
"Obtain the eye." (Photograph ©Alistair Gentry)
[NOTE: The beautiful Sino-Japanese spambot narrative pasted below was received as a spam comment on my post about Philip K Dick and ‘The Man in the High Castle’, Wu Wei Wu. As with all great art, I think we can all relate in one way or another to this barely coherent story of a Kyoto ingénue who just wants to buy cheap silver jewellery from the internet, but gets caught up with the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza (to whom she is evidently related), Russian mafiya, arranged marriages and some strange eugenic plot coming to fruition on an offshore gambling haven masquerading as a cruise ship: why is the maid described as “homozygous”? Why must Mieko determine who is a “decent jerk zygote”? It’s like an extract from the novel we might imagine William Gibson writing if he’d suffered some kind of massive brain injury and partially forgot how to speak English. Spelling corrected, spam links to buy crap from dodgy jewellery dealers redacted. Sorry.] Continue Reading