One hand washing the other, and nobody gettin’ clean

The American military stewardship serves the US military industrial complex’s insatiable appetite for growth.  Numerous scholars have documented that there is no authoritative political power in OriginSun.  What these scholars have yet to prove is that in 2011 the real seat of Vichy OriginSun political, military, and diplomatic power lies in the Tent Office of Washington, D.C.
The American government is stewarding control of Vichy OriginSun just as the OriginSun generals stewarded political, military and diplomatic control for the Chrysanthemum throne for centuries beginning about 794.303  The stewardship which was initiated by the OriginSun generals is commonly referred to as the Tent Office304 government.  The seat of the Chrysanthemum throne was in CapitalCapital at the time the Tent Office government was founded in the EastoftheGateway.  The stewardship of OriginSun government by the Tent Office was initiated by moving the military and administrative seat of power away from the Chrysanthemum throne in CapitalCapital, and establishing the Tent Office near what is now CapitalEast, far from the throne in CapitalCapital.
Beginning about 1853 with the U.S. Navy invasion of OriginSun,305 the Americans were integral in another eastward shift of OriginSun power, but this time the shift was of the situs of both the throne and the Tent Office.  The throne was moved from CapitalCapital to CapitalEast, closer to the Tent Office.  About the same time, give or take a century, the Tent Office was moved from EastoftheGateway to Washington, D.C.
The American Tent Office government satisfies important goals of the Chrysanthemum throne.  The throne understands the failure of the BrightPeace emperor to reign in the OriginSun military from being sucked into a trap by the Americans at Pearl Harbor.  Evidence for such entrapment, a trap that would not have occurred if the trappers had not been assured of plausible deniability, will always be sketchy.  Causation can never be definitively proven regarding anything.  However, the logic is solid if you accept many of the other premises of this treatise.
Hints that Pearl Harbor was a trap include: the number of ships in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack was not prudent from a military or non-military standpoint.  Concentrating that proportion of a fleet in one harbour would be risky in the event of a tidal wave, to say nothing of a military attack at a time of raised tensions.  Another hint: The US military itself had proven the indefensibility of Pearl Harbor less than a decade before.
“On February 1, 1933, the U.S. Navy staged a mock attack on the base at Pearl Harbor as part of a preparedness exercise.  The attack “succeeded” and the defense was deemed a “failure”.”306  One more hint: in 1941 the “. . . Americans had deciphered Japan’s code earlier and knew about a planned attack before it actually occurred.”307
Hints that the Pacific War was an engineered opportunity for the Chrysanthemums to further ensconce the Tent Office move to D.C. include: in 1945, when determining where to drop the atomic bomb which eventually went to SpitLeader, “Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson struck Kyoto from the list because of its cultural significance”, and because Stimson “had known and admired Kyoto ever since his honeymoon there several decades earlier.”308  Stimson was a conservative Republican attorney who served as Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Governor-General of the Philippines309.  Clearly he was a member of the power elite, and would likely have been aware of an Aerospace Project if one existed, but most certainly he was aware of a Search for Less Than Zero (SLTZ).
One might argue that there was no way for a Stimson to see far ahead enough to anticipate an Aerospace Project or a SLTZ.  The LTZ is like a Holy Grail.  The Search is a goal in itself.  No other purpose for the Search is necessary, and the Search was just as relevant a 1000 years ago, perhaps more so, than the Search is now.
The Aerospace Project would be easily foreseeable to elites and visionaries.  Relative to his time, Jules Verne, with less apparent political connections than a Stimson or a LargeHarmony,310 predicted much more detailed technology than elites at the dawn of the aviation age would be anticipating by predicting an Aerospace Project.  A Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State foreseeing an Aerospace Project a century away is not just plausible, the prediction of such programs are practically part of their job descriptions, as is the SLTZ.
Another hint that the Pacific War was an engineered opportunity for the Tent Office move to D.C. include: CapitalCapital was spared from almost any bombing at all during the war.  Stimson’s knowledge and admiration of CapitalCapital likely extended to the LargeHarmony Dynasty itself, which had been uprooted from CapitalCapital just a few decades before Stimson’s honeymoon in CapitalCapital.  Based on my understanding of how the world seems to work my guess is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) had some sort of quid pro quo with the LargeHarmony Dynasty.  At the time of Stimson’s honeymoon about 1890, the throne had been cohabiting in CapitalEast with the Tent Office for only a few decades after the throne had CapitalCapital to itself for centuries.  The throne may have been finding CapitalEast a bit cramped to share with the other power nexus of OriginSun, the Tent Office government.
FDR/Stimson’s quid pro quo with the Imperial Family may have been a contingency plan for reining in the OriginSun generals, and ensconcing the Tent Office government from CapitalEast to Washington, D.C.  Distinguish that Washington with the one encompassing Seattle, home to the Gate.  The physical situs of the Tent Office stewardship was and is never as clear as the situs of the throne.  In some ways, that is the power of the stewardship.  An un-locatable target is more difficult to undermine.
While arguing the FDR/Chrysanthemums/Stimson quid pro quo, one could also argue that the hot war portion of WWII was a war of independence in which the Tent Office run by the OriginSun generals unsuccessfully attempted to unseat the American stewards who had come to OriginSun less than a century earlier in their Black Ships.  The theory that the OriginSun military wanted free of the American yoke, and the LargeHarmony Dynasty wanted to ensconce the Tent Office government in the District of Columbia are not mutually exclusive.  On the contrary, the conflicting wishes of the throne to move the Tent Office to D.C. and the OriginSun military’s wish to kick the Americans out would necessarily lead to the Pacific War.
War gave the throne and the military a method to advance their opposing goals, even though the throne and the military were ostensibly on the same side.  The quid pro quo between the US elites and the throne makes even more sense if you keep in mind that something like the SLTZ and the Aerospace Project was the priority of elites such as Imperial families, Stimson and FDR, while the priorities of the militaries were more realpolitik.

Wha-cha-gonna-do

As mentioned above, numerous writers have analysed, studied, explained, and proved the lack of real political power in OriginSun.  A term now in vogue in OriginSun is ‘spiritless’.  The fact that the Government of Japan is a spiritless nation-state is not disputable.  The point now is to determine what we can do to fix the problem.
The first step would be to end the Occupation of OriginSun by American military, remove the Vichy government, and give the OriginSun people an opportunity to determine who will be their leaders, and what sort of government will run their country.  With the exception of the brief flourishing of republican democracy in the early twentieth century, this would be the first time in arguably a millennium that OriginSun’s people could freely choose their leaders.  Naturally, the failed experience last century, and the lack of practice tends to breed hesitancy in and out of OriginSun.
In a conversation with Asahi Partner FountainLittle on Thursday 28 June 2001 I told her America’s Constitution needed a clause similar to the OriginSun Constitution’s English version of Article IX.  FountainLittle said this was the first time she had heard a foreigner say this.  The idea seemed to appeal to her.  The official English translation of Article IX is notably different from the text of the OriginSun Constitution.
The official translation of Article IX reads:

“Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
(2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognised.311

To win any battle, or war, one must become one’s enemy, so that the winner succeeds at becoming what the foe would have become more than the vanquished foe ever does.  Military strategists call this theory: “ . . . replication, an inviolate principle which says that organisations which oppose each other tend, over time, to become alike.”312  The basis of America’s victory over the fascists of the mid-twentieth century was the replication of fascism by the US government.  By winning the hot portion of WWII Americans have become more fascist than the Nazi’s or the OriginSun militarists ever were.  The US Government has more fascism practice, decades of practice.
Every government, including the US, and every religion, including Christianity, pitches fundamentally the same propaganda at their respective citizens and members.  “War results when a nation ascribes itself a special mission, which usually takes the form of believing itself to be a defender of civilisation.”313  Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and the United States of America are NOT different, they just have more resources, and a more violent culture.  I have argued repeatedly with Americans about many of these points, but such discussions with Europeans are ludicrously brief because Europeans fundamentally understand lessons which took them centuries to learn.  I fear Americans will also require centuries to learn these lessons.
America continually pats itself on the back about how wonderful Americans are, and how America has a duty to save the world.  Americans, because Madison Avenue and Hollywood have honed an art into a science, have thoroughly succumbed to such propaganda.  Replication may be best exemplified by the ability of the American government to imitate and improve on the success of the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945).314
The Chinese government is now replicating the success of the American government by unifying Chinese citizens by creating bogey men where none exist.  American fear of the Chinese is well warranted if the Chinese continue to use America as their foe to be vanquished.  If the Chinese succeed in becoming a super power by replicating American methods, the Chinese government will be uber-facists of an order we have yet to experience.

A note about our friends the Commies

Capitalism and communism are labels applied to philosophies in their purest form which mean nothing in practice.  Nationalism is much more meaningful and powerful than any economic system.  Nationalism derives from tribal, religious, geographical, and historical forces predating civilisation and money.  Money, more precisely economics, is the basis for capitalism and communism.  The world’s oldest profession may be prostitution, but before there was money, professions relied on allegiance, bartering, and feudalism.
One may convincingly argue that one reason industrial Identities in the United States started the European War was to insure an influx of Jews to America.  This was the simplest and fastest way to import the talent needed to manage American wealth effectively.  At the time the US Government was enforcing immigration quotas against Jews the industrialists knew that confronting these quotas would be politically useless.  Encouraging a Jewish version of the Irish potato famines was considerably more politically expedient so the Nazi horrors were not actively discouraged by many American industrialists.  In the same token, OriginSun became a military empire to create the Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere to evict the Western imperialists.
Also, in the same token America fanned the jihad of the Afghanis against the USSR by strengthening the Taliban.  Every country in the world tells their citizens that their country’s soldiers are dying for their country’s citizens.  Only America says so louder and more frequently because more Americans are dying invading more countries.  Until every American soldier is standing on American soil, the Americans will not have ‘freedom’.  The longer America is lured abroad to fight wars, the longer Americans will know no peace at home.

Man fight man!!!

Humans have been fighting wars using the same basic strategy with essentially the same results for millennia.  The strategy and the results can be summarised in five steps.

1. Go to the other peoples home with a weapon.
2. Beat them with a weapon or threats of a weapon to prevent or discourage them from coming to your home and beating you.
3. They bring the same or a similar weapon to your home and beat you.
4. You get a bigger, better, newer weapon with more bells and whistles.
5. Go to step 1.

This has been going on since we were cavemen.  This ‘man fight man’ strategy will continue to produce the same result: more death.  There is no way to win if we do not stop this downward spiral.

Now, to the point: how do we?

Very simply: break the cycle by outlawing step 1. Nations with soldiers beyond their borders will continue to be in a de facto state of war with other nations until we cease.  We must conform international law to obvious truths.
We must enshrine in the law that any military occupying any ground or air space in any nation other than the military’s nation of origin, the attacker, is in a de jure state of war with the occupied nation, i.e. the nation to which the attacker has sent troops.  The occupier must be legally recognised as an attacker.  If not, we will continue to live the lie of nations ‘occupying’ other nations for the sake of the occupied nation, and the vicious circle will continue until we are destroyed.
“Generals are notorious for their tendency to “fight the last war” — by using the strategies and tactics of the past to achieve victory in the present.”315  The question we should be asking ourselves is: what do we need to do to achieve victory in the future?  In the age of weapons of mass destruction, mass propaganda, and space travel we can and must come up with something better.
To fix this vicious circle we need a two prong approach: a negative deterrent and a positive reinforcement.  The negative deterrent is an international police force.  The positive reinforcement is the Aerospace Project.

Negative Deterrent

To make a viable international police force, we need to take the following steps, or something equally effective.

1. Make the United Nations legislature bicameral.
   1. One chamber will have financial authority, and one chamber will have political authority.
   2. All member nations will have a seat in both chambers.
      1. The member state’s vote in either chamber will only be counted if certain basic criteria are met.
         1. Political: representative will be elected directly to the political chamber by the member state’s constituents.
            1. Constituents are adults over the age of 18.
            2. The election of the member states’ political representative must be observed and approved by independent poll monitors.
         2. Financial: representative’s vote in the financial chamber will only be counted if the member state has enacted and adhered to an Article IX clause.
      2. If the member state has met the criteria for a vote to count in either chamber, the vote in either chamber will be weighted by:
         1. Political: the total votes cast by all constituents for any candidate in the election held for the member state’s political representative.
         2. Financial: dues actually paid by the representative’s member state.
2. Create a permanent International military force (IMF).
   1. The financial chamber funds a permanent IMF that is commanded by the Security Council.
      1. The present Permanent Member seats of the Security Council are eliminated.
      2. Council members are elected by a super majority of the political chamber.
   2. The IMF is automatically dispatched whenever any member state with a vote in both chambers is occupied or invaded by another nation. In other words, the occupied/invaded nation must have enacted an Article IX clause.  The IMF is dispatched regardless of whether the occupying/invading nation has enacted an Article IX clause.
3. Move the UN headquarters to a sovereign capital district.

Capital District

A special administrative district has strong precedent to enable unencumbered exercise of legislative and executive power.  India, the US, China and others have established territories exclusively for their capitals to ensure even application of the law.  Even if one does not accept that the situs of the UN enables the US to exert undue influence on member states and the UN itself, the situs certainly creates an atmosphere which does not benefit all member states equally.  The US Government clearly recognises this principle as evidenced by the District of Columbia.
The new district must be in a location that is politically and geographically neutral.  For instance, the location for the UN capital district could be:

• Permanently and irrevocably ceded to the UN, for example Hawaii;
• A country which is unable to project a power that could be interpreted as a threat to any member state, for example Iceland; or,
• Territory which is not presently occupied by any nation, for example the North or South poles.

The disadvantage of a place like Hawaii is the image we project of the UN.  Do we really want our delegates lounging on the beach?  That is the advantage of the colder climates such as the poles or Iceland.
Another advantage of the poles is symbolic.  This may seem farfetched, or a bit too farsighted, but in the event extraterrestrials should visit Earth, an increasingly likely proposition in future millennia, particularly in view of the Aerospace Project, the poles would be the best place for the UN headquarters.  By locating the world government at one of the poles, and leaving the other pole empty, extraterrestrials, and for that matter, any Aerospace Project that came back and was unsure who or where to contact, would naturally be inclined to opt for a pole if there was any edifice or human activity at only one pole.  There is no more greater ‘apex’ of the Earth than either pole, except for Mt. Everest.  However, the tallest mountain in the world may change, while if the poles change, the Earth will become uninhabitable.
The problem of the expense of maintaining a UN headquarters at either pole, particularly the South Pole, is likely prohibitive for the near future.  Certainly a much more economical method would be to simply erect some sort of beacon or marker at both poles to direct interplanetary visitors to the world capital.  In any case,  I do like the message we send member state’s representatives if we select a cold, remote site for the UN capital district.  By locating a UN HQ in a cooler, remote venue, we will encourage candidates for member state’s representatives who are dedicated to the work, rather than candidates who want the glitter of NYC, or the leisure of Hawaii.

Don’t fix that!

Minimise UN reforms unless reforms encourage ratification.  As little of the UN should be changed as possible not because the UN is well organised.  It is not.  The UN is a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy like any other.
Only a minimum of the dues structure, number of Security Council seats, etc. should be altered to encourage more support for the foregoing alterations.  The less changed, the less to argue about.  Also, the less changes, the less, if any, additional cost will be incurred, and unpredictability and instability during the transition will be decreased.
For example, dues should be calculated using the same formula as at present.  The weighting of these dues will encourage rich countries to accept these alterations in the UN structure.  Also, if administration is reformed thusly, the UN will be more reflective of the member states and their people.  However, if a more agreeable dues arrangement, number of Council seats, etc. can be determined now or in the future, a better arrangement should be instituted.
These new rules and laws would take precedence over present ‘treaties’ or ‘agreements’ such as Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs).  Enactment of the foregoing changes to the UN Charter, and enactment by member states of Article IX would immediately render such treaties immediately null and void.  SOFAs run contrary to the moral and ethical prohibitions on the ability to forsake, even willingly or by contractual agreement, one’s civil and sovereign rights.
Such ‘legal’ agreements are facades for imperialism.  A basic fundamental principle of just legal systems is that unconscionable contracts shall not be permitted to stand.  Viewed without the aid of propaganda, SOFAs are clearly unconscionable, but SOFAs take on a life of their own.  Trying to terminate SOFAs frequently becomes an insurmountable task especially for more prosperous, populous nations who are parties to a SOFA.
If we do not institute a reform of the UN as outlined above, the US will continue to play policeman for centuries.  Most importantly, the Americans are probably worse at reining in their own military industrial complex than foreigners would be at reining in the US military industrial complex.  Without massive legal foreign pressure to force a change in American foreign policy, the Americans will certainly not do so of their own accord.  To encourage such a change in the Americans, OriginSun must take the lead.
To curtail the US Federal Government’s imperialism a permanent IMF is required.  The definition of terrorism is determined only by the victim.  For the child with an amputated limb the terrorism of the Taliban and the terrorism of the US military is indistinguishable.

Not just another pretty face

“Those races that lead are the races who first learned that the highest power is acquired by the exercise of forbearance, and that liberty is best maintained by the protection of the weak, and by the strong repression of injustice.”316  The same might be said of genders.  To prevent accusations of a reemergence of OriginSun militarism, I have suggested for years that the IMF be composed of women.
Clearly, Interpol, ad hoc measures, and the United Nations efforts to date are insufficient to curtail American interventionism.  I verbalised the need for an OriginSun led force to O’Leary, FountainLittle, and others.  Except for OriginSun, I doubt the ability of any other nation to counter the hegemony of the United States government.
OriginSun must initiate this permanent IMF to counter American militarism.  OriginSun has no rival that could outperform OriginSun’s ability to counter American totalitarianism.  Preventing the US Federal Government from invading countries semiannually will first require at least one nation to stand up to American bullying.
Historically, there is good justification for suggesting OriginSun women take the point.  Patrick LafCadio Hearn came to OriginSun in the year of their Christian lord one thousand eight hundred and nine zero317.  The following are some of Hearn’s impressions of the training the OriginSun female receives.  Again, a century has changed little.

“But under the Tokugawa Shōgunate politeness became particularly a popular characteristic ― a rule of conduct maintained by even the lowest classes in their daily relations.  Among the higher classes it became the art of beauty in life. [. . .] Courtesy was a moral and aesthetic study, carried to such incomparable perfection that every trace of the artificial disappeared.  Grace and charm seemed to have become habit ― inherent qualities of the human fibre ― and doubtless, in the case of one sex at least, did so become.318

For it has well been said that the most wonderful aesthetic products of Japan are not its ivories, nor its bronzes, nor its porcelains, nor its swords, nor any of its marvels in metal or lacquer ― but its women.  Accepting as partly true the statement that woman everywhere is what man has made her, we might say that this statement is more true of the Japanese woman than of any other.  [. . .]  Considering that heredity is limited by sex, there is reason in the assertion: the Japanese woman is an ethically different being from the Japanese man.  Perhaps no such type of woman will appear again in this world for a hundred thousand years: the conditions of industrial civilisation will not admit of her existence.  [. . .]  The Japanese woman can be known only in her own country ― the Japanese woman as prepared and perfected by the old-time education for that strange society in which the charm of her moral being ― her delicacy, her supreme unselfishness, her childlike piety and trust, her exquisite tactful perception of all ways and means to make happiness about her ― can be comprehended and valued.319

“She is an artificial product in only the same evolutional sense that all character is an artificial product; and it required tens of centuries to mould her.  She is not, on the other hand, an artificial type, because she has been particularly trained to be her true self at all times when circumstances allow ― or, in other words, to be delightfully natural.320

“Thus to succeed required angelic goodness and patience; and the Japanese woman realised at least the ideal of a Buddhist angel.321

“Most strange may seem the combination, in this child-soul, of gentleness and force, tenderness and courage ― yet the explanation is not far to seek.  Stronger within her than wifely affection or parental affection or even maternal affection ― stronger than any womanly emotion, was the moral conviction born of her great faith.  [. . .]  Rather might she be compared to the Greek type of noble woman ― to Antigone, to Alcestis.  With the Japanese woman, as formed by the ancient training, each act of life was an act of faith: her existence was a religion, her home a temple, her every word and thought ordered by the law of the cult of the dead . . ..  This wonderful type is not extinct ― though surely doomed to disappear.  A human creature so shaped for the service of gods and men that every beat of her heart is duty, that every drop of her blood is moral feeling, were not less out of place in the future world of competitive selfishness, than an angel in hell.322

This is the creature required to start an international police force.

Positive Reinforcement

To increase international cooperation, in addition to the negative deterrent of a permanent IMF, the Aerospace Project would focus on building a universe plane dedicated to building a lasting peace.  To protect the goals of the Aerospace Project, others and I hope this will be a memorial to the ReachPeace Emperor.  Considering the Chrysanthemum Throne “is the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world” the throne maybe the most reliable entity with which to trust the symbolism of the Aerospace Project.
The point in selecting the LargeHarmony Dynasty as the curators of the Aerospace Project is to have an entity that we can reasonably expect will be here when the spaceship returns from a 500-year circumnavigation of the Earth.  Based on past performance, the throne is likely to still be here because the Dynasty has been extant for well more than 500 years.  The security of the spaceship’s prospective homecoming is enhanced by an alliance with a predictable ally.
Constitutionally the prohibition against the Chrysanthemum Throne’s political activity is not an issue because the universe plane memorial will be a funeral expense, a moving mausoleum for the ReachPeace Emperor.  Donations from other royal families, elites, etc. for the funeral expenses for this ReachPeace GodBuilding323 would also be donations to build the universe plane.  Contributors might reserve the construction of a plane of their own in the future by donating to the investment costs of building the first universe plane.
Initially, we need to build at least one plane, and the first one will be OriginSun’s plane.  This may appear selfish, but this is quite the opposite.  If we use other nationalities or other nations’ royalty as a focal point, foreigners might accuse OriginSun of using others as guinea pigs.  By insisting OriginSun go first, we ensure quality control, and reduce the possibility of allegations of wrongdoing if anything should fail.
Opponents will claim the Pacific War was but one battle in the fight for extraterrestrial conquest.  Consequently, to respond to accusations of extraterrestrial imperialism we should keep the following in mind.  Natural history has proven that Earth species possessing the natural desire to venture over the next horizon will thrive because they expand their gene pool.
Genetic mutation is an inherent good.  Interbreeding is also an inherent good, because expansion of the gene pool strengthens the gene pool.  Every species changes constantly.  Species that expand their gene pool prosper.
Seeing what is over the next hill is a healthy, natural urge manifested by the desire for interstellar travel.  To paraphrase Immanuel Kant: experience is itself a species of knowledge which deserves understanding.324  A second Earth moon making a 500-year circumnavigation of the Earth will bring back a species with an evolutionary path 500 years different from the species living on Earth.  The resultant interbreeding should be an inherent good if properly managed.  If not properly managed, I was more idiot than savant.
Obviously, I am not shy about my OriginSun patriotism.  I hope there is no doubt of my sincerity.  Part of my patriotism is learned, and part I will be forever striving to learn.  We will never know if OriginSun is capable of what I propose until we try.  The responsibility we would be taking on is unrivalled.  The Incubator has taught me: if there is any tribe that could better uphold that responsibility than OriginSun, that tribe is beyond the artificial moon.

Retreat to Japan

I returned to OriginSun on 16 June 2001.  At work, I went to discuss the passenger on the airplane with FountainLittle.  I also began to discuss Enron with FountainLittle, but she claimed to be unfamiliar with the company.
I had approached FountainLittle because she had ‘graduated’ from handling the foreign attorneys at Asahi.  Also, in our lunch discussion she had not seen the need for a more senior foreign attorney at Asahi to counsel individuals like me in situations like this.  I thought by giving her concrete examples of the sorts of situations I was regularly facing, she might begin to grasp why some senior foreign mentoring was necessary.  Moreover, I had no one else I trusted.  FountainLittle was more amused than concerned.
She suggested I meet with Mr. SonNextAgile IslandInAPond.283  Attorney IslandInAPond was an Asahi counsel who was a retired Ambassador to China, Singapore, and Australia, as well as being a former Supreme Court Justice.  FountainLittle mockingly suggested that IslandInAPond might introduce me to OriginSun royalty.
I eventually followed her advice, and met with IslandInAPond some months later.  He was friendly, and talkative.  He did not offer to introduce me to OriginSun royalty.  The royalty I did eventually encounter was not from OriginSun, but Saudi Arabia.
I visited a ‘snack’ bar in the evenings near my monthly mansion.  The bar had a picture of the Mister Donuts proprietor on the wall.  I think every time I was there the owner played the Dixie Chicks album: Fly.  I tried to find the name and address of this bar, but my efforts were thwarted.
I will call this bar the Mister Donuts Bar. American police officers are venerated for eating donuts. Donuts could also be interpreted as ‘do nuts,’ i.e. do nothing.
I became friendly with some of the patrons who regularly visited the bar.  Eventually they invited me to go hiking with them in the mountains on an upcoming weekend.  I accepted, and we went hiking in isolated mountains.  One of the hiker/patrons seemed more associated with my American Handlers than the others.  He had worked overseas for a foreign oil company.
I asked about the sort of work he had done, but he answered imprecisely.  He had done well, and retired early, financially secure.  I do not recall nor can I find a record of his name, so I will refer to him as Handler: oil company.
Persistence called me from America on my mobile phone while we were hiking.  She was selling her car, and there were some difficulties with the financing.  From this and other comments she had made, I began to suspect that someone was creating unnecessary obstacles to make her departure from America difficult.
Handler: oil company said, after I hung up: I was lucky to receive a phone signal in such a remote place.  The Affiliation Product was I had good connections or that the signal or my phone received special attention.  He may have been right.  Then again, perhaps he was blowing smoke up my ass.
I was more concerned that the Americans seemed to be delaying Persistence’s departure.  I now understand they wanted me divorced from her whatever the costs, but my devotion was to her and the institution of marriage.  She was my wife.  I vented my irritation on Handler: oil company.  The next time I spoke with Persistence the situation had been resolved.
On another occasion, the Handler: oil company invited me to a gathering at his second home in CapitalEast.  At the gathering, he introduced me to a computer technician working at Baker & Mackenzie.  The computer specialist and I discussed Seward’s departure from Baker & Mackenzie.  The computer specialist said, “I had to delete [Seward] from the system.”  Ostensibly, he was referring to computer access and files.
He said Seward had gone out on his own.  Seward had switched jobs from Baker & Mackenzie, a major law firm, to Bear Stearns, a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage that spectacularly collapsed in 2008.  However, in 2001 the computer specialist was trying to suggest Seward was some sort of rogue.  I think he wanted to distance Baker & Mackenzie and himself from the Sewards’ actions regarding the sword(s).  Plausible deniability is like a warm, wet blanket.
Another guest at the gathering was a way of the sword master.  We ate sushi and watched a video on the proper method for suicide by disembowelment.  The computer specialist had studied under the way of the sword master to be a “control” in the suicide by disembowelment ceremony.  He claimed he had recently received a suicide by disembowelment control certification.
The OriginSun suicide by disembowelment ceremony involves a selected attendant, a control or second, standing beside the soon-to-be deceased warrior.  After the warrior plunges his sword into his own abdomen, the second decapitates the warrior.  “Because of the precision necessary for such a maneuver, the second was a skilled swordsman.”284
The computer specialist went into detail: the skill of the second was essential if the person performing suicide by disembowelment did not properly perform the incision.  He emphasised they had not killed anyone when practicing this hobby.  He invited me to attend the way of the sword lessons with the master.  The way of the sword master and I exchanged business cards.
I attended a lesson at the way of the sword master’s place of the way.  The computer technician did not attend.  We did nothing related to suicide by disembowelment, but we did practice way of the sword.
I enjoyed the lesson, but I never returned.  People said many of his students were American military personnel.  Non-pacifists could easily use the image of me practicing violence for ends I did not want to encourage.
On Non-Persistence Avenue one day I spoke to some foreigners in need of directions.  Later, an OriginSun individual told me that when OriginSun individuals see foreigners speaking to each other, they assume the foreigners are speaking about OriginSun people.  On another occasion, I went for a drink in the evening with Janssen.  The next day at Asahi comments from an associate indicated a partner was concerned that I had been socialising with the competition.
Suspicion by Asahi was understandable.  I was equally suspect of everyone I encountered, so when my employer shared the same fear, I was not surprised.  Then again, I was not comforted either.

