Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Scientists have discovered a clam that is over 400 years old, pulled it up from the depths of the cold ocean near Iceland, and killed it. Why?
It turns out that the ancient clam, enigmatically described as a “quahog”, had a lot of information. That information, it seems, could threaten to reveal a centuries old conspiracy.
Just consider what professor Chris Richardson, of the School of Ocean Sciences at “Bangor University” has to say about clams like the one that was dredged up: “They are like tiny tape-recorders, in effect, sitting on the sea-bed and integrating signals.”
Stop and consider that for just a moment. Clams, operating as tiny tape recorders, spread across the Atlantic Ocean, listening for centuries, and integrating their signals into a gigantic intelligence network.
It’s clear to me that these clams are spying on us. But for who?
The answer comes again from the experts at the so-called “Bangor University”. They’ve determined that the clam they discovered, the oldest of them all, was planted in the ocean when Elizabeth I was Queen of the British Empire. The British, as is well known, had just conquered the Spanish, and had recovered from the economic drain of the Crusades.
The Crusades had brought many interesting… artifacts, let us say… to the European continent from the Middle East, where Islamic scholars had been holding the secrets of the five thousand year-old Egyptian empire. Some of those artifacts have been described as “lost at sea”?
What if they were not lost? What if they were left in the sea on purpose?
A British royal family that keeps its secrets. The mysterious death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The unexpected defeat of the Spanish Armada. The Bermuda Triangle - a British holding. Posh Spice’s arrival in Los Angeles. And now, a four hundred year-old clam threatens to reveal the string connecting them all.
The British Superpower is not dead after all. It has merely been sleeping, in the form of a secret society ringing the Atlantic Ocean, waiting, and listening to us… with its tape recorder clams.
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October 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Disaster Dan, you oughta participate in National Novel Writing Month.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
That poor clam in the picture sure does look dead. I guess they really wanted to make sure it would clam up.
Are you going to post any of your NaNoWriMo pearls here Jim? Or have your own mini contest?
October 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
They’ll be more like odiferous balls of napthalene. To spare you the feeling of being in a moth-ridden closet, I won’t post them.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I think that’s the point. You’re supposed to go for quantity, not quality, and refine the product later. Maybe you could benefit from the exercise, as your stuff seems to be pretty tightly written the first time out. I suspect I already have the stream of consciousness stuff down and need more of your organize/analyze/minimalize skills. You could rewrite a fragment or paragraph, and post that after airing it out, along with some pithy, insightful remarks. I wasn’t going to do NaNoWriMo this year, but I might play with it a little if I had company.