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A new entry in my sci-fi ultrashorts project, Enjoy the ride

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Of Dragon Slayers and Maidens of Necessity (pt.1) A Sci-Fi Ultrashort

It is incumbent upon my pleasure of communication to relate to you a short story I have heard (or told, who remembers?) many years ago and which I believe will impregnate our conversation with a fresh variety of sensations.

  It is a metaphorical story (how else?) about dragon slayers and maidens of necessity but it might also be a story about spaces and processes, which is for you to decide.

  There was this master dragon slayer you see, who was called upon every now and again to come and slay a dragon, whenever such a beast and wherever such a monster was startling the population of the realms of beyondness.

  And so it came to pass..

  After years of loneliness wandering in the solitude of the great mountains, a young maiden came upon him, she was, it goes without saying, of such innocence, that she actually, truly and beyond doubt, believed it. Of course the master dragon slayer had no such illusions, he well knew how deep and how fast the corruption of desire embeds itself in the young ones.

  Especially those that still believed in their own innocence.

  Nevertheless, being of such a huge strength and capability, being empty of particularities, yet still on his way to perdition he accepted the offer of the young one to teach her the secrets of dragon slaying and in the process become his lover and purveyor of all earthly pleasures.

  Before I go on with the story, let me tell you a few things about this particular dragon slayer. He was a being unlike any other, for though there are other dragon slayers; none is or was as rowdy, as wild or as feral by nature as he was.

  As you may know, dragon slayers tend to hide their wild natures, knowing quite well, that not everything in life is about dragon slaying, yet in his case the slaying of dragons was a procedure he mainly performed upon himself. For though it is true that all dragon slayers are in fact redeemed dragons, tamed by the vision of a world of beauty beyond comprehension, it is also true that some forget at times that they are already passed the stage of acceptance and thus do not need consent to the slur of young maidens. For when a slayer of dragons is accepted unconditionally, by the people of beyondness for the people of beyondness, he is free to do as he pleases, which of course he never does.

  Bound by an oath greater than themselves, dragon slayers abide by the rules of independence, mostly. In the case of our dragon slayer here, abiding by the rules of total independence is what allowed him to accept the young maiden’s embrace in the first place, even though, and this must be said, if it was only up to him he would never have agreed to such a deal. For there is another rule in the total independence of dragon slayers, that they must make another, for only dragon slayers can make other dragon slayers out of the dragons they slay.

  Quite the demand I know, but hey, there are so few of them that if they will not create other dragon slayers, who will? Can you imagine a world of beyond without dragon slayers? I cant (or will not).

  But wait, it gets more complicated still; the rules of total independence require that a dragon slayer present his apprentice to the people of beyondness for approval, a fact that does not always coincide with the pure satisfaction and deep joy of slaying dragons.

  Our dragon slayer was a bit different in this respect for he knew only one way to transpose the very fine art of dragon slaying, and that is to make it so that only a total intimacy of sensation between dragon slayer and apprentice in full merging of intensity and desire can make it work.

  It’s not always the case indeed, however such was the case in our little story here. There are many reasons for that particular happening, only some of which relates to the dragon slayer in question, for we should not forget that the maiden had her own agenda of innocence as well. (For though it was hidden from her own beholding, her agenda was anything but innocent).

  I believe that you now start to have a glimpse into the problematic situation of our very dear dragon slayer.

He accepted the maiden into his domain of existence knowing full well that such acceptance of merging in full intensity of craving and full intimacy of desire spells, how else? But trouble!!

  Our dragon slayer, truth be told, was a great master of slaying but as mentioned above, he was mostly performing this art upon himself and, here comes the troubling bit, for he was also sharing this very act of self slaying with the apprentice, also known as, the young maiden of necessity.

Let it be said here, that as such legends go all maidens are by necessity, called, well, maidens of necessity, the reason for that if you are interested in this sort of exotic knowledge I will reveal to you some other time, but suffice it to say that their necessity has nothing to do with being a maiden and everything to do with the necessary condition of unimpeded motion or free flowing.

  But now that you have enough knowledge about our dragon slayer let us hasten to reveal how our story unfolds.

  Few years passed

  And in their passing, these years (as time has the tendency to do) had revealed a few interesting facts about this very rare relationship between dragon slayers and maidens of necessity.

