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Script: FRACTAL: The Hollow Knots
FRACTAL (c) 1996-1997-2004,'05,'06,'07,'08...
  Mark Thornally   mthorn@ix.netcom.com
    http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/fractal.htm

EXCERPTS:
[...]
    ... FIVE PEOPLE have formed a semi-circle
    around him, cutting off his escape from
    the cliff. The FIVE ADVERSARIES stand
    motionless with blank expressions.
    Owlsley turns away and faces the other
    cliff on the opposite side of the ravine.

                    CUT TO:

Owlsley's POV
    The SHADOWS formed on the cliff by
    the caves begin to shimmer. RED and
    BLACK ocsillating bands appear,
    indicating openings to long, winding
    tunnels. They become hallucinatory,
    mesmerizing. The whole scene begins to
    look as if it is an image generated by
    an interference pattern resulting from
    various wave forms.
[...]
    The five adversaries' first manifestation
    in Owlsley's life didn't particularly
    alarm him, attributing their origin,
    as he did, to some neuro-biochemical
    "experiments" performed in his early,
    more reckless days.
[...]
    He then went the route of religious
    speculation, which quickly led to a
    dead end, and finally concluded that
    the Five must be some sort of
    disembodied personification
    of his own five senses.
[...]
    It is Owlsley who must discover
    the identities of the five researchers,
    the five backers, and the
    Five Adversaries who haunt him.
[...]
    And finally it is Owlsley who must
    discover his own artificial synthesis
    at the hands of the five researchers
    and come to the realization that
    "The Five Adversaries," both benign &
    malignant, are different aspect of,
    and interactions with, the backers &
    researchers throughout his state as
    an Artificial Intelligence. [...]

--MT(c)1996 - FRACTAL: The Hollow Knots
   http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/fractal.htm

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      P.S. "If you
  have too many
          questions,                 ~o0-O-0o~
    you have one
          too few."
--MT-12-26-07