--- W A X W E B --- { 1:17 / 1:25:00 } --- { Writings : English } ---

Writings : English

	Cards laying flat and invisible in the darkness start to turn face up, shifting to auto-collect in proper puzzle-order as picture of a building facade and accompanying sign, which say- "ALAMOGORDO Abstract & Title Co.". Wandering from place, you sometimes have the habit of returning (maybe it isn't a habit, it is an accident of the hillslopes and water terrain of your satellite world) to places you've visited before, and even to someplace like home. When you do wander in from the endless prairie or desert, where ideas string together one after, to a place you know and have known, often a weighty feeling of sadness hits, as you realize that here, ownership is formal, and ideas are owned. Fill up the canteen and get out of town. But if you need it, they say that there's always a job waiting for you at the Abstract and Title Company. That's the way it is with Jacob, who'll spend most of the last days of his life wandering around on national, public land. Considering how things end up for him, it may not be much better than a job (with the government).

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Prologue:

--WAX or the discovery of television among the bees--

Everything starts with the title sequence, filled with many mysterious images which in establish a few of the many portals and places that Jacob Maker, partial hero of this long story, will travel through during the clicking moments that follow. After a broken montage of word-images, the title --WAX or the discovery of television among the bees-- appears in full, followed by a blackness that soon after is filled by a picture of the Alamogordo Abstract and Title Company. The putative narrator the film, that very Jacob, then appears eyes-only, staring out towards the desert and what lies beyond, or within, or above, etc. The combination of which possibilities again leads us to a darkness which allows the story to finally begin.