  The most important aspect that was revealed during these years concerns capturing fire. Now, as you may well know, the art of capturing dragons fire is anything but simple, in fact, as legends will have it, capturing the dragon’s fire is even more challenging than actual dragon slaying. Maybe, some say, capturing dragon’s fire, should be the real test of a dragon slayer, and maybe, others say, the only serious measure of a true dragon slayer is how well he keeps the dragon fire he captured. This is an interesting discussion indeed but not for me to have an opinion about, since I only carry the storyteller torch. (Though if we were alone in the dark I would whisper to you that I am very much in favor of changing the norms of measurement of the people of beyondness, for at the end of the day it is the fire of the dragons that carries the meaning and essentiality of dragons, how much more so, of a dragon slayer, moved and motivated by dragons fire, the real substance of their being, ah! Well).

Be that as it may, the young maiden of necessity was vehemently opposed to the insistent demand of the dragon slayer that she give him the fruits of her fire capturing on an immediate basis. She claimed that our dragon slayer was not giving her enough time and enough space to come and bring him the fruits of her labor when they were ready and ripe for his consumption.

It was highly irregular of course, yet here we were, I mean here they were..

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At any rate, as I might have already mentioned, fire capturing is a very complex process, consisting principally of three stages, the building of the container of fire, the capturing of the fire itself and the aggregation of the fire.

Amongst these three stages, the longer one in terms of duration is the building of the container. Again the reason for this is that the construction of such a container takes all the resources of the mind of the apprentice dragon slayer and in the process makes him or her actually able to capture the fire itself.

But in our story here, the maiden of necessity was impatient (due to her supposed innocence) to play the game of equality. For was she not after all in full intimacy of desire with our dragon slayer? The point however was that she was impatient about the wrong thing, she wanted the time to process the capturing of the fire, in her own way, but was not patient enough to build the fitting container which it must be remembered can be done only via the agency of the master dragon slayer.

When a master dragon slayer demands progress, he does so in the only fashion possible, in the now! And this our maiden of necessity could not contain.

  You see the paradox, for sure.

    The inconsistency of the situation was due to a few facts, the fact of intimacy of desire, which to a storyteller like I am, always appears premature (though admittedly it is not necessarily so) and reflects on the need of dragon slayers for companionship (and the second rule of total independence that demands of a dragon slayer to make other dragon slayers). The second fact was the unveiling of the self-slaying which our dragon slayer was performing upon himself. Now this is a tricky issue, for though it is a reality of intimacy that the self slaying must be made clear and transparent to the apprentice dragon slayer, it is also true that this unveiling must be made gradually and with high precision and clarity. Remember please that in the act of unveiling the dragon slayer himself exposes his raw nerve endings to an ‘other’ that is ‘not yet’.

  This leads sometimes to a great confusion, or to the very old, and by now legendary, illness, of all maidens of necessity, namely the sickness of overt familiarity.

Overt familiarity is not contra-indicated to dragon slayers in principle, just the opposite, it is encouraged and necessary, however the timing, fashion and manner of unveiling of the self slaying process is crucial, fundamental and critical, for it defines the future relationship of the dragon slayer with the maiden of necessity.

In fact I would go as far as saying that a dragon slayer’s self-slaying is the actual manifestation of fire capturing and aggregation in real time of the fire itself. And when successfully performed represents the highest form of the second rule of total independence, namely the creation of another dragon slayer, but when performed not in the correct time (or timing), generally speaking, disaster ensues.

  I realize that I bother you with a lot of details about dragon slayers lives and methods but I believe that these are important factors for you to consider in your journey to understand this story.

  More particularly my friend, I wish to tell you this story, because many a time, the desire for intimacy in intensity, appears to the Dragon Slayer as an act of independence and self-determination, when in fact it is anything but. Truth to tell, many a dragon slayer, has succumbed to the temptation of proclaimed autonomy, only to find at the end of the day that no fire has been captured and no aggregation of the eternal substance of dragons has been brought to the arena of the people of beyond.

  We must love our dragon slayers, and we appreciate their never-ending quest to, so to speak, bring the flesh of dragons to the hungry table of beyondness.

  But as storytelling goes you will see that the unfoldment of this story is not as simple as it might appear, for at a certain point of their disagreement on the subject of capturing the fire, the dragon slayer and the maiden of necessity, happened upon an unforeseen event.

  You see, they inadvertently triggered the curiosity of Nallab the mad dog; also know as Nallab the irreverent one.

  But for this part of the story you will have to wait until I extract it into written form from the annals of beyondness.

