Chapter 60: Look From The Right Angle
“Do you hear that, listen. NO! STOP READING AND LIStEN!!!!..... Did you hear it? Yes? NO. You LIE. How could you hear? You offered no bones. YOu must offer your BoNes to it, you’ll hear it. Then hear it. Then hear it. You’ll hear the rattle. DOn’t want TO offer you bones, THEN OFFER SOMEONE ELSE'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“What is the rattle? YOU FOOOL! Why ask such stupid thing? Iteverything!?!?! It is the beginning anD the end. It is the inspiration for everything. Offer/bones and yOu tooo shall receive that inspiration. +Once you have muuSt create. You^ must expressSs. Not those laug*hable mockeries those fakes make, but something true and real!!!
“TAKE BONES FROM OTHERs! It's not like they're using (it) for anything important. Then mAke $omething from it. Offer up to the RaTtLE, and receive more inspiration. If you makey something good, maybe, just maybe, maybe, just maybe, you’ll receive not just inspiration, BUT__KNOWLEDGE.
“MaYBE, you learn how to make the BoneS dance. Wouldn’t that be glorious? Such fun when the bones dance, but they don’t just dance. No, no, nononononononononononononononono, they can help elevate your creation!!?!?!% Letz you make somethinG truly GReAT. The grejater YoUr creation, tHe grea*ter INSPIrATION! Oh mY, what would the rattle sound like with sUch a grEeat creation?
“Tell me? Have you heard the rattle?”
—”The Rattle Scratchings” a near illegible text written by a unknown person of the Rattle Bone Cult
Within the lecture hall where the meeting between the enforcer and police was held, Alan and Jafar sat at a table in front of a young officer in a trench coat who looked nervous.
Mitra had paired off everyone into different police units. Alan and Jafar had been paired off into the Joe Striker unit. It seemed to the students here that each unit was just named after whoever was the leader of that police unit.
Once Mitra announced what unit each enforcer would be working with, everyone broke off into groups to discuss amongst themselves. This is how Alan found himself sitting in the corner of the lecture hall with this young-looking investigator.