Dunno if y'all will like this, or if it will even remain up, but a bit of a DISCLAIMER; The first chapter is more akin to a prologue than an actual part of a story, but it is required for the story to make sense, as the story needs a lot of world building and explanation for everything to work out, and unless y'all wanna be confused for the next three chapters, then I suggest you read, unless you aren't interested of course. Oh yeah, it was so long that I needed to post the first chapter in multiple parts, so get comfy, and prepare to read almost forty pages in total.
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Chapter One - Part One
Extremely Lengthy Exposition
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He didn’t know how to describe it.
A sort of lucid state in which he was only partially aware of who and what he was? Maybe. A condition of some sort of brain death, it being a result of gazing upon an entity far too complex for the human mind to ever even dream of conceiving? Perhaps. Or maybe it was a sign. A sign from whatever gods or higher beings that were our forefathers, our creators. The very things that created the universe, and all others as we know it. Perhaps it was a sign from Them, of his ascension, his final evolution into a being so superior, that to others, he could be considered a god himself. Yes, that was right. He could feel it, the power. Not in a way of touching something with a hand, but in a more metaphysical way, one far better than the crude grasping tools that humanity has had to work with for far too long.
It was so close, the innate understanding that was intrinsically tied into the human genome from eons ago, the inheritance he was meant to receive, what he DESERVED to receive, was right there. All he had to do was reach out, and touch it. He did just that, his mental probes extending outwards towards it, to claim what was rightfully his. He closed his fingers around it, and-
“Jacob, wake up. The doctor is trying to say something to you.”
Or it could just all be a construct of his dying brain, one that was futilely trying to sort the things that he was experiencing into something that could be translated and read.
“Jacob?” His mother repeated, with a more stern note entering her voice.
“Oh uh, sorry. What were you trying to say?” Jacob leaned forward, clasping his hands together, placing his elbows on his knees and leaning on his arms.
“I was asking you how you’ve been feeling recently, as it does pertain to the conversation I am having with your parents.” The doctor smiled patiently, expertly hiding most of his probable frustration behind a veneer of placidity.
“Relatively well, though I have been having a good amount of headaches, considerably more than usual.” Jacob responded, plastering a nonchalant expression onto his face.
“And what about that little . . . episode you had a moment ago?” The doctor questioned, leaning forward expectantly.
“Oh yeah, that. I guess I just kinda zoned out there for a second, you know?” Jacob replied casually.
“Zoned out for over half an hour?” The doctor tilted his head.
“Yep.” Jacob wasn’t going to fall for the bait.
“Hmm.” The doctor leaned back. “Well, I'm fairly sure that ‘zoning out’ for over half an hour with absolutely no idea what's going on in the outside world isn’t exactly normal behavior typical for a boy of your age, Jacob. Did you perchance have any sort of feeling that you can’t explain, or something similar to an out of body experience? It could even just be similar to lucid dreaming.” The doctor appears to be very insistent, Jacob, why don’t you take care of him? You could be out of state within a day or tw-
“Well when you put it like that, sure.” Jacob decided that he would indeed play the doctor’s game.
“Hmm. Well Mrs. Pattine, you heard it from him. When we did our testing last week, we noticed extremely irregular brain patterns that would normally indicate extreme stress upon the brain. However, Jacob here seemed perfectly fine, aside from a rather annoying headache.”
“Now, I’m fairly sure that anybody could deduce that that type of behavior from the brain isn’t good at all. In fact, the tumor that we had diagnosed Jacob the same week, being practically the size of a peanut, has now doubled in size. In fact, the growth appears to be scaling upwards in terms of the growth rate. What was doubling in size per week, will quickly grow to quadrupling, and then quintupling. Soon, Jacob will have to undergo intense chemotherapy.”
Jacob’s mother did not seem placated, like what the doctor was trying to do, but in fact appalled.
“Why are you saying all this in front of him!? He’s just a child for damn sake!” Jacob's mother clutched Jacob tighter, much to his both amusement and frustration after she refused to let go.
“I’m sorry Mrs. Pattine, but all parties involved here have to know what’s at stake here, including young Jacob here.” The doctor, to his credit, did seem genuinely remorseful, yet not really backtracking enough to make an effective apology, more like creating a plausible justification for his actions.
Jacob didn’t really care either way. Well, he did care that he was probably going to die and was thankful that the doctor had decided to be blunt, but not caring about his mother’s rather extreme outburst in his supposed defense.
That had been the case as of late, not really caring about his loved ones. Well, he DID care, at least he thought he did, but why did they always have to be just, so, well, like that all the time? Jacob was rather exasperated from the whole ordeal, and plus, the doctor was talking again.
“-however, we have a solution to this problem of Jacob’s.” The doctor reached out to the briefcase on the table to his right, opening it. He then extracted what appeared to be a syringe filled with clear liquid.
“This is a prototype we, us being ANTI, have been working on for a long time. You might have learned what this is from various pop culture and media sources, but if you don’t, I’ll explain what it is now.” Without giving anybody in the room time to protest, he continued on.
“This is a syringe full of nanobots. Yes, honest-to-god, genuine nanobots. We’ve been working on these for a good amount of time, since around 2000, yet no significant headway had been made towards making a nanobot serum cost-effective enough to employ in more, liberal, uses.”
“However, when Russia annexed Crimea back in 2014, Congress decided that a viable threat was rising, and revived the program with a stimulant called cold hard cash. When another budget increase came with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it didn’t exactly hinder us, and a year later, we came up with the first effective prototype of nanotechnological biological cellular regeneration to date. And now, we're gonna give it to Jacob.”
Mrs. Pattine didn’t appear to care about all of the war stuff or fancy political words, only really catching onto the words of, “give it to Jacob” and responded accordingly.
“I don’t believe it. What's the catch?” Mrs. Pattine glared suspiciously at the doctor.
“No catch, just the requirement that we are given full liberty to experiment on the tumor in Jacob’s head, within legal bounds.” The doctor appears to be trying to brush over that fact, but Mrs. Pattine also catches onto the important bits.
“You want to experiment on my son!? That sounds like a pretty big catch to me!” Mrs. Pattine screeches in protest.
“It’ll be within full humane laws, nothing illegal, I promise you. In fact, we’ll give you even more incentive.” The doctor pauses, seemingly for dramatic effect.
“So, out with it!” Mrs. Pattine seems to be quite stressed, and most likely wants nothing more than to just go home already.
“We will give you a sum of thirty million dollars, with no tax put on it.” The doctor says plainly.
Mrs. Pattine doesn’t react for a moment, seemingly processing what she just heard.
“Th-th-thirty million dollars!?” Mrs. Pattine splutters in disbelief. “You can’t be serious!”
The doctor chuckles. “Oh but I am. We’ll place it directly into your bank account, as liquid assets would likely be hard to manage for you. It’ll even be covered by insurance.”
Mrs. Pattine clearly is still suspicious. “This is too good to be true.”
“I can assure you, Mrs. Pattine, it is not.”
She looks unsure as to whether or not to take the deal, and looks at Jacob.
“Go ahead.” Jacob shrugs, hoping to maybe NOT die.
Mrs. Pattine then gets up. “I need to go over this with my family.”
They accepted the deal.
* * *
Three days later, Jacob was inside a chamber packed with men and women in lab coats, all of them seeming to be doing something important. The room was about twenty feet in diameter and in height, circular, with a large ten-foot-high blast door being the only intentional access point that could be used to enter the chamber. A large secure industrial vent was inset into the ceiling, also covered with a steel mesh to prevent something from getting in, or perhaps out. In the center of it all was a large contraption, with many pipes, hoses, and wires protruding from various access ports around the machine. It all seemed a bit too militaristic for a minor cryo experiment, but what did he know?
On the front of the machine in the center of the room was a thick plastic cover that exposed the interior, the interior being a cavity about eight feet tall and two feet wide. It appeared to have been designed to allow a human to rest upright inside the machine, and rest comfortably to boot, utilizing a foam mold to mimic a bed. In fact, the little foam mold appears to be fitted to Jacob’s exact dimensions. Jacob, being the ever-curious fellow, inquired as to what the strange doohickey.
“So uh, what am I looking at here?” Jacob gestured to the machine in the center of the room.
“This is, for all intents and purposes, a cryo pod. It can effectively freeze a human being, preserving them for extended periods of time, without them growing or aging at all.” The doctor, who appeared to be in charge of this whole ordeal, answered him.
“And you’re putting me in there?” Jacob asked.
“Yes. We are hoping to learn more about that little tumor-that-isn’t-a-tumor in your head, as it's something that we haven’t ever seen before. Since the tumor is progressing at an alarmingly fast pace, and since we don’t want you to die, we will be placing you in this for a single year, on the dot. The freeze will stop the progression of the tumor, and the nanobots will keep you in top shape even if something goes wrong with the pod, and they will even combat the tumor, so you aren’t in any danger.” The doctor replied.
“Huh. And you’re gonna find some sort of miracle cure for the tumor while I’m on ice?” Jacob asked, wanting to get all of the essential information.
“Yes.” The doctor didn’t elaborate this time.
“Uh, cool. So we’re starting now? I was wondering why I was in this weird looking wetsuit thingy.” Jacob pulled at his sleeves, the tightness of them a little uncomfortable.
“Yes. Once the specs have been fully calibrated, we can place you in the pod, and you can say goodnight.” The doctor nodded to himself. “Yes, it should only be ten more minutes.”
* * *
Fifteen minutes later, a bit over schedule, everything was set up. Jacob was standing in front of the cryo pod, talking to one of the doctors.
“So I just step inside, right?” Jacob inquired.
“Correct you are. We’ll strap you up, run diagnostics, and then see you in t- a year.” The lady, Dr. Sophia Vasel by her nametag, appeared to have stopped herself from saying something was either a simple misspoken word, or something she wasn’t supposed to say. It didn’t really matter to Jacob, since you could just kill her, now and be done with it. It would be so easy, to ju-
“Alright, nice.” Jacob stepped up inside, a little stepladder conveniently set into the machine. He turned around and shifted a little, trying to get comfortable. Dr. Vasel and one other doctor began strapping him in, hooking little electrodes and wires up to him to do all sorts of technical mumbo jumbo. After a minute of attaching devices to him and making sure everything was in order, they began to run diagnostics to make sure everything electronic was working. After an agonizingly long ten minutes of affirming and reaffirming, the first doctor that he had met with walked up to the plastic clear door with a microphone in his hand.
“Can you hear me Jacob?” The doctor asked.
“Yeh.” Jacob replied lamely
“Uhm, OK, it seems like everything is alright on our side, so without further ado, I think we’ll be seeing you in a year.” The doctor nodded to his colleagues next to him, and they started to press buttons on the console. A loud alarm started blaring, and a hissing noise spread throughout the pod. Devices began to inject what was probably some sort of powerful anesthetic, considering he began feeling extremely drowsy a moment later.
The last thing he saw before he fell asleep was the plastic cover being coated in frost.
* * *
Three weeks after that, a government official of the program that had taken Jacob Pattine in for treatment and experimentation contacted the Pattine family to offer their condolences, as they had to inform them that due to a malfunction in the systems of the nanobots, Jacob Pattine had unfortunately died in testing, and that they hoped this won’t sour relations between them.
However, it did sour relations between them, as the subsequent lawsuit against them proved all too well. It had even progressed to a Supreme Court case called Pattine v Army Nanotechnological Initiative, which ended up with a seventy-two million dollar payment towards the Pattines, and a ruling that outlawed any and all with the use and/or experimentation on humans with nanotechnology, as it was deemed too dangerous to use on humans. A deep-dive into the records of the ANTI yielded many discoveries, the most notable of them being the many deaths of humans in the testing trials of the nanobots. This also led to the dissolution of the ANTI, and shaped the future of nanotechnology for years to come.
However, using nanobots for the use on humans didn’t stop there. In fact, some would say it thrived, just in a different way than imagined. Like many other creations that were found to be too radical or immoral for the majority of the populace, the CIA was the one to collect the scraps, and make it their own. By using their own funding to revive the unofficially named Nano-Cryo project, they resumed research, employing many of the original members of the infamous project, with the doctor being put back in charge of the currently unnamed project.
That left only Jacob to deal with. Luckily for him, Jacob wasn’t so disposable as some might believe, as certain conditions on his being made his potential quite desirable to some shadowy heads of certain organizations. This led to the CIA creating a cover story about the unfortunate death of the boy, which would allow them to both obtain the asset, and snip off the loose thread that was ANTI, killing two birds with one stone. They continued testing within CIA Black Site-046, which was located within the city known as New Jersey, which would later influence the name of the secretive project.
One more alteration would be made to the test. As Jacob had now been cut off from the outside world and was presumed dead, the CIA had no worry about public retribution, allowing them to extend his period in the cryo pod from one year to ten. At the end of the ten years, Jacob would be woken up from stasis, and testing would be enacted, with various procedures analyzing how his physiology had reacted to the tumor and the extended stay in cryostasis. The nanobots were there to ensure that Jacob didn’t die from the tumor, but also to make sure he didn’t die from the long periods of time spent sleeping. After twenty-four hours had passed, Jacob would be placed back within the cryo pod, and be woken up again when another ten years had passed, with this cycle repeating for the foreseeable future.
In the development of the cryostasis model, one thing had persisted throughout the trials. When the testers had been subjected to extended periods of time within stasis, once unfrozen, the brain would refuse to reactivate. No matter what measures were taken, the brain would simply not resume biological function, and the subject would be effectively dead. The leading theory on this was that the brain had been “dead” for so long, that it simply couldn’t remember that it was alive. This is the same reason why cavemen, even if perfectly preserved in ice, couldn’t be simply revived with a shock paddle or some adrenaline.
So, the nanobots were there to stimulate and keep the brain semi-active during time spent sleeping, keeping the brain alive through the barest of actions, making it more akin to sleep instead of simply dying and then being revived with a perfectly preserved body and brain. However, this led to the tumor being slightly active as well, so it would still progress while within stasis, albeit at an incredibly glacial pace. This would likely cause problems in the future, but a solution is bound to come up at some point.
Right?
* * *
Invariably.
What an interesting word
And a nice one at that. It really just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? A word that most people probably can’t even recall the meaning of, yet is seen so commonly in works that are often above the skill of your average eighth grader. It means for something to happen a lot, or always. For instance, you could say, “Oh, whenever I go to my friend's house, the meals his mother makes are invariably burnt.” or something along those lines.
Jacob couldn’t apply that word to his situation.
That would imply that he had been doing or experiencing something for long enough that he could use that word as a hyperbole. However, he hadn’t. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Imagine blinking your eyes. Now try to recall how long the moment between opening your eyes and the light reaching your eyes was. Now that's a more accurate comparison.
Right when Jacob closed his eyes, he had been hearing a hissing sound, expecting sleep to take him. Then a slight, rather odd blip in his awareness caused him to lose his bearings for a moment, but quickly regained them. The hissing continued, and became rather annoying after a bit, considering the nasty headache he currently had. Did he have that before he entered the pod? He wasn’t sure, but he was having a hard time remembering his last moments before he entered the machine, which was odd, as that was just a moment ago. Oh, now the hissing noise is stopping, so Jacob guessed that the doctors realized there was a problem, and were now spooling down the machine to take him out before something disastrous happened.
The hissing noise stopped, and the sound of pistons groaning filled the small cavity instead, along with a notable difference in the positioning of the cryo pod door, specifically moving upward. Ah, now the door is opening, fantastic. Jacob hoped that he could just get this damn experiment underway, without any more delays.
Goddamn the door is slow. At least he could see somewhat outside, as the door had opened up enough to let him see the feet of two people standing outside his little home. Actually, scratch that, three people standing outside, as the door had opened more up to let him see a third person standing behind the pair that were closest to him. He blinked several times to clear the fog from his eyesight, his eyeballs feeling pretty cold, as if he had spent a little in pure winter weather with his eyes open, letting them freeze a bit. Matter of fact, as feeling returned to his body, he felt cold all over. Not so cold that it was painful, but more of a cool uncomfortableness.
Speaking of feeling returning to his body, he felt a rather unpleasant prickling sensation throughout himself, like his entire body had fallen asleep, or if he had just returned from the cold after a long stay in the frigid winter air. He flexed his fingers, or at least tried to. His fingers were encased in a hard plastic glove, molded to fit his hand. It was the same story with the rest of his body, many straps fastened tight enough to restrict his movement, but not enough to restrict his blood flow. He tried to see more than the feet of the unknown people in front of him, as the door was open about halfway now, but the fog, or maybe steam, wafting up from his pod was masking everything else.
Oh yeah, the hissing was back too.
After another eternity of the door just slowly opening, the long-awaited event finally arrived. The door clanked to a stop, now resting somewhere on top of the cryo pod. The hissing noise also came to a stop, seeming to have been the cause of the fog as well, considering how it began to clear up with the end of the abhorrent hissing sound. The fog cleared up fully, allowing him to see a rather strange sight.
Three people in full hazmat suits were standing in front of him, one of the two in front holding an odd device that looked vaguely like a heart monitor. The one with the heart monitor stepped up to him, uttering a single word.
“Please hold still.”
Jacob naturally held still as the person wrapped a sensor on his wrist, then one on his neck. The man then pressed a few buttons on his little machine, and then watched some sort of readout on the screen that Jacob couldn’t make out from his angle. The man stayed like that for about half a minute before taking off the little sensors from his wrist and neck, and then put the device down on some sort of table that Jacob also couldn’t see due to his angle, before nodding to the man beside him.
The pair moved into action, unstrapping and unclamping him in various areas around his body, unrestricting his movement. Jacob didn’t move yet though, as once the pair were done taking off the various inhibitors, the third man in the back stepped up, as if he wanted to speak. The unnamed man grabbed the bottom of his visor, where a small lip was present. The man then used that lip to pull up the plastic covering his face, or at least the layer that was preventing Jacob from seeing his face. The man pulled it up, revealing the doctor, who’s name he still didn’t know. However, something was off about him, though Jacob couldn’t put his finger on it.
“Long time no see Jacob.” The doctor smiles disarmingly, which makes Jacob beg the question of why he would need to be disarmed.
“What do you mean, ‘Long time’? It hasn’t even been half an hour.” Jacob frowns, tilting his head questioningly, though Jacob is pretty sure he already knows the answer to his own question.
The doctor’s smile wavers, and his eyes turn downcast, avoiding Jacob’s.
“Well, ah, you see Jacob, it HAS been a long time. I imagine you just didn’t notice, due to no little input on our part.”
Suddenly, Jacob realized what was off about the doctor. When he had seen him last, the doctor had a look about him that made him seem like he could be in his early thirties or late twenties, with a little margin for error, of course.
However, The doctor now looked like he had aged around a decade, sporting a few new wrinkles that definitely weren’t there before. Instead of being a man just entering his more mature ages, he looked more like a man entering a higher, more responsible position in your standard American technical corporation. To put it shortly, he looked like he was in his forties.
“So you're saying that it's been a year already, and I was just too out of it to notice?” The doctor winced, and opened up his mouth to speak, but Jacob continued talking.
“However, I have noticed that while you said I was supposed to be in here for a year, the actual reality is different. Unless you somehow had a growth spurt, or decided that looking older was a new fashion trend, it's odd that you seem to have aged a decade in what was supposed to be a year of stasis.” Jacob tilted his head, focusing a stare on the doctor. “Tell me, doctor, how long was I out?”
The pair in front of him, having been listening this whole time, looked back at the doctor expectantly. The doctor shook his head, and attempted a smile, though the result looked more like a pained grimace. The doctor then looked up at Jacob, giving him a strange look.
“Noticed that, did you? Well, I suppose you do deserve an explanation. Let's talk about this in a more, comfortable, area.”
* * *
Jacob fixed the doctor with another bland stare for the fifteenth time in four minutes.
“So you’re telling me, that the damn CIA kidnapped me, your government organization was dissolved, and now I’m officially dead to the outside world? Not to mention I was asleep for not a year, but a decade?” Jacob said all of this with a tone that might have implied disbelief and anger.
“Well, when you put it like that, it sounds, well, exactly like what happened I suppose, but I wouldn’t put it, well, any sort of other way, so yes.” The doctor, contrary to the facade he was still bravely trying to put up, didn’t appear too comfortable with telling Jacob all of this. After all, who would want to tell an innocent, carefree, bright-eyed young boy, that his family thought him dead, and that he was asleep for a decade as well.
Jacob leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms and breathed out the air he had been holding in.
“Huh.” Jacob didn’t elaborate.
“I’m sure that this might be very alarming to you, but remember that this wasn’t in our control. I’m very sorry for your loss, but just know that we do have therapists and other people that you can talk to on hand, just let us know.” The doctor didn’t seem very proud of this series of unfortunate events happening to the aforementioned carefree child.
“Well, as long as they aren’t dead yet, I’ll be fine.” Jacob shrugs.
The doctor blinks in surprise.
“I- what? Are you sure? Your mental health is very important, and despite what our higher ups at the CIA might say, you are also important as a person.” The doctor had an increasingly worried expression on his face.
“Nah, I think I’m pretty good for now.” Jacob remained seemingly uncaring for his current status as perceived dead by his family, or for his mental health. “So, what happens to me now? I’m assuming I’m not getting executed for lack of further usefulness, or else you wouldn’t be offering me therapists, and I’m not exactly going back out into society, as that would be a rather awkward situation for the CIA. So, that leaves only one more avenue of action.” Jacob leaned forward. “I’m going back in the machine, aren’t I?”
“. . . yes.” The doctor seemed put off by Jacob’s lengthy statement.
Jacob leaned back and nodded, satisfied by his answer. “I have just one question then.”
The doctor cocked an eyebrow.
“Why am I so important? Plenty of people have brain tumors, and yet you guys aren’t kidnapping those people, right? So, what makes this one special?” Jacob tapped the side of his head.
The doctor cleared his throat, seemingly more comfortable to be conversing over a topic more familiar to him, like neuroscience.
“I can do that. Follow me.”
* * *
The doctor led Jacob to a room with only one other person inside, that person being an assistant. The lights were off, the only source of illumination being a projector shining on a blank whiteboard, the image being an x-ray of what looked like a brain.
“Well, as I’ve said before, that so-called tumor in your head isn’t exactly behaving like a tumor normally would. In the beginning, when it first appeared, it looked like any old brain tumor, forming in your cerebral cortex. It grew a bit abnormally, but nothing too out of the ordinary.” The doctor pointed at a small marble sized mass that was present inside the aforementioned section of the brain on the projection. “However, that's when things took a turn for the stranger.” The doctor motioned for the assistant to switch to the next slide, which he did.
The diagram now showed the same image as before, which Jacob now knew to be his brain, with the sole difference being that the mass had now enlarged, seemingly spreading what looked like feelers or tentacles outwards, the longest one stretching towards a middle section of the brain.
“After this happened, we were notified through plants, and we took over your medical case, observing the growth of your tumor.” The slide switched again, now showing a larger tumor. It had grown even more feelers, now numbering at five, and the longest one was now in the middle of the brain.
“The tumor had spread itself out, and the longest appendage of it had now entered what we call the anterior insular cortex, or, “ The doctor looked at Jacob. “the empathy center.”
Jacob stared back at the doctor, not showing any outward form of reaction. The doctor looked back towards the projection, clearing his throat.
“Ahem, anyway. As you can probably guess, this was highly irregular behavior from what was supposed to be a simple tumor. And what we realized next was even more shocking.” The assistant clicked to the next slide, this one showing . . . nothing.
Actually, it did show something, Jacob just didn’t notice at first. The tumor was now not a simple mass, but instead had somehow become, fainter, he supposed. It didn’t have any clear separation from his brain, instead, only sections could be made out from the former tumor. It seemed like it had merged with his brain, which wasn’t exactly comforting to Jacob.
“The tumor now couldn’t be described as a simple tumor. We had to deduce that it had somehow become part of your brain, as we couldn’t find any clear definition of where the tumor began and where it ended. We could still technically see the tumor, though it was like it had faded its edges in with your brain, merging with it.” The assistant shut off the projector, and turned the lights back on.
The doctor turned back towards Jacob, with what looked to be a sympathetic expression on his face.
“Now I hope you understand why we want to know what the hell this thing is. If this was some sort of parasite, and if it could spread . . “ The doctor let Jacob figure out the rest on his own.
“Huh, yeah. I wouldn’t really want the world to turn into a reenactment of a certain hit TV adaptation of a certain hit zombie game.” Jacob nodded. “So, how are you gonna go about solving, “ Jacob gestured haphazardly to his head. “This?”
“We . . . aren’t sure yet.” The doctor grimaced. “However, it has only been, well, it's been quite awhile, but we learned a lot from the first go around. We are hoping to gain more data from the next decade, with some new technologies to be used.”
Jacob nodded his head, looking around. “So do I just go back in now?”
“No, actually. The planned procedure is to keep you awake for a minimum of twelve hours, with us taking several tests to determine if any changes have been made to your mental or intellectual state. And also, you are going to have to visit some therapists, that's non-optional.” The doctor replied.
Jacob only grunted in response to that last statement.
* * *
Jacob is running on a treadmill, with several devices measuring his various functions.
“Just let us know when you’re getting tired.” The man, Dr. Markus Vasquez by his nametag, repeated for the fifth time.
“And that would be right around now, actually.” Jacob stopped running when Dr. Vasquez pressed the off button.
“Hmm, alright. You’re operating at standard rates for a boy of your age.” Dr. Vasquez writes down notes on his clipboard, probably about him. Or maybe some sort of weird fan fiction about some US president, you never know.
Dr. Vasquez motioned for Jacob to follow him, which Jacob does.
“And that should conclude your physical testing regimen for today.” Dr. Vasquez leads Jacob into a square room about six feet wide, with a couch, a chair, two tables, a bookshelf, and a TV on the wall opposite from the couch.
Then, another doctor walks into the room, holding a clipboard and a sheet of papers. Dr. Vasquez and the new doctor share a few silent words, ones that Jacob can’t make out, before Dr. Vasquez walks out of the room. The new doctor, a Dr. Sophia Vasel by her nametag, sits down on the chair next to the couch.
“Hey again Jacob. I’m here to-” Dr. Vasel begins, but Jacob cuts her off.
“Oh wait, aren’t you one of the people who strapped me in that pod a decade ago?” Jacob tilts his head questioningly.
Dr. Vasel blinks. “Erm, yes. Anyway, I’m just here to give you a couple tests, alright? Just standard procedure.” Dr. Vasel flips through her clipboard. “Here is the first one.”
Jacob started again. “No signing any forms or asking for consent or anything?”
Dr. Vasel hid her apparent frustration admirably. “Uh, no. Our policy doesn’t require us to do that. Anyway, if we could get on with the test?” Dr. Vasel pulled out a pen. “Just some questions for the first one.”
* * *
Jacob was a bit bored.
Actually, that was an understatement. He was VERY bored. There, a much more apt statement.
After a large amount of rigorous testing, physical, mental, biological, the whole shebang, they had basically left him in the small room and told him to entertain himself for the remaining eight hours, twenty-seven minutes, and five seconds. After that, he would be going back into cryosleep. They gave him access to a good amount of literature from his time, as well as giving him a rather generous library of online media, also from his time. However, they had severely underestimated his preferences, as the majority of the online material consisted of children for the age of ten, and all the good books he had already read several times over.
So yes, he was quite bored. So bored, in fact, that even pacing around and thinking couldn’t sate his hunger for entertainment, as the intense migraine he had prevented him from running any sort of complicated scenario that could even mildly entertain him. So, he was forced to turn to his old friend.
History.
A decade ought to have yielded a good amount of entertaining historical fruit, especially when you consider the rather hot pot that was world politics at the time of the beginning of his short nap. So, he had requested a book that recapped everything important that had happened in the last ten years. And how interesting it was.
Standing out the most in terms of the global stage, the American intervention in the Russo-Ukrainian war, pushing the Russians not just out of Ukraine, but also reclaiming Crimea for the Ukrainians as well. This had happened due to Russia repeatedly threatening to use nuclear weapons in the war, and so America finally had to intervene, managing to push them out of Ukraine in just two and a half months. And it seems Russia was bluffing, as no nukes were ever launched.
However, war wasn’t the only highlight of the last decade, as a miniature space race actually occurred not between the East and the West, but SpaceX and NASA were both racing for the clout and money that being the first to have a human land on Mars would be. It ended up with a SpaceX victory, and not a small amount of a budget increase.
Nanotechnology had also progressed, yet not as much as other avenues, as it's mostly been used for small-scale construction supposedly. Congress was being quite strict on the Supreme Court’s ruling. However, some small advancements had been made in the effectiveness and build of a standard nanobot, making them considerably cheaper and easier to make. However, the availability of nanobots was mostly limited to either private firms or large corporations willing to invest in the product.
As entertaining as history was, it wasn’t enough to sustain him for more than an hour, so he resigned himself to sitting, standing, pacing, and occasionally watching kids cartoons for the rest of his time. He wasn’t going to ask for his benefactors to obtain some new content for him to watch, not because they couldn’t, no, they likely could do anything, but because his pride would be too injured if he did. Yes, a truly brilliant mind we have here.
* * *
“This feels familiar.” Jacob mused, his words certainly pertaining to the scenario that he was currently in.
Dr. Vasel and another doctor were strapping him in, securing his hands and feet in molded plastic to restrict movement, and straps to secure his arms and legs. This time, a little hat with a dozen blinking electrodes was added to his menagerie of devices. They had also given him a fresh edition of nanobots, these ones supposedly more efficient by two percent. Yes, such a great increase. However, they also fed off the energy his own body produced, so that theoretically gave them an infinite life, as long as he was alive.
The doctors finished up strapping him into the machine, giving him a final once over to make sure nothing bad happens again. They stepped back, and began to run diagnostics on their computers to make sure everything electronic was in order as well.
Jacob sighed. He had a feeling that this set of actions would become an agonizingly long procedure.
After a very long fifteen minutes, the unnamed doctor, who had come down during the diagnostics, nodded to an assistant, and he began pressing buttons. The machine clicked and hissed, and the door came down, blissfully quicker this time. After just thirty seconds, the door sealed shut, and Jacob saw the doctor through the plastic. The doctor walked out of sight, as the foggy plastic couldn’t see that far, though the doctor clearly went somewhere where he could talk to Jacob, as he heard the doctor’s voice over what sounded like an intercom inside the pod.
“You can hear me, right Jacob?” The doctor asked.
“Uh, yep.” Jacob replied.
“Very good. As there isn’t anything else we have to do on our end, we’ll be sending you off right about now. Any questions before you’re frozen?” The doctor inquired.
“None that I can recall.” Jacob said.
“Then we’ll see you again in ten years.” The doctor said.
The intercom shut off with a crackle, and the hissing noise came back, probably meaning he was gonna fall asleep any time now. He wondered what the world would look like in another decade, bu-
Oh wait, he did have a question. What WAS the doctor’s nam-
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Part Two is gonna come, maybe in a day. I've already finished it, but the first part will serve to as a way to observe this communities reactions to this little thing, and see if I should post another. I expect about ten to twenty chapters, with hopefully not all of them being as long as this one, so yeah, hope y'all like this.

