Snakes & Ladders: Egypt

Narrator describes his dioramic quest in America to use engineered aesthetics and pirate-imagination to contend with a disease named Lizard!

Here's one extra short, a fabled ode to the engineered aesthetics of the vigilant American spirit, inspired by the great dioramist book, The Indian in the Cupboard. Thanks so much for reading, 

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I've been designing model kits of Earth spaces and habitats and small towns. I'm a professional thief. I rob banks and take mostly diamonds and cash. I work sometimes infiltrating the blood diamond highway in North America, to intercede on foreign warlords capitalizing on border insecurities to make the American gem market invaluable! My name's Isaac. I've been working on sets and dioramas of intricate life-space visuals for new age festive creativity in the place I live, New Orleans. You'd find me to be a real harlequin!

The Ancient Egypt dioramas and model-sets I make and present reflect a historical appreciation and aesthetic admiration of the geometric regularity, ornamental flowery, symbolic fluorescence, and sensual crafting of an entire consciousness or civilization. How can Egypt re-present the way we characterize or think of social spaces today? How is Facebook a hieroglyph? These are questions interesting a gem and ornament 'spy' harlequin (a thief of shimmer and shine) like me!

I live in an idyllic summer house in New England, on a place called Sargent. My home is nice and inviting and reflects my overall sense of democratic imagination!

I've been dating my local mail-woman, a lovely creature named Lynda Harris. She's a great mail-woman, but to me, she's a real sweetheart. She helps inject some spike and energy to my life of great intricate craftsmanship. You need a good woman to be a real American dioramist.

Lynda and I like to play the board-game, Snakes & Ladders, which reminds us that the pitfalls of existence are dogma.

LYNDA: Snakes & Ladders reminds us of the general designs and diaries of Ancient Egypt!

Why do I bother with all this modernism intricacy regarding aesthetics and treasury espionage and diorama-work? Well, I'm dealing online (Internet) with my cerebral adversary, a mutated super-villain known simply as The Lizard. Lizard was once a respected normal CalTech biophysicist whose experimental serum mutating genetic adaptation transformed him into a man-beast of repitilian figure and dynamics. The Lizard is the ultimate enemy of aesthetic ornamentation and treasure-divinity. He's otherwise just plain ugly.

Everyday, I work on my diamond-heist pseudo-political activist work regarding blood diamond curbin in North America, my Egyptology-esque ornamentation diorama work in New England, and my general sociological work regarding the aesthetics of real modernism engineering and game-play as they pertain to civilization pyramids. All of this caters to my competition with my evil nemesis, the Lizard. He compels and even commands me to remind myself to seek out the 'light' of exorcising real darkness.

LIZARD: You're just an American pirate, Isaac.

ISAAC: Untrue; I'm a poet of American romance and ornamental beauty!

LIZARD: You're a pirate and a thief!

ISAAC: We'll see who grabs the trophy for American dollars.

LIZARD: Right.

If you support my missionary cause to destroy this villain Lizard, write to your local politician and ask him to endorse American educational initiatives designed to promote an aesthetic appreciation of engineered civilization (e.g., Facebook)! Good luck to all, and may God bless America.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

Reviews

[Delmar Cooper]

This was innovative and displayed great imagination plus it had a stunning butt shot of a girl in tight jeans. Short only of a car chase the yarn had nearly everything.

By the way, that diorama looked a lot like the inside of the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose.
Cooper