The New Millennium

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"a futuristic environmental digital web novel"

" ...free for you to enjoy, but not print"

"We do not entomb state of the art environmentalism with toxic ink on the tortured bodies of murdered trees."

from Gary Lee Duncan

Smart Shelter Network

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 (copyright- 10 August, 2005- all right reserved- do not print)

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(Title & Dialogue)

(Originated: 10 august, 2005)

(Revised: 13 December, 2007)

 

"The New Millennium" is a literary form novel, experimental and developing with the advent of web published digital technology. It is not only a new physical literary form (digital rather than paper and ink), but also a new process and a new literary medium...a novel which will forever evolve and change (as do our lives) .... and a message or perception of ourselves and the future which lies ahead of us, but written as history...a perspective from the other side of time....

It creates literature completely free of paper (a now obsolete and archaic communication medium and an environmental disaster. Paper pulp is the world's single largest consumer of trees and its manufacture is a chemical nightmare for our communities, forests, rivers and streams (ever been downstream from a paper mill???).

More poignantly...." we do not entomb state of the art environmental literature to the medium of toxic ink disgracing the tortured bodies of murdered trees". We need the trees standing, not drawing dust on your library shelf. Man is smarter than that (or should be ...at least some of them). The trees think so too.

Digital word processing has spring boarded us into a literary dimension infinitely closer and more complimentary to the true and varied functions of the human psyche. It is dimensionless, as are our perceptions and thoughts. It is myriad, as are the unfettered aspects of our imaginations. It is capable of multidimensional spontaneous image suspension...which is the hallmark of the fertile mind. It races instantly ( at 186,000 miles per second) from subject to subject, opening them like a can opener-equipped lunatic in a tuna fish factory and leaving them there...aromatic and susceptible to return and sample. Because of its speed, it transcends dimension and time, well into behavior predicted by Einstein and the Theory of Relativity. Its advent modernizes literature into the age of modern physics ....leaving only western medicine pathetically behind in this human advancement. Art, like science, will either grow or perish.

Here is a novel which will never be finished...what else in the universe ever is?

Here is a work which will evolve infinitely into the future and display for your enjoyment (if it works) all the rich nuptials of the next great fantasy. A published paperback stops its fertility at the printer's guillotine and there remains frozen in time...kind of like putting your genitals in the deep freeze.

Any imaginative artist will pick up a reference, a magazine, a newspaper and browse, sample, start and then go back and read forward, put it away for tomorrow or the next millennium. This literary structure used to web publish The New Millennium lends itself, (hopefully beautifully) to that aspect of human perception by providing a potpourri of vignettes any one of which (or in myriad) can be opened and tasted...in any order or whim desired....perused to whatever depth desired and then left to rot or explode at your volition. It has no linear structure (other than that intertwined into the text conceptually or spun from the webs or your own imagination). Neither do our spirits...which is hopefully what art speaks to anyway...not our minds (the mind is just the spirit's ears and answering machines ...unless,of course, you're using a cell phone, in which case yours and everyone's around you is well on its way to extinction ...which we support ...we need the population reduction).

The New Millennium is free, as are air, water, sex, dreams, sensual pleasure, inspirations and dandelions...the basic needed substances of our existence. This is the maneuver of a seasoned writer smart enough finally to get paid before they publish, not take the hopeless crap shoot and pray for delayed rewards later or the tyranny of rejection letters. The economics are done before the muse is unleashed.

So, enjoy...click on any link you find colored and underlined or open any file and another chapter of our inevitable and beautiful future will unfold and welcome you in....allowing you to do the impossible : which is to look back from the future and see why and how we are today.

When you move, the New Millennium won't have to be boxed, carried, labeled or lifted. However, it will be right where you left it when you arrive in Argentina...easily found when all else is lost.

Join the rest of us if you too are a writer in entering the truly superior literary form of the web published digital work. Don't kill any more of our trees. Leave our future alive along with your spirit and mind. Trees don't make bad friends, either.

The printed word is a dead one. Print this work and you will too...try it and see.

Following are the texts published from the New Millennium ...click them as links to open:

 

The Citadels ...overpopulation finally ran its gamut, growth exacted its toll and greed pruned a disaster leaving us in balance and safely sheltered in new eras and trappings... sometimes gazing out on the chemical/ industrial wastelands of a thankfully bygone age.

Duncan Connery and the Living Glass ...technology which has allowed us a stunningly beautiful existence today began with the rediscovery that literally everything is alive and the smartest thing we could do is to use that.

The History_of_the_Aeolani ...who are they, where did they come from and why are they with us today???

Lost With the Aeolani ...what we know about them is often born only on the stories of often shaky sources and even then subject to the ravages of recounting and time...except for the ones that stay disconcertingly consistent.

The Aeolani and Their Taste for Rocks ...if you're bored and in the mood for a little mystery, clear some vines back from outcrops in your local quarry.

The Aeolani and The Big Cats ...these creatures are mystery enough...but their taste in pets.....

Which Trees Are Dancing?...from year 681 of the New Millennium a discovery embedded in the stone archways of an ancient sanctuary accessible only to the mind of a child... at heart, we will always be the same.

Resolving the Essential Nature of Spirit...near the end of the New Millenium, exerpts from the work of Quie-ahnn Toiat / Do Doc-do, Spritual Adversary to the Council of Moloki on their origins of metaphysical existence.

For Those Who Thought to Own the Land...an explantion of the perenial question..."how did all the changes of the New Millenium take place...how did such a sane way of living with Ghia arise out of such debacle and debauchery. Here's the answer.