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PODCAST: https://ayearofwarandpeace.podbean.com/e/ep1514-hail-and-farewell-george-moore-ave-chapter-81/
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Today's Reading, via Project Gutenberg:

VIII

We take tickets for a cycle, a Ring, and as many Parsifals as we have appetite for, and when the last performance is over the railway-station is crowded; no longer with the Bohemianism of London and Paris, but with the snobbery (I use the word in its French sense) of both capitals. The trolleys are piled with aristocratic luggage, and the porters are followed by anxious valets; ladies in long, fashionable dust-cloaks are beset by maids with jewel-cases in their hands. Among this titled crowd one can still pick out the student (the professional musician still goes to Bayreuth) and those who really love music, and who go to Bayreuth for the art of the Master—like our friends, the politician and his wife and daughter.
Between the acts of the Götterdämmerung we had heard arrangements being made to be present at other music festivals. It seemed that a considerable part of the audience was going to Munich to hear Mozart. For the last day or two everybody seemed to be muttering Cosi fan Tutti, an opera never given in England. On a former occasion Edward and I had gone to Munich, but we had not heard it; and I would have preferred to follow Mozart, but we were going in a different direction, in quest of other music—northward, a long and tedious journey. For Edward had decided that the revival of drama which the success of The Heather Field had started in Ireland must be accompanied by a revival of all the arts—painting, sculpture, and music. For landscape and portrait-painting he thought he could rely on Dermod O'Brien, who had decided to come to Ireland. A number of chapels had been spoilt by German stained glass, but Miss Purser had promised to engage a man whose father had been intimately connected with the Pre-Raphaelite movement in England, and under her direction ecclesiastical art would flourish again in Ireland. John Hughes would revive Donatello and Edward Palestrina. He told me that Archbishop Walsh had been approached, and that he thought he would be able to persuade him to accept a donation of ten thousand pounds to establish a choir in the cathedral upon the strict understanding, of course, that the choir was only to sing Vittoria, Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, Francesca de Près, and the other writers, bearing equally picturesque names, who had, if I may borrow a phrase from Evelyn Innes, gravitated round the great Roman composer.
It seemed to me that the analogy he drew between the Italian Renaissance and the Irish was a false one. The Italians had imported nothing, but had re-created all the arts simultaneously. This view was, however, not acceptable, and in the return journey between Nuremberg and Mainz, Edward pointed out that the Italian Renaissance was not as original as it seemed at first sight. It was indebted largely to antiquity, and its flavour was due to the spirit of the Middle Ages which still lingered in the sixteenth century, and in support of this theory he affirmed that Palestrina had used plain-chant melodies in all his Masses.
Turning them into pattern music, I interjected. If you want religion in music, let your choir sing only plain chant.
Edward feared that the congregation would deem that monotonous, and I said, If concessions are going to be made—, and the conversation dropped, for we were going to a festival of pattern music far away in the North of Germany, to a town called Münster, whither, I venture to say, very few have ever wandered, though it is well known by name, on account of Meyerbeer's opera Le Prophète. We all know the prayer that the prophet sings at the end of the third act before he enters the town, and the great beauty of the fourth act—the cathedral scene in which John of Leyden refuses to recognise his mother. A great act! It was not the fashion of those times to write fifth acts, and Meyerbeer finished his opera with a couple of songs of no great merit, and the blowing up of the town by John of Leyden, who perishes amid the ruins.
But in history he perished quite differently. After a few weeks of revelry Münster was taken by assault, and John of Leyden and his companions were put into iron cages, in which they could neither stand, nor sit, nor lie, and in them they remained on exhibition, hung up some thirty feet above the pavement on the principal street, for three days, before they were torn to pieces with red-hot hooks, by order of the good Bishop. These cages still hang in the principal street, regarded, no doubt, as objects of great historical interest. That they are, no one will contest, yet one cannot help feeling that they would be better out of sight in a museum, for they certainly inspire hatred of the Roman Church in the heart of every passer-by, and it is hardly going too far to say that to these cages, and to the memories which they evoke, is owing the preservation of all the original aspects of the town, so grey and austere, without a sign anywhere of life, of modern thought or aspiration, without a picture-gallery, without a painter, without a writer, a fitting town, indeed, for a festival of archaic music.
Edward had written to his conductor, the man to whom the revival of Palestrina was to be entrusted, to come over and when we were not in the cathedral—which was not often—we used to spend the time wandering about the grey, calico-coloured streets, Edward admiring the fifteenth-century roofs, of which there are a great many, and the arcades; the conductor and myself thinking how the minutes were bringing us nearer another concert. He was a man of quiet and neutral intelligence, and it would have been pleasant to go away for a walk in the country with him. He would have liked to escape from the patter of this archaic music which he already foresaw it was his fate to teach and conduct till the end of his days. But to slip away between a Gloria and a Credo (my suggestion to him) would have offended his burly task-master and perhaps have lost him his job. He dared not even show for one instant that the music bored him, and I hardly dared either, and resisted Edward with difficulty at the door of the cathedral. The choice lay between a motet by Josquin des Près and The Tale of a Town. The third act needed revision, and I not infrequently took the manuscript away with me and forgot it in the pleasant shade of the avenue that encircles the town; and sometimes I took the manuscript with me to the Zoological Gardens, beguiled there by the finest lion ever known, that is to say, the finest ever seen or imagined by me—an extraordinary, silent and monumental beast that used to lie, his paw tucked in front of him, a gazing-stock for me and a group of children. We moved on subdued by his wonderful presence, majestic, magnificent, forlorn, ashamed before his great, brown, melancholy eyes, full of dreams of the desert of long ago, perhaps of the very day when an Arab held him, a whelp, well above the high, red-pommelled saddle, and the dam was speared and shot by other Arabs in the mêlée that happened amid some loose rocks and brushwood.
The blue sky of Münster, and the dust of Münster, and the silence and the loneliness of Munster, often made me think I should like to enter his cage. It was such a splendid one!—built out into the garden, a little park with two tree-trunks and some rocks, a dome-shaped cage in which the great beast could trot or climb, if he were so disposed, but I never saw him except sunning himself in front of his bars. He seemed as lonely as myself, and I often imagined us twain, side by side, The Tale of a Town in my left hand, while with the right I combed his great, brown mane for him. Which would he resent—the reading or the combing? Speculation on this point amused me, and urged me towards the risk, and perhaps might have induced me to undertake it, if I had not met a fox in the circular avenue. The red, bushy animal came there on a chain, and when his master sat on the other end of the bench on which I was sitting, the fox often hopped up between us, treating me with the politeness due to a visitor, a politeness which was requited next by a cutlet. On cutlets our friendship throve until the end of the week, and had I known German it might have become permanent. The fox seemed quite willing, for though well behaved with his master, his affection for me was so spontaneous that I think it would have lasted. The peasant, too, might have been persuaded to sell his fox, and if he refused a sovereign it would be because he did not know its value, or because he would not include the chain. As this point could not be settled without some knowledge of German, I strove to explain to him by signs that he was to remain where he was, until I brought back somebody who could sprechen Deutsch. There was no hope of a passer-by who could speak English—there were no passers-by; the whole population of Munster was in the cathedral. It had been going there all the morning, headed by Edward and his conductor, to hear several Masses by Palestrina, and they had started off again in the afternoon to listen to Orlando di Lasso. Edward had pressed me to accompany them, saying that the opportunity might not occur again to hear a work by that great Fleming; but one concert a day of contrapuntal music was enough for me, and I had pleaded my duty regarding a possible reconstruction of the third act, which I was anxious to submit to him in the evening.
He is in the cathedral, listening, I said, and tired by now of Orlando di Lasso; he will be glad of an excuse to get away.

