he goes over there, and a lot of the books is about how he slowly starts to get more and more sucked into the lifestyle, which is called Aleche. And what happens is, his female self gets much farther into the center of this, you know, what sort of turns out to be a cult of sorts. But he finds that as Finfora, he's more vulnerable to the temptations of sex, drugs, and everything else." "So what happens?" "Well, a lot of stuff. I don't want to ruin it for you. But as Poale, he resist the temptations and never really gets too far into Aleche. In fact, at one point, they all want to kill him. There's a lot of fighting and stuff, from all these weird groups. But the thing is, the same people he's fighting as Poale, he's in real good with as Finfora. The thing is, Finfora starts to succumb to her earthly desires, and she begins to fall in love with a young innocent." "So this Poale/Finfora person was a virgin?" "Yeah. He was like, just totally playful and asexual. As both sexes, people lusted after him, but he just accepted it and passed no judgment. He was bright and airy and happy and everything--but definitely not very emotional, at least at a human level." "So he--she rather--falls in love?" "Yeah. It's this guy named Bally. He's very naive and innocent and good himself--but he falls hopelessly in love with Finfora. She gets close to him because of his purity, because she feels comfortable with him." "Sound like a good story." "It is! So, uh, what happens eventually is that Finfora winds up getting totally wasted on drugs with Bally, and he... he takes her virginity." -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----