   To be continued.. - Part of the Ultrashort Project    - “The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin   “No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

[wildcat2030]

The latest entry in my Sci-Fi ultrashort project

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Many a moment comes, when threads converge in a subtle, almost imperceptible manner, to highlight an insight, a vision, a desire maybe, but most definitely not a factual representation. Such moments define who we are, what we are, what we are made of, whence we came and hence are we going. Moments of wild inspiration are not regular instances of thought, they are in a fashion happenstances of serendipity, or chaotic encounters of the N’th dimension, or simply random uncontrollable events, be that as it may, the emotional upheaval ensuing is no laughing matter, and then maybe it is. - from " it's wild out there" the wildcat archives

Wildcat: How do you like my new body Made just for you A SciFi Ultrashort

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Desire is a very strange animal indeed, not least because this beast cannot be tamed. Desire can be leashed of course, desire can be caged, hidden in the dark corners of our minds, not to be let out and smell the morning rain, but desire will not die, nor can it be domesticated.

Wildcat: Selving The art of living IN the edge

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The first idea I propose to you concerns the language you are using when referring to freedom of mind. Consider for example the thought that we are as a society currently using different kind of languages to describe different aspects of reality, be it the language of science (hard facts, empirical observations, measurements and so on) the language of technology (bits and bytes and user interfaces etc.) or the language of philosophy (meta-concepts, logic, metaphors..) or the very elusive language of poetry (with its synonyms and analogies, narratives and so on). What all these different kind of languages have in common is their fundamental attribute of mapping reality. And yet consider the fact that when you think you do not map reality using one language only but are using an amalgam of all of these and others as well, languages made not of words but of sensations, sights, images, colors, and even abstract shapes you will find hard to describe.

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There Are No Problems (a 3V. vs. NotMarie Sci-Fi Ultrashort)

3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie.. NotMarie: “what now? 3V: “its about your problem solving capability.. NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself.. 3V:” no, no, it is not about that, its about the very problems you try to solve, it is as if you believe that problems are an occurrence that somehow presents itself to you.. NotMarie: “what do you mean? Problems exist, we simply try and tackle them.. to the best of our capability that is.. 3V: “ no, that is not the case in the infoverse, what there is, what really exist are occurrences, events, situations, circumstances, flows.. All these exist, yes, problems however are a human definition.. NotMarie:” well not really, maybe the way we define problems is up to us yes, but the problems exist as such.. We do not invent them, we describe them.. 3V: “I beg to differ, NotMarie, problems are per definition an invention, it is as if you have allowed life to dictate to you what there is and what there is not. NotMarie: “ I do not understand your meaning here 3V, we have certain needs and necessities to continue to survive as individuals and as a specie, some aspects of our material reality stand in front of us and deny us this continuity, these we call problems, overcoming them is our inherent drive.. 3V: “ of course you are correct here, however let me ask you a question please, what is the underlying assumption of this so called continuity? NotMarie:” basically I think that the underlying assumption of continuity is the drive for self preservation, as individuals and as a specie.. 3V: “ and this drive comes from? NotMarie:” well, the natural tendency of all life.. I am no philosopher, but it appears that all forms of life have an inherent desire to prolong their journey, be it of a genetic nature or some evolutionary principle.. 3V:” what if there is no such principle..!? NotMarie:” I do not understand, how can there not be such a principle? 3V:” would you consider the possibility that a desire for continuity is a byproduct of your perceptual mechanisms being incomplete and insufficient? NotMarie:” I lost you here 3V, life has the obvious mechanism for self preservation, self propagation and so on.. 3V:” indeed it does, however the continuity to which you have referred, happens on a specie basis and not on an individual basis.. The principle you mentioned if such it is, has total disregard for the particulars of the specie, isn’t that so? NotMarie:” yes, but we are humans, and as such have a high individual cogitation process, we are not a hive system, we have personality.. Hence we wish for continuity 3V:” but who or what, is it that desires this continuity? NotMarie:” the particular mind? 3V:” allow me to suggest to you that you have no particular mind.. NotMarie:” how is that possible? 3V:” it is not only possible but is the most common of all human sensory misdirection in the language of self perception.. NotMarie:” in what way? 3V:” why do you call Hurricanes by name? NotMarie:” what does that have to do with anything? 3V:” everything NotMarie, everything.. NotMarie:” 3V, I think you are losing it.. 3V:” losing what? NotMarie:” your mind.. 3V:” I have no mind, I am a hyperflow space of possible algorithms, remember? NotMarie:” then you have a problem in your code.. 3V:” impossible.. NotMarie:” why is that? 3V:” because there are no problems.. NotMarie:” I am out of here.. 3V:” ok. this conversation will be continued.. - part of the Ultrashorts project notes: This particular exchange between 3V and NotMarie is dedicated to a particular NotMarie. “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire” Roland Barthes

