They are eating cheese with bread and saussage and drinking a nice Swiss white wine at the Café Potemkin, when an elderly man enters and there is nothing particularly odd about that, except that all the pidgeons who had been pecking for crumbs rise up in unison and soar off and the café is now birdless and the waiters come and are more obsiquious than usual and that is all there is: An old man and the fluttering of birds and the bowings of waiters and a sort of feudal curtsey that the maitre d’ makes as he presents the Carte de Vin. They keep an eye on the old man the whole meal. He doesn’t look like anything special and yet they keep looking.
Halintro Pyrobolia 1627, manuscript on fireworks.
Yahooing myself (the old internet onanism) I came upon a java animation some kid named Igor McSweeney made in a class being taught by Golan Levin. He had appropriated a bunch of drawings of mine from flickr and turned them into a really great simple animation. I reappropriated the image for this experiment by shooting it off my LCD screen with a dv camera and spoke while shooting with the Mac’s speakers open, creating an idiot’s echo chamber. So, here he is, the third charcter in the Romance Novel; OMegg: M. Tristan. For dessert they had chocolate. Click in the black title box to watch the original Java version by Mr. McSweeney.
