Being naturally immune to jellyfish stings, Mr. Turbulent Monkey-Parade likes to plunge himself into the jellyfish tank for everyone to see. People come from miles around in their space-cars and hoverciphers and hoverzephers in hoverboots all purple and ozone-electric to the museum, with the tank of jellyfishes is, which is where he performs on Sunday afternoons. He plunges himself inside, and floats, all-entangled among the jellyfish tentacles, and unbothered as well. He can stay underwater for hours. People sometimes don’t even know he’s there, don’t even realize it. But then they notice him, see his face through the jellyfish tank walls and they’re taken aback, surprised. He climbs out afterwards, and drives back home, where he prepares to work again, prepares for his Monday day-job. (He is a robot, after all.) Mr. Turbulent Monkey-Parade wears a suit and a tie like everyone else, although it’s unknown to the end how he developed such a strange talent, or why – if he has this talent – why does he merely go to work day after stultifying day, instead of putting his talent greater use? Perhaps it’s because like all of us, his talent is hard to fathom, hard to apply to daily circumstances, and even harder to understand. And so, dejected, like all of us, he turns to usual preoccupations to pass his time.
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The text used in the montage comes from "Linear System Theory and Design by Chi-Tsong Chen".
Posted by jasonmurk on 2009-08-30 23:47:43
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