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Incredible forms of total survival emerged clashed exploded in altered pressure-Desperate flesh from short time artists-Transparent civilizations went out talking-

"Death, Johnny, come and took over."

Bradly and I supported by unusual mucus-Stale streets of yesterday precariously held-Paths of desperate position-Shifting reality-Total survival in altered pressure-Flesh sheets dissolving amid vast ruins of berserk machine-"SOS… — … Coughing enemy faces-"

"Orbit Sammy and the boys in Silent Space-Carbon dioxide work this machine-Terminal electric voice of C-All Ling door out of agitated-"

What precariously held government came over the air-Total fear in Hicksville-Secretary Of State For Far Eastern Hotel Affairs assassinated at outskirts of the hotel-Death Diplomats of Morse code supported in a cocktail lounge-

"Oxygen Law no cure for widespread blue cold." The Soviet Union said: "The very people who condemn altered pressure remain silent-"

Displacement into orbit processes-The Children's Fund has tenuous thin air of lost places-Sweet Home Movement to flood it with replicas-

So sitting with my hat on said: "I'm not going to do anything like that-"

Disgusting death by unusual mucus swept into orbit of cosmic vomit (Tenuous candlelight-Remember I was carbon dioxide)-Rousing rendition of shifting reality-John lost in about 5000 men and women-Everyone else is on The Grey Veil-Flesh frozen to particles called "Good Consciousness" irrevocably committed to the toilet-Colorless slides in Mexican people-Other feature of the code on Grey Veil-To be read so to speak naked-Have to do it in dirty pictures-Reverse instructions on car seat —

"Mindless idiot you have liquidated The Shadow Cabinet-"

Swept out tiny police in supersonic Morse code-Emergency Meeting at entrance to the avenue-

"Calling partisans of all nations-Cut word lines-Shift linguals-Vibrate tourists-Free doorways-Word falling-Photo falling-Break through in Grey Room-. -. -. -. -. —. —. -. —. -. —.. — . — . —. -. —. —. -."

Towers Open Fire

Concentrate Partisans-Take Towers in Spanish Villa-Hill 32-The Green Airborne poured into the garden-Lens googles stuttering light flak-Antennae guns stabbing strafing The Vampire Guards-They pushed the fading bodies aside and occupied The Towers-The Technician twirled control knobs-He drank a bicarbonate of soda and belched into his hand- Urp .

"God damned captain's a brown artist Uranus is right-What the fuck kind of a set is this-?? Not worth a fart-Where's the reverse switch? — Found it — Come in please- Urp Urp Urp. "

"Target Orgasm Ray Installations-Gothenberg Freelandt — Coordinates 8 2 7 6-Take Studio-Take Board Books-Take Death Dwarfs-"

Supersonic sex pictures flickered on the view screen-The pilots poised quivering electric dogs-Antennae light guns twisting searching feeling enemy nerve centers —

"Focus."

"Did it."

"Towers, open fire-"

Strafe-Pound-Blast-Tilt-Stab- Kill -Air Hammers on their Stone Books-Bleep Bleep Bleep- Death to The Nova Guard-Death to The Vampire Guards -

Pilot K9 blasted The Scorpion Guards and led Break Through in Grey Room-Place Of the Board Books And The Death Dwarfs-A vast grey warehouse of wire mesh cubicles-Tier on tier of larval dwarfs tube-fed in bottles-The Death Dwarfs Of Minraud-Operation Total Disposal-Foetal dwarfs stirred slowly in green fluid fed through a tube in the navel-Bodies compacted layer on layer of transparent sheets on which was written The Message Of Total Disposal when the host egg cracks-Death Dwarfs waiting transfer to The Human Host-Written on The Soft Typewriter from The Stone Tablets of Minraud-

"Break Through in Grey Room-Death Dwarfs taken-Board Books taken-"

"Proceed to Sex Device and Blue Movie Studio-Behind Book Shop-Canal Five at Spiegel Bridge-"

"Advancing on Studio-Electric storms-Can't quite get through-"

“Pilot K9, you are hit — back — down”

The medics turned drum music full blast through his head phones — “Apomorphine on the double” — Frequency scalpel sewing wounds with wire photo polka dots from The Image Bank — In three minutes K9 was back in combat driving pounding into a wall of black insect flak — The Enemy Installation went up in a searing white blast — Area of combat extended through the vast suburban concentration camps of England and America — Screaming Vampire Guards caught in stabbing stuttering light blast-

“Partisans of all nations, open fire — tilt — blast — pound — stab — strafe — kill —”

“Pilot K9, you are cut off — back. Back. Back before the whole fucking shit house goes up — Return to base immediately — Ride music beam back to base — Stay out of that time flak — All pilots ride Pan pipes back to base—”

The Technician mixed a bicarbonate of soda surveying the havoc on his view screen — It was impossible to estimate the damage — Anything put out up till now is like pulling a figure out of the air — Installations shattered — Personnel decimated — Board Books destroyed — Electric waves of resistance sweeping through mind screens of the earth — The message of Total Resistance on short wave of the world — This is war to extermination — Shift linguals — Cut word lines — Vibrate tourists — Free doorways — Photo falling — Word falling — Break through in grey room — Calling Partisans of all nations — Towers, open fire —”

They do not have what they call "emotion's oxygen" in the atmosphere. The medium in which animal life breathes is not in that soulless place — Yellow plains under white hot blue sky — Metal cities controlled by The Elders who are heads in bottles — Fastest brains preserved forever — Only form of immortality open to the Insect People of Minraud — An intricate bureaucracy wired to the control brains directs all movement through telepathic misdirection and camouflage — The partisans make recordings ahead in time and leave the recordings to be picked up by control stations while they are free for a few seconds to organize underground activities — Largely the underground is made up of adventurers who intend to outthink and displace the history of Minraud — Purges are constant — Fallen heads destroyed in The Ovens and replaced with others faster and sharper to evolve more total weapons — The principal weapon of Minraud is of course heat — In the centre of all their cities stand The Ovens where those who disobey the control brains are brought for total disposal — A conical structure of iridescent metal shimmering heat from the molten core of a planet where lead melts at noon — The Brass And Copper Streets surround The Over — Here the tinkers and smiths work pounding out metal rhythms as prisoners and criminals are led to Disposals — The Oven Guards are red crustacean men with eyes like the white hot sky — Through contact with oven paid and captured enemies they sometimes mutate to Beth in emotions — They often help prisoners to space and a few have escaped with the prisoners –

(When K9 entered the apartment he felt the suffocation of Minraud crushing his chest stopping his thoughts — He turned on reserve ate dinner and carried conversation — When he left the host walked out with him down the streets of Minraud past the ovens empty and cold now — calm dry mind of the guide beside him came to the corner of 14th and Third –

"I must go now," said the guide — "Otherwise it will be too far to go alone."

He smiled and held out his hand fading in the alien air —)

K9 was brought to the ovens by red guards in white and gold robe of office through the Brass and Copper Street under pounding metal hammers — The oven head drying up life source as white hot metal lattice closed around him –