The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine, Part VIII “Saturday: Alaia in hiding”
The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine, Part VIII
“Saturday: Alaia in hiding”
SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE and click the below titles 95-103, to view the Video-Book versions of mini-chapters 95-103, which constitute Part VIII of the novel.
Above is the Film “ANGEL 22”, which is embedded on the title page of Part VIII of The Imagination Thief’s ebook format. In it are coloured shadows for Part VIII as a whole, being one lens’s suggestion of Jaymi Peek tuning in to Angel Deon.
Click here to read a transcription of this Film “ANGEL 22”.
(This Film is also on Vimeo and YouTube and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).)
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Click the below titles 95-103, to view the Video-Book versions of mini-chapters 95-103
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95. “Spanish baboons and tiny creatures”—click here for Video-Book A rabbit in the moonlight beckons to the two of you and leads you to a lake upon whose surface little creatures caper (ponies, zebras, unicorns), flowing through the silken water; tiny bunnies slide down the slopes of the wavelets. A waterspout of tentacles is sprouting and shrinking at the centre of the lake, while white-eyed lungfish wheeze in the mud around the shore. |
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96. “An inferior decapitation gesture”—click here for Video-Book This strangest of books is bewitching you, I see, Kim, and making you resolve that you’ll answer it in writing yourself one day, across the decades and the languages: head to head, toe to toe and mouth to mouth, your own chants will meet these and dance with them, somewhere in an evil dawn of gold. |
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97. “Lucan and Angel on the big screen”—click here for Video-Book “This man commands, from a screen near you. See The Imagination Thief.” That scarlet script unfurls again, across the screen’s entire width, “THE IMAGINATION THIEF”. Your gaze returns, scouring the horizon, left to right above the camera lens—and freeze-frame. |
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98. “Porch-geese and Vietnam”—click here for Video-Book “So I ran, and heard it blow up close behind me with a burst of green smoke. Then the sun shone down pale green, through a green sky; dogs barked, birds screeched and body parts rained down. The sirens started wailing and the dogs wailed back at them, in time with the wailing of the newly mutilated—a sour flame of pain in a garden of evil.” |
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99. “Pippa a zombie through internal damage”—click here for Video-Book I recline on my bed, restless. My room is uncannily quiet. I close my eyes and shoot my sight out to hover over Pippa where she sits on her high-rise balcony, spotlit like a wax dummy, high in the night, with a golden angel ornament nestling on her lap, looking out with her dead glassy stare across town in exactly this direction. |
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100. “Evelyn’s dance, with minimal effect”—click here for Video-Book You project to them a picture of you stroking shut their eyes and then kissing them—you know their eyes deserve it, for your own are the same. If everybody else did this… Of course you don’t forget that their hands may stab you, while you’re stroking shut their eyes; so you’re ready all the time to dodge away or stab them back. |
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101. “Desire as disease in Angel Deon”—click here for Video-Book And here in the cellar, out of sight or sound of help, Lucan douses you with kerosene by candle-light, and clamps himself around you, a muscled insect incubus positioning its sting among the folds of inflammable, delirium-inducing, evaporated kerosene… |
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102. “Shigem’s unimprovable situation”—click here for Video-Book After a while you squirm around to face the other way, so the pair of you are curled up front-to-back. His hot strong arms come around your neck and shoulders; his legs entwine with yours, adjust and are still. And there you lie together, in an eloquent communication of absolute silence and stillness. |
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103. “Theft six, with ambiguous bowing and curtseying”—click here for Video-Book The freeze-frame animates, all of a sudden, as the thirteen in sequence make respectful bows or curtseys at me, each in their own way. Then some of them titter at me, slapping one another’s hands high and low, somewhat undermining their respectful obeisances … and so I drift to sleep. |
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The above Video-Book mini-chapters 95-103 of The Imagination Thief are also linked to from inside the novel’s ebook format. They are here too:
And in the Vimeo showcase “THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – Video-Book format – Rohan Quine”:
mini-chapters 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 and 103 of the video-book format of The Imagination Thief.
And in the YouTube playlist “THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – Video-Book format – Rohan Quine”:
mini-chapters 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 and 103 of the video-book format of The Imagination Thief. (If playback of any of these videos looks at all fuzzy on YouTube, then you can quickly and easily adjust the YouTube video-player’s playback “Quality” setting, by doing the following: (1) if you’re on a mobile device, first touch the video image, then touch the three-dots symbol that appears in the top-right corner of the player, touch “Quality” and choose “1080p” (or the highest other setting available on your device, e.g. “720p”); or (2) if you’re on a laptop/desktop device, click the cog symbol on the lower edge of the video-player, click “Quality” and choose “1080p” (or the highest other setting available on your device, e.g. “720p”).)
The 120 mini-chapter title-cards of The Imagination Thief‘s video-book format are also in the Google Photos album “Rohan Quine – THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – mini-chapter titles”.
The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine is about a web of secrets, triggered by the stealing and copying of people’s imaginations and memories. It’s about the magic that can be conjured up by images of people, in imagination or on film; the split between beauty and happiness in the world; and the allure of various kinds of power. A Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award 2021, it celebrates some of the most extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and language, exploring the darkest and brightest flavours of beauty living in our minds.
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