FURNITURE excerpt

This is an excerpt from Furniture, the second book in the LIVEONNOEVIL series.

Furniture by j.israel

Nicholas Gordon Stump, better known as Gordo and not yet known as ‘The Pet Threat’, closes the thick and thousand plus page book he had started thirty two weeks ago. Its soft cover would’ve been destroyed from use had he not covered it with red duct tape. This was for his mom who had internet searched the name Malfeus X once and needless to say, a list of book titles was enough to ban anything written by the author from the Stump household.

It was a sore subject between them and he talked to his mother as little as possible since.

Gordo had used a permanent marker to black out the front and back cover, just to be double sure it wouldn’t show through the tape. On the inside he had ripped out the title page and credits along with everything but the actual work itself.

Malfeus X didn’t have his name on every page of his books like most authors did. This huge red book was actually three books in one. It was the Evil trilogy. ‘See All, Hear All, Speak All’. Each book in the trilogy was preceded by a prologue so long it took up nearly two thirds of the book, which were more novellas in a trilogy than anything else.

During the ‘See All’ prologue, X talks about how your eyes enslave you. How moving pictures, images and symbols control your behavior and manipulate your mind. Movies, television, art, sports, shows, entertainment, all just tools used by a massive machine of mind control and propaganda. Everything is sex, everything is violence. Entertainment is the perfect pacifier for an enslaved society.

The story was about a group of renegades in the future that turn themselves deaf in a rebellion against a society that is ruled by the blind elite. They have seeing-eye tigers, snakes and gorillas that they bind their souls to with the circumcision of their useless eyes by their pet’s consumption and through a spiritual ceremony that allows the animals to communicate telepathically to their masters. The poor attempt to blind themselves to join the elite. The rebels destroy their hearing and use sound as a weapon to take over the blind that use light as their weapon. The ‘Hear All’ prologue has X proclaiming a vicious and violent vendetta against music:

Fuck music. The easiest way to stay stupid is to listen to music all the time. Music controls your behavior and your mood. The human mind is a sucker for repetition and music bombards your mind with loops of nonsense. And now more than ever! Companies produce this shit! These people have an agenda and we listen to their music like they’re innocent. As if they mean nothing by their lyrics propagating all that is carnal. It’s a well built and anchored in machine of misinformation we’re dealing with. Why? So you can dance to a beat layered with lyrics about violence, lust and slavery? So you can feel justified in your indulgence and greed for things that sparkle? This is planned. It’s intentional. You can’t help, but be influenced. Never before in the history of the world has mind control been so obvious and accepted.

The second novel in the trilogy is entitled, ‘Hear All’ and is about superstar Madame Copulate that sacrifices her willing fans onstage at her live shows. She has given her soul to the devil and increases her power through these rituals. GodFree, the latest Christian music sensation challenges the Madame to a concert battle where they would contest against each other song by song until a winner could be declared. The story ends after GodFree crucifies himself on stage and Madame Copulate sacrifices the entire audience with collapsing bleachers, pyrotechnics gone awry and
blocked exits. GodFree dies for Madame Copulate’s fans as they all die for her glory and praise.

The ‘Speak All’ prologue is the most scattered of the three, Gordo’s favorite and also the longest, taking up nearly seven eighths of the novel. It was desperate and honest with tangential arguments and anecdotes. The topics were never consistent and no single consensus was ever made, though many small points were. What stuck specifically for Gordo was the idea of rationalization. Any concept could be rationalized within the human mind to fit a generically accepted moral framework.

Even the rape of infants can be accepted if the assailant believes it will cure them of a fatal disease. Imagine if this was common practice within a diseased society where unwilling sex with a virgin was believed to be the only remedy to an epidemic. After all, they’d have no memory of the event and their sacrifice would cure a dying population. Is rape so taboo and terrible a society would willingly die a suffering death to avoid it? For some, but unfortunately, some never make up the majority.

The ‘Speak All’ novel portion followed a person from birth to death in a cycling caste system society. This was Gordo’s least favorite of the three, but the rambling epilogue to the trilogy by far made up for it:

And so what is evil then? Everything and nothing in a simultaneous paradox of standing misinformation. It is love and it is life and most of all it is necessary. The attempt to extinguish evil is evil. The only worthwhile response to evil is observance. You must know it, acknowledge it, but most of all you must see it, hear it and speak it. To deny evil’s existence in all is to deny life itself. Absorb it and proclaim it, for if you don’t it will absorb and claim you.

On the last page: NOEND.

-next week is BAD INTELLIGENCE. j.israel