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It's me!
These are my notes for my video on Blood Meridian. Will also upload reviews of Chapters 11 and 23 specifically, as requested by a few people. Enjoy!
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blood meridian notes
This lecture is founded specifically on the work of Dr. Michael Lynn Crews, assistant professor at Regent University in Virginia. In a 2014 paper he plumbed the Wittliff Collection at Alkek Library in San Marcos, Texas, where McCarthy has provided all of his notes, drafts, and correspondences. He essentially made a list of influences and explored evidential links. We’ll be looking at some of the most prominent today, but the link to the study itself is in the description if you would like to look into it more. All of the authors are very pertinent to McCarthy’s work, and he is an insanely well-read person, but I chose these three in particular because they are, as far as I can see, most relevant to the narrative itself. We will be looking at Oswald Spengler, Herman Melville, and Lord Byron - but there is no reason to stop at these. I strongly encourage you to look through all of Dr. Crews’ study in order to get a bigger picture of the work.
Now, this discussion will primarily be designed to help early understanding of the book. Byron and Melville constitute kind of a spinal role in this book while Spengler has thematic presence in the book’s events. Other authors feature just as heavily and centrally, but the three I’ve chosen bear the signature of the book pretty well: will to power, the concept of nature, the human heart. The will to power is obviously a hegelian and Nietzschean concept, which we will touch on, but we will do it by looking at Spengler, who was directly influenced by the predecessor. This will be about a one-hour video just to be square - so that it’s long enough to listen to but not too long to turn off too early.
Introduce McCarthy and Blood Meridian
Today, we’re actually going to start with Byron. This is the easiest road into Blood Meridian in particular for a very specific reason. Crews notes a 1981 letter in which McCarthy MENTIONS Byron - “which is not surprising.” Lord Byron is one of the most famous writers in the English language and McCarthy frequents classic literary avenues. Crews quotes McCarthy as writing:
“I don’t know if I agree about writers being the only dependable readers. I remember reading once the names of the writers Byron admired – none of whom anyone has heard of since.”
We will be returning to this quote again. For now, we know that McCarthy knows who Byron is. Crews notes the similarities between Byron’s anti-hero and many of McCarthy’s protagonists - not least of which is the protag of Blood Meridian, The Kid. But as we move through the first paragraph of the book, the poet’s influence on McCarthy will become very clear.
Byron traveled a lot and made an incredible impression on culture in his day. His poetry is authoritative, full-bodied and existential. Among his most famous works is Stanzas to the Po. Byron was in Italy at the time, near the end of his life: he was in love with a married woman named Teresa Gamba Ghiselli. His infatuation was so intense that it would follow him to his grave. Ghiselli was brilliant, sociable, and in many ways a celebrity in Venice. When she became gravely ill in 1819 Byron was ready to end his own life. They eloped in 1821 and grew bored, then Byron left for Greece, where he would die a few years later. Stanzas to the Po was composed in 1819, when he confronted the river Po itself as a kind of counsel, and felt affirmed in his romantic ambitions. This is the 11th verse:
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• stanzas to the po:

A stranger loves the Lady of the land;
Born far beyond the mountains, but his blood
Is all meridian, as if never fanned
By the black wind that chills the polar flood.
Byron was a man controlled by his extraordinary vision of the world, controlled by passion and a slave to beauty in every sense. It is this obsession with what is beautiful that will feature centrally in Blood Meridian - but the beauty itself will be a fact of the will, and perhaps not a remark about the world itself.
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• Valery, on the Ya Lu
• “For you, intelligence is not one thing among many. Every day it devours everything. It would like to put an end to a new state of society every morning. A man intoxicated on it believes his own thoughts are legal decisions or facts themselves born of the crowd and time. He confuses his quick changes of heart with the imperceptible variation of real forms and enduring beings.
• “This is the law by which the intelligence despises law, and you encourage its violence! You are in love with Intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were Irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
• The Chinese man in Valery’s short story seems to be suggesting that Western ideals improperly conflate our whims with law itself. To him, war and blood are mere facts of life, a matter of business. But somehow he harangues the visitor, a European, for his fear of blood and his obsession with revolution, a kind of improper mode of thinking. Of course, Valery himself was a European, and so the story is really a Westerner haranguing the West as weak-willed, incapable of discerning things that are old hat to other more ancient civilizations. This would invite the reader to reconsider their squeamishness and be on the alert for entities that might lead us astray by taking hold of our naivete.

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• Jacob Boehme, 1575-1624, Lutheran theologian and mystic
• Boehme was influential among the enlightenment-era philosophers like Goethe and Hegel, helping to inspire movements like German idealism and romanticism
• Boehme was sometimes seen as heretical in his lifetime, and his genius was not recognized until the very end of his life. He was actually what we’d call “working class” but still had command of theological rhetoric.
• Interestingly, Boehme believed that Adam & Eve’s expulsion from paradise was necessary in the formation of the world. This was not a popular view at the time, but it illustrates his singular voice, and it’s an element to understanding Blood Meridian.
• Six Theosophic Points

Discusses the nature of darkness and evil. He quotes Christ as saying, in John 8:44, “The devil is a liar and murderer from the beginning.” He describes “all forms” as being adverse to one another, each of them a figure of deception. He says darkness is “terrified” of light, even though the light seems to exist within each dark form. A dark form is a shapeshifter, can take on many forms. Point 11 reads:
“The dark life is like a terror, where the flash and terror is always mounting upwards, as if it would quit the life and fly out above it. And hence arises pride, so that the devil is always wishing to be above God; it is his proprium, his life’s figure is so, and he cannot do otherwise. Just as a poison rages and pierces, as if it would break loose from the member;”
Then, the translation I found had slightly more breadth than McCarthy’s edition:
“And yet it is not to be thought that the life of darkness therefore sinks down into misery, that it would forget itself as if it were sorrowful. there is no sorrowing; but what with us on earth is sorrowing according to this property, is in the darkness power and joy according to the property of the darkness. For sorrowfulness is a thing that is swallowed up in death. But death and dying is the life of the darkness, just as anguish is the life of the poison. The greater the anguish becomes in the poison, the stronger becomes the poison-life, as is to be seen in the external poison.”
proprium:
ˈprōprēəm. plural propria. -ēə : property, attribute.
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• yuma daily sun article:

Actually refers to the Bodo cranium, which is a fossil from an extinct hominin. It was found in 1976 and is actually 600,000 years old, not 300,000. Further reinforces McCarthy’s point, that this kind of “evil” or lust for violence predates civilization by a dizzying margin.
SOURCE: member, “Glass” on cormac mccarthy forums
03 Jan 2015 at 6:10 pm
[First page]
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• first page, go line by line

Comment on Wordsworth poem:
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• wordsworth my heart leaps up:

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
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• “blacks in the field”
• People marginalized and conquered by the machinery of history. Early reference to Spengler.
• He is shot after leading a brief stint as a pugilist, and when he recovers McCarthy includes this narrative monologue:
• “Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”
• The Kid is disconnected both from his origins and from his destiny. Both are currently indeterminate. He continues to harbor a lust for “mindless violence.” What we see here is a free or otherwise unvexed soul. He could do anything at this point, but he maintains the will to determine his own fate.
• [The Judge will be a kind of antagonist in this way: he wants to control others and enlist them in his war against creation. The Kid will be freed from physical slavery by the Judge, but will be forced to conform to his habit as a scalper and murderer and deceiver. The Kid will resist determination and slavery by digressing from the Judge’s precepts. It is clear from the event soon after this section that the Judge has powers of manipulation. The Kid will only follow the scalpers because they freed him from literal bondage; his heart cannot be molded like other people’s; he will act in his own interests alone, which infuriates the Judge.]
• But to continue along:
• “The passengers are a diffident lot. They cage their eyes and no man asks another what it is that brings him here. He sleeps on the deck, a pilgrim among others. He watches the dim shore rise and fall. Gray seabirds gawking. Flights of the pelicans coastwise above the gray swells.”
• Frequent allusion to animal-like imagery. The Kid seems intent on distinguishing himself from others, and when he’s a pugilist he is happy to distance himself from others. He will refuse to be defined or restrained by others, and is liberated in his destruction of unfamiliar things.
• The animal imagery shows how the natural world is set in very rigid motions and patterns. Animals are like machines, devices that respond to and operate within nature. People who are slave to reason or patterns of thought are “dumb animals,” as will be later described by the Kid. Death and violence are both a liberation from this enslaved, sundered moral existence and an affirmation of the killer. Those who do not embrace violence, who remain ambivalent, are prey to those who believe. We will also see that religion is a poor refuge from this matter.
• Ultimately, the Kid is able to serve as the narrative keyhole AND as the protagonist because he seems to be one of the only people left with powers of observation. So many characters in this book, or even the animals, seem so set in their ways and blind to the world that you rarely feel bad when they die. One of the true horrors in this book is the loss of consciousness, even if the world is almost too horrifying to continue looking at. What we fear more than anything else is weakness, which would betray the truth, that we are struggling to master the waves, so to speak. That “strength” of spirit will actually be replaced by brutality, which is a mark of weakness. Only the Kid seems to realize that his peers are actually weak, rather than strong in this sense. And only a few people even seem to have a preserved will. The Will is possibly the largest set piece in this book.

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• We come to Nacogdoches, where the Kid joins a revival tent hosted by a preacher who has apparently been at it for “two weeks,” so long before the protag arrives. Reverend Green is warning that Christ will walk beside you no matter what, so he asks if the crowd would allow Christ to follow them down into “hellhole yonder,” or into temptation and sin.
• At that moment the Kid is approached by someone described as a “teamster” who suddenly enters the tent and asks him, “You ever see such a place for rain?”
• The Kid says that he only just got there, and the man says “Well it beats all I ever seen.”
• We are entering into a scene of sorrow. Something tragic is about to happen, but we will judge people’s behavior in this situation.
• Another man enters who is towering and bald, and he will later be revealed as The Judge, a central character in the novel. The Judge walks to the front of the congregation and announces confidently that the Reverend is a fraud and has been charged with having “congress” with an eleven-year-old girl and a goat. The crowd is incensed and descends upon the reverend as people swear on his life and gunshots erupt. The Kid and the teamster escape before the whole tent collapses and they meet at the bar, where the bald man buys everyone a drink, described as the judge for the first time. The Judge admits that he completely made all of it up and had never even heard of the Reverend before he arrived. Everyone laughs, despite the fact that he had just suborned murder.
• The fact that everyone hesitates before they laugh is absolutely crucial to this novel. They wait a moment to reflect on what had just happened. Remember that it is pouring rain, almost like an enjoinder to sorrow, and the crowd murdered the reverend, and those who rose to the occasion of violence are absolutely guilty. But they just laugh. They find the whole thing funny, probably because they do not want to take responsibility for themselves. They don’t want to admit to the sorrow just perpetrated. They would rather focus on the judge, almost as a sanctuary from their own culpability. Those who follow the Judge’s words, who commit atrocity, think vicariously through the Judge and become enslaved by him. By forcing culpability into their hearts, they rescind their individuality and become automatons to his will. The secret sauce in this process is intelligence and the spoken word, which is weaponized to seize men’s souls.
• The Judge has already matched Boehme’s description of “the darkness.” Darkness is a state hostile to light, in which nothing “sorrowful” is actually such, but is a kind of rapture. This scene occurred while it was raining heavily, as if to emphasize everyone’s indifference to the sorrowfulness of the event.
• The kid is there for “sixteen days” drinking his money away. He gets in a fight and is seemingly saved by Toadvine, who brings him along to brutally murder a man in a hotel, which leads to them razing the structure. As the kid is leaving town on a mule he sees men standing around the burning saloon with “empty buckets,” as if nothing can stop such an inferno, and the judge regards him as he leaves town, smiling at the Kid.
• What we have witnessed in the first chapter of Blood Meridian is a complete sacrifice of our moral precepts in exchange for our enjoinder to exact reckoning. The Judge’s falsehood lampooned the congregation’s credulousness and sense of moral obligation. The destruction of the Reverend was, in fact, a total affirmation of the Will, callous to truth or moral uprightness or mediation. In a world governed purely by unleashed will, things tend to burn down.

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• Michael Crews, Oswald Spengler on page 186

Judge: “our mother the earth . . . was round like an egg and contained all good things within her” (McCarthy 130).
FAUST:
A figure in German folklore championed by Goethe’s representation. Faust was a learned person who sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in exchange for all knowledge. Something being “Faustian” means that one exchanges their moral or ethical stature for material or intellectual gain. The devil was represented by Mephistopheles, who appears as a black dog.
WILL TO POWER:
Schopenhauer first coined the idea of “will to live” to describe biological motivations. Interestingly, Schopenhauer held that the Will itself is the most important, even more than our sense of safety or our. very concept of existence, because the Will somehow exists without acknowledgement of either.
From his “Psychological Observations”:
“The will to live, which forms the inmost core of every living being, exhibits itself most conspicuously in the higher order of animals, that is, the cleverer ones; and so in them the nature of the will may be seen and examined most clearly. For in the lower orders its activity is not so evident; it has a lower degree of objectivation; whereas, in the class which stands above the higher order of animals, that is, in men, reason enters in; and with reason comes discretion, and with discretion, the capacity of dissimulation, which throws a veil over the operations of the will. And in mankind, consequently, the will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions.
“And this is the reason why passion, when it speaks, always wins credence, no matter what the passion may be; and rightly so. For the same reason the passions are the main theme of poets and the stalking horse of actors. The conspicuousness of the will in the lower order of animals explains the delight we take in dogs, apes, cats, etc.; it is the entirely naive way in which they express themselves that gives us so much pleasure.
“The sight of any free animal going about its business undisturbed, seeking its food, or looking after its young, or mixing in the company of its kind, all the time being exactly what it ought to be and can be,—what a strange pleasure it gives us! Even if it is only a bird, I can watch it for a long time with delight; or a water rat or a hedgehog; or better still, a weasel, a deer, or a stag. The main reason why we take so much pleasure in looking at animals is that we like to see our own nature in such a simplified form. There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. Every other is true and sincere, and makes no attempt to conceal what it is, expressing its feelings just as they are.”
Nietzsche, looking back on philosophers from the first half of the 19th century, took this idea and formed it into “Machtgelüst,” or “desire for power.”
From “Human, All too Human”:
“Herder.—Herder fails to be all that he made people think he was and himself wished to think he was. He was no great thinker or discoverer, no newly fertile soil with the unexhausted strength of a virgin forest. But he possessed in the highest degree the power of scenting the future, he saw and picked the first-fruits of the seasons earlier than all others, and they then believed that he had made them grow. Between darkness and light, youth and age, his mind was like a hunter on the watch, looking everywhere for transitions, depressions, convulsions, the outward and visible signs of internal growth. The unrest of spring drove him to and fro, but he was himself not the spring.”
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• Nietzsche furthers discussion in The Gay Science, under item 13:
• “On the doctrine of the feeling of power. - Benefiting and hurting others are ways of exercising one's power over them - that is all one wants in such cases! We hurt those to whom we need to make our power perceptible, for pain is a much more sensitive means to that end than pleasure: pain always asks for the cause, while pleasure is inclined to stop with itself and not look back. We benefit and show benevolence toward those who already depend on us in some way (that is, who are used to thinking of us as their causes); we want to increase their power because we thus increase our own, or we want to show them the advantage of being in our power - that way, they will be more satisfied with their situation and more hostile towards and willing to fight against the enemies of our power.”
• He concludes by saying, “Compassion is the most agreeable feeling for those who have little pride and no prospect of great conquests; for them, easy prey - and that is what those who suffer are - is something enchanting. Compassion is praised as the virtue of prostitutes.”
• But the concept of Will to Power came into fuller form in Thus Spoke Zarathrustra, a book about a hermit (Zarathrustra) sequestered for a century who comes out to learn that God has died. He travels to a nearby town and finds people witnessing a spectacle, telling them that in the absence of God they must allow for an “overman” or “übermensch” to claim this position. They scorn him for his views. He states that people must be willing to die in order to allow this übermensch to succeed. Eventually, there’s an accident, and a man on a tight rope falls to his death. Only the hermit has any concern for the dead, hiding his body in the woods and vowing to never mix with the crowds again.
• Later, the hermit has a vision in which he conceives of the Wille zur Macht, or will to power. It is an elusive concept, but he illustrates it through examples:
• “The ignorant, to be sure, the people—they are like a river on which a boat floateth along: and in the boat sit the estimates of value, solemn and disguised.”
• The river reminds me directly of Byron, who is essentially addressing the Po as a stage for his passions.
• In TSZ, rather than trying to fit the “Will” into a mechanistic scheme of biological motivations, he simply asserts that the will to power transcends all other motivations, even the will to survive. It is even permissible for the weak to support the strong in their place:
• “That to the stronger the weaker shall serve—thereto persuadeth he his will who would be master over a still weaker one. That delight alone he is unwilling to forego.
• “And as the lesser surrendereth himself to the greater that he may have delight and power over the least of all, so doth even the greatest surrender himself, and staketh—life, for the sake of power.”
• It even transcends the concept of good and evil, and here we see an idea later paraphrased by the Judge:
• “Verily, I say unto you: good and evil which would be everlasting—it doth not exist! Of its own accord must it ever surpass itself anew.
• With your values and formulae of good and evil, ye exercise power, ye valuing ones: and that is your secret love, and the sparkling, trembling, and overflowing of your souls.
• But a stronger power groweth out of your values, and a new surpassing: by it breaketh egg and egg-shell.
• And he who hath to be a creator in good and evil—verily, he hath first to be a destroyer, and break values in pieces.”

