In A Walled City: Recent Episodes
Disparition
A guide to navigating the coming phases of human existence.
This work is nonlinear and you may enter at any point.
Created and performed by Disparition (Jon Bernstein), the producer/composer of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead.
"I am the one transforming this world into words. You are the one transforming these words back into a world."
This begins the second season of In A Walled City.
Written by Jon Bernstein, Narrated by Valerie Monique Evering. Music composed and performed by Jon Bernstein.
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CW: This story contains food, fire, depression, drugs, love, loss, war, witchcraft, structural collapses at multiple scales, and loud noises.
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Cover art uses VQGAN+CLIP created by Katherine Crowson, using input and additional modifications by Jon Bernstein, using "worn 80's paperback texture" created by Jeff Finley.
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Transcript available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/euw2azkaac8cuhk/The%20Historian%20-%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
We like it when you hear our approach
when you hear us on your road
You quicken, you liquidize
your memory hears us before your self
begins to boil
to foam and rise
The roads and bridges that we see in dreams are not metaphors, they are infrastructure.
May your body be generic and featureless. May your wiring be thoroughly gutted and pulled.
Do you remember the idea called fiction? We used to have this wall, this barrier, between what we thought was real, and what we decided was not
How much do you remember?
Temple under the mountain
Limetree in a shaft of light
Gray robe on the edge of shadow
Bare forearm dragging a branch along the floor
The river of stones, the sound of their shells clicking together