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An Atlas of Places We Wished Existed

 
  

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Ria
17:00 / 27.06.01
Example:

A library which contained an infinity of rooms, one of which, the one you have access to, devoted to you and photocopies of diaries and journal entries and letters about you by other people. You may find out secrets you may rather never have known.
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
18:51 / 27.06.01
lovely thread!

How about A Bar where you could go to meet every friend you ever lost touch with.
 
 
Unencumbered
19:02 / 27.06.01
A place where I'm the supreme and undisputed overlord, able to do whatever the hell I want.

Megalomaniac? Me?
 
 
QUINT
20:02 / 27.06.01
A tune-up room for adults. You can go in there and have the dust cleaned out and your body restretched to make you all bendy again and ditch all the toxins from the night before.
 
 
Mazarine
09:03 / 28.06.01
The weird dream-version of my college, where all the classroom-buildings are churches and all the seasons are there depending on where you walk.
 
 
Liloudini
09:54 / 28.06.01
The D.Quijote library!!!
 
 
Mazarine
09:54 / 28.06.01
Ooh, a library containing all the books from "Prospero's Books"
 
 
the Fool
09:54 / 28.06.01
A small shop in the dream city of Ulthar that trades only in artifacts of forgotten empires. Runamma beads from the sinking empire of Alaes, the inverted compass of the blind Whuttlu and the fabulous mechanical parrots from upper Mehilluras.

How I wish I could find that funny staircase of deeper slumber that leads to the dreamlands...
 
 
[cb]
09:54 / 28.06.01
quote:Originally posted by Kriztalyne:
Example:

A library which contained an infinity of rooms, one of which, the one you have access to, devoted to you and photocopies of diaries and journal entries and letters about you by other people. You may find out secrets you may rather never have known.


Been reading Borges?

I've been reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which describes an amamzing 'infinite room' mind-state. Jose Arcadio Buendia, having lost his mind, spends his days wandering through an infinite number of interconnected identical rooms. When someone taps him on the shoulder, he walks backwards through the rooms, back to the point where he began, at which point he becomes concious. One day, someone taps him on the shoulder, and he fails to find the original room, he wakes up in the wrong room, and dies.

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SMS
09:54 / 28.06.01
A place you could go to discover exaclty what it is like to be a particle in the subatomic state, finally making quantum mechanics intuitive.
 
 
the Fool
09:54 / 28.06.01
A small nightclub on a tropical island where the native fruits all contain psychoactive chemicals. Perhaps with a small volcanic athol nearby that has spectacular nightly eruptions...
 
 
GRIM
09:54 / 28.06.01
The Land Of No Consequences
 
 
reidcourchie
09:54 / 28.06.01
A place where adults can play like children do with a baggage check at the door.

And a storeroom of forgotten ideas.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
09:54 / 28.06.01
A place of Gormenghast proportions filled with gigantic libraries of all the books that I've read and lost, huge terrifying kitchens to play in, a fuck-off lake and zoo somewhere and some dormitories. On a mountain (shades of Chalet School /Oxford /generic European castles).

And with a landing strip.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
09:54 / 28.06.01
A natural heated spa in an ice cave, with a bonsai island with trees and mountains and beaches and things where you can rest if you get tired swimming across the pool.
 
 
z3r0
10:24 / 28.06.01
A quiet, dark place, with no windows, where one could enter and sleep.
 
 
Perfect Tommy
12:01 / 28.06.01
An exact replica of the real world where you could practice your speeches, musical performances, urban high-speed car chases, and pick-up lines, making stage fright and fear of death things of the past. (I'm considering pretending I live there already.)
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:41 / 28.06.01
While not entirely on-topic, it might be worthwhile to mention The Atlas of Experience here. Write-up here and Amazon link here. It's essentially an atlas of things like work, anger, love - that kind of thing. A little wanky - well, a lot wanky, actually - but kinda nice, if you're into maps.
 
 
grant
12:52 / 28.06.01
Stankonia, where the chiefs wear lamé corsets, and the nights are humid and tropical, and the natives are always... restless.
 
 
Blank Faced Avatar
21:06 / 29.06.01
Chaos City Alpha - a non stop Stonehenge free festival, pulsing with energy, which expands on a 5-year cycle to reclaim the streets of every major city in the world within the boundaries of its spontaneous love parade - until the citizens realise nothing's changed, when it sheds its built-up layers to rediscover the original hard core of energy in a new generation.