Oswald Spengler, 1880-1936, was a German philosopher and scholar. He wrote “The Decline of the West” in 1922, which was hugely popular. He would not live to see the cataclysmic Second World War, and despite initially voting for Hitler he soon turned around and was ostracized for his opposition to the status quo. Spengler opposed antisemitism. He is still known for his general criticism of liberalism among Islamist circles.
In Decline of the West, Spengler casts a society as a cultural organism that can live and die in intervals, and asserts that the Western project is coming to an end. Rather than taking an overtly pessimistic view, however, he aquires Goethe’s concept of becoming and changing. The German word in the title, Untergang, is often translated as “Decline,” but “untergang” did not have necessarily doom-like resonance with Spengler. He nearly used the word “vollendung,” which is more like “fulfillment.” This probably concerns the Judge’s ideas directly — the idea that the sunset or twilight of mankind is somehow also the completion of his project. But “completion” is a complicated reality and not necessarily straightforward; the completion could be a realization of the warfaring creature or a concession to our nature in a more abstract sense. I don’t think there’s a straightforward solution to this obscure detail: I believe the book simply illustrates the triumph of the will over all other conventions, with violence merely serving as a means to an end for the Judge.
Spengler discusses Goethe and Nietzsche almost back to back in Decline of the West. He describes classical civilization as a situation of breaks from destiny: the advancements from classical to new, like Athens to Paris, Aristotle to Kant, Alexander to Napoleon. Rather than purchasing the idea that his contemporary West “inherited” and continued classical tradition, he actually believes the connection is aesthetic and superficial. He suggests that it is more productive to identify how “alien” the classical world truly is to us moderns: as if we share anything with them.
But Spengler actually frames Nietzsche as being lost in his idealization of the classical world, an accuses him of speaking to a “philological mirror.” And rather than buying into the “ancient-medieval-modern” theory of history, Spengler believes history occurs more organically as a sequence in which successive iterations do not necessarily resemble past examples, exactly like a transforming organism.
So when we see the word “Evening” or “Sunset” or “Twilight” of the West in this sense, what we are actually observing, at the moment it is uttered, is the product of this historical sequence. In the context of Blood Meridian, The Evening Redness in the West, we are observing a new iteration of history derived not from an original point but from what has developed in the interim.
This gives new meaning to characters being “remote from their origins,” and it casts light on the Kid’s abandonment of the “poets whose names are now lost” in a house where his birth sacrificed his own mother. Moving West, the human race must become something new, but maybe we are not willing to admit what it is we must become.
The Judge’s destruction of artifacts may also serve to drive a wedge between the truth of history and our fallacious inclination to depict history as one long, linear narrative. The “thread” of history, according to Spengler, is frayed and tangential. Ossification of worldviews may act against our interests — Spengler distinguishes between cultural and zoological determinisms in history. While the “West,” which is a cultural construct, may come to an end, this is trivial in the grand scheme of things. In light of Spengler’s book “Man and Technics,” however, which does have quite a pessimistic outlook, he warns that whereas “culture” was previously our focus, soon its moment’s slow expiration will give way to the often-overlooked technical world, which can effortlessly replace our sacred concerns with the absolutely mundane. But what he truly fears is the sacrifice of the soul in exchange for a purely technical life:
“ For, in reality, technics is immemorially old, and moreover it is not
something historically specific, but something immensely general. It
extends far beyond mankind, back into the life of the animals, indeed of all animals. It is distinctive of the animal, in contrast to the plantwise, type of living that it is capable of moving freely in space and possesses some measure, great or small, of self-will and independence of Nature as a whole, and that, in possessing these, it is obliged to maintain itself against Nature and to give its own being some sort of a significance, some sort of a content, and some sort of a superiority. If, then, we would attach a significance to technics, we must start from the soul, and that alone. ”
With regard to Decline of the West, Spengler is consistent in distinguishing the cultural arc of history from the purely biological, asserting that technique is a hallmark of all life. He then issues some startingly Judge-like remarks:
“Technics is the tactics of living; it is the inner form of which the procedure of conflict — the conflict that is identical with Life itself — is the outward expression. This is the second error that has to be avoided. Technics is not to be understood in terms of the implement. What matters is not how one fashions things, but what one does with them; not the weapon, but the battle. Modern warfare, in which the decisive element is tactics — that is, the technique of running the war, the techniques of inventing, producing, and handling the weapons being only items in the process as a whole — points to a general truth.”
Spengler’s approach to technique is almost frighteningly sober, identifying that our underlying nature is not beholden to ephemeral conceptions, but extends far beyond the narrow horizon of our conceits. As we consider “The Evening Redness in the West,” it is helpful to identify that we are coming into a twilight of an era and into a more faithful inheritance of our nature, one that preceded our short-lived projects and will long outlive it.
Spengler, in Decline, notes the marginalization of great cities, people, and cultures throughout history — how Florence, Rome, Athens hardly command the renown they once did, and that this is typical in history.
“…that many famous old-noble families, descendants of the men who defeated the Celts and the Samnites, lost their ancestral homes through standing apart from the wild rush of speculation and were reduced to renting wretched apartments; that, while along the Appian Way there arose the splendid and still wonderful tombs of the financial magnates, the corpses of the people were thrown along with animal carcases and town refuse into a monstrous common grave — till in Augustus’s time it was banked over for the avoidance of pestilence and so became the site of Maecenas’s renowned park…”
The decline of the “West” is little more than a natural progression of time to Spengler, and it may be that some refuse to be cast out of the limelight of history.
To summarize and conclude:
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• The Judge as a faustian figure no longer wishes to exist as a piece of the environment. He would not like to remain in his earthly nature.
• Dr. Crews calls McCarthy’s view of history “pessimistic,” which I have already disagreed with. But he expounds on Spengler’s theory of the Faustian exchange, describing how Europe has sold its soul in order to unlock boundless intelligence and capability.
• Crews notes a quote from the Judge:
• “our mother the earth . . . was round like an egg and contained all good things within her”
• He wishes to crack into the earth, break into forms in order to harvest and acquire the power within them. The earth as an egg is something precious, that we instinctually wish to preserve; he would like to break it open and take that which lies within. This is in reference to the harvesting of phosphorous for gunpowder.
• Crews quotes Milton, Satan instructing minions to harvest the materials of the earth for warfare on 189
• Crews 193-4, discussion of Tobin’s story about the Jobian old man, “Grace comes in the absence of will” from Spengler.
• 194, Suttree passage that describes the Spenglerian need for an opponent, description of the Kid being “swallowed up” by the Judge.
• The book Blood Meridian essentially discusses how to preserve the “I” through all of nature’s horrors. Renunciation of the will is a destruction of this I, which is preserved through an accession to power. How do you maintain yourself when the heart is beset by such a hell as the real world? Melville

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• Michael Crews, Melville on 166
• Melville was an American author who worked on ships for a large part of his life and tried to create a career as a writer. Although his work was rarely acknowledged or even noticed in his lifetime, posthumously he would go down as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Never give up, folks.
• His magnum opus is Moby Dick, the story of a whaling vessel whose captain is determined to capture a legendary “white” sperm whale that had once lamed him. Of course it ends in tragedy, but the plot itself is almost entirely irrelevant. Every “chapter” is actually like a prosaic tone poem, featuring paralyzng turns of phrase and flourishes that strike at the heart of our existential and moral concerns. Some of the most innocuous subjects create some of the most piercing and unforgettable passages. Combined with Milton’s Paradise Lost, the scope and intensity of Melville’s prose almost certainly had a direct influence on McCarthy’s own work, which embodies King James rhetoric, epic meditation and jaw-dropping visuals. Possibly the first high-definition book?
• There are multiple passages in Blood Meridian that draw almost directly from Moby Dick, as Crews points out. Crews’ key is the term “federated along one keel,” a famous term Melville used to describe how the sailors, despite hailing from a multitude of backgrounds, are now in the same boat, literally. McCarthy writes in Blood Meridian: “Each man scanned the terrain and the movements of the least of creatures were logged into their collective cognizance until they were federated with invisible wires of vigilance and advanced upon that landscape with a single resonance.”
• McC also betrays the current state of the will within these men — they are all strung along together like a chain gang almost, seeing the world with one eye. In the same way, Captain Ahab’s men are stuck on the boat with him and they slowly realize that Ahab is out of his mind and probably on a suicide mission. The Judge has a similar fatalism, but it seems to be a fatalism he will invariably survive.
• Crews’ associations between the authors is not very long, but I think he is avoiding the infinitely larger question of the union of meaning, which is simply too large in scope for a study showing literary infulences.
• Moby Dick is a long, elaborate, Homeric and very enigmatic work. No one seems to have a clear idea about what Melville is actually saying, and it has been construed as a huge number of things. Obviously, he is commenting on a Christian worldview and makes plenty of transparent comments on existence directly, but there is clearly a world beyond the words themselves. Also, feel free to send your own interpretations of Moby Dick and I’ll read them out on the next video; I will not pretend to have any authority on Moby Dick, which really does deserve a wide interpretation.
• In Moby Dick, the narrator invites the reader, “Call me Ishmael.” This injunction to “call” him Ishmael may already cast suspicion on the reality of the author’s words. Is that his name, or only in the story? Ishmael was a bastard of Abraham who was disowned, and Ahab was the name of a mad king of Israel who worshiped idols. Captain Ahab seems to have a huge idol — the whale — which (and this is no spoiler) leads to the destruction of the crew. Ishmael is saved at the very end by a ship called Rachel. Rachel was known for her care and love for her son Joseph, who was also trafficked by his jealous brothers. In its most general reading, Moby Dick describes a tragic jaunt into idolatrous infatuation with the passions and the furthest extent of human ingenuity. But this all seems to be a pointless extension that causes incredible tragedy. Chapter for chapter, Moby Dick is far too elaborate to hold to one standard. But Ishmael’s “exile” on the ship is a theme for rich moral and existential discourse, which you can find in every punctual and head-slappingly vibrant chapter.
• More than anything else, the essential connection between Moby Dick and Blood Meridian is the human spirit in the face of nature. This is even too broad to mean anything. The nature in Blood Meridian is novel in itself: McCarthy may be describing a nature of which we were previously unaware. Both books give insight into the futility of human inventions and genius against nature; the Judge, for all his brilliance, is still just a creature of impulse. Intelligence has technical value in Blood Meridian — serving only, it seems, to increase the agony inflicted by those who lord it over the weak, a direct and sobering insight into the “Will to Power” that invokes great pause on the subject. Even without a towering intellect like the Judge, the Kid can clearly see through everything happening and can effortlessly denote the futility of contemplation in the face of the truth. In the final chapter, the Kid (now the Man)’s responses are clear and right, but he seems to be digging his own grave in front of the Judge.
• “Even a dumb animal can dance”
• More valuable in Blood Meridian, it seems, is the resistance to illusions. All men seem taken by something: by ideology, by conquest, by money. The Judge reaps all of these but none are his object; he is a machine, it seems, that will run itself forever, a creature of pure intelligence that does not check itself and would cast all of reality into bondage for its benefit. The Judge, in my opinion, simply represents human ingenuity itself, which is not something to be proud of. It is separate from our better judgment, which we find in the Kid. “Remote from his origins,” the Kid can approach the real world soberly — that is, he sees that there is nothing there. His rejection of his father’s “poets whose names are now lost” closes the world’s semantics from him, as though saving him from the tragic tyranny of the mind.
• Ishmael’s description of the Pequod’s journey has full regard for meaning in the natural world, almost as a perfect contrast to the Kid. The Kid’s narrative seems to acknowledge and comprehend the nightmarish and vivid world while casually moving past it, either as a betrayal of foolishness or simple sobriety. Ishmael, however, notes the world’s messages as they pertain to Ahab’s journey — the captain seems immune or deaf to them, to his detriment. If anything, Moby Dick outlines the importance of listening to the world; to ignore it is folly. The Judge, who stands directly opposed to everything, comprehends and notes everything while also destroying it, replacing it with his own metrics, while the Kid passively enters into nature and allows it to guide him. The Kid acknowledges the moral and spiritual travails while the Judge steps over it all on a quest for unlimited power, closing his heart to the pure tragedy of it all. It would seem that by casting the cultural imperative aside, we are able to effortlessly seize on the object of our designs. The “Will to Power” is only inhibited by the human spirit. Therefore I think the “nature” in Blood Meridian is actually our own nature, which is antagonistic to the staggering and terrifying genius we command. Beneath the imperium of invention nothing will be spared.
• I do not believe McCarthy has imbued Blood Meridian with any specific union among these distinguishing features — like a proper author, he describes and expounds on the real world without forcing opinions and uses a controlled flow of information to explore the questions themselves, rather than narrowing the whole book down to a handful of possible conclusions. Blood Meridian can withstand criticisms that it is incoherent because it is too detailed to fail; the discussion of intelligence, morality and our position in the cosmos is so thorough as to far exceed whatever you pay for the paper itself. This is what it shares most intensely with Moby Dick: both are books of exponentially more value than the sum of their parts, probing adjacent topics with fluency and mastery over the discussion itself.

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Ch 114 — directly relevant to Blood Meridian

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26 Mar Update: more minor updates with *

16/3 Thu

• Saosin & Tiny Moving Parts ft. Defying Decay, scape orchard, $80 cancelled
• NTU Talent Competition: CentreStage Grand Finals, NTU Nanyang Auditorium, $8
• VCHpresents Intimate Moments: The Tales of Yu Jing, victoria concert hall, $20
• Wolfgang Violin Studio Prodigy: Mozart & More, victoria concert hall, $25
• Esplanade: The ANIMUS – A Musical Storytelling Session ft. YST Students, esplanade, free
• YST Conservatory: Souffler de France with visting artist Gordon Hunt (wind), NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall, free with reg
• NAFA: Reich's Electric Counterpoint, Lee Foundation Theatre NAFA (bencoolen), free with reg
• Simply Jazz: Alec Haavik (Sax) ft Alemay Fernandez 1st Day, CHIJMES B1, simply jazz bar
• Cool Cats: Soul diva Nancy Ponto Day 1, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• NUS Ilsa Tari & NUS Dikir Bara - Pengabdian Batin, NUS University Cultural Centre, $18
• Candlelight: Magical Movie Soundtracks by Gabriel Hoe, the arts house city hall, $63 tix left
• DJ, chambers CHAPTER IV - keagan & luqhere (hi-hop, r&b, edm), PRISM club marina square, $30
• DJ, Offtrack: with hijack Sandals - Common Frequencies Launch Event: Tomy Herseta & Ovan Mustofa (ID) offtrack hong lim park, gastro bar

17/3 Fri - St Patrick's Day

• Harry Styles, national stadium, $200 left
• Trivium, hard rock sentosa, $98
• Saosin & Tiny Moving Parts, scape, $80
• Hacken Lee 李克勤, marina bay sands, $88
• SP Music Festival by DMAT Alumni ft a lot of people like falling feathers, namieandthewaves, thy howler, foxela more, singapore polytechnic, free with reg
• A Kampong Gelam Affair - ABANGSAPAU, nkei, Syaz Smooth, Baghdad street Kampong Gelam Cafe, free
• NUS Art Fest: evanturetime, CHUREN and Prako - MOONRISE (1st show), NUS university cultural centre, $18
• Lunchtime Concerts at ACM: Chamber by YST Conservatory, Asian Civilisations Museum city hall, free with reg
• Yì Zheng Ensemble 翊筝团 - Winter into Spring 冬去春来, victoria concert hall, $38
• NP Concert Band - Rondeau XXXV, Ngee Ann Poly (King Albert Park mrt), free with reg
• Experimental Audio-Visual: ThirdSpace Sessions Cascades ft Franck Vigroux and Antonie Schmitt (FRA, progressive electronic generative visual thing), goodman arts centre (mountbatten mrt), $20
• Jazz Loft: RIO RITMICA (Brazilian music, jazz), blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: The Diana Krall Songbook ft. Michelle SgP & Friends, maduro jazz bar dempsey, $65 drink credits
• Cool Cats: Soul diva Nancy Ponto Day 2, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• Simply Jazz: Alec Haavik (Sax) ft Alemay Fernandez, CHIJMES B1, simply jazz bar
• Venue of the Week: Jyu Gae Taiwanese Bistro near SMU: live band, 51 Bras Basah Rd Lazada One
• Timbre One-North: SKA Night with Gruv St. runners, Marching Julys and 1800-wicked, next to BLK71 ayer rajah incubator one-north, free
• Biennale: There is a whale inside my synthesizer by Aya Metwalli (Day 1), Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, free
• Biennale: Alicia DC, Mary Sue x Farizi, and rhyu, Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, free
• DJ, Potato Head Disco: Shawn Livewire (US-IRE), keong saik, bar and grill
• DJ, Headquarters: Toppings, Daryl Knows, TMDDJ, 66 boat quay, $30 walk-in
• DJ Amy’s Wine Bar: HARV, lor liput holland village, natural wine bar
• DJ, Dark Alternative Music Night & Blacklight rave (ft. Aftervolter, saras spaceship, falling islands & T.HIRST), Kult Kafe The Grandstand (Sixth Avenue), $20
• DJ, Back to the 90s with DJ Jag, Aubz, Soul, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), $11
• DJ, Friday Rooftop Special - St Patrick's Day with DJ Andrew Chow, DJJagi amd Party Social's Bernie Soiree, grand park hotel rooftop city hall, $20
• DJ, Club Hell: Heaven in Hell (all white theme), 113 telok ayer (mrt), queer club
• DJ, Neil Conversion Therapy: Retro Night (lindsay lohan to BSB), 43 neil rd (maxwell), gay bar-club
• DJ, Hazel's Guestlist's x Fuego Night Secret Location Party (Big Room Reggaeton ft DJ Kiara & Belle Underground house-techno), sixth avenue mrt area, fuego link$15
• DJ, Habouji - Reggaeton, 81 Tras St, $31
• DJ, KANANI - Reggaeton Night VivaLaVida (latin pop & r&b), ikigai riverwalk, $35
• DJ, CULTURE - Who Hurt You? (emo, pop punk, alt rock party), hard rock cafe orchard, $26
• DJ, Mandala Club: JYOTY with Joshua P, alice @ mediapolis (one-north), $60 selling out
• DJ, Decades of Dance (90s-00s dance classsics) by Re:activate Asia, Fukai CHIJMES city hall, bar-club
• DJ, 4xF002 - CRESCENDO: Copilot Edition (from deep house to psytrance), FLO 77 high street (city hall), $20
• DJ, Phuture: Underground with Che'Molly & J. Goh (melodic house, soul-funk), zouk clarke quay, $45 also zouk entry
• DJ, CÉ LA VI - Yousef (UK), Marina Bay Sands, $38
• DJ, ESCAPE 56: Zombies In Miami (MEX) , Leland & Robo X (SG), secret location, $48

18/3 Sat

• AMON AMARTH, hard rock rws sentosa, $158
• B.I 비아이, singapore expo, $128
• Comeback Kid (hxc), room 0416 golden mile complex, $50
• Hujan, hard rock rws sentosa, $88
• Rockl4sik: Search, Ella, Gersang and Majesty, esplanade, $98
• Punk Rock Gig: Return of the Bonkers Night - C.H.U.T.E, Haal, Bariklana, Distrust, Protest, DM the Bands punk thing, $15
• Tribute to Tim Burton & Danny Elfman by Nicholas Hovarth cancelled
• Tribute to Ghibli & Joe Hisaishi by Nicholas Horvath,
• Esplanade: Easy Breezy Lunchtime Session with Putri Emily (pop), esplanade, free
• Esplanade: But Can You... (Viral tiktok music comedy), esplanade, free
• Esplanade: Re: Offline Party Quest by JDN Partyquest (Classical, Movie, Video Game soundtracks), esplanade outdoor, free
• NUS Art Fest: evanturetime, CHUREN and Prako - MOONRISE, NUS university cultural centre, $18
• NUS Wind Symphony: Music In Living Technicolour, NUS university cultural centre, $18
• YST Conservatory: Ones to Watch: Concerto Competition Finals, NUS Yong Siew Toh Concert Hall, free
• SSO: Concerts for Children: Journey Around the World (1st show), victoria concert hall, $25
• SCO: SNYCO20 FRIENDSHIP 新加坡国家青年华乐团20周年庆音乐会 《谊》, sco conference hall shenton way, $22
• Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift by pianist Adriana Chiew, The Arts House city hall, left $63
• More Than Music 10th Anniversary Concert (brahms, rachmaninov, tchaikovsky), esplanade recital studio, $30
• Singapore Wind Symphony: COMWORKS for SYF, Lee Foundation Theatre NAFA (bencoolen), $15
• Jazz Loft: TROPIC GREEN (horns, latin jazz with Susan Harmer), blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: Soukma, Tan Weixiang, Kenji Nakano - Dazzling Night, maduro jazz bar dempsey, $65 drink credits
• Blu Jaz: The Souls of Singapore: classic 60s r&b, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), bar
• Cool Cats: Soul diva Nancy Ponto, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• Jazz Nite with Louis Soliano, siglap south cc, link $2
• Piano Improv Workshop: Composer Tze Toh - The Art of Improvisation NLB Insider Series , library at esplanade, free with reg
• [Sope's Turkiye Fundraiser Livestream (singer-songwriter)]((https://www.instagram.com/p/CprbhVLhqoJ/)
• Mervin Wong x Bard of Neverland at Singapore Smash Competition, OCBC Arena
• Venue of the Week: Jyu Gae Taiwanese Bistro near SMU: live band, 51 Bras Basah Rd Lazada One
• Biennale: There is a whale inside my synthesizer by Aya Metwalli, Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, free
• Biennale: Alicia DC, Aisyah Aziz, and Mary Sue x Farizi, Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, free
• Drag Party: RIOT! cum Yum Yum Disco Dong - House of Heals ft Pangina Heals (disco, house), hard rock cafe orchard, $50
• DJ, Potato Head House-Disco-Tech: Kaiza (KL), keong saik, bar and grill
• DJ, Rumours Beach Club: Owen S & Merakisoul, siloso beach sentosa
• DJ, Tanjong Beach Club: Barefoot Tiki Nights with AKA Sounds, tanjong beach sentosa
• DJ, Parliament Bar: 90-10s Hip Hop Night, 18 teck lim rd (outram), bar no cover
• DJ, Amy’s Wine Bar: Aloy, lor liput holland village, natural wine bar
• DJ, Fat Prince Lunch Funk Edition (& afrobeats) with DJ labaude, 48 peck sia st, mideast restaurant bar
• DJ, Back To Zero - Errant's 2000s Night with 3 DJs! (y2k), 100 turf club road (sixth avenue), $28
• DJ, One night only with DJ Abdelux and DJ SMTH (r&b afro), 1880 Singapore robertson quay (havelock), $48 non members
• DJ, Drip Worldwide ft Colin Hennerz (AUS melbourne bounce hardstyle), drip orchard, $32
• DJ, Uploading: Intriguant, Frinla, Tashasan, Falling Islands, headquarters boat quay, $20
• DJ, Club Hell: Throwback in Hell (y2k), 113 telok ayer (mrt), queer club
• DJ, Neil Conversion Therapy: OnlyFans Creator Night, 43 neil rd (maxwell), gay bar-club
• DJ, Posh: Ascend ft DJ Bandung & Gai, Oxley Tower L20 Majesty Chen cbd, $30
• DJ, Tuff Club: PEACH & ISABELLA (jungle, rave), 138 Robinson rd cbd, $37
• DJ, Manifest 4th Anniversary - Sivanesh, Aslan, Matsalleh, Aman Anand, Bisoux at GR.id (dhoby ghaut), $30
• DJ, Soul Collective X Thugshop - DIXON (GER deep house), MDLR 62 Cecil Street (telok ayer), $58
• DJ, Capital: Total Recall with Caden & Jeremy Boon (90s-y2k), zouk capital clarke quay, $75 (>22 yo only)
• DJ, Last Saturdays: Late Saturdays Show with Tasha, aili, secret, $12
• DJ, Vertigo 26: Pop Kiss (twee, indie, dreampop), vertigo26 @ MINT Museum City Hall, listening bar
• DJ, Kelektiv: youANDme (GER) ft. James Selva, Leland, HBN, ikigai riverwalk, $37
• DJ, Aly & Fila (trance), Luxe Club, Marina Square, $70
• DJ, Strange Weather: UPACARA KAMPRET! Uwalmassa & Mama Magnet Aftervolter, Rudi Osman, Django & more, secret, $37
• DJ, Prism Club: INQUISITIVE (hardstyle, asian), prism club marina square, $43
• DJ, KYGO, marquee MBS, $80

