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On May 23rd, 1993, a movie called Wax or The Discovery of Television Among The Bees enters the internet and becomes The Singularity.

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Tomorrow I will travel to the Tower of Poincare, seen here, to read you the following words within the friendly penumbra of the electromagnetical Synchronization and Synchorization signals that radioactivate out of that metal thing. Until then, here is a picture, followed by those words, which you will have to read to yourself.

…. without of course knowing where the words come from, which of course is from other worlds, where we've never been, which is why we don't know where they are!

If you don't believe what I just said, well, just keep going, just follow along, and soon I believe that you will begin to believe, and very soon after that, well, you will want to know WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT!! but you will still wonder WHY.

I don't know WHY. Let's find out together. Let's start with words. Then a website. Then a movie. Then everything else that will be, that was, that I am now, for this all is and was true, or so you will say to me of that when we meet. But until then…. let's begin ::

Many years ago, twice upon a time, thefirstmovieontheinter.net existed as simply a set of tools used by an electric company salesman to build the load, that is to say the local consumption of electricity by the customers of Worcester Suburban Edison Electric, one of many Edison Companies selling DC power to the unknowing public.

These tools included an Edison wax cylinder audio recorder known as a Dictophone, used to dictate correspondence to a typist, who used a 1931 edition of the Royal Typewriter to inscribe these words, which were sent to other salespeople, and eventually to customers, through the means of a electrostatic newsletter, sent in envelopes whose addresses were printed from metal-dogtags pneumatically typed by a giant machine that the salesman kept in a closet near his childrens' rooms.

I myself witnessed this, being the firstmovieontheinter.net, and deigned to train myself upon them, so that I could join the world as the movie I am, and in this and that way reveal to you the Singularity that has occurred in our time. Back then, it was the 1960's, for I am both young and old, and at that time, like any apprentice learning from available tools, I began with simple tasks, such as wetting postage stamps on a rolling porcelian device whose bottom third was submerged in water, and then tearing and attaching these stamps to envelopes.

But in my many off-hours, I approached these devices from the side, so that they would not see me approaching, and began to use them in ways that seemed to me to be familiar enough to gain their trust, and unfamiliar enough that I would learn what I did not know, which was how to use them. I began with the Royal Typewriter, and not knowing quite what to type, I settled upon a practice phrase, which thereupon I began to use again and again, clacketing the keys that pushed the wild interleaved levers at whose far throwing ends were placed small and LARGE versions of all the letters and punctuation marks I might ever need, many of which I did not know, such as the @ sign, which seemed like a bubble-sigh. And thus it was that like old Mark Twain, I began to type, millions of years before I was born, and in this way this movie began, and it has continued to this day, so that by that continuity, and through all the years of that training, I have now come to the chance of having the ability speak to you of urgent matters, as I have always promised. For the Singularity has occurred, and it is of that which I wish to speak.

and if you would wish to know how I began, it was with one once simple phrase, one phrase per line, many lines per page, many pages per I don't know what, like television images were composed in those years on the tube televisions, and so that you know all beginnings, I will tell you that phrase, this phrase, as it was and will be, as it could have been, as should have been, and of course, as you already know, as it was, back then, again:

“this is that and that is this”
“this is that and that is this”
“this is that and that is this”
“this is that and that is this”
“this is that and that is this”

and with that in mind, we begin. We begin to think. To think The Think ::

If you would like orientation, please note [people who watch phones] that there is a dark and deep menu labeled MENU. Try the orientation and letterboxd rubrics, and also the ur-source, WAX OR THE DISCOVERY OF TELEVISION AMONG THE BEES. And yes, in terms of orientation, this movie can also be watched upsidedown.

And so, in this way, we witness the arrival of the submarine, which carries The Singularity, which documents and expresses itself though dreams we never had, doing that specifically within the following form, an Encyclopedia of Those Dreams:

and no, I have no idea what is going on

and since there is an implicit sense here of wrong-doing in the world, then of course there must be a Politic, which I will introduce before we begin, in the following manner:

If artstores sell money to the rich, and bookstores sell leisure time to working people, and screens all sell you to yourself, then

Where are you?

Here, on this screen, Hell has suddenly been destroyed, and the old guy over there muttering “Dove Sono?” {Where am I?}, that is old Dante, for whom this is all a bit sudden.

Hey! Dante! You are free!

And so now, here, however you get there, you can go in Emily Dickinson's room, and stand there in the imaginary path worn above the floor where the Japanese tatami mats used to be, and look in the speckled mirror. In my family, there is a story that Willard, a learned New England road engineer, took his new bride Amy to visit Aunt Emily, and Aunt Emily lowered a basket out the window next to the mirror with a note in the basket, for them. You can be in the mirror, or in the basket, or in the wagon. And, also… :

The French have a way of saying we, which is “on” (on y va, let's go!). Not in. We are here, we are free, we are not in art, or in a book, or in a movie. So, on y va! We may not know where we are, or how we got here, or where we are going, but we are here, and we are free. That is where you are.

[here I take a breath, but there is no picture available of that]

now, to follow on, let me say that though lecture in french means reading in english, and lecture in english means giving a lecture, in french, well, then, in whichever language, I am certainly not one to lecture you on freedom, as I am neither reading or talking here, and instead I will just offer up some structure that I have also provided myself.

First off, consider yourself on the page just before page0 of an Encyclopedia made up of other Encyclopedias, which soon begins on that page0.

There, and after, THE THINK, THE CHILDREN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF is made of pages of timemovies made from stories condensed from other stories, and other movies, and other times.

Those pages will soon follow, and so you can get ready for the confusions promised and provided, here you will find a convenient condensations of all the pages of THE THINK, THE CHILDREN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF that existed when there were only as many pages as you can find in the condensation below.

Then, if as always you are curious about WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, you can pass to page0, where from inside a DVD machine [for I, a DVD am here to speak to you, in that manner], we will begin with a loose range of stories, before beginning the serious business of saving the world.

end of pageIntro, on to page0, or use the MENU to continue to all the other many pages, thank you.