|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OFFICE COMPLEX--CUP 18--"ATMOSPHERE OF THE VIDEO STORES" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Office Complex  ||  -------> (Cup SRoc018, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = This is the season of my great discontent. I am not responsible for my situation, for in some way I've been thrust into this place and situation. Will 1994 turn to 1936? That's not a good, normal thought. So it was a few nights ago, a stark chilly night under the crisp stars where I waited for that girl but she never showed up. I thought we would go into my car and I'd turn the key but not turn on the engine, so I could turn on the heater and maybe some music so we could make out. But probably we wouldn't have made out. I've not been having much luck with girls lately. But walking down this highway, pretty girls must be passing in cars. Just think--why is a girl driving a car sexier than a girl riding in a car? Well, I guess driving is more aggressive and sexy than riding. Sexual stereotypes really do play a big role in sexual fantasy or desire or whatever. It's almost like, any deviation or variation from the norm of behavior is sexy. No, that's not quite right. Not all behavior--just some. What day is it today? Dolthethmen kept walking down the highway. Up in the next parking lot, by a big video store, he saw a bunch of people standing around, clustered around something. He quickened his pace and got to where they were. These people were watching two young guys fight. They were all bloody and continued belting one another. A really nasty fight. "What's going on here?" Dolthethmen asked a girl watching the altercation. "Dunno. These two guys just started fighting a minute ago, so we're watching." "Shouldn't someone call the police or something?" "Yeah." Pause. "So has anybody called?" "I dunno." "Should I go and call?" "No." "Why not?" "Cause it's fun watching them fight. It really pumps me up, gets me hot, to see two guys fight. I love to see animal rage spill forth onto this dull highway. Primal energies contrast well with the staid hum of the atmosphere of the video stores and arcades. Here, any rage or honest madness is welcome. I see that you are full of that rage, and yet you hold it inside so well. You would never fight as these two do, for you fear the release of your energies upon this world, for it would forfeit your unique position, were you to reveal your true self." Dolthethmen was stunned by this girl's words. What she said jibed with quiet thoughts he had been having. That another, especially a desirable female, would even talk to him, let alone say revelatory, almost psychic things, excited him. He responded to her. "How do you know things about me, dear?" "I have to go." With this the girl was off, striding swiftly towards the video store. In the blink of an eye she was in the video store. Dolthethmen turned around and saw that a few more guys had entered the fight, themselves getting bloodied also. But he dismissed the fighters and walked quickly toward the entrance to the video store. As Dolthethmen neared the door, however, he was overcome by resign, and gave up trying to seek this girl. He thought, there's no way I'll catch up with her, and even if I do, nothing will happen between us. I could ask her how she knew stuff about me, but probably she was just speaking metaphorically. Probably, she's just weird. So I must give up and continue on to play pinball or see a movie. Turning, Dolthethmen saw that there were six or eight people now involved in the fight, but he just figured it would end soon, and continued to walk down the highway. He hadn't walked ten feet however, before he felt someone roughly grab the back of his neck. The one holding his neck then roughly spun him around. It was the girl. With her other hand, she grabbed Dolthethmen in the crotch and then roughly pulled his head toward hers and kissed him, her tongue slipping into his mouth. And in that moment, the stunned Dolthethmen felt her tongue first enter the back of his throat, and then felt it move up into his brain, snaking its way all about inside his skull, until he lost consciousness. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----