"I am the one transforming this world into words. You are the one transforming these words back into a world." - This begins the second season of In A Walled City. Written by Jon Bernstein, Narrated by Valerie Monique Evering. Music composed and performed by Jon Bernstein. - CW: This story contains food, fire, depression, drugs, love, loss, war, witchcraft, structural collapses at multiple scales, and loud noises. - Cover art uses VQGAN+CLIP created by Katherine Crowson, using input and additional modifications by Jon Bernstein, using "worn 80's paperback texture" created by Jeff Finley. - Transcript available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/euw2azkaac8cuhk/The%20Historian%20-%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
We like it when you hear our approach when you hear us on your road You quicken, you liquidize your memory hears us before your self begins to boil to foam and rise
The roads and bridges that we see in dreams are not metaphors, they are infrastructure.
May your body be generic and featureless. May your wiring be thoroughly gutted and pulled.
Do you remember the idea called fiction? We used to have this wall, this barrier, between what we thought was real, and what we decided was not
How much do you remember? Temple under the mountain Limetree in a shaft of light Gray robe on the edge of shadow Bare forearm dragging a branch along the floor The river of stones, the sound of their shells clicking together
In their holy shadows we climbed and staggered.