| Spying
a lovely set of juicy pseudopods on a passing biome, the predator osmoses
through turgid ethereal veils and unfurls its vibrating attractors. |
This Song of Love brought to you by The Art of War
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| A subliminal imprint,
positioned at the proper moment in the media stream, may be sufficient
to trigger a specific desired behavior only in as much as the researcher's
foreknowledge of the subject's emotional dynamic is detailed enough to
deduce and create a subjectively-satisfying trigger mechanism. |
"i want you." |
A myth is something that
never happened, but is always true.
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| To this end, Hollywood
has come to the aid of the researcher by repeatedly imprinting the vast
majority of the populace with all the basic templates for predictable social
behavior. |
Nature may be red in tooth and
claw, but being nature, it is utterly without conscience, utterly without
malice. Or so say those who don't end up dinner. |
CUT TO MEDIUM-SHOT OF LANCE HERO,
his strong face at once uncharacteristically struck with awe at a countenance
beyond his sphere of experience, mouth slightly open, eyes moist, lip trembling
for the first time in his manly life:
CUE MUSIC: "...come on baby light my
fire..."
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| Rotating slowly to turn its most
impressive side toward the oscillating image it recognizes as its other,
the biome affectionately stretches out its tentacles as an instinctive
impulse, preparatory to mating behavior. |
| Look babe, we're gonna have to throw in at least one pair of tits
or I'm not gonna be able to SELL this thing! |
LANCE
I... I love you too!
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|
Who was the first to ask:
"Do you think what we're doing is wrong?"
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| Packaged in the form
of attractive alter-egos for humans of all ages and sizes, these characters
and their known dynamics are pervasive enough to serve as models for predictable
behavior through analytically-attentuated states, which (as has been proven)
can now be easily induced by any number of means. |
"fuck me." |
"trust me."
|
| When the biome relaxes sufficiently
for penetration, its defensive sheath retracts and its pseudopods swell
with nutritious ectoplasm. It is at this moment that the predator reveals
its true nature. |
| "It's a simple matter of logic," she said. "Most
people are pretty quick to point out what role models they emulate, and
that makes my job a LOT easier." |
This is the poster shot, right here babe...
Get the tear in his eye...
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| Once the desired morsels have
been detached, the prey is released to go drifting along on its way. There
is a chance this biome may survive to regrow the missing tentacles, provided
it has not been wounded sufficiently for degradation of its motor capabilities
to have occured. |
MUSIC RISES as we CUT TO LONG SHOT
OF LANCE HERO, face sunken, limbs akimbo, all hope driven from his being
as he stares, numb, into empty space.
DOLLY BACK...
FADE OUT.
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