19/3

• Midwest Sad Sacks: Monda(e), Line Drive, Fxtrt, Fern (rock), Tonehouse GR.id L3 (Dhoby Ghaut), left $20 doors
• Esplanade: Bought Me a Cat… or a Trout! Family-friendly Classical Vocal by L'arietta, Akiko Otao, Leslie Tay, Pauline Lee, esplanade, free
• Esplanade: Singapore Chinese Music Competition & National Piano & Violin Competition Winners, esplanade, free
• SSO: Concerts for Children: Journey Around the World 2nd show, victoria concert hall, $25
• The CO Peeps - Community Gala Concert 2023: Ode to Mother Earth, sco conference hall shenton way, $20
• NTU Chinese Orchestra: Transient Reminiscences, Esplanade, $20
• SIT Symphonique - Renaissance II (conductor Gavilan Neo), SIT @ Dover (one-north), free with reg
• ONE Chamber Choir with André van der Merwe (RSA), School of the Arts Hall (dhoby ghaut), $35
• More Than Music 10th Anniversary Concert (brahms, rachmaninov, tchaikovsky), esplanade recital studio, $30
• Blu Jaz OTAKU NIGHT Season 2 - funk & jazz anime night, blu jaz L2 at bali ln (bugis), $24
• Jazz Loft: Sunday Jam Session with Rachma Lim, blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), free with reg
• Euphonium Workshop, Musospace (macpherson mrt), free with reg
• Drag Party, WERQ for your CUM, MDLR 62 Cecil Street, $25
• Candlelight: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake & More Ft. Ballet & Vocalise String Quartet, victoria concert hall, $42
• RRiley of Sam Willows at Singapore Smash Table Tennis Competition, OCBC Arena
• DJ, Rumours Beach Club: Leland & James Selva, siloso beach sentosa
• DJ, Tanjong Beach Club: DJ KFC, tanjong beach club
• DJ, Club Sando Vol. 1 at Freebird Katong ft. Tasha & Fugitive, Katong Shopping Centre B1, bar cafe

20/3 Mon

• Maisie Peters, capitol theatre city hall, $58
• Big Duck B-4 Vol. 3 - aeriqah, gok$, haldi honey & microchip terror, crane arab street, $12
• Candlelight: A Tribute to Jay Chou by Celeste Syn 冼佩瑾, CHIJMES City hall, $43
• DJ, Club Rich Opening: Farah Farz and Inquisitive, 114 middle rd

21/3

• YST Orchestral Institute: Awaking the Titan ft Karst De Jong & Jason Lai (mahler), esplanade, $10
• Candlelight: Best of Adele by pianist Tang Sueli, CHIJMES city hall, $35
• DJ, SpaceOne SG: DJ Dash (manyao edm), 100 jalan sultan plaza

22/3 Wed

• SUM 41 Cancelled, sentosa, $138
• STING, star theatre buona vista, $128
• SUTD Lunchtime Concert by YST Conservatory (rachmaninov, reich, grigg, levitan), SUTD, free
• Musicians Initative - Young Virtuosi 2023, esplanade, $10
• Toccata by Singapore Raffles Music College, 456 Alexandra Road L9, free with reg
• Karaoke Love Connection: a Night of Singing, Munching, and Matchmaking!, Havefun Karaoke Chinatown, $100
• Cool Cats Jazz: Rit Xu Trio, at jw mariott beach rd, bar no cover
• Jazz Loft: Legacy Series - Sinclair Ang & His Rhythmakers and Dance, blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), $24
• DJ, Potato Head Hip-hop: Suren, keong saik, bar and grill
• DJ, SpaceOne SG Gentleman Night: Moxide (hard dance), 100 jalan sultan plaza

23/3

• Movements (1st show) ft. FADER and carpet golf, aliwal arts centre, $53
• Cool Cats: The Modern Soulful Man: Nick Zavior Day 1, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• Candlelight Orchestra: A Tribute to Joe Hisaishi, victoria concert hall, left $86
• DJ, North East Social Club x Thugshop - UKG: Interplanetary Criminal (UK) & Main Phase (DK) Intriguant and Dexter Colt, tuff club 138 robinson rd CBD, $42

24/3 Fri

• Movements ft. CURB and False Plaintiff, aliwal, $53
• Esplanade: Ihasamic! x Wovensound - TOO MANY MICS! ft. Umar Sirhan, Fireweed, Axel Brizzy, Eliza Cuarez & more (rap), esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: ROTB x The Cosmic Owls: Malam Ni Kita Fly (rap),
• Esplanade: BGourd x Fxrxzx: In Facets of An Uncut Gem (rap), esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: dink spoken word multidisciplinary ft Kansh, Cara Ow, Stephanie Dogfoot (q-friendly), esplanade, free
• Drum Tao (taiko) 1st Day, esplanade, $68
• Kotaro Fukuma - Nachtmusik: A Night of Serenade Music, victoria concert hall, $30
• NUS Chinese Orchestra & NUS Chinese Drama - Essentially Macbeth 必要麦克白 (1st show), UCC, $18
• NUS Electronic Music Lab - OmnIVerse: The Fourth Dimension ft bani haykal (1st show), UCC Dance Studio, $18
• JoelKaren JAZZKONCEPT (ambient nu jazz), blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: An Avant-Garde POV ft. David Loke Quintet, maduro jazz bar dempsey, $65 drink credits
• Simply Jazz: Fusion Jazz with Eric Lee & M.I.C, CHIJMES B1, simply jazz bar
• Cool Cats: The Modern Soulful Man: Nick Zavior Day 2, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• DJ, Yang Club: Moski Love (electro house), yang club clarke quay
• DJ, Potato Head Disco: KFC Shigeki, Keong saik, bar and grill
• DJ, wastedsg's Taylor Swift Party MIDNIGHTS, ikigai riverwalk, $35
• DJ, Kings of Bass 007 feat. CAMPBELL (AUS) & AALELY (STRANGEWEATHER) & Kiat, MDLR 62 Cecil Street (telok ayer), $22
• DJ, Ce La Vi: Mr Has, Marina Bay Sands, $38
• DJ, Headquarters: OUISSAM (Disco, techno-house), 66A Boat Quay, $37
• DJ, Offtrack: Intriguant, offtrack hong lim park, gastro bar
• DJ, Phuture: .Wav(y) hip-hop r&b afro night with Prav and xG, zouk clarke quay, $25
• DJ, Zouk: MAMBO JAMBO: An Anniversary Edition with Aldrin & Jeremy Boon (80s and boogie), zouk clarke quay, $50
• DJ, EATMEPOPTART WHATEVER: 90s-00s GRRRL POWER, hard rock cafe orchard, $22
• DJ, Neil Conversion Therapy: Pop Night, 43 neil rd (maxwell), $35 gay bar-club
• DJ, Musicology Records Party and Vinyl Bazaar: DJ Hiddy and Aloy, crane 148 arab street, free
• DJ, Bangkok Invaders - Road To Rolling Loud Thailand, marquee MBS, $45

25/03 Sat

• Kim Woojin, esplanade annexe, $100 cancelled just google
• Lee Je Hoon ‘VACATION’ fan meet, NTUC Center (raffles place), $158
• Rene Liu 刘若英, star theatre buona vista, $98
• Ultra Mega Cat Attack Album Launch ft. RENE, Centre 42 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $35
• Esplanade: Panik Records Showcase - Rhyu, Angelo, Alicia DC, Benny's (soul, r&b, folk), esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: The Souls of Singapore: Soul Jam (60s r&b), esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Dani Komari (jazz & soul), esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Earth Song by ArunDitha (spoken word), esplanade, free
• Piyush Mishra's Ballimaaraan - a Mirza Ghalib homage, capitol theatre city hall, $69
• Bands Arcade - Caroline in the Sun, Grizzly Bears, Sigysys (Rock, Alternative) and DJs Paulus, Craze, 100 Turf Club (Festivo Mr Gallop), $20
• SP Garage Band, The Eternal Reverie, Singapore Poly (dover), free with reg here
• UFM 100.3 Busk King - Radio DJs and 8 Contestants, Capitol Theatre Outdoor, free
• EB DUET - Enchanted Evening (acoustic jazz pop), esplanade, $68
• NUS Electronic Music Lab - OmnIVerse: The Fourth Dimension ft bani haykal, UCC Dance Studio, $18
• SSO: Kahchun Wong and Daniel Lozakovich (mendelssohn, brahms), esplanade, $15
• SCO: Charms of Nanyang 南洋之媚, sco conference hall shenton way, $40
• SMU Symphonia - Festiva XVI: Ad Victoriam, victoria concert hall, $22
• NUS Chinese Orchestra & NUS Chinese Drama - Essentially Macbeth 必要麦克白 (2nd show), NUS UCC, $18
• Drum Tao (taiko drumming) 2nd Day, esplanade, $68
• Maduro Jazz: Jeremy Monteiro, Eugene Pao & Hong Chanutr - Asian All-Stars Power Trio, maduro jazz bar dempsey, $65 drink credits
• Jazz Loft: R.L.F.B. The Rachma Lim Fellowship Band, blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), $24
• Cool Cats: The Modern Soulful Man: Nick Zavior, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25
• Roller Skate: HiRoller's Mandopop Night, Pasir Ris E!Hub L5
• Strait Up Blues Open Jam at Timbre one-north, Timbre one-north, uh jammers need to pay $20 otherwise free
• DJ & Live, Glass Hut: Wild Fyah - Live Sax / Flute / Congas / DJ Emcee (afrobeats), Bisoux Gr.ID mall (dhoby ghaut), $26
• Drag DJ, SLAY AQUEERIUM ft. Toy Armada & DJ DNLD, Rumours beach club silosa sentosa, $58
• Drag DJ, RIOT! cum Baby Boy - theme: NICKI MIMARCH, hard rock cafe orchard, just the party link $15
• DJ & Cabaret Drag, QABARET: Disco Demolition! (disco cabaret party with DJ SHIGEKI and AMPRSND), projector x picturehouse (at risk of postponement, pls check), $48
• DJ, Potato Head House-Disco-Tech: Aldrin, keong saik, bar and grill
• DJ, Tanjong Beach Club: DJ DuriO, tanjong beach sentosa
• DJ, Headquarters: haan, tmddj, kappa, kevin sy, 66 boat quay, $30 walk-in
• DJ, Bussy Temple & HER 他 Lethal Fantasies Rave - Cloudy Ku, rempit goddess b2b metamoksha, yetpet, suhsi (all-women DJs, queer friendly, techno-industrial-trance-acid), ikigai riverwalk, $27
• DJ, Beach Fiesta! by Hazel's Guestlist, siloso beach sentosa, $18
• DJ, Last Saturdays x Yes You - Raw & Snackdown: Mega Mamee Slamee daytime courtyard party - feat JAS, AKASounds, EJ Missy, Beat Usagi, Nick La Panic, raw kitchen at kallang riverside park, $27
• DJ, Epimaco - Battles of 2 DJs (r&b, dancehall, latin)
• DJ, Groovetop: x Foxtail - Tom Shellsuit, Candiceb, Aurora & KFC (funk soul afro grooves), kult kafe the grandstand (sixth avenue), $20
• DJ, The Rocketman (NED, techno) and Erwin Linden, prism club marina square, $32
• DJ, Jstbcz 1.2 - House & Tech house Popup Party, honcho ann siang hill (maxwell), $20
• DJ, TRANCE4M Euphoria ft. Dr Foo, Haszali, danielAng, the parlour mirage 140 owen rd, $15
• DJ, Anikura Rave: Golden Mix Vol 6 (anime song, cosplay) - ft. benkun, titi, viticz, windy, meronpan, yukira, moved to The Projector golden mile tower, $25
• DJ, Tuff Club: Thugshop X Art Beyond - BERLIN SESSIONS with FRANCA & GUTTO SERTA,138 robinson rd cbd, $37
• DJ, Offtrack: Kreshik (BEL), offtrack hong lim park, gastro bar
• DJ, CÉ LA VI - Leonard T, Godwin P (house), Marina Bay Sands, $38
• DJ, Doppelgangerz ft Joshua Dillon & The Infamous, Luxe Club Marina Square, $35
• DJ, Afrogroove @ Blu Jaz: Afro Club Night with DaBishop, blu jaz Bali Ln, $15
• DJ, Vertigo26 & KiDG: Depeche Mode Night, vertigo26 @ MINT Museum City Hall, listening bar
• DJ, thesoundofalvin: saturday = youth (indie dance, funk), chips butt downstairs at mings arcade orchard, pub
• DJ, Neil Conversion Therapy: Beyonce Nite, 43 Neil Rd Maxwell, gay bar-club
• DJ, Club Black Horse: Sounds of Fai, ming arcade orchard
• DJ, Zouk: One Dance with WUKONG (oriental rave, hard dance). zouk clarke quay, $70

26/3 Sun

• Esplanade: Mary Sue (abstract hip-hop) and Live Band, esplanade outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Soulful Night with Narysal and Dansen John (r&b), esplanade, free
• Esplanade: The Midnight Suns - Late Night (country, blues, rock), esplanade outdoor 9pm, free
• NTU Jazz & Blues - Hourglass IX - P.S. I Love You ft. NTU Lindy Hop, NTU Lecture Theatre 19A, $9
• NUS Symphony Orchestra & NUS Choir - Promise of a Future (Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart), NUS university cultural centre, $18
• NUS Chinese Orchestra & NUS Chinese Drama - Essentially Macbeth 必要麦克白, UCC, $18
• Vox Camerata Collegia: A Nexus of Songs (choral, poetry), School of The Arts (dhoby ghaut), $31
• Drum Tao (taiko drumming), esplanade, $68
• Blu Jaz: Jam With Academy of Rock Teachers, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), bar
• Jazz Loft: Sunday Jam Session with Rachma, blu jaz L3 at bali ln (bugis), free with reg
• The Little Circle - Music Class for 4 year olds, 4 queen street farrer road, $40
• DJ, Club Kiki: OONIK @ Skyfall (afternoon tech-house party, henna, tarot card), Syfall Rooftop Restrobar at Travelodge Harbourfront mrt, $25
• DJ, Rumours Beach: Matty & Brendon P, siloso beach sentosa
• DJ, RPM by D.Bespoke 4th anniversary ft. DJ Arms, Dreams, Shinsuke, Hiddy, Itch, Robin KiDG, 16 Duxton Road (maxwell), cocktail bar

27/3

• * Fudgy & Friends (alt rock): The Noise, Entrance speakeasy cocktail bar, 22A Tg Pagar Rd (maxwell)

28/3 Tue

• Esplanade: Joshua Goh, Sherman Lim and Tai Yi Sheng - TSMC (mandopop), esplanade, free
• Blu Jaz: The Joyspring Jazz Jam, every tue, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), bar
• * YST Conservatory: Cantiamo: Vocal Works of Cesti & Rachmaninoff , NUS Yong Siew Toh Concert Hall, free

29/3

• Doobie Brothers, star theatre buona vista, $98
• NUS EMCC Concert : Bring It Back To Live (indie, rock, singer-songwriter), University Cultural Centre, free with reg
• Poetry: Yeow Kai Chai & Clara Chow - Two to the Dark Tower Come, esplanade, free
• * Enclave to the Grave, Live : Tabula, enclave bar golden mile complex
• CHIJ Katong Convent Concert Band, esplanade, $15
• YST Conservatory: Visiting Artist Masterclass: Miró Quartet Chamber, NUS Yong Siew Toh Orchestra Hall, free
• * NAFA x NTUA Collaborative Concert: Wind Ensemble, NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre (bencoolen), free with reg
• * NLB x Singapore Raffles Music College: Capriccio, Western Instrument & Classical Vocals, library @ esplanade, free with reg
• Cool Cats Jazz: Sebastian Ho, at jw mariott beach rd, bar no cover
• Blu Jaz: Blue Monks every wed, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), bar
• Drag: MOISTNESS, also on 30th, golden mile tower, $27
• DJ, Potato Head Hip-hop: Suren, keong saik, bar and grill

30/3 Thu

• Music Theatre: The Soldier & His Virtuous Wife 都是当兵惹的祸, drama centre theatre (national library), $40
• Blu Jaz: Skunk Jive funk-blues band, every thu, blu jaz at bali ln (bugis), bar
• Cool Cats: Melissa Indot, at JW Mariott Beach Rd (esplanade), $25 idk
• * NAFA x NTUA Collaborative Concert: Wind Ensemble, NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre (bencoolen), free with reg
• DJ, Offtrack: Kin Leonn & Bongomann, offtrack hong lim park, gastro bar

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The Case Against Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern drenched this adorable village in the most toxic chemical ever tested - Dioxin.
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1. We start by exploring the history of Dioxin the Toxin and Train Derailments
   
2. Next we outline the corporate decisions leading up to this disaster.
   
3. After that, we’ll break down the chain of events sparked on February 2nd
   
4. Finally we’ll wrap up with my recommendation to these Attorneys General to immediately arrest and prosecute Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, for crimes against humanity, as defined under the geneva convention, as he has clearly demonstrated himself to be an urgent and present threat to the very fabric of our society. By taking clear action, the Attorneys General will establish a clear precident for the next corporate executive who drenches thousands of civilians in the most toxic chemical created by man - Dioxin.
   