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The Puck
12:50 / 30.06.01
A 7 foot high endless maze made from corn or maize with a summer blue sky and all your childhood friends round each corner

an underwater Alantis where we can all breath water and speak fish
 
 
invisible_al
18:21 / 30.06.01
The launch pad, where large finned rockets blast into the stratosphere, boats strapped under balloons set off over the worlds edge and where you can buy a ticket to any destination you can imagine.
 
 
juUune
07:51 / 03.07.01
a giiiiiaaaant bed done with clouds, with fruit trees evrywhere which got books a la grant m. style (i think about liquid information, it's one of my favorite thing in many of the invisibles'ones).
also, only shiny happy people everywhere.

well, paradise.
did i mention nice girls giving me ananas and bananas directly in my mouth ? without having to TAKE it ?

oh yeah... (sorry for the cliché here)
 
 
ynh
08:04 / 03.07.01
Nostalgiana: pay with money you used to have to do the things you used to do.

(Puck, check this out.)
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:04 / 03.07.01
quote:Originally posted by juUune:
[QB]did i mention nice girls giving me ananas and bananas directly in my mouth ? without having to TAKE it ?
QB]


Oh . . . m-my . . . goodnesss . . . TAKE it, bitch! Sorry. Don't know what came ove - ah.
 
 
Tom Coates
10:23 / 03.07.01
A dark room with a seat in it in a hidden building where a man sits in a suit who could tell you what you really needed to know about yourself - completely impartially and with total knowledge - what am I good at - am I a good person... etc.
 
 
Blank Faced Avatar
10:54 / 03.07.01
the U.S.A.
 
 
The Puck
17:39 / 03.07.01
Cheers [Your Name]! how cool would that be on shrooms
 
 
The Puck
09:16 / 04.07.01
A body shop where you could try on differant bodys for a day or just ask the body tailor to alter your own

Vallhallas battle field, fight, stab, and kill as much as you want all day safe in the knowlage they will be joining you for a drink later

the Found office all the stuff youve ever lost all collected together and filed under your name
 
 
Pin
09:16 / 04.07.01
Two nights ago. Warm evening air with a bit of a breeze spent saton a step with some good friends looking at the full moon.

And a book/comic/vinyl/CD/fucking EVERYTHING shop that's free. Like a library where they don't want stuff back and it's big and old.

And LONDON as in the big, bohimian place where I live in my head and not the smelly old dump I visit in my body.
 
 
Saveloy
12:29 / 05.07.01
The Restaurant

Large, walk-through replicas of famous cities, populated by incredibly detailed, life-like replicas of people, cars etc, all moving about as in real life. Everything is edible. Pick up your Godzilla costume from the maitre d and off you go! During your attack you may be assailed by tanks and helicopter gunships - don't worry, they're only armed with peas and rice. For a small, extra fee you can have your city populated by miniature Jamie Olivers who scream "this isn't pukka!" helium-stylee as you chew their arms and legs off.
 
 
imaginaryboy
13:47 / 05.07.01
When I was 13, I had this fantasy house, a huge mansion, with lots of luxurious bedrooms, movie screening rooms, hottub rooms, swimming pool rooms--& all the girls I thought were attractive (which at 13 was pretty much all of them--hmmmm, I'm not sure how that's changed at all, really) walking around in t-shirts & underwear. My imagination was much cooler at 13, I think.

How about a small, quiet room, with nobody in it but me, nothing in it but a comfy bed & a copy of Gravity's Rainbow? So, i could finally plunk down & read them damn thing. That & Finnegans Wake.

Other favorite place-that-doesn't-exist: Danny the World. Strange shops that never close, weird cinemas & theaters, underground tunnels with steam trains, gargoyles with goofy grins--definitely my kind of place. (Yeah, I know--Danny the World does exist. It's this world, if only you vada it properly.)

Howabout a Cabaret Voltaire-type pub/coffeeshop/nightclub? Only because the I'm tired of poetry slams with lots of white people trying to be african-american & middle-aged men writing calm, quiet, sensitive poetry about how they want to schtup 18-year-old girls.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:00 / 06.07.01
quote:Originally posted by figaro9:
How about a small, quiet room, with nobody in it but me, nothing in it but a comfy bed & a copy of Gravity's Rainbow? So, i could finally plunk down & read them damn thing.


This place exists. It's known as prison. Apart from the comfy bed, you have it down.
 
 
imaginaryboy
11:37 / 06.07.01
quote:This place exists. It's known as prison. Apart from the comfy bed, you have it down.

Well, that's where Tim Leary read Gravity's Rainbow. That's actually what inspired the thought. But even though I've never seen Oz, I still have no romantic notions about prison, so, I guess I'll have to find somewhere else in the "real world" to read it.
 
 
Ria
15:22 / 06.07.01
quote:Originally posted by figaro9:

Howabout a Cabaret Voltaire-type pub/coffeeshop/nightclub? Only because the I'm tired of poetry slams with lots of white people trying to be african-american & middle-aged men writing calm, quiet, sensitive poetry about how they want to schtup 18-year-old girls.


lesbian counterparts the orgasm poem and the how dare you judge my appearance? poem.

and I thought in a poem you could say anything.
 
  

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