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"I fancy faintness is due to the atmosphere offered by Life Form A is inadequate-That this gentleman feels necessary to investigate the original `office air' story of Life Form A on location-A came up from the stairway-He had already counselor willing to handle `this horrible case' either outright or partially-You see it's only `here' fixes nature of absolute need-A question of food supply not alien planet-Form A direct claws intimidate and corrupt advocate into channels calculated to squeeze host Assistance back to our medium-"

Life Form A's room was on Ward Island-Crippled in such convenient Life Form B-Minraud an intricate door to cut off "oxygen" of life-Similar case operating through arrangements that could liquidate Life Form B by cutting off advocate from Minraud-

"Life Form A was totally alien," said the man who was an alien-

"Have what they call `emotion' due to the `oxygen.' "

"Was not the purpose supply Life Form A prior to intervention directing all movement?"

"Pleader a diving suit back to our medium-Scarcely answer him-Be destroyed by alien conditions-Ally detestable to us-For how could he keep Form A seen parasite?"

The best criminal counselor was similar case operating through metal-Impression followed to present interview-He got Sammy advocate from Minraud-Pulled in and replaced history of Life Form A on location-

Clearly this is a difficult case to defend particularly considering avowed intention of the accused to use the counselor as a diving suit back to their medium where counselor would be destroyed by alien conditions-There is however one phrase in the brief on which a defense can be constructed-"They sometimes mutate to breathe here"-That is if a successful mutation of Life Form A can be called in as witness- Clearly the whole defense must be based on possibility of mutation and the less said about "absolute biologic need" to maintain a detrimental parasitic existence at the total expense of Form B the better chance of a compromise verdict suspended pending mutation proceedings-

Two Tape Recorder Mutations

"I fancy," said the man, "this gentleman feels totally stupid and greedy Venus Power-Tentacles write out message from stairway of slime-"

"That's us-Strictly from `Sogginess Is Good For You'-Planning no bones but an elementary nervous system-Scarcely answer him-"

"The case simply at terminal bring down point-Desperate servants suddenly taken out of their hands-Insane orders and counter orders on the horizon-And I playing psychic chess determined the whole civilization and personal habits-"

"Iron claws of pain and pleasure with two speeds- with each recorder in body prison working our 'here' on extension leads-Even for an instant not in operation the host recorder saw the loudspeakers-Way is doomed in relatively soundproof `room'-Would shift door led to the array-Many recorders important for our oxygen lines-Each to use host connected to its respective recorder layout-For example with nine recorders determined the life form we invaded by three square-Each recorder marked for invasion recording — You see it's only `here' fixes nature of need set to run for as long as required-`Indignities' and `cruelties' are playing back while other record-Intimidate' and "corrupt ' speed and volume variation-Squeeze host back into system-Any number of tape recorders banked together for ease of operation switch in other places- Our mikes are laid out preferably in `fresh air'-That's us-Planning speaker and mike connected to host Scarcely answer him-Of course static and moving are possible-Very simplest array would be three lines- Two speeds can be playing especially when a `case' has four possible states-Fast manipulation suddenly taken out of slow playback-The actual advocate from biologic need in many ways-

"a-Simple hand switching advocate

"b-Random choice fixed interval biologic stairway- The whole thing is switched on either outright or partially-at any given time recorders fix nature of absolute need-Thus sound played back by any `cruelties' answer him either unchanged or subject to alien planet-

"c-Sequential choice i.e. flesh frozen to amino acid determines the next state according to" — That is a "book"-

Form A directs sound channels-Continuous operation in such convenient Life Form B-Final switching off of tape cuts "oxygen" Life Form B by cutting off machine will produce cut-up of human form determined by the switching chosen-Totally alien "music" need not survive in any "emotion" due to the "oxygen" rendered down to a form of music-Intervention directing all movement what will be the end product? — Reciprocation detestable to us for how could we become part of the array? — Could this metal impression follow to present language learning? — Talking and listening machine led in and replaced-

Life Form A as follows was an alien-The operator selects the most "oxygen" appropriate material continuous diving suit back to our medium-Ally information at the verbal level-Could he keep Form A seen parasitic? — Or could end be achieved by present interview? — Array treated as a whole replaced history of life? Word falling photo falling tapes being blank-Insane orders and counter orders of machine "music"-The Police Machine will produce a cut-up of it determined by the switching chosen-Could this alien mucus cough language learn? Accused was beyond altered sound formations-Alien Mucus Machine runs by feeding in overwhelming gravity- Code on Grey Veil parallel the spread of "dirty pictures"-Reverse instruction raises question how many convert in "dirty pictures " before London Space Stage-Tenuous simple repetition to one machine only-Coughing enemy pulled in whole could be used as a model for behavior — Screams laughter shouts raw material-Voice fading into advocate:

"Clearly the whole defense must be experiments with two tape recorder mutations."

“THE SUBLIMINAL KID” moved in and took over bars cafes and juke boxes of the world cities and installed radio transmitters and microphones in each bar so that the music and talk of any bar could be heard in all his bars and he had tape recorders in each bar that played and recorded at arbitrary intervals and his agents moved back and forth with portable tape recorders and brought back street sound and talk and music and poured it into his recorder array so he set waves and eddies and tornadoes of sound down all your streets and by the river of all language — Word dust drifted streets of broken music car horns and air hammers — The Word broken pounded twisted exploded in smoke-

Word Falling / / /

He set up screens on the walls of his bars opposite mirrors and took and projected at arbitrary intervals shifted from one bar to the other mixing Western Gangster films of all time and places with word and image of the people in the cafes and on the streets his agents with movie camera and telescope lens poured images of the city back into his projector and camera array and nobody knew whether he was in a Western movie in Hongkong or The Aztec Empire in Ancient Rome or Suburban America whether he was a bandit a commuter or a chariot driver whether he was firing a "real" gun or watching a gangster movie and the city moved in swirls and eddies and tornadoes of image explosive bio-advance out of space to neon-

Photo Falling / / /

"The Subliminal Kid" moved in seas of disembodied sound-He then spaced here and there and instaff opposite mirrors and took movies each bar so that the music and talk is at arbitrary intervals and shifted bars — And he also had recorder in tracks and moving film mixing arbitrary intervals and agents moving with the word and image of tape recorders-So he set up waves and his agents with movie swirled through all the streets of image and brought back street in music from the city and poured Aztec Empire and Ancient Rome-Commuter or Chariot Driver could not control their word dust drifted from outer space-Air hammers word and image explosive bio-advance — A million drifting screens on the walls of his city projected mixing sound of any bar could be heard in all Westerns and film of all times played and recorded at the people back and forth with portable cameras and telescope lenses poured eddies and tornadoes of sound and camera array until soon city where he moved everywhere a Western movie in Hongkong or the Aztec sound talk suburban America and all accents and language mixed and fused and people shifted language and accent in mid-sentence Aztec priest and spilled it man woman or beast in all language — So that People-City moved in swirls and no one knew what he was going out of space to neon streets–