5. 1897, Herbert Dow discovers how to produce chlorine from salt, creating a new industry of chlorine-based products. Chlorine is toxic, and chlorine reactions are the only known source of dioxin.
   
6. 1949, A chemical plant erupts in Nitro, West Virginia, resulting in a collossal dioxin release.
   
   1. The disaster was cleaned up by unfortunate first responders, and rabbits were placed in the allegedly clean area, those rabbits died immediately.
   2. Other rabbits were placed further away from the scene, they died in a matter of hours.
   3. These tests were hidden from government, and the public. Internal memos confirm they knew plenty about the danger of dioxin, as early as 1949.
7. In 1971, one resident hired a business to spray oil on the dirt roads in Times Beach, Missouri to control the dust in their air. The motor oil was contaminated with dioxin the toxin, from a nearby Agent Orange factory. In 1982, high levels were found in soil samples, prompting permanent evacuation of Times Beach. The town was declared as a Superfund site, indicating it as one of the most toxic sites in the United States. The cleanup was overseen by the (EPA.)
   
8. January 1979, a Norfolk wreck in Sturgeon, Missouri spills octochlorophenol, exposing the community to just one single teaspoon worth of dioxin. Everyone was forced to leave town. Monsanto denied dioxin the toxin was part of the spill, later testing documented extremely high levels. During the trial lawyer Rex Carr, performed legal miracles, resulting in a court order for Monsanto to reveal its secret dioxin research files.
   
   1. Monsantos chemical engineer, testified that, for seven years, they dumped 40 POUNDS of dioxin into the Mississippi River EACH DAY from their plant. This continued through 1977.
   2. Monsanto secretly tested corpses from dead locals, the test results showed every. body. contained dioxin in its tissue.
   3. Dioxin was the active ingredient in Lysol disinfectant and other cleaning products. One chemist testified that they knew Lysol is recommended for cleaning baby toys with direct human contact, while also knowing it was extremely toxic.
   4. Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act, giving power to the EPA. This law required companies to report dioxin contamination to the government if they discovered it.
   5. Despite this, testimony revealed in 1978 that all Monsanto products were contaminated with dioxin, completely unreported to the EPA, because they didn’t discover it, because they didn’t test for it, because it was, quote, “dangerous to work with dioxin”.
   6. They testified further that the EPA didn’t need to be notified of their dioxin products because the EPA already knew dioxin was dangerous. This type of Broken Logic can be found throughout nearly every environmental lawsuit thats ever been brought to court. Seriously.
   7. “Monsanto sold dioxin products for fifty years.” said their chemist.
      1. Why did Monsanto lie and fail to notify the world about dioxin? He testified that it was “profitable for Monsanto to not inform anyone their products contained dioxin the biotoxin.”
9. 2005: Norfolk Southern trains collide. Nine killed, 250 treated for chlorine exposure.
   
10. In 2013, A dozen tank cars ignite in North Dakota. Thick black smoke rolled from the wreckage as five explosions rocked the town. The collision occurred after a train derailed, and a train hauling oil ran into it. 📷
    
11. In 2019, Railroads and unions start arguing about Precision Scheduled Railroading.
    
    1. PSR resulted in staffing cuts; companies enact strict attendance policies. These policies eliminate free-time requiring workers to be on-call for weeks on end. Workers complain of stress and fatigue.
    2. Due to precision scheduled railroading, Shippers complain about poor service and delays. Workers are concerned with safety due to reduced inspections.
    3. TWENTY THOUSAND railroad workers were laid off in 2019. Large railroads employed 30% fewer workers in 2022 versus 2018.
    4. PSR also impacts safety due to increased train length, up to three miles in many cases. This leads to derailments as well as crew stress and fatigue; due to the enormous difficulty of operating trains at this length, for which the North American railroad network was not designed.
12. February 2022: Unions representing 17,000 workers threaten to strike, Burlington Northern sues and wins a restraining order preventing the union strike.
    
13. March 2022: Norfolk Southern announces $10 billion in stock buybacks and raises its dividend, while refusing to provide its workers with basic benefits such as paid sick leave.
    
14. August 2022, The Netflix movie White Noise described
    
    1. a Train Derailment
    2. an Evacuation
    3. an Airborne Toxic Event
15. September 15 2022, Biden announces a deal to solve a railroad strike. The deal was announced before being ratified by the unions.
    
16. November 30 2022, after firmly rejecting his deal, Biden told congress to pass the agreement into law. the House passed the agreement along with an amendement requiring 7 days paid sick leave.
    
17. December 1 2022, the next day the Senate passed the agreement with only 1 day of sick leave.
    
18. December 2 2022, President Joe Biden signed the agreement (or disagreement, really) into law. A McGill University Professor described his message to rail workers as: "shut up and get back to work." The Biden administration's disagreement was condemned by over 500 labor historians in an open letter to Joe Biden and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
    
19. January 2 2023: precisely 1 month before East Palestine explodes, the CDC releases an updated toxic profile for Vinyl Chloride, 17 years after their previous update. This update removes information about dangers to human health. 📷
    
20. Train Passes through Cleveland ~8pm
    
    1. The train left Madison, Illinois heading to Conway, Pennsylvania.
    2. The crew started their shift in Toledo before the train passed through Cleveland.
21. Train on Fire in Salem, Ohio ~8:12pm
    
    1. Surveillance footage from a factory 20 miles from the crash, shows flaming wheels as the train passes. Not Hot Wheels, Not Flaming Cheetos, but dioxin the toxin in these cars.
22. Train derails in East Palestine, Ohio ~8:54pm
    
    1. The moment of impact can be seen lighting up the area on surveillance camera from Cardinal Welding.
    2. 38 cars derail with fire damaging 12 more.
23. Evacuation order 9:53 PM February 3, 2023
    
    1. 1 hour later, a shelter-in-place order was issued, alongside an evacuation order for the 1-mile area around the railroad crossing.
    2. A shelter is made available at EPHS.
24. Local Emergency Proclamation Issued 9:29 AM February 4, 2023
    
    1. The Village of East Palestine declares an emergency the next morning, describing the event, as well as the evacuation zone and shelters.
    2. 50 cars derailed, with what are described as: “various products,” instead of calling them “toxins,” which they are.
    3. They pulled the firefighters out, leaving unmanned water hoses to fight the fire
    4. Air monitoring is going on with quote “no dangerous reading to report at this time,” failing to explain what chemicals are involved, nor explaining which chemicals they’re monitoring in the air, while claiming that there are “no dangerous readings to report.” >Cut to firey train<
25. Village News Conference 1:30 PM Feb 4 2023
    
    1. Village Officials and EMS hold their first conference, 17 hours after the wreck.
    2. Ex. 31
    3. strange how they keep refering to the Vinyl Chloride as “the product” instead of “toxic biohazard”
26. NTSB holds first news conference 2:30 PM February 4, 2023
    
    1. The National Transportation Safety Board holds a news conference, describing the train.
    2. Ex. 32
    3. They refuse to release information about the chemicals involved, despite having them. They instead cite “air monitoring” which says “all good” >Cut to firey train<
27. East Palestine officials give second update 12:00 PM February 5, 2023
    
    1. Village officials give an update with state and federal EPA.
    2. Ex. 33
    3. James Justice with the Federal EPA steps into the scene with a strong wind of “air monitoring is a valid excuse for not evacuating a large radius around the collossal dioxin spill.” Looks like he’s done this routine a few times.
28. February 6th Norfolk Southern offers 25,000
    
    1. In a press release later scrubbed off their website, Norfolk Southern plainly offers just $25,000 to the town for exploding toxic biohazards in the heart of their community.
    2. Despite removing the article, you can still find the original copy on this website that records historical snapshots of other websites.
    3. Looks like Norfolk Southern learned the hard way, you can’t scrub a toxic spill off the internet either, because every action leaves residue.
29. Gov. DeWine issues evacuation order, deploys national guard 12:00pm February 6, 2023
    
    1. Governor DeWine issued an evacuation order due to "potential of a catastrophic tanker failure" that "could cause an explosion” with “the potential of deadly shrapnel traveling up to a mile." He also "activated the National Guard to assist authorities.”
    2. Ex. 36 sequence
30. Norfolk Southern crews performs a 'controlled release' 4:20 PM February 6, 2023
    
    1. Scientists would later confirm that this was a vent-and-burn, not a controlled chemical reaction.
31. Smoke plume visible on weather radar 5:00 PM February 6, 2023
    
    1. 40 minutes later, the toxic cloud was identified (visible) from High Resolution Radar
32. Gov. Shapiro gives update 7:00 PM February 6, 2023
    
    1. Governor Josh Shapiro gives an update on the vent-and-burn on the Pennsylvania border, after immediate public concern throughout the region.
    2. Ex. 40 sequence
33. Press Release from Railroad Workers United Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
    
    1. They wrote that "the root causes [here] are the same ones that have been singled out repeatedly, stemming from the hedge fund-initiated operating model known as 'Precision Scheduled Railroading' (PSR).
    2. The group noted that the "immediate cause" of the wreck "appears to have been an 1800’s-style mechanical failure of the axle on one of the cars—an overheated bearing—leading to derailment and then jackknifing tumbling cars.”
    3. "There is no way in the 21st century, except for a combination of incompetence and disregard for public safety, that such a defect should still be threatening our communities," wrote RWU, which supports nationalization of the U.S. rail system.
    4. "Forty percent of the weight of NS 32N was grouped at the rear third of the train, which has always been bad practice," the statement continued. "This fact made the wreck dynamically worse. Increasingly the PSR-driven carriers, driven to cut costs and crew time by any means necessary, cut corners and leave crews and the public at risk.”
    5. The crash in Ohio "has been years in the making," the group added. "What other such train wrecks await us remains to be seen. But given the M.O. of corporate railroads, we can no doubt expect future disasters of this nature.”
34. Evacuation order lifted 4:16 PM February 8, 2023
    
    1. Governor DeWine announced the evacuation order was lifted and residents are allowed back home, just two days after the evacuation. The order was lifted after “air samples” quote showed safe readings, governor DeWine claimed. Ex. 41
    2. It’s just eerie how something that should be triumphant, you know, “Hey we saved the day, avoided the explosion,” you’d think they’d be at least slightly upbeat… if they really did everything in their power to save the people.
35. NewsNation reporter arrested during news conference 5:20 PM February 8, 2023
    
    1. During the news conference announcing the lifting of the evacuation order, reporter Evan Lambert was arrested by Major General John C Harris during a live report. TWELVE officers would follow General Harris to confront Evan Lambert, and General Harris is clearly seen assaulting Mr. Lambert. Charges were filed against Lambert for “Resisting Arrest” and “Criminal Tresspassing.”
    2. Ex. 42
    3. Ex. 41.b
36. Asked about the Evan Lambert arrest, D.O.D. press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said this: February 10 2023
    
    1. Ex. 47
    2. Still no charges have been filed against Major General John C Harris Jr. For violating Mr. Lambert’s constitutional rights.
37. On February 10th, Alan releases his clean-up plan.
    
    1. This document confirms On February 8, 2023, when the evacuation order was lifted, all rail operations resumed
    2. This suggests, heavily, that “vent and burn” allowed Alan to resume making profit very quickly.
    3. This document also provides ZERO detail about what chemicals they are testing the air for.
38. West Virginia water utility takes precautionary measures 5:20 PM February 12, 2023
    
    1. West Virginia American Water said that it’s installing a secondary water intake in case they need to switch to an alternate water source. Read the full story here. This is a large investment for what the EPA claims is basically not a problem at all.
39. Alan announces an additional One-Million-Dollars of support to East Palestine, or roughly $212 per resident. Maybe they realized the initial offer of $25,000 looked a little stingy.
    
40. EPA releases list of hazardous materials on train 6:00 PM February 13, 2023
    
    1. 11 days after the crash, The EPA finally released a list of the biotoxins on board the train provided by Norfolk Southern, providing zero guidance or confirmation about combustion byproducts, such as, you know, Dioxin.
41. Gov. DeWine gives 3rd update since derailment 3:00 PM February 14, 2023
    
    1. Gov. DeWine provided his third news conference on the subject, for the first time revealing that the Norfolk Southern train was not classified as carrying highly hazardous materials, because “only some of the train cars were carrying toxic chemicals.”
    2. Ex. 50
    3. Gov. DeWine said he has no idea what happens when the plume goes up. Seems like something he might want to figure out.
42. PA Gov. Shapiro calls out Norfolk Southern for 'inaccurate information' 6:05 PM February 14, 2023
    
    1. In a letter to Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed "serious concerns" over the company's handling of the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—located less than a mile away from the Pennsylvania border. Full story here. My opinion is that this sounds like the Governor blindly followed the guidance of Norfolk Southern to conduct the “controlled burn,” and after reviewing the aftermath versus what they sold him, he felt lied to.
    2. Ex. 51
43. Ohio AG drops charges against NewsNation reporter arrested 11:00 AM February 15, 2023
    
    1. 7 days after his arrest, The charges against Evan Lambert, the reporter arrested during Gov. DeWine's news conference, were dropped by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. No update was provided on charges being filed against General John C. Harris.
44. Gov. DeWine says municipal water safe to drink 4:30 PM February 15, 2023
    
    1. Test results in East Palestine's five water wells that feed the city's municipal water system showed no sign of contaminants as of Feb. 15, according to Gov. Mike DeWine.
    2. Ex. 54
45. Lawsuit filed against Norfolk Southern 9:30 PM February 15, 2023
    
    1. Morgan & Morgan filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern allgeging they “dumped 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride into East Palestine, Ohio"
    2. “I’m not sure Norfolk Southern could have come up with a worse plan to address this disaster,” said attorney John Morgan. “Residents exposed to vinyl chloride may already be undergoing DNA mutations that can linger for decades before manifesting as terrible and deadly cancers.” The lawsuit alleges that Norfolk Southern made it worse by quote “blasting the town with chemicals" as they focused on restoring train service and protecting their shareholders.”, according to the highly regarded law firm.
    3. The complaint goes on, saying, rather than taking safer, and more expensive efforts to properly clean up the spill, Norfolk Southern chose a cheaper, less safe method — ………. setting the spilled chemicals on fire, creating a 1-million-pound-plus chemical burn pit, and releasing toxic gas into the atmosphere.
    4. The firm has successfully litigated against major corporations in cases such as the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
    5. Ex. 55
46. State Fire Marshal says firefighters likely didn't know about train's toxic cargo 7:00 PM February 17, 2023
    
    1. First responders rushed to put out the fire in East Palestine, but the Ohio Fire Marshal stated they were clearly unaware of the chemical weapon burning in the air around them, as nobody was in hazmat suits. Because the train was not classified as “Highly Hazardous,” none of the authorities had a list of the chemicals involved. Firefighters often do not know what they will encounter, so its our responsibility to keep these innocent heroes prepared for whatever fresh hell corporate america serves up this week, and take the necessary precautions. We already have heard from fire chief Keith Drabick they were fighting the fire until Norfolk Southern arrived and told them to stop. Notification of the material being transported is essential, it can provide advance notice during the dispatch before anyone leaves the fire house. Firefighters obviously need to be in hazmat suits when working in toxic smog. This is a very bad piece of the puzzle for Norfolk Southern.
47. Gov. DeWine announces FEMA to deploy to East Palestine 8:00 PM February 17, 2023
    
    1. 15 days after the wreck, a week after opening the 1-mile-radius back up and telling everyone it’s safe, Governor DeWine and FEMA Administrator Thomas Sivak announced FEMA will deploy an Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) and a Senior Response Official to support ongoing assessments of potential long term recovery needs according to a joint news release.
    2. Ex. 57
48. 8:00am February 18th: JD Vance demands dioxin air testing, 16 days after the wreck no tests for dioxins have been conducted.
    
    1. The EPA's handling of this is highly concerning. Despite the known presence of dioxin the toxin, the EPA failed to conduct any testing for it, effectively covering up the potential danger to public health. This lack of transparency and responsibility is unacceptable, and the EPA must be held accountable for its inaction.”
49. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw visits East Palestine 11:00 AM February 18, 2023
    
    1. 16 days after the wreck, Alan Shaw, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern, showed up to East Palestine where he met with people including local officials, according to a press release from the rail company. Read more here.
50. Beachwood Athletics forfeits girls high school basketball playoff game due to proximity to East Palestine 5:50 PM February 18, 2023
    
    1. The Beachwood Athletics Department decided to forfeit the girls basketball playoff game against Crestview High School due to the "health and safety concerns" given the proximity to the train derailment in East Palestine, 8 miles away.
51. Cincinnati water utility reported no detectable chemicals in Ohio River 12:00 PM February 20, 2023
    
    1. Greater Cincinnati Water Works is reporting there are no detectable chemicals in the Ohio River intakes as contaminated water from the East Palestine train derailment reached the Cincinnati area. This would imply that the chemical slug had fully dissolved into the local ecosystem by that point, or they didn’t have the ability to test for the full spectrum of leaked contaminants.
52. February 20: Norfolk Southern Announces a total of $5.6 million to East Palestine for the inconvenience, roughly $1,200 per resident. This is 224 times more money than their initial offer of $25,000, yet still not close to enough to compensate for derailing 4700 lives.
    
53. 12:00 Noon, February 21: EPA top man Michael Regan holds a press conference
    
    1. Ex. 57
    2. The EPA is very obviously dodging information about dioxins throughout this presentation
54. February 21 A former official at the Federal Railroad Administration confirmed ECP brakes could have minimized or prevented the damage from the East Palestine derailment.
    
