About the Story
This adventure is a fictional point-and-click interactive adaptation of Lawrence Johns' epic poem, "Beyond Exile", (published: Conscious Publishing, 2034 SW Vermont Street, Portland, OR, 97219, ISBN 9781929096046, ©2008 by Lawrence Johns, All Rights Reserved) Beyond Exile is the second part of Lawrence Johns' epic poem on the cultural roots of American consciousness. Pulitzer-nominated Love And Hate told the story of the rise and fall of Haight Ashbury in the Sixties through the eyes of the Diggers. Beyond Exile carries the narrative though the psychology, politics and dark magic of the Seventies as Frank Glendover meets up with Carlos the Jackal spinning strange dreams in Exile. If Love And Hate was Johns' Iliad, Beyond Exile is his Odyssey and Oedipus Rex. Lawrence Johns has been called the Poet Laureate of the Counterculture, and Beyond Exile, with its ancient Welsh stylings of free verse, its sex and adventure, its philosophical and and theological inventions, provides brilliant new evidence of a Johns counter-history that revalues the intent and function of American poetry." - Conscious Publishing Another excerpt from Beyond Exile 2.2: http://www.shrimptrawler.net/Beyond_Exile/Beyond_Exile_info.html THE FACE OF PYTHAGORAS He knows the Chinese When they invent eight-legged Poetry He feels this space Calling that character over He's been working for months On nature sketches And now he's ready To be the Way He unwraps the graph paper And lines up the magic markers It's late June in Eugene He has the bright morning sun at thirty degrees Slanting across the breakfast table He has Mind transforming itself Into pure information The complete history of human life Without the interpretations or interpolations Of a mother tongue It's knocking It's here So he drops the connection From brain to hand Lets the numbers rise from the boiling iron At the swimming center of the Earth And drop perfectly into the squares On the lime-green page See Each symbol is magnetically imprinted With the face of Pythagoras All creation is volcanic Frank says to a future Frank There's no writer There's no writing There's only Position That rare and intricate moment When one leg of the Mystery Feels like dancing with the other seven DESCRIPTION: The rise and fall of Haight-Ashbury left in its wake a curious blend of counter-culture; The Weather Underground, The Diggers, Tim Leary and the dropped-out, as well as Cal-Berkeley's cheeseheads known as the Graduate Theolgical Union. So what happens to the fragments of the broken dreams of Kent State and Peoples Park? Well, its called ... the 1970s. Nixon is in the White House, disco and porn dictate fashion, Patti Smith sings "Gloria" on Saturday Night Live...and the spawn of "The summer of love" have found their way out of San Francisco to discover the Will To Consciousness. What happens when these characters go BEYOND EXILE? What happens when they leave the United States for Europe, only to encounter Carlos The Jackal and the Baader-Meinhof Gang? Or a michelin two-star world tour which puts them at cock-fights in the Bali town of Ubud, and in Singapore to buy rare Turkish Blue porcelain? What happens in a Hong Kong zen arcade after meeting Master Yen and discussing the semi-conscious man? No, not Alestair Crowley and his evil henchman as well! Hubbard! Parsons! Read all about it. The "Death Of God" as it appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1965. Hey, it is almost 2009 and another unpopular republican president is about to leave office, and another war is starting for another bad reason. The same scary brown people are still scaring us. Well, some of us. The same chains of faith based belief systems still haunt the prosperity of humankind. The more things change the more they stay the same."
Game Details
Language: English (en) First Publication Date: May 23, 2009 Current Version: 2.2
License: Freeware Development System: Quest
IFID: 427CAE11E0D109E39D53F21DE35D54DB
TUID:
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