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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the idyll
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 22:06:31 -0400 (EDT)
the idyll http://www.alansondheim.org/theidyll.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/theidyll.mp4 they were there in the glade, i'm sure of it. the camera was scanning, looking for them. they were down by the shore. there was a kind of boat or a log boat. they were dressed for some kind of ceremony. i'm not sure what was going on. maybe it wasn't a ceremony, maybe they dressed like that all the time. it looked like a hierarchy, like an organized thing, but i might be wrong. i keep thinking about these things. i didn't know what the rules were, maybe there weren't any. maybe they were just fooling around, out on a lark. the glade was by the shore, what were they doing down by the shore? the camerawork is rough. i tried to clean it up. i did my best. whatever i did didn't help. maybe there was a malfunction. but i should have been able to improve things, at least increase the contrast, change levels, things like that. it was all blood-red, that's hard to work with. but i should have been able to do something. i couldn't do anything. so it seems even with the video, like a dream of some sort. i knew it happened, but the evidence isn't there on the tape. the camera was working perfectly. i kept using it. who were these people, what were they doing there? then i wonder if they were there all along, before we came, before anyone else came. maybe they're gone, maybe they're leaving pictures behind, dreams, warnings. i think they might be seductions, i'm sure of it. in any case, here's the evidence. i know i sound like i'm writing a first-year story here, but this is absolutely true. i can't help the truth of it. the video is garish but it doesn't like. they didn't seem to be there when we returned. maybe we went a different way. whatever it was, it moved on. i'm sure it moved on. i don't lie. i didn't understand the rules. where there any? misery! and the shore? what was it?