55. February 23 an independent environmental tester arrives with a grim warning
    
    1. Ex. 64
56. February 23 NTSB releases their preliminary report, calling the wreck “Completely Preventable”
    
    1. Here’s the NTSB’s statement
    2. She was very clearly NOT on board with the Vent-and-Burn
57. February 23 River Valley Organizing
    
    1. Ex 62 (a)
    2. Ex 62 (b)
58. February 24 Erin Brockovich arrives
    
    1. Ex. 66
59. February 25 FEMA and Department of Health field questions about Dioxin the Toxin
    
    1. Ex.
60. February 26 Residents of east palestine grow outraged
    
    1. Ex.
61. February 27
    
62. February 28
    
    1. Michael Regan addresses east palestine high school
    2. Michael Regan addresses east palestine

So we have a high-quality source that says East Paluhsteen was both preventable and deliberate negligence, yet nobody responsible is behind bars, or even held slightly accountable in any meaningful or significant way, for this crime. against. humanity.
I’ve reported diligently on this topic because it lights me on fire to hear news reporters talking with zero business expertise. The kind of intuition only earned through real life dealmaking.
Until one of these fellas in a suit-coat, gets to spend a serious amount of time in a place that looks like this, the safety of all innocent citizens, will not ever be properly “valued” in their quarterly profit and loss statement.
I’d say, in fact, every time we can point to a “Completely Preventable” crime against humanity, especially one obviously directly tied to corruption at the highest levels such as “ECP Brakes” and “Precision Scheduled Railroading,” I’d say several of these gentlemen in suitcoats could afford to spend a fair amount of time thinking about their actions.
Especially when their initial response amounted to $5.31 per resident in exchange for derailing their whole lives for a month now, and suddenly weeks later we’re learning they lied and drenched everyone in dioxin. Clearly these executives are out-of-touch with the consequences of their actions.
Let’s just do some simple math shall we?
If you get a drunk and disorderly in a bar, say it takes 15 minutes for them to have you in squad car.
Alan Shaw drenched East Palestine in dioxin nearly a month ago and still walks as a free man.
The drunk in a bar disrupted maybe 50 people for 15 minutes, that’s a total of 12 hours.
Alan Shaw disrupted maybe 5000 people for a month, that’s a total of 416 years, so far.
The drunk gets thrown in the drunk tank overnight and society calls it even.
So 30 years a piece for these chemical terrorists, and maybe society can call it even.
So yeah, that’s my recommendation to the States Attorneys General, 5,000 counts of gross criminal negligence, then, for a total of 30 years jailtime per Norfolk Southern Executive.
That would be a fair place to start, in my opinion. But this is a democracy, so instead let’s put it to a vote, then, what do the residents of East Palestine think?
If you don’t know what to think, I asked the superintelligence ChatGPT for answers for you, here’s what it said:
q.1. which dioxin variant would be suspect at the scene of a vent-and-burn of 10 tank cars full of vinyl chloride A.2. The most likely dioxin variant that would be present at the scene of a vent-and-burn of vinyl chloride is (TCDD)
The vent-and-burn is a significant event that would likely produce a large amount of TCDD and other dioxin variants as byproducts of combustion process. It’s important to take appropriate measures to protect the health and safety of first responders and nearby communities in the aftermath of such an event.
q.2. What are the least and most toxic dioxin variants?
A.2. The least toxic is OCDD, and the most toxic is TCDD
q.3. Norfolk Southern and the EPA failed to test for dioxin at the site of a vent-and-burn of tank cars full of vinyl chloride. Might this be considered criminal, and which laws might that have violated.
A.3. The failure to test for dioxin at the site of a vent-and-burn of tank cars full of vinyl chloride could be considered criminal if shown that they acted with gross negligence in violating applicable laws and regulations. The following laws or regulations may have been violated:
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1. The RCRA is a federal law that governs the management of hazardous waste from cradle to grave. If the vinyl chloride released from the cars is classified as hazardous waste under the RCRA, Norfolk Southern and the EPA may have violated the law by failing to properly manage and test for the presence of dioxin at the site.
2. CERCLA, aka Superfund, is a federal law providing for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites. If the vent-and-burn site is determined to be a hazardous waste site under CERCLA, Norfolk Southern and the EPA may have violated the law by failing to properly investigate and clean up the site, including testing for the presence of dioxin.
3. The Clean Water Act is a federal law regulating the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters of the United States. If the vent-and-burn released pollutants into nearby bodies of water, Norfolk Southern and the EPA may have violated the CWA by failing to properly test and manage the pollution.

If criminal charges are pursued, it would be up to the prosecuting authority to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution and whether the evidence meets the legal requirements for charging and convicting individuals or organizations of criminal offenses.
Q4. The EPA is defending their actions by saying dioxin is an everyday chemical released by regular human activities such as a bonfire. Is this fair or does it grossly misrepresent the relative difference in different dioxin variants?
A4 The EPA's defense that dioxin is an everyday chemical released by regular human activities such as a bonfire is not entirely fair, as it ignores the fact that different dioxin variants have vastly different levels of toxicity. While it is true that dioxins can be formed as byproducts of certain types of combustion, such as the burning of wood or garbage, it is also true that some dioxin variants, such as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), are highly toxic and can cause a range of serious health effects, even at very low concentrations.
Comparing the toxicity of TCDD to that of other, less toxic dioxin variants, such as octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (OCDD), reveals that the EPA's defense does not accurately represent the relative differences in toxicity between different dioxin variants. While both TCDD and OCDD are technically "dioxins," the toxicity of TCDD is orders of magnitude higher than that of OCDD, and exposure to even very small amounts of TCDD can have serious health effects.
It is important to accurately characterize the toxicity of different dioxin variants and to take appropriate measures to minimize exposure to those that are highly toxic, such as TCDD. This includes proper management of hazardous waste and pollution, as well as monitoring and testing of potentially contaminated sites to ensure that appropriate cleanup and mitigation measures are taken.
Q.5 is it fair for the government to conveniently not address dioxin, in order to avoid public fears about the widespread release directly into the atmosphere?
No, it is not fair for the government to conveniently not address the issue of dioxin in order to avoid public fears about the widespread release directly into the atmosphere. The government has a responsibility to be transparent with the public about potential risks to human health and the environment, especially in situations where hazardous substances have been released into the environment.
Failing to address the issue of dioxin and its potential health effects would be a disservice to the public, as it could prevent individuals from taking appropriate precautions to protect themselves and their families. In addition, it could lead to a loss of trust in government and other regulatory bodies tasked with protecting public health and safety.
Q6. how far will the dioxin spead over 5 years after vinyl chloride being vented and burned
It is difficult to predict with certainty how far dioxin may spread over a period of five years after vinyl chloride is vented and burned. The spread of dioxin will depend on many factors, including the amount and concentration of dioxin released, the environmental conditions in the surrounding area, and the extent to which the dioxin is transported through air, water, or other media.
Dioxin is a persistent organic pollutant that can travel long distances through the air and water. Its movement can be influenced by factors such as wind patterns, precipitation, and temperature. In addition, dioxin can adhere to soil and other surfaces, where it can persist for years and be transported through runoff or erosion.
Given the persistence and mobility of dioxin, it is possible that it could spread over a wide area over a period of five years after a release event. However, the actual extent of the spread will depend on many factors, as mentioned above. It is important to note that the health effects of exposure to dioxin are cumulative and can take years to manifest, so continued monitoring and testing may be necessary to assess the long-term health impacts of a dioxin release.

Stocks held in check in front of key events this week Today's trade started on a more upbeat note. The main indices enjoyed a positive standing in the early going, supported by gains in some mega cap stocks. Apple (AAPL 153.83, +2.80, +1.9%) led the charge in that respect after Goldman Sachs initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $199 price target.
Things were more shaky under the surface, though, as investors played a waiting game ahead of key events later this week, including Fed Chair Powell's monetary policy testimony before Senate and House committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, followed by the February Employment Report on Friday.
Even at midday, when the main indices traded near their best levels of the day, decliners led advancers by a 4-to-3 margin at the NYSE and a 5-to-3 margin at the Nasdaq.
Underlying weakness became more apparent as mega cap strength started to fade. This coincided with selling efforts ramping up in the Treasury market. The 2-yr note yield, which stood at 4.83% before the stock market opened, rose five basis points to 4.91%. The 10-yr note yield, which stood at 3.90% before the stock market opened, rose two basis points to 3.98%.
The main indices spent most of the afternoon in a slow grind lower, ultimately settling near their lows for the day. At the close, decliners led advancers by a roughly 2-to-1 margin at both the NYSE and the Nasdaq.
Roughly half of the 11 S&P 500 sectors closed with a gain, but moves in either direction were modest in scope. The only sector to move more than 1.0% was materials (-1.7%), reflecting potential concerns about China providing a 2023 growth forecast of around 5.0% that was more conservative than expected. On the flip side, gains in Apple propelled information technology (+0.5%) to the top spot on the leaderboard.
Separately, small cap and mid cap stocks underperformed by a notable margin today presumably on concerns about the U.S. economy weakening in the months ahead as the Fed continues to raise rates. The Russell 2000 fell 1.5% and the S&P Mid Cap 400 dropped 1.2%.
Nasdaq Composite: +11.6% YTD Russell 2000: +7.9% YTD S&P Midcap 400: +7.9% YTD S&P 500: +5.4% YTD Dow Jones Industrial Average: +0.9% YTD Today's economic data was limited to the January Factory Orders, which declined 1.6% month-over-month in January (Briefing.com consensus -1.8%) following a downwardly revised 1.7% increase (from 1.8%) in December. Shipments of manufactured goods increased 0.7% month-over-month after declining 0.6% in December.
The key takeaway from the report was the strength (and rebound) seen in nondefense capital goods orders, excluding aircraft. Shipments of these same goods, which factor into GDP forecasts, were up 1.1% after declining 0.6% in December. Market participants will receive the following economic data tomorrow:
10:00 ET: January Wholesale Inventories (Briefing.com consensus -0.4%; prior 0.1%) 15:00 ET: January Consumer Credit (Briefing.com consensus $22.90 bln; prior $11.60 bln) Overseas: Europe: DAX +0.5%, FTSE -0.2%, CAC +0.3% Asia: Nikkei +1.1%, Hang Seng +0.2%, Shanghai -0.2% Commodities:
Crude Oil +0.74 @ 80.53 Nat Gas -0.39 @ 2.75 Gold +0.70 @ 1854.90 Silver -0.12 @ 21.13 Copper +0.02 @ 4.08 Spotlight Comment: Ciena's supply chain keeps improving, fueling solid JanQ results & raised FY23 sales guidance
Resembling last quarter, Ciena (CIEN 50.89, +1.80, +3.7%) delivered Q1 (Jan) results that could not have gotten much better, driven by a continuation of supply chain improvements and resilient demand. These dynamics allowed the networking equipment supplier to crush its revenue forecast while easily topping consensus on its bottom line. Meanwhile, CIEN raised its FY23 (Oct) revenue forecast. The excellent Q1 numbers are igniting solid price action, propelling shares toward levels not reached since immediately following its cheery Q4 (Oct) results in early December.
The combination of improving supply chains and sustained demand resulted in CIEN's best revenue quarter ever, boasting growth of 25.1% yyr to $1.06, outpacing its forecast of $910-990 mln handily. Profitability was also a positive standout, with adjusted operating margins expanding by 80 bps yyr to 12.6%. These attributes fueled CIEN's solid adjusted EPS growth of 36.2% yyr to $0.64. To put the magnitude of CIEN's past supply woes into perspective, its backlog grew from $1.2 bln in FY20 to $4.2 bln entering FY23. In Q1, CIEN started to see its backlog decline slightly, helping explain its exceptional revenue growth. It is important to note that CIEN's supply chain has yet to fully recover; CEO Gary Smith pointed out some persistent volatility in component deliveries. Nevertheless, component availability continued to trend in a positive direction in Q1, a promising indicator of the company's expectation for gradual supply chain improvements as it moves through the year, consistent with what it stated last quarter. Also consistent with CIEN's remarks from Q4 (Oct) was the demand backdrop. CIEN has not changed its bullish tone on the fundamental drivers of long-term demand, including 5G, cloud, AI, and automation. These trends require ever-increasing network capacity to reduce latency and utilize power consumption efficiently, benefiting CIEN. Peer Cisco (CSCO) shared similar comments, noting that even as some customers slow spending in some areas, their digital transformations remain vital to their organization's success. CIEN remains upbeat that the improvements it saw during the past couple of quarters will continue throughout FY23, illuminated by its raised revenue growth forecast to +20-22% from +16-18%. CIEN also expects its adjusted gross margins to remain around 42-44% for the year due to a shift in product mix toward more line systems and early builds coming online, consistent with what CIEN has noted in previous quarters. After CSCO's encouraging JanQ report last week, fueled by an improving supply situation, we commented on how it should impact other networking equipment names, such as CIEN. Potential concerns remain lingering in the distance, such as weakness overseas, where CIEN is focused on driving growth and a highly-fluid supply chain environment. Still, with such a significant backlog, CIEN has excellent visibility into demand, buoying its confidence in capturing additional market share over the next few years.
Today's News Summary: For a full rundown of today's market and after hours developments, see Live In Play
Earnings/Guidance (Full Earnings Calendar): American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) reaffirms FY23 core FFO guidance in investor presentation Apartment Income REIT Corp. (AIRC) reaffirms pro forma FFO outlook for FY23 in slide presentation ahead of investor conference ArcBest (ARCB) reports monthly metrics; Feb Billed Revenue/Day was +1% vs prior month AvalonBay (AVB) reports February operating metrics Azul S.A. (AZUL) reports Q4 (Dec) results, misses on revs BlackLine (BL) appoints Therese Tucker and Owen Ryan as Co-Chief Executive Officers; reaffirmed its financial outlook for Q1 and full year of fiscal 2023 CECO Environ (CECO) beats by $0.05; beats on revs; raises FY23 outlook Ciena (CIEN) beats by $0.28, beats on revs Ciena (CIEN) sees Q2 revs above consensus, raises FY 23 revs guidance Keros Therapeutics (KROS) provides anticipated 2023 corporate milestones; also reports earnings LGI Homes (LGIH) announces it closed 506 homes in Feb 2023 Lordstown Motors (RIDE) misses by $0.21, misses on revs Sun Communities (SUI) reaffirms Q1 and FY23 guidance United Micro (UMC) reports February sales declined 18.6% yyr to NT$16.93 bln General News Fed Chairman Powell to testify this week, according to Bloomberg Tennessee AG filed a motion to compel TikTok's compliance in Request for Information, additional state AGs join Abbott Labs (ABT) reports Late-Breaking Data from Landmark COAPT Trial Show Long-Term Benefits of Abbott's MitraClip Device; reports New Data Show Superiority of Abbott's TriClip Device Compared to Medical Therapy for Tricuspid Regurgitation Abbott Labs (ABT): FDA has cleared its FreeStyle Libre 2 and FreeStyle Libre 3 integrated continuous glucose monitoring (iCGM) system sensors for integration with automated insulin delivery (AID) systems Aclaris Therapeutics (ACRS) announces preliminary topline data from 12-week phase 2a study of oral zunsemetinib; study did not meet primary or secondary efficacy endpoints Air Lease (AL) announced long-term lease placements for three new Airbus (EADSY) A350-900 widebody aircraft with Air France (AFLYY) Alphabet (GOOG) execs tell employees Bard A.I. is not just about search, according to CNBC Amarin (AMRN) reports New REDUCE-IT Data at ACC.23/WCC Showing Benefit of VASCEPA®/VAZKEPA (Icosapent Ethyl) in High-Risk Patients with a Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome Event Amazon's (AMZN) Zoox robotaxi under NHTSA scrutiny, according to Reuters Ameriprise Financial (AMP) and Comerica Bank signed an agreement for Ameriprise to become Comerica’s new investment program provider Amprius Technologies (AMPX) signed a letter of intent for a 775,000 square foot facility in Brighton, Colorado AstraZeneca (AZN) reports ENHERTU Showed clinically meaningful and durable responses across multiple HER2 expressing tumor types in DESTINY-PanTumor02 Phase 2 Trial AstraZeneca (AZN) and Daiichi Sankyo’s (DSNKY) ENHERTU met prespecified criteria for objective response rate and duration of response atai Life Sciences (ATAI) Announces Key Clinical Pipeline and Corporate Updates BAE Systems (BAESY) awarded a $245.6 mln US Army contract for Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles BAE Systems (BAESY) receives $256 million full-rate production contract from U.S. Marine Corps for additional Amphibious Combat Vehicles Bath & Body Works (BBWI) announces appointment of Thomas J. Kuhn to Board of Directors Biogen (BIIB) and Eisai receives Priority Review for traditional approval of LEQEMBI BioVie Inc. (BIVI) announces additional preliminary findings from its Parkinson’s Disease Phase 2 trial Boeing (BA): Declines being attributed to report suggesting the company may be delaying some 737 MAX deliveries owing to a new issue with a software program Brady (BRC): Vizient awards national contract to Brady's PDC for medical labels BridgeBio (BBIO) Announces Positive Phase 2 Cohort 5 Results of Infigratinib in Achondroplasia Demonstrating Mean Increase in Annualized Height Velocity of 3.03 cm/year with No Treatment-related Adverse Events Broadcom (AVGO) Introduces Industry’s First 5nm 100G/lane Optical PAM-4 DSP PHY with Integrated TIA and Laser Driver C3.ai (AI): Kerrisdale Capital is short AI; "no-growth, cash-burning industry flop with poor economics" Camping World (CWH) to implement plans to exit and restructure operations of its indirect subsidiary, Active Sports Caterpillar (CAT) will not close more union-represented plants, according to the Wall Street Journal Cboe Global Markets Reports Trading Volume for February 2023 Coherus BioSciences (CHRS) announces FDA approval for a single-dose, prefilled autoinjector presentation of UDENYCA® (pegfilgrastim-cbqv), a biosimilar pegfilgrastim administered the day after chemotherapy to decrease the incidence of infection as manifested by febrile neutropenia Community Healthcare Trust Chairman (CHCT) and CEO Timothy Wallace passed away Construction Partners (ROAD) announced Greg Hoffman will succeed Alan Palmer as Chief Financial Officer, effective following the close of business on March 31, 2023 Corcept Therapeutics (CORT) commences tender offer to purchase up to 7,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price not greater than $22.00 per share nor less than $19.25 per share CrowdStrike (CRWD) and Dell (DELL) announce strategic alliance for cyber threat detection and response Cytokinetics (CYTK) Presents Results From Cohort 4 of REDWOOD-HCM and Long-Term Results From FOREST-HCM at the American College of Cardiology 72nd Annual Scientific Session Dentsply Sirona (XRAY) has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. to repurchase $150 mln of its common stock EF Hutton Acquisition Corporation I (EFHT): E.C.D. Auto Design and EFHT announce a merger agreement; combined company plans to list on the Nasdaq Stock Market (EFHT halted) Enstar Group (ESGR) names Paul Brockman as COO and Matthew Kirk as CFO, effective as of March 1 Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR) reports Landmark CLEAR outcomes study demonstrates NEXLETOL tablet is the only LDL-C lowering therapy since statins to reduce hard ischemic events Golden Entertainment (GDEN) entered into definitive agreements to divest its distributed gaming operations in Nevada and Montana for aggregate cash consideration of $322.5 mln, plus $39 mln of estimated purchased cash at closing Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico (PAC) reports February traffic increased 24.3% yyr Heron Therapeutics (HRTX) announces APONVIE injectable emulsion, is now commercially available for intravenous use in adults for the prevention of PONV Hon Hai Precision (HNHPF): iPhone maker Foxconn reported slumping revenue over the weekend citing weaker demand for electronics, according to BBC Honda Motor (HMC) reveals new prototype Autonomous Work Vehicle IAA (IAA): Glass Lewis recommends shareholders vote against Ritchie Bros. (RBA) takeover, according to Reuters IAMGOLD (IAG) appointed Renaud Adams as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 3, 2023 Ikena Oncology (IKNA) Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Novel AHR Antagonist IK-175 in Combination with Nivolumab to Treat Urothelial Carcinoma Immersion (IMMR) has filed patent infringement lawsuits against several companies of the Xiaomi-Group in Germany, France and India Immuneering (IMRX) Presents Preclinical Data with Lead Program IMM-1-104 Supporting Universal-RAS Activity Inari (NARI) announces "positive" results from the FLAME study in high-risk/massive pulmonary embolism Incyte (INCY) to discontinue Phase 3 LIMBER-304 trial following results of a pre-planned interim analysis Intel (INTC) is canceling its upcoming Rialto Bridge series of data center Max GPUs and moving to a two-year cadence for data center GPU releases - Intel VP Jeff McVeigh Invitae's (NVTA) PCM Assay for Minimal Residual Disease Receives its First Commercial Coverage Invivyd (IVVD) announces the election of VYD222 to advance into the clinic as a novel monoclonal antibody therapeutic option for COVID-19 IonQ (IONQ) argets aggressive commercial growth in 2023 iRhythm (IRTC): Large Real-World Evidence Analysis Demonstrates that Zio XT Is Associated With the Highest Diagnostic Yield, Lowest Retesting Rates, and Fastest Time to Clinical Diagnosis Compared to Other Ambulatory ECG Monitors JetBlue (JBLU) Releases Analysis Further Demonstrating Procompetitive Benefits of Combination with Spirit (SAVE) JetBlue Airways (JBLU) / Spirit (SAVE) deal faces DOJ antitrust suit as soon as Tuesday - Bloomberg TV Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): Janssen Pharmaceutical announces results from the Phase 3 A DUE study JPMorgan (JPM) Chase's Jamie Dimon says war in Ukraine, China are among top concerns - Bloomberg TV interview Kernel Group Holdings (KRNL) has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with AIRO Group Holdings Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP): Mondelez (MDLZ) board designee Michael Call notified the Executive Chairman that he will resign from the Board effective immediately L3Harris (LHX) announces receiving an undefinitized contract from Lockheed Martin (LMT) to procure long-lead material for the Viper Shield electronic warfare system to accelerate global product delivery LendingTree (TREE) has repurchased approximately $190 mln in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 Lexicon Pharma (LXRX) reports New Analyses of Sotagliflozin Showing Time to Clinical Benefit Presented at The American College of Cardiology’s 72nd Annual Scientific Session Together With World Heart Federation’s World Congress of Cardiology Lineage Cell Therapeutics (LCTX): RG6501 (OpRegen Phase 1/2a Results to Be Featured at 2023 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting in Presentation by Eyal Banin, M.D., Ph.D. LivePerson (LPSN) provides late filing update Lockheed Martin (LMT) awarded a $214.5 mln US Navy contract for multinational early start engineering efforts MACOM Tech (MTSI) has acquired Linearizer Communications Group, a developer of industry leading products located in Hamilton, New Jersey MediWound (MDWD) Expands its Global Leadership Team to Help Drive Company’s Future Growth Medtronic (MDT): PulseSelect PFA System exceeds performance goal on safety in PULSED AF global IDE trial Merck (MRK) announced the FDA approved the addition of the intramuscular route of administration to the United States Product Insert for Merck’s MMRV family of vaccines Merck (MRK) announces results from the Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating MK-0616 Merck’s (MRK) Investigational Activin Signaling Inhibitor Sotatercept Improved Six-Minute Walk Distance by 40.8 Meters at Week 24 Versus Placebo in Adults with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension on Background Therapy Meta Platforms' (META) price cuts on Quest headsets spurred by "disappointing" demand among corporate, mainstream customers, according to Bloomberg Microsoft (MSFT) announces plans to integrate Dynamics 365 Copilot for both CRM and ERP Milestone Pharmaceuticals (MIST) Progresses Clinical and Regulatory Activities for Etripamil in Patients with Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS) Presents Positive Lorundrostat Results from the Phase 2 Target-HTN Trial at ACC.23/WCC Natl Instruments (NATI) announces the acquisition of SET GmbH; financial terms were not disclosed Newmark Group (NMRK) arranges a $240 mln joint venture between the Sponsor, Burton Katzman and DRA Advisors for the recapitalization of 24 infill light industrial properties in the Midwest Norfolk Southern (NSC): Second NSC train derails in Ohio about a month after East Palestine derailment; no hazardous materials were involved, according to the New York Times Ocugen (OCGN) announces the appointment of Quan A. 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(PGTI) CFO John Kunz has stepped down, effective Feb 27 Philips (PHG): Clinical evidence presented at ACC.23/WCC highlights how utilization of Philips cardiology solutions is improving the quality and efficiency of patient care Qualtrics (XM): Silver Lake proposes to purchase outstanding shares at price of $18.15 per share in cash Quest Diagnostics (DGX) elects CEO and President James Davis , to serve in the additional position of Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2023 Rallybio (RLYB) announced that clinical proof-of-concept has been achieved in a Phase 1b study for RLYB212, an anti-HPA-1a monoclonal antibody for the prevention of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia Raytheon Technologies (RTX) business Pratt & Whitney announces that it has been awarded a $5.2 billion production contract for lots 15-1 Ritchie Bros. 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Rowe Price (TROW) announces Kelly Shen as its new chief data officer Telecom Italia (TIIAY) received from CdP Equity and Macquarie a non-binding offer for the purchase of fixed network infrastructure and Sparkle Tesla (TSLA) lowered Model S version by 5% to $89,900 and Plaid to $109,990 Tesla (TSLA) aiming to build cars at Mexico plant next year, according to the New York Times UBS (UBS) cutting bonus pool, according to Bloomberg Uranium Energy (UEC) intersects additional high-grade uranium mineralization with CB-183-1, at the Christie Lake Project Valaris (VAL) announces new contracts and updates guidance; reaffirms FY23 revs outlook Vistra Energy (VST) announced Energy Harbor (OTC: ENGH) will merge with and into a newly-formed subsidiary of Vistra; increases aggregate share repurchase authorization by $1 billion Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA): California Governor G. 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Disclaimer: the following article contains such a vast amount of spoilers on the first two acts of Escape from Norwood that it should not be distributed carelessly and always handled with the utmost care. But who am I to judge if you feel like you need a little nudge or just want to enjoy the story without having to worry about these nasty puzzles?
This being an open world adventure, there is no single path to success, so the guide is organized around 7 sections, one per main diary rubric and one for things to do that are not in the diary. Within them one sub-section exists for each quest. If you are stuck on a particular mission, you can look only at it and ignore the other spoilery paragraphs. If you want more personalized help and advice, feel free to join our Discord or reach me directly on the various means displayed on the website contained in my profile (Reddit spam filters, I see you).
A guide on the first act can be found by scrolling up (or is it down?) this sub. In order to limit cross-spoilers, each quest here will only contain spoilers to its direct predecessor from act 1 (when one exists) and to any other quests that are required for it to be completed, so read slowly and carefully.

