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Jay Gatsby (gatz) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-03-02 10:07:00

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Abc abc qwerty hello

Hello
My name is jay gatsby
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	brotherofdemons 2013-03-02 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Hello Mr. Gatsby, I am Ramses Emerson. Are you new here? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	Where are you//? Youcan read this? And respond? This is simply marvelous. Yes I am new here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brotherofdemons 2013-03-02 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	It is isn't it? I just arrived here about a month ago myself. Wireless communication was very new, and I'd never seen anything like the devices they have here. I'm in my apartment at the moment. Welcome to what the old hands call 'Neverland' (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	I'm led to believe that we have all been brought here against our will, and that there is no known way of leaving again. Is that the right idea? The only sort of wireless I'm familiar with is the radio. This is certainly a vast improvement on telegraphy. Ah, a reference to Barrie, I presume? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brotherofdemons 2013-03-02 04:24 pm UTC (link)
	More or less. Even that is a very new thing in my day, Mr. Marconi's devices are fascinating. The devices we have here are such I never imagined. Yes, precisely. Apparently it is still has quite the hold on the imagination many decades later. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	Have I missed something crucial? You are from a little before my time? This is all most perplexing. I don't know how I will ever get my head around it. Yes, quite right, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brotherofdemons 2013-03-02 05:01 pm UTC (link)
	Not to my knowledge, no. As there doesn't seem to be any way out of here short of the grave, we just make the best of it. Perhaps? I went to sleep in late 1911 in Egypt and woke up here. You don't sound quite like the 21st century types that seem to be the majority. I remember hearing about a novel made out of the play recently but I haven't read it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	This may sound ridiculous, but are you quite sure that we're not already dead? Morbid, I know. How curious. For me, it was 1922. I only arrived yesterday, but I get the impression that most of these people belong to a very different culture. Yes, that's right. I haven't read it either, but I do remember seeing it in print. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 05:23 pm UTC (link)

I rather doubt it. There are a few pregnancies underway here and we had a rather nasty influenza outbreak a few weeks ago that killed a good number of people. If it were the afterlife I don't see how either thing would be happening, but every culture has a different version of it so who knows?

Ah, someone a bit closer to my time then. Where were you from before this? As I said, I was in Egypt but my family is British. We're Egyptologists so we spent the excavating seasons there and summer back in England.

Yes, well, it seems the island draws people from many different realms so there is quite a mixture. Those from our world tend to be from the late 20th or early 21st century so I would imagine there has been quite a shift in culture.

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gatz
2013-03-02 05:47 pm UTC (link)

Well, that is certainly reassuring. I know it must sound odd, but I was quite sure I had died before I arrived here. Must have simply fainted with fright.

Indeed. I was at my home in Long Island, New York. My family is from out West, but I was educated at Oxford, and thereafter spent some time doing a spot of traveling. Nothing quite like your sort of exploring, you understand. That certainly sounds like a fascinating way of life.

It sounds like something out of a Wells novel. I can scarcely believe this is happening.

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brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 10:31 pm UTC (link)

I'm glad I could provide some reassurance.

I've never been to Long Island. I have been to some lectures at Oxford and Cambridge but my father wasn't much of a believer in institutional learning and my education was mostly a private affair. Traveling is a good way to learn, especially if you go outside of the areas tourists usually stay.

It can be quite fascinating if one has the means, but at the same time my family seems to attract more than our fair share of trouble.

It does rather remind me of The Time Machine.

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	gatz 2013-03-02 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	It's nice enough, especially in the summer. I'm inclined to agree with your father. I learnt a lot more from traveling than I ever did in a classroom. I see. Does that sort of work often attract a bad sort? Yes, quite. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 11:49 pm UTC (link)

England can be quite pretty in the summer, but I've never found any landscape as beautiful as that of the Nile valley around Luxor at sunrise and sunset. I suppose I'm more Egyptian than English with all the time I spent there as a child.

From what I've seen of most products of that system I can't say I'm impressed with it. It creates a certain rigidity in thinking.

Well antiquities attracts both those who want to see the past preserved and documented for the world, and those who only care for personal profit. My family tended to get entangled with the latter whilst trying to do the former. But I can't say I really know any other way of life so it is normal to me. Frustrating at times, but normal.

A whole century in the future!

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	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	L'ABC? You know of Les Amis? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	Apologies, my good man. I was simply testing the keys, unaware that others could see it. These letters mean something to you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	My friends and I are Les Amis de l'ABC. ~~J'ai pensé que vous pourriez avoir le mot d'entre eux.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	I'm afraid I don't quite know what that means, old sport. The friends of the abc? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	It is a... how do you say it? A jue de mot. A play on words. Our title is Les Amis de l'abaissés. The friends of the abased. In our tongue, l'abaissés sounds much as l'ABC. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I see, very clever. Are you some sort of charity organisation? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	We are a political movement. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	Fascinating. And you are French, I take it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oui. Yes. I am. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	When are you from? I suppose one must get used to asking such things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	It was 1832 when I was last ~~alive~~ in France. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Goodness. This must be even more of a culture shock to you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-02 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Quite. You are also coming from the past? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-02 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	Apparently so. It was 1922. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-08 04:18 am UTC (link)
	And you are American also? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gatz 2013-03-08 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	That's right, old sport. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-08 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	This island is seeming to like Americans. (Reply to this) (Parent)