Peristalsis in Excelsis Deo. Amen.

Going through a box from my storage unit, I found notes in a variety of notebooks. I tore out the relevant pages—so few in each book—and am donating the books to Goodwill so someone will get more use out of them than I ever did or will.

See, I would purchase them thinking I’d get use them for note taking, but then I’d use the first few pages and quit. I’d have to flip through the pages and find notes, and that seemed impactical, and so I’d put it aside. As a result, I have a mini-stack of these.

These four came from a box in my storage unit. Only one, the one that has the tab, did I almost fill—with notes for my novel, Watchers of the Dawn. The others, as I mentioned above, have only a couple of scribbled notes, such as the title of this post.

One book began with a page headed “MythNet: the technocyberculture of the ancient Greeks.” On page 2 I describe “Sacred Objects” as “small statues that act as wireless devices, sending connections to and from the gods through the aether.”

Page three has an illustration under a description of “Dryads,” “nymphs of trees, whose life was in each case bound up with that of the tree.” That seems to be a quotation from some source on mythology, since I put quotation marks around it.

According to the caption on the drawing, “Tree is router that allows her to move about ‘wirelessly.’”

The Dryad is “atttuned to her tree, her base station.”

“Nocturnal recharge.”

“Daily playing, exploring the forest with her sister Dryads.”

“Her roots deep in Mother Earth.”

“All entwined, interconnected.”

“All sisters of the woods, sisters in the trees.”

“Taking nourishment from the sun, from the air, from the soil, from the rain.”

“She produces a sweet song that plays in harmony with the winds.”

I didn’t go farther than that, though it does seem like it could serve as the start of an interesting graphic novel. I did use the interconnectivity of plant roots again in Watchers of the Dawn.