Context

If you have advanced through act 1 there are two main things that are the focus of your attention at this stage: finding a way out of the city via the harbor and advancing the missions provided by the Hidden Eyes and Children of Ona.
In this guide you will also find the list of quests and things to do in the Harbor based on whatever you could do on Act 1 and what happens here directly. Further quests will be displayed in other walkthroughs.

The Road to Safety

Nothing new here in this second act, save for the very final event that happens after you finish…
The Pride's Shamal
After you return to Dad with supplies, talk to him, then wait for a few hours (or speed up time with the time menu) and then go the Pride of Magistan where you will witness a quite dramatic cutscene.
[Resume reading once you have done so]
So the boat’s Shamal (an Eyebreed who can manipulate winds) died from a mysterious disease and they are looking for someone to replace him. Dad and Agnela are not much help, but if you talk to Maely (who is always knowledgeable) at the Undine and the Jonquil, she will point you to a strange traveler on top of the Tor.
That, unfortunately, is a very steep climb. If you have not found it yet, read « Finding the Ladder » below because you are going to need it. Drop the ladder in the part of Traders Avenue where a stone wall lines the Tor and up you go to Voyager.
This foreign Shamal will not help you unless you help him settle some score with a young, nondescript girl named Kothren. Nondescript, that is, if you disregard the peculiar scar on her back. Voyager tells you that Kothren spends a lot of time in the marketplace and you will find her there in the mornings. If you are an early riser or a night bird you will also see her come and go from her house west of the marketplace. Unfortunately, she always locks the door. But there is one other thing the young girl does every day: visit the city baths That’s where you will recognize her as she enjoys the pools, Yet that still does not get you access to her room.
By a stroke of luck, old Flibos doesn’t see very well. Give him big enough clothes and he will take care of them and hand over a towel and a pebble to you. Now you can try to steal Kothren’s pebble, but she will notice you getting it. For that you need to up your game in terms of invisibility magic by doing the « Harbor Politics » quest of the Hidden Eyes. Once this is done, you should easily be able to get Kothren’s pebble and give it to Flibos. In her tunic you will find her house key.
At last, you can go to Kothren’s home. Once you are there, push the bed twice to discover a hidden cache. The plank won’t budge, though, and you need either the slick from the carpenter or a good old knife to dislodge it and procure Kothren’s diary and her secrets. If you give the diary to Voyager he will agree to gorge the sails of the Pride of Magistan. Meet him and dad on the boat and see what happens then for a little surprise and the end of act 2.

The Hidden Eyes

Harbor Politics
After you spend some time in the Guild of Crafts with Odemar and Belkin, getting some exposition on the eyes and your unique flavor of magic, Odemar will ask you to spy on the Harbormaster. The obvious « daylight / front door » avenue being a dead end, you will have to find another way to access the quarters. The narrow vent hints that Gigiel’s office has been erected next to the shanties of the Bilge, so this is where you should look. And lo, there you find a damp shack with a rotten wall… that is too sturdy for you and the tools you have found until now.
You step out, still thinking about how to bash through this wall, when you suddenly behold the thick mace of the bouncer to the mysterious building directly south. He won’t part from it, unless you complete « The Prime Lady » below. Once you procure the mace, subtly haul it thrice at the wall to get access to an alley directly behind the Harbormaster’s office. Climb on the rubble and you will be privy to whatever is happening inside. Wait for the depth of the night and you will get some nice intel to report back to Odemar. Don’t forget to then talk to Belkin to learn the ability of staying veiled when interacting with items.

The Children of Ona

The Children of the Bilge
Following Iktor’s advice, you pushed the temple wall thrice and entered the crypt of the Children. Solyver shows you his papers and discusses the « party » they want to throw in the Bilge, the slums to the northwest of the Harbor. Go there to the boarded house with a fire that seems to burn for no one. Say the password and Quinrann will tell you what this is actually about.
[Come back when you know]
You’re supposed to compromise a city official that spends too much time in the Palace of Desires, thanks to Quinrann’s talent as an Engraver. Engravers are Eyebreed who can make others re-see specific moments they witnessed as if they were happening right now.
The trouble is that you can’t veil Quirann (yet?), so you need another way in for her. But first you need a way in for yourself. Fortunately, old Geriar likes to brag when he is in the Leaking Pint and if you listen to him he will talk about what he does in the Palace. Ask him and he will give you a handkerchief to show Milia.
Once inside the palace you will want to look in the basement. Push the rack to expose a wall with loosening mortar. Use the carpenter’s slick or a knife to pray the stones out, then dig with the shovel and voilà! A way out of the palace and through the harbor. Report to Quinrann, then back to Solyver and get access to the tunnels. Two rewards await you there: the possibility to cast an invisibility spell on things and people by talking to the cowled woman, and a tunnel to get an unofficial access to the Orchard . How nice is that?

Stories from the Past

Family Stories
This is a tough nut to crack, it won’t progress during this act either.
The Secret of the Temples
[Continued from Act 1]
It so happens that there is a temple in the Harbor, and you are starting to know that Mauduin worked on a lot of them. If you look at his tome when within the temple, you will locate the Column of the Demons, with writing high up, so high… You need the ladder to see more details (cue « Getting the Ladder » below). From up there you get a clearer picture.
Now all you need is the pen and paper from the teacher’s desk in the Workshop. To get them you should tell him about Romaric (from the « What happened to Romaric? » quest started in Act 1): that will make him leave his desk for a little while. Use the pen on the paper to sketch the figures, then use it again on the drawing to trace the lines between the eyes of the victims: here you are, a nice new totem animal for you!
The Durlane's Disgrace
The old man in the temple of the Fortunate has quite a story… but maybe it can wait for another walkthrough?

Mysteries

The Weasel
[Continued from Act 1]
If you follow the breadcrumbs of your discussion with Hegas you will find the Weasel in the Bilge, to the north-west of the harbor. His bouncer is quite tenacious but you can get his key if you finish « The Prime Lady ».
Once you visit the Weasel and ask him about Hegas he will hint toward Unth in the Palace of Desires. To enter there, listen to old Geriar when he is in the Leaking Pint and he will talk about what he does in the Palace. Ask him and he will give you a handkerchief to show Milia.
Unth will tell you that Hegas stole a precious brooch from him. When confronted, Hegas will admit he used it to settle a debt with a fellow staying at the Undine and the Jonquil. Upstairs at the inn, push the bunk beds if you have not done it already, and get the brooch. Give it to Unth and then report back to Hegas who will be very glad to give you the knapsack or the saddle (if you have not purchased them), or simply give you some money if you are such a good customer as to have purchased them both already.

Missing People

What happened to Romaric?
[Continued from Act 1]
Aside from the false lead that was the Weasel (who « only » kidnaps children to settle debts and put them to work), you won’t progress much on this one in this walkthrough.
The Vanished Prime
Another strange disappearance, this time in the very modest dwellings of the Bilge. Another cat burglar escape, now from the roof. If you « Get the Ladder » (see corresponding item below) and drop it, you will see some piece of fabric close to the roof and Ulman will point you to the weasel (more in « Abduction in the Orchard »).
Abduction in the Orchard
If you enter the Weasel’s adobe (see « The Prime Lady »), you will find several children and among them a Prime named Jinys. Your first impulse is to lead her to Ulman, but she is not his child. She actually belongs in the House of the Forgotten, where her mother is. They will be too poor to reward you but will point you to Yasim in the Orchard for the next breadcrumb in this mysterious case of missing children. More on that in a later walkthrough!

People of Norwood

Leandra’s masterpiece
[Continued from Act 1]
There is indeed a ruby in the Harbor, though it is not easy to get. It’s not the only one in the game, but since we are doing the Harbor’s walkthrough, let’s see how you can get it!
Leristav the jeweler keeps his trophies in his yellow tent, where he also keeps a mountain of a man to guard them. Next to him, a pile of firewood is used for warmth. You can tamper with it a bit and start a fire, but not to much avail. If you took the bellows from the smithy in the Workshop and try to use them, the guard will see the danger and stop you… unless you can do it while remaining invisible. This is a trick you will learn when you finish the « Harbor Politics » mission for the Hidden Eyes. Now the guard has to run to the river for water and you can safely borrow Leristav’s treasures and give the ruby to Leandra for some solid cash.
The Cooper’s Apprentice
Deodel is childless and without a successor. You offer your services, but you are not much of a cooper yourself. If you finished « The Prime Lady », you have access to the Weasel’s children. Among them is Xean, who has a natural talent with wood. Look at the children after you talk to Deodel, then talk Xean into following you and the cooper will reward you once he sees how good she is.
The Prime Lady
This is an enabler for a lot of quests in the area. It starts with you buying a couple of pints of beer in the Leaking Pint for the drunken sailors: they will refer to a toothless oaf and his Prime Lady. If you visited the Bilge in the north-western quadrant of the Harbor, you saw a tall bouncer with a mace. Stay there and watch his routine (speed up time if needed), until you realize he misses two front teeth. You can then ask him about his Prime Lady, triggering an angry reaction from him where he drops his bottle.
Now what to do with it, since he very quickly gets it back ? Have you visited Papa Wilcott yet? He sells a sleeping serum that you can use on the bottle: once the bouncer drinks it and goes to sleep you can safely appropriate his mace and his key. Said key opportunely opens the big neighboring building…
The Torn Sail
The Merchant ship in the harbor is down one sail, and if you talk to the captain and the first mate you get a definitive feeling that this is at last an opportunity to learn how to swim. Yet where to find canvas?
Have you looked inside the white tent? There is an immense sheet there, so immense you can’t find a way to get it without alarming the resident teenager, who always stops you. She is not very talkative, but if you look at her clothes you will notice the telltale stains of one who indulges herself into a slice of Norwood pie. Buy one from Coindra for her and Jiena will confide in you.
She will tell you about her plan to slip away, a plan she can’t implement, with her being watched at all times. To help her you will need to finish « The Children of the Bilge » to learn how to make others invisible: cast this new spell on Jiena and the sheet is yours. The merchant, too happy to be able to repair his ship, will gladly teach you how to swim and open up a new world of opportunities for exploration.

Miscellaneous

Getting the ladder
If you visit the tent area north of the marketplace, you will see that the right one (the old leather tent) is closed but its fabric is quite thin. It’s so thin indeed that it won’t resist a good slash of the cleaver from the slaughterhouse (or any other knife you may have procured), provided you do it by night. In there you will find a very handy ladder.
Pawn-brokering
This is not a quest but a very useful place to get marks: Syndia will give you money for your things. Look at them in your inventory to see the price and drop them for money if they are worth anything. You can always get them back, but with a primer, by taking them and paying Syndia automatically.
Fishing
Carryn likes to fish, and if you borrow her net you will get a new action. Try it in various places (fishing boat, tanner beach, on the river itself.. oh, wait, do you know how to swim yet?) to fetch an assortment of fish she will buy from you. They will reappear over time, should you be in dire need of coins (though it’s always more fun to get coins from helping people and finishing quests).

Federal law enforcement agencies investigating the double mass shootings which took place last month within 3 blocks of each other in South San Antonio, CA have confirmed today that the shootings were "unconnected".
The first shooting occurred at around 11.10pm on the 5 October. Members of the California-based "Knights of America" targeted a 15 year old girl's Quinceañera on Halpern Avenue as celebrations were underway. 12 people were killed, including the teenage celebrant, Maria Martinez, her parents and other revellers. Local and state police managed to apprehend most of the 6 gunmen, however a running gun battle erupted during the pursuit of the last gunman, George Hunt, which saw a massive police chase extending as far north as Santa Ana in the Greater Los Angeles area.
As the community - and the entire state - was reeling from the bloodbath, another mass shooting occurred with 42 hours of the Quinceañera bloodbath, this time, at a Bar Mitzvah being celebrated by well-known Ashkenazi locals, the Rosenblatts. Members sworn to the banned Neo-Nazi group "Hitler's New Youth", which traces its origins as far afield as former Confederate States and Texas, used submachineguns and assault rifles to gun down multiple revellers at the Bar Mitzvah celebrating Harry Rosenblatt's 12th birthday. Despite 9 people being killed, including Rosenblatt's 79 year old grandfather, Rosenblatt himself escaped with only a mild head injury. Local and state police were, however, merciless in their pursuit of the suspects - who numbered between 10 and 12, with 2 still thought to be at large. A specialist SWAT team was called in as a matter of urgency and 9 assailants were killed by officers within 25 minutes of the shooting. Another assailant was mowed down by an armored SWAT vehicle "following a miscommunication" and still remains in a coma.
DHS Special Investigator, Special Agent Dean Matheson confirmed today, via a prearranged press conference that both "devastating shootings" were "unconnected".
"But let me be clear," Matheson stressed, "both shootings were as a result of homegrown terrorism." Continuing on in an unusual style not usually displayed by law enforcement agency leads, whose roles and responsibilities usually transcend party lines and party politics, Matheson continued on, saying, "the vitriol being spouted by extreme elements within the Republican Party does not help at all, but these shootings were carried out by deranged homegrown terrorists who sought to target children and their families and were out for blood. This far-right, white supremacist nonsense has to stop. It has infected our communities across America and it is killing people, many, many people."
Meanwhile, both the Governor of California, Republican Francis Garrett and the President echoed Matheson's comments, with Garrett saying that "the entire state is currently undergoing a long and hard process of healing and reflection".
The White House, meanwhile, confirmed that the Vice President will be making his way to South SA as communities mark the one month anniversary of the mass shootings. The late visit comes as Bull attempts to work with Congress to push through a Democrat-led bill which could see assault rifle magazines holding more than 25 rounds banned, as well as more stringent background checks for semi-automatic and automatic rifles and also increased police powers on both federal and state levels. The President stressed on Sunday that "several individuals who hold a lot sway within the Republican Party" were "making my job a hell of a lot harder than it should be."
"We all want to save lives and make our communities safer," Bull said, "but clearly, some folks who have the power to ensure this happens don't share the same outlook and goals as most Americans."
NOTES
A quinceañera, (Spanish: “15 years [feminine form]”) also called quinceaños or quince años or simply quince, the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking her passage from girlhood to womanhood;
A bar mitzvah, also spelled bar mitzva or mitzwa (Hebrew: “son of the commandment”), plural bar mitzvahs, bar mitzvot, or bar mitzwot, Jewish religious ritual and family celebration commemorating the religious adulthood of a boy on his 13th birthday.