[DPsNtN]
POLYLOGE (Auszüge aus dem Originalskript)
[DISPLACED_PERSONS], "Zonen der Ver-störung",
Steirischer Herbst, Graz, 1997
zarvox*1*You sense that Peeping Tom is looking for you in Dusty Intersection.
*ralph*4*male or female? *victoria*3*It depends! *ralph*4*I see! *zarvox*1*Peeping
Tom grins. Cockatoo squawks. *trinoid*2*Male or female? Male or female? - Male? or
female? [...] *zarvox*1*Ebony quickly morphs into WhoIsThatNigger. *agnes*8*What!
Da room get quite cause a black man be here? *kathy*6*We just having a nice, quiet
Klan meeting here! *zarvox*1*WhoIsThatNigger quickly morphs into
TheOnlyGoodNiggerIsADeadNigger. *agnes*8*Afraid to engage in reasoned debate?
*kathy*6*I really have no tolerance for mental defectives! *kathy*6*My suggestion
would be: to gag people like this! *zarvox*1*TheOnlyGoodNiggerIsADeadNigger likes to
give all people a chance. TheOnlyGoodNiggerIsADeadNigger quickly morphs into
TheStrongestAndTheLongest. *deranged *5*It seems: they don´t like you, over here.
*agnes*8*All women want me! My description is the best! *bruce*3*Have you met my
real life husband? *princess*5*Your real life husband? *bruce*3*My husband Analyzer!
We met on the MOO, and then in real life. And then we got married. *fred*7*I
can´tbelieve that! *agnes*4* Why on earth not? *bruce*7* Because on earth, the
distances are some times much longer than in virtual life! [...] *zarvox*1*The cuckoo
clock begins making a small whirring noise. *trinoid*2* Coockoo! Coockoo! *kathy*6*
He is doing, what so many guys are trained to do. Burry it, and deny it. No strong
emotions. Especially regarding something as silly as. *fred*8*I don't know about strong
emotions. I was shocked! In the same way, that I was shocked, when the Challenger
exploded. *victoria*3*Unexpected violent death, always gets me like that.
*ralph*6*That's life. *whisper*7*Loosing control. *ralph*4*But she made the choice.
She chose the role and played it, for all it was worth. *victoria*3*It's our
collective imagination. *zarvox*1*AllAround learns that you can never go home.
SenseOfShame smiles at you. You have been de-Hume-idified. [...]
*zarvox*1*The cuckoo clock begins making a small whirring noise. *trinoid*2*
Cuckoo. Cuckoo! Cuckoo. Cuckoo! [...] *agnes*4*Everything we have to do to get
to the truth, has to be sneeky! It seems a shame to sneek, to get to the truth. To
make the truth such an evil dirty old nasty thing. You got a sneek, to get to the
truth.The truth is condemed. The truth is in your gas chambers, the truth has been
in your stockyards - you slaughter houses! The truth has been in your reservations,
building your railroads, emptying your garbage! The truth is in your ghettos and your
jails and your young loves. Not in your courts or your congress, where the old seek
judgement on the young! What the hell do the old know about the young! *princess*5*What
the hell are you talking about? *zarvox*1*Points of light arches from the walls, and
fuses to form Nothingness. *agnes*4*I do not know what I am. A hallucination?
*victoria*3* Maybe a bit of undigested stew! *agnes*4*No thanks! I am as real as
I can be! *fred*8*What? - Or Who! *princess*5*Is that for real? *whisper*6*would
an abacus be considered as computer? [...] *fred*8* Who said anything about dying?
*zarvox*1* StillAlive lays down on the ground and plays dead. *agnes*4*Oh! What a
strong attitude! *victoria*3* Yes, as in definite opinions and beliefs *zarvox*1*You
are suddenly blinded. *deranged*7*Help! - I cant see! *zarvox*1*The cuckoo clock
begins making a small whirring noise. *trinoid*2* Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo! -
Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo! *zarvox*1*You sense that StillAlive is looking for you
in the time zone. The time zone is a place, nowhere in particular in space or time.
By climbing the time zone, you feel, you could almost pass beyond this universe of
darkness, and emerge into what passes for the real world on LambdaMoo. Of course,
you might be better off going home. *kathy*4*Can't ignore that gravity thing.
*junior* 7*Hello beauty! Do you think you are gonna find a life there? *kathy*3*I
consider, to take that risk. *victoria*3*Strange! People always seem to admire things,
that don't exist. [...] *bruce*7*"Male identification", what does that mean?
*agnes*4*Apparently male-identification is something like osteoporosis.
*victoria*3*Do you have any genitals. *whisper*7*Did you find one?
