Scrapbook, Second Decade After Unity

Part One: Letters from Capital, Autumn 12 AU:

• Householding Teiu Summary

• Letter 1:

  "I know you're going to hear about what happened so I thought I'd get my version to you before somebody else gets theirs to you first."

  • Sidebar: The Capital New Times Interviews Amos Ferret, 11 AU

• Letter 2:
  Advice to the Church of Unity Out-T Missions Board in Shen, West Nivet
  • Sidebar: Interview with the Konawa Agricultural Gazette,12 AU

• Letter 3:
  Effect of prayer on the ambient, should work for atheists too.

  Events at Elk Mountain Village Sime Center, Part 1:

  "If you want to know why this decision-non-making is happening out in the lobby in front of the family almost in tears, the kid who has had normal changeover training but is getting really scared, a bunch of rubbernecking file clerks and janitors, three young renSimes who don't speak Simelan and a Gen who just walked in off the road, so do I."

  What got the Regional Controller's knickers in a knot.
  • Sidebar: Klyd Farris in Dream and Legend:  Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Symposium at North Nivet University, 12 AU

• Letter 4:
  How the stately residence of one of the Nivet Council members Klyd faced down became the Church of Unity guest house in Capital. Why the Zeor Blue morning glory was renamed Nivet Skies. Benefits of horticultural therapy for semijuncts.
  • Sidebar: Interview with the Demographer:  The Nivet Economist reports from the Fifth Annual Demographics Conference at the Zelerod Memorial Institute

• Letter 5:
  Teiu TN-3s demo horticultural equipment to the Regional Land Management Bureau in Capital. A missionary pleads for help from his Sectuib in a trin shop.

  Events at Elk Mountain Village Sime Center, Part 2:

  "Now, I want to make it clear that I really can't fault Jori for what happened next... he's still trying to integrate one of the peak experiences of his life ... the amount of fosebine he's been slugging back is more than enough to obtund his cognitive, critical and observational faculties... he's just sitting around the staff lounge of a little rural Sime Center, how is he to know what's about to happen?"

  "A bolt of horror shot through Hajene X's vriamic node like an electric shock. Somewhere near Konawa, the Sectuib of a Householding he had never heard of was training Third Order Sime-killer wer-Gens to do incredible, unnatural and unspeakable things without any supervision, beyond the Tecton's reach out-T. And Hajene X had personally turned a channel in changeover over to one of them..."

  • Sidebar: Householding Teiu's Seed Catalog for Spring 12 AU -- English Edition

• Letter 6:
  Events at Elk Mountain Village Sime Center, Part 3. Events in Shen. The nested flashbacks reach Capital. An effort to be formal and dignified degenerates into fiasco.

  "Hajene Farris is sitting in a comfy chair behind a massive desk, a steaming cup of good quality trin before her, with Sosu Farris stationed behind her, hands on her shoulders, prepared to provide either a neck rub or strong nageric support instantly depending on what we do to her. The other possibility, that he's got his hands on her shoulders to hold her down didn't occur to me at that point."

  • Sidebar: A Night on the Road

• Letter 7:
  Strategy meeting at the trin shop. Yilli's interpretation of what caused all this to blow up anyway. Road safety problems for pedestrians in Capital.

  "I made them promise to send you a transcript. I haven't seen it yet myself, but I will be interested to count how many times I said 'Teiu is not now, nor has it ever been, a Distect House'."

  "Here's my strategy....In summary, we have absolutely nothing to hide and absolutely no ability to hide it, so I am going to tell the absolute truth as I see it, and they are going to have to accept it, okay? Okay."

  "Go ahead and laugh, Roza. Wer-Gens like you know what instinct-driven fools we Simes are in situations like this...."

Part Two: A Journey Across North Nivet, Autumn 12 AU:

• Last Letter from Capital:
  Yilli meets Janush at the Capital Central Sime Center and takes on a grave responsibility, leaving him flabbergasted, blasted by diatribe, incoherent and nagerically besotted. Warning: contains a very long anti-Tecton diatribe at an all-night all-you-can-eat Gen restaurant.

• An Evening at the Church Guest House:
  Real channels in action. 'Amused Contempt' marigolds. Skyepar proposes an arrangement. Persuading people to do the wrong thing for the wrong reason so they will actually do the right thing for the right reason.

• A Morning at the Church Guest House:
  What makes a natural Donor?

  "I always figured it was a spectrum. There are some Gens at one end who couldn't serve transfer if you squashed them in a juice press, and some who could do it just knowing it was possible."

