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[Prev|Next|Index] Thu, Feb 22, 1996 Julian Milenbach
Freedom
By Julian Milenbach
I write what I describe as very short surreal stories. Bizarre
things tend to happen in my stories, occurrences that are
probably outside of the norm of most of our usual realities. In
one of them naked men, with their heads placed just above the
ankle rather than on top of their necks, congregate around a pool
and have a party. In another, new meaning is given to the phrase
"DeliCATessen." In one that IÆm sure Pat Buchannan and others
would surely find indecent if not obscene, Jesus Christ is
revealed as a time traveler from the future who violates the laws
of his society in order to visit humans two millennia ago and try
to save us from ourselves. In the story, Christ is exposed as an
outlaw and a failure and ultimately is put to death for his
crimes against human society. A few of my stories would probably
be described as pornographic though I tend to be private about
these and not share them with many people. I take great pleasure
in these stories. I donÆt write them to offend anyone though IÆm
sure that some people would find some of them offensive. I have a
job that is very quantitative and analytical and working on my
fiction helps me to feel creative.
It has been incredible to watch the explosion of the internet and
the web over the last couple of years. The pace of change is
amazing and attempting to understand what it all means and how it
will impact our lives is an ongoing process. One wonderful
implication of course is the ability for almost anyone to become
a self publisher. I intend to set up a page and publish my
stories over the web. IÆm waiting until I feel that my current
collection, "Visions of Reality" is complete before I do so. I
hope that people will read my stories and tell me what they like
and dislike about them. I hope that my stories will make people
think about their realities and their values. On the second page
of the collection, I wrote, "There are many realities in the
universe. The secret of life is to understand a few in addition
to your own." I hope that someone will e-mail me and say, "Wow, I
write stories like these too and I never knew that anyone else
did." And I hope that IÆll be able to read that persons slightly
bizarre, potentially indecent, and perhaps obscene-to-some
stories on his or her home page. Today, itÆs indecency thatÆs
illegal on the net. Tomorrow, will it be the political,
sociological, or religious ideas in my stories that are illegal?
To me, the internet and the web are about communication. TheyÆre
a new way of making connections, finding information, making
friends, being exposed to ideas that might be different from your
own and might even be scary. This is our freedom. We must fight
for it.
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