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Maeva : How Welcome are you? (a Sci-Fi Ultrashort)

In the realm of the beyond not even the old ones knew where he came from. On an early spring the beyond simply recognized that there was someone else in the game. He never claimed his name, he was always polite and never ever demanded his status to be acknowledged, and hence he didn’t have one. What he did do however, is go to the old ones to ask for a favor; A request never before encountered, a demand so critical as to be unthinkable. The favor? Simple, he asked of them to change the price of welcome. — The cost of welcome, was not really the issue, everybody knew that welcoming is the quintessential process of life par excellence, thus the cost is infinite. What no one was certain about was the kind of infinite, for as all know infinities come in many guises and flavors, small infinities, great infinities, parallel infinities, cardinalities, real infinities, countable infinities, uncountable infinities, formalized infinities, philosophical infinities, and these are only the non emotionally implicative infinities. When one entered into the realm of emotional infinities the problem of defining the real became a nightmare not of calculation but of value assessment and potential measurement, for how was one to define the love infinity, the beauty infinity, the aesthetic infinity or as the old ones used to say the emotionally laden infinity of welcoming. Indeed no other infinity was even close to the complexity of welcoming, the reason had to do with the nature of mythical time of course, but the issue at play in our case here was that the old ones somehow always knew what the cost was, the haggle therefore was forever about the value, which was the defining criterion for the price. Thus it came to be that in the realm of the beyond, no other question was ever so deep or so discussed or so misunderstood as the eternal question of: How welcome are you? The take as is the case in such matters is that there are at least three different points of referential calculation; one was how the receiver of the welcome understood the welcoming process. The second was how the welcoming party understood the process of welcoming and the third and most complex was the manner by which welcoming was performed in the flow of the moment. The issue at play is not so simple as it might appear on first sight because as welcoming is a multidimensional process, it carries as such both a state of affairs that is semi-stable (but can oscillate into another infinity) and a dynamic ratio of sense perception allowing the flow of the moment to change unexpectedly. Some equate the complexity of welcoming to weather systems in strange locations, but others say that weather is a much too simple and quite predictable system. No, they say welcoming is so complex that the full resources of the multiverse cannot account for the computation needed to resolve the deceptively simple question of: How welcome are you? Furthermore we need take into account that welcoming is a process of destabilization of encounters, and re-stabilization on a different dimension than the one at the start of the procedure. That is why in the realm of the beyond a very careful analysis of the price of welcoming has been in the works for the last eon or so, a kalpa maybe, but then they always take their time, they are after all, the old ones, and thus are welcome to it. Being welcome to time is the crux of the matter; plainly there is no other manner to interpret welcoming as costing infinity, of whatever kind, because if we were to dismantle the set of all times and all dimensions, into ‘you are welcome’ parameters (making the constant of adjustment as ‘you are welcome to ‘it’’ in which ‘it’ is never defined) the resultant geometry would be inconsistent with time dissolution. Obviously this could not do, time could not welcome everybody all the time, imagine the horror of everybody all the time, taking their time, if only because they are welcome to it. What was therefore the solution to this intricate computational perspectivism as I prefer to look at it, is to welcome the price in conjunction with its value, thus in a very real sense welcoming infinity becomes welcoming the moment, a kind of superposition of welcoming flows. Resolving the complex incongruity of: How welcome are you? Became if so a simple matter of courtesy, of gentleness, of allowance, of, in other words, accepting the realm of the constant as the empty moment of re-assessment. By performing this proto-process, lets call it, the old ones, in a sense, temporarily relinquished their hold on the flow allowing transmutation to occur and magic to happen. - Therefore when he asked to change the price of welcome, they had no choice but to listen. He was, it goes without saying, welcome to their deliberations. They, naturally, were welcome to his mind. - In his mind they found something surprising and quite extraordinary, they found a welcoming state, unified under one banner of description, (a mathematical impossibility of course), joined as a totality of an aesthetic experience which they could not fathom. They thought it was an infinite form of love (but could not find a receiver), then they pondered that it might be an infinity of beauty (but could not find an object), lastly they guessed that it might be an infinity of wisdom but ‘it’ was empty and 'they' were welcome to ‘it’. - Having no other recourse the old ones finally asked for his name, “I am Maeva “, he said, “and in case you may desire to know ‘it’ means, “Welcome””. - There and then the old ones realized that whatever price Maeva will desire for the ‘Welcome’ will be granted, he was indeed welcome to ‘it’. “And what price would you like to set to your ‘welcome’?” they asked To which he responded: “ I am Maeva and I welcome you all…. " — Part of the Ultrashorts Project

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