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ARTIFACT 1 - The Ephemeric Tales

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ARTIFACT 1

Bordertown School of Literary Archeology Post-grads Trist Web and Stasha Fortuna win New Author's Grant for 2042. Dr. Theodore Eft, Chairman of Contemporary Literature for the NAC; announced Doctoral Candidates in Literary Archeology, Trist Web and Stasha Fortuna, received full funding for a year for the research portion of their Doctoral Thesis, "The Ephemeric Tales of Peter Prospero & the Artifacts of Self. (An Illuminated Manuscript Out of Time.)"

Webb and Fortuna will trace the life and work of rising Outsider Artist Peter Prospero, as he 'Manifests art through psychic self-dislocation; a kind of magicking away of the soul.'

The Authors state: “Through examination of the artist's discarded ephemera we will perform excavations of time and persona - revealing the steeled mind of a Visionary at odds with his Universe."

They continued: "We have unearthed certain literary and artistic works of Mr. Prospero's, which had been secreted in geo-caches across the city. These will form the underpinnings of 'Story,’ which will be further amplified by Geo-drone HOLOcam surveillance, and secondary source interviews.”

KEY SEARCH: ‘Deconstructing the Schizophrenic Brain.’ ‘Drone Denouements.’ 'Euphemetrics.' ‘Found Object Phenomenology.’ ‘Mystics and Art.' 'Psychosis and Art.’ ‘Performance Art via Live Subject.’ ‘Secondary Sources and Story Fabrication.’ ‘Symbolics and the Outsider.' ‘The Fragmented Narrative Self.'
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(Just last night, I scrapped my previous novel (PSYCHOPOMP) after a handful of years and seventy thousand words. I couldn't make a go of it. Still, I loved the characters. I began to retrofit this burned-out sci-fi epic into something more intimate - a Metafiction better suited to my current predilections.)

SYNOPSIS.

This is a story homeless schizophrenic artist Peter Prospero, journeying through the doubled mirrors of hallucination and art. In an effort to perform the Mysterium Conjunctionis, Peter Prospero errs. He does not integrate his many selves through the ritual - ‘The Holy Marriage of Opposites,’ but rather factors himself in two. When a stranger emerges behind his eyes, it begs the question: What constitutes self when the self is a strange?

By the tender age of nine, Peter Prospero slides into spectral visions and madness. On the cusp of seventeen, while performing mirror magick in his room, he discovers the World of Viriconium exists, tantalizingly, on the other side of his reflection. As he stares into the receding, foreign lands - as they fall back and back - a young bravo in Peter's likeness strides to the mirror and smirks. He is called Proteus Circuit, a cutthroat dandy of the Afternoon Cultures, and he will cross over to a new world.

 LOGLINE: "His father made him so."

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it's Not too short, babe:aww: