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From The Private Ionian Journals of Lara Exquisite?, published posthumously 2384

"More Neptunian Mead, dear?"

"Are you trying to get me tipsy?"

"Oh darling, nothing of the sort. I just don't want you to remember any of this conversation." smiles deviously

"So where were we?"

"I was talking about Her Majesty. She's a pretty fine girl, but she doesn't have much to say. Do you remember that song?"

"No. I've never heard it and neither have my nanolibraries. It's not Faringei, is it?"

"Oh, far from it, gorgeous."

"Why do you keep hitting on me, anyway? I thought you and Matt were, you know... life partners."

"Of course we are! You don't make an animated series for negative-12 years with someone and not get to care about them in a totally nonsexual way."

"Animated series? What are you talking about? You're the Portsmouth Polymath, the superior clone, the ProtoMan! I came here to interview you and maybe sleep with you. Oh, shoot..."

chuckle "They never can resist. No, you don't understand. Her Majesty can see forwards and sideways? in time and probability. She sees the OtherWorlds. The truer histories. The ones where I'm not descended from an imaginary ape-man and I'm a libertarian Coloradan who lucked out and released a triumphant meme on the Inter-Net that led to fame and fortune."

"What's the Inter-Net?"

"Some sort of Zograscope for retards." sighs "See, as we get closer to 2400*, I start to merge my memeself with my otherselves. They're all pretty insensitive and crude. Not like the author of 10,001 of the Finest British Recipes."

"I love that book." gulps Neptunian Mead

"Of course you do. What is your Power, anyway? You've never told any of us at the Anchor Conventions."

"Anchor Conventions? I don't remember those."

"Oh, they haven't happened yet?. Anyway, yes? Your Power?"

"I can't tell you. In a lot of ways, I'm not even sure. But we're here to talk about you."

"Yes. Yes we are. But what more is there to say? I've been loved and hated, creative and destructive. Some things never change. I like to think I've had a positive effect on the universe this time around. I did have a 30-some-odd year head-start this time around. Do you know when I was born in the futureworld? 1969?.

"My God."

"Indeed. Drink up. You'll need it for the next part of the story. So, four boys lived in a small town in Colorado..."

Steam-Nano-Swarm ends recording at this time

See also: 1969?, Victoria Regina, Faringei, Soulless Abominations of Piltdown, Tesseract Officers?, Zograscope, Ionian Infatada

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