Sixty stories in sixty lines
. Last night I threw together ten web pages that reproduce the first ten pages of my "Anti-Math" story-notation-system booklet: <URL:http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/ai/antimath.html> Here's a synopsis of those ten pages, as ascii one-liners (the 'translations' here are mostly simpler than those in the booklet/ webpages): ) bad person, bad feeling o neutral person * good person, good feeling )|*|)|* roller coaster _|o|)|* growth via suffering _|_|_|_ fill in the blanks _ consciousness without content ~_ the black goddess _|_ time _|~_ change ~_|_ changing back _|~_|_|~_ cycles _|o|_ brief existence o consciousness with content _|o|o|_ duration o|_ death _|o birth o|o|_|o gap ~o|oo mitosis ~o| ~o| ~o|o failure of will ~_|o ex nihilo creation ~_o_|oo the creation of eve ~_o|_ death by misadventure ~o|_ suicide oo|o_o|oo trip ~oo|o_o send away ~o_|oo summon ~oo|o_ murder ~o~o|__ double suicide _|o|* progress *o hero and fan o|*|o peak experience ~o|* Gatsby *|*|*|* winning streak o|o|*|_ Belushi *|*|*|o run down o|*|o|* easy living ~_oo|** magic! *o|o*|*o tennis o*|oo oops *o|*_~o too hot oo|o_~o|*_ benefits of being unpopular ) [dup] o) okay and not okay )|_ clears up _|)|o|_ clears up and then goes away o|)|o slips o|)|o|) running rough ~_o|) bad childhood ~o|) bad seed o)|)) contagious ))|o) recovered o)|~o_)|~)_ chase o)|)o|o) argument *) good and bad *|o) decay ))|** miracle *_|*)|oo entropy oo|o)|*) the game! -- I EDIT THE NET: <URL:http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/weblogs/weblog.html> "The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood." --Freeman Dyson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,61ce1122fc992871,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: jor...@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) Subject: Sixty stories in sixty lines Date: 1998/03/30 Message-ID: <1d6...@jorn.pr.mcs.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 339181702 X-Face: #0%K`N$`(&&tLbyv~^Ip59&CqKAo;?NXix@bv2a,uQX;y*zAek26=&iDOJou, 2<IZTq?NUI'[KE$^WzGnT"NAGbe_TN=N)?nG3%af}D(A^2umq3L`R57#i5y_2ZoM]wq_ 4o0(U_p!-iT!`I;Z>\2pLI"TKqjx.[BfZf#2<k\ypW"&(^^K25G!^"zlm? Organization: The Responsible Party (conservative left) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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