CIGARETTE BOY "A Mock Machine Mock-Epic"

This piece was nearly finished when the great dual OS collapse occurred. I had hoped to bring the target a little close to gaming material faster but I am having to re-create most of those notes from scratch. So for the time being I will introduce those unfamiliar to the world of Cigarette Boy.

"In a future world of perpetual war and corporate subjugation, an AI Agent is summoned by its owners to initiate a data search in the world's electronic "Metasource Omnifiles." Its assignment is to put together a dossier on a mysterious rogue known only as "Cigarette Boy." Trouble is, the AI is having a bad day, feeling a little under the weather, not actually up to snuff. If the truth be told, our agent has become, by some strange twist of neurons, totally deranged! Instead of assembling the usual tidy "hyperdocument" of "print scans," "vidfiles," and background data, the AI spews forth a horrific mass of jargon, ephemera, and frustratingly tiny fragments of useful information. It seems to have found the right crypt, but exhumed the wrong corpse."

-Darick Chamberlin

So begins one of the first encounters with a work that defies description. If Blur has a first novel this may be it.

"START :
START SOLOPRINT 'E-CODE' FUGITIVE AUTOSCHEMATIC OF X-STATION PROTONOVEL OUTLINING "C" : [RECRUIT NUMANGA COPYCAT SKIM SACCADES : ACOLLIDE I.D.C. AUTOSCHEMA VIA ELEVENTH HOUR REBEL IONS : IGNITE OVERCLEVER COPYCAT PHAROAH SCANS IN "CIGARETTE BOY" SEQUENCE CUTS VIA DYMOSAURICK RE-EXPLODERS] : INVESTIGATIONS IN PANGELIC GLASS CUTS PARTIALLY THROUGH THE 'ATOMEROTIC EYETALIER' : DEVELOPED AS PROPOSAL PROPERTY ALONG SKIM "C" TRAJECTORIES TO E65813 AND PROPOSED AS MOCK SOLOPRINT TO THE MACKERT CORPORATION : [FLAG AND FILE 'THE MACKERT CORPORATION'] : START : ADD 9O DOCUMENTS FROM THE UMBILICO CHESSBOARD ANTI-MACHINERY GRID : ADD ALL THREE ACOLLIDED 'LAVA' GRIDS : [DIAL-UP AND SCAN] : "

Challenge yourself to the material as written or try out the machine like podomatic audio version. An important and striking work that points towards new directions in the future of the written word and the manner in which we use and understand it.

Cigarette Boy Links

http://www.cigaretteboy.com/
http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/c-g.writing/cigarette.boy.txt
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/Media/cigaretteboy.htm
http://www.noisetank.com/cigaretteboy/

CIGARETTE BOY
"A Mock Machine Mock-Epic"

http://cigaretteboy.podomatic.com/