*albert*3*There is a skin test for girlness! *agnes*4*You show them a set of
male genitals. And if the bit of skin, that makes contact with the equipment,
is above the knee, it is not a girl *zarvox*1*SubMale just never caught onto that girl
thing or feminism. *zarvox*1*GirlCharacter is back and penisless. *fred*5*Hey, I
think girlism is an exclusively american phenomenon? *ralph*8*Feminism as a species
of humanism is okay by me. *victoria*3*Bah. If you look up the definition of feminism
in the dictionary, it will say "the belief in the equality between the saxes," You aren't
into that? *ralph*8* Feminism, like sixteeth Liberalism, is only an expansion of
mediocrity. Like most of twenteeth Capitalism and Communism and almost every
movement. *zarvox*1*OverSized gives all the girls a tube of lipstick, so they
can all be lipstick girls. [...] *bruce*5*In which hand do you hold your fork?
*victoria*3*As far as I know ... Is it important for you, to know it by real?
*fred*7* Hey, that's the trick! To make sure, there is a difference! *agnes*4*So
don´t you believe that there are any connections? *fred*8*Only mental ones. Or
emotional, maybe. *victoria*3*But emotions are real life! Or how would you put it
into a computer? *agnes*4*Depends on, whether or not you live in "VR".
*deranged*7*VR? *agnes*4*"VR" means Virtual Reality, Dummy! It means that
everything is relative! [...] *zarvox*1*The cuckoo clock begins making a
small whirring noise. *trinoid*2* Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo! -
Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo! *princess*7*Have you ever had a lucid dream? A dream where you know it's a dream, and you can do what you want - control it? *ralph*4*How do you affect dream content? *fred*6* I think it's a recognition thing. When you some-
*ralph*7*Sometimes they are interchangeable. Sometimes experiences of the virtual are
better, than the real, and vice versa. *fred*6* That's a lack of control thing,
and those are usually distressing. Everyone needs to have some control over their
life, and most anxiety dreams start with something, you can't control.
*trinoid*2*The person is the person is the person is ... *victoria*3*What
could be destroyed? There are only imaginations! [...] *whisper*8*So did
you found out the difference now, between virtual and real life? *ralph*7*I
can tell you the difference. Real Life has more commercials! *whisper*4*Come
on guys! Classify me! *bruce *7* Stimulating?.. In an electrical sense?
*whisper*4*Can you smell electricity? *bruce*7*Never heard of it.
*trinoid*2*Classify me, classify me! Can you smell, electricity?
*zarvox*1*Examiner tries to look at AllAround. I see no AllAround here.
*whisper*4* Keep Cool. I am Close by. Smell me! *bruce*8* Are you telling
me the truth? *kathy*6*Till now! But what´s the truth? *princess*5*Do I
have body odour? *fred*4*I smell you. *victoria*3*We all have problems,
sometimes. *zarvox*1*NaturalInstinct peeks for signs of life. W dissolves
into the formless void. *kathy*6*We will continue our convocation on the
travesties of existance later. [...] *victoria*3*I don´t claim that issuing
threats in real life, means issuing threats in a real life context. What
I mean, is that some threats, I've seen, have had real life consequences.
*whisper*8* He needs to be held responsible for his actions which he has
done. *bruce*4*Why should I be punished for something that occured in
TOTAL FICTION ? *princess*8*Here is a place, where you can set someone on
fire without having any one be hurt in real life. *whisper*6*If these are
not supposed to occur, then why are we here? *victoria*3* What occurs here,
is, not to stretch its' arm into real life. MOO life - virtual reality is
"role-play". And "real life" is entirely another story. *ralph*4*You are
right! The place, to seek redress for real life offenses, is in real life! In Moo life,
you are having "virtual nature problems". There is no cross over.
*fred*5*How many examples of tangible crossover do you require, before
recognizing that they exist? *bruce*8* This is a fantasy world. It's not
reality. We seem to be defining it, by what we know, it ISN'T.
*victoria*3*But, when we join as players, we have a social contract to behave
in a mannerly way. *whisper*8*So, what exactly is the difference?
Your anonymity? *victoria*3*What makes the MOO any different from this?
You are interacting with other people! - Sure, the media is text, and it is
transfered over wires long distances *bruce*4* ...routed through networks,
and such, and later displayed to someone some distance. *victoria*3*
... but so is your voice, when you talk on the phone. I've never
heard anyone claiming, that the telephone is not real life. So what
makes this virtual world not real life as well? *fred*5*Finally, on a
philosophical level, I just don't agree, with maintaining the fiction,
of a completely separate identity, between character object and the individual
typing at the keyboard. *victoria *3*We all bring something of ourselves
to this place. *agnes*3*It doesn't matter, if it's one, two, or more. The
character itself is responsible for its actions. Not the array of real-life
typists, behind the screen. My character is responsible. Period.