  "Keon, we are most definitely not, but we have done pretty well for the seven years since our resurrection. We are solvent, we get along well with our neighbors, people have the necessities of life and a little more, there's always plenty of interesting work to do, and most everybody gets as much pleasure out of their selyn system as possible, often at a profit to the House."

• An Encounter at the Regional Offices:
  Uncle Zeth Farris's views. A discussion in the roof garden. What happened to the Pen Simes. Roots of the antipathy between Householder and non-Householder in the Tecton. A touch of entran.

• Another Evening at the Church Guest House:
  Advice on sexual and larity relations. Labor relations between the Tecton and the Householdings. Nageric manipulations to induce cosmic consciousness. Opinions on Klyd and Hugh, their relationship and historical consequences. Some books. A connoisseur of nager. Zhag and Tonyo on the radio.

• Letters from the Road

• A Morning at the Seed Farm:
  Early days at Teiu Reborn, from one who was there. Care and feeding of the Sectuib. Hajene Tapiu and the semijuncts. The incident in the mule barn in Heartland. Origin of Selyn-Sucking Sectuib Upgrade Days at North Nivet University Sime Center. The meaning of Teiu.
  • Sidebar: Excerpt from a Songsheet:  From the NNU Engineering Students' Benevolent Society and Kazoo Playing Team.

• A Letter from the Seed Farm:
  More about the early days. Upgrading out-T students. Ancients and the ambient. A strange but powerful idea. Yilli's turnover. An infant at the Siege of Shen. A first encounter with Problem of Evil and the Meaning of Suffering. An augmentation party. A ceremony private to the House. Poetry reading as nageric music.
  • Sidebar: Uncle Beni's Book of Beans and Jimi and the Printing Press:  A rambling tale.

• To the Border:
  Growing up in-T in before Unity. Granda's career as a freelance pervert. Must one strive for excellence? The quarrel between innocence and experience. A second encounter with the Meaning of Suffering. Questions without answers. Growing up out-T. Practicing theology without a license.
  • Sidebar: Conquering Demons:  A letter from a missionary, with ethnography.

• An Early Morning at the Old Border Patrol Barracks:
  A nightmare. A training exercise, with enhancement.

• Safe and Effective Management of Wild Gens:
  A briefing. How to manipulate them for their own good. Idioms and euphemisms. Taboos. Use and dangers of peer pressure. "Slilbliss is their birthright" and related heresies. What works when zlinning doesn't. Gender prejudice as an analogy to larity prejudice.

• A Letter from the Border:
  Wild Gen wrangling in retrospect. Old people, over thirty natal years. Immigrants. Unity and the ambient. Granda as Heizu figure. A much worse nightmare.

• Letters from East and South:
  Letters from people we've heard from, heard of, and others. Even the Sectuib in Teiu gets junk mail.
  • Sidebar: Public Art:  Evolution of statuary in the main square of Konawa.

  • Sidebar: The Quest for the Sec Tomato:  Another rambling story, this one with a fairy tale and a germplasm repository.

• Terrible Times, Part I:
  An out-T Sime. Yilli, Roza and Da out-T around Unity. Coming in-T. The early years of the post-junct era.

• Terrible Times, Part II:
  The lesser of two evils. The line around Nivet. Pursuing the least of many evils, and the consequences. A channeling machine. A rescue and a broken oath. Wer-Sime and Wer-Gen.

• Teaching and Learning:
  Retrospection and synthesis. Qualification by seduction into simulated transfer. How to shen a Sime. Resolution.

• Consummation:
  A transfer and a pledge.

Appendix: Zelerod Memorial Institute Historical Preservation Project (Spring 13 AU)

• Part 1 (Interview):
  About the little Householdings up in the poor areas in the mountains. Training Gens to serve semijuncts in transfer. Reestablishing Teiu on the ruins of a Genfarm. Horticultural therapy invents itself. Developing a Householder culture by building on the pact family.

  Yilli forcefully expresses her opinions about the Tecton's policies and moral integrity, or lack thereof. Historical perspective.

• Part 2 (Interview):
  Training Gens as out-T changeover attendants, and political implications. May be disturbing to renSimes. Trend of Tecton to increasingly interfere in internal affairs of Householdings.

  "Since I've slashed my own laterals again and again in these interviews... I'd like to criticize the Tecton on this issue as well."

• Part 3 (Deposition):
  How the desperation of the semijuncts gave rise to a social innovation in-T, the pact family. Nalko and his pact family. Nalko's experiences at the kill camps.