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| NEW LINK! [ SECRET MESSAGE CENTRAL STUDIES SITE ] |
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The plan is this:
I'm going to issue a Secret Message once every week for the next 6 months. This message will go out to all the Inner Circle members. Sign up for your Secret Messages now, and you will also get bulletins on upcoming projects. We are planning on having a full Guestbook-style Gateway interface program on this page soon, but for now, use the one above, or email me at burdencomics (at) att.net So let's have some fun. I thought it would be really weird to leave some secret messages at random places around town. But, what if everyone starts doing it? Why not? Soooo... Let's put some of these secret messages out there. All over America people can be doing this. We collect comic books, baseball cards, bottlecaps, string, all kinds of things. Squirrels collect bright and shiny things, like gum wrappers. Why not a collection of secret messages?
I've always been fascinated by secret messages. They are enigmatic, mysterious, poetic... Years ago I wrote a really strange short story for an anthology that a friend of mine was putting together. He drafted some pretty cool horror and fantasy writers fo the effort, including Stephen King. This particular book's theme was serial killers. My story, "You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine" is about a crazy guy who just falls into the serial killer mode accidentally. It was actually part of a larger series which I had been working on (and have yet to get out there). The protagonist, Carl LaFong, thinks he is a secret agent. He thinks people are following him, people are after him, trying to kill him. The thing is, Carl really is a secret agent, and people are actually after him. In his past, Carl had done some crazy things. When the agency that he worked for let him go, they scrambled his brain. This, combined with Carl having a few drinks now and then, leads to an interesting story. One of the cool aspects of the story is that Carl leaves SECRET MESSAGES in secret hiding places. He takes these little notes the size of a fortune in a Chinese fortune cookie, and he rolls them up and sticks them in little hiding spots in public places. He finds knotholes in trees at the park or a screwhole in the wall at a pizza parlor, and shoves a message in there. As time goes on, he finds notes from other people in his hiding spots. They take his note and put one of theirs in its place. The key thing is that the messages actually mean nothing. Below are some classic examples: - SECRET MESSAGE EXAMPLES - "Jacques has a long moustache..." A coded secret message broadcast on free French radio prior to the D-Day Invasion. "The violins of autumn wound my heart with monotonous languor." From the Paul Verlaine poem, also used with coded secret messages broadcast prior to the D-Day Invasion. "The bird sings with its fingers." Pause. "I repeat. The bird sings with its fingers." Jacques Cegeste, 1949 "Have you seen the evidence of the whispers that flow through vents in the untimely waterbox?" From BUNNYHEAD 1981 |
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