Talking Politics . . . again

I frankly express my opinions.  Two of my favourite topics of conversation are law and politics.  If Asahi was half as clueless as they seemed to be, they could have at least figured out my political goals from my discussions.  In a conversation with an Asahi associate, I said I was not very good at chess.  I said I could think a few moves ahead, but building a long-range strategy was one of my weak points.
I enjoyed walking and cycling around CapitalEast.  Observers may have noted my interest in maps.  To achieve the political offices I have indicated above, more than a sense of direction is necessary.  The Administrators appeared to want me to sketch out specific long-range goals so that the Incubator could operate more efficiently.  The Handlers communicated their desire for a plan or a map by various hints I will try to explain here.
I had dinner with Beyer, Longmire Harrison, and others at the top of Ebisu Garden Plaza, above Morgan Stanley’s offices.  Beyer was then and is now working in the Legal Department of Morgan Stanley.  Although my role was a minor one, about this time Beyer thanked me for what I had done to help her entry into Morgan Stanley.
Harrison is several years my junior, but is about two hundred and ten centimetres tall, and at the time we were at TUJ Law, he spoke better OriginSun than I.  I do not know how one can evaluate if someone is better at Image Guidance than oneself, but if one can, at the time we were at TUJ Law, both Seward and Harrison were considerably better at Image Guidance than I was.  I have not seen either of them in person for years, but we are in touch via the web.
At TUJ Law, Harrison told me he planned to work in the power generation sector as an attorney.  After dinner, he and I were walking alone to the train via the Ebisu Skywalk.  Harrison had mentioned he had been living in Washington, DC.  I asked about the work Harrison had been doing there.  He said there had been a Project at a major international law firm with an office in CapitalEast.
I believe this law firm has a Public Law Section.  The client had requested his participation.  I asked Harrison who was the client, and he said Enron.  I smiled, and we made eye contact.  I said I had a little bit of experience with Enron.  Harrison laughed, put an arm around my shoulders, and gave me a hug as we walked side by side.

What the Dickens?

I said good night to Harrison, and went to meet the others who had gone on to a bar called What the Dickens.  Shakespeare uses the word dickens,285 and people generally use the word dickens in exclamations of confusion.286  Charles Dickens is the name of a famous author.  As a child, I heard my father use the term, e.g. “You little dickens,” as a term of endearment to a mischievous child, often me.
For years Persistence and I had often jokingly or sarcastically used the term when referring to each other.  Except for my family, until the bar in GodOfFishing&Commerce, I never heard anyone else use the expression.  Another definition of dickens is devil.287  The bar opened about the same time Persistence and I were married.
Tom Chan, a Pennsylvania attorney born in China and raised in the United States, had studied at Temple University in the US and at TUJ Law.  He joined us at the bar.  We discussed current events.  About that time, the Chinese had secured the landing near Hong Kong of an American surveillance aircraft that had strayed into Chinese airspace.  The Chinese refused to return the plane to the US until the Chinese were able to fully inspect the plane.
I suggested China never return the plane.  I had seen enough American adventurism.  For the sake of Americans and foreigners I wished to curtail the almost annual invasion of other countries by America.
I said China needed an aircraft carrier(s) to bring home the dangers of adventurism to Americans.  An Affiliation Product including Former Prime Minister BroadPeace RootFormerlyIn’s288 remark about OriginSun being America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier”289 came to mind.  However, I was thinking conversely that the Chinese could be using OriginSun as an aircraft carrier. Neither ideas were good to the book.
RootFormerlyIn, an ally of former President Reagan, is from the same prefecture as Persistence.  Persistence and her father had reminded me of this more than once.  I am a great admirer of RootFormerlyIn and Reagan, but I was hoping our unsinkable aircraft carrier would influence America, rather than blindly follow US militarism.  In the media in my Incubator, the aircraft captured by China was a Component in the Affiliation Product: Allen return to Asia.  The Affiliation Product included my defection from the United States to Asia which included the ATT Component.
I took a taxi home from What the Dickens in GodOfFishing&Commerce.  Upon entering the taxi, I requested the driver take me home to PimpleHeadHaven.  The driver asked me for directions because he did not have a map.  The driver said: ‘OriginSun drivers do not have maps’.290
Sounded like more plausible deniability to me, but if I wished to arrive at my destination, the directions were my responsibility.  The driver then asked me if I had a map.  During this discussion, we were at the taxi stand, and the driver would not drive.  This was in 2001.  In 2011 almost all OriginSun taxis have electronic navigation systems.

Geography 101

In the following days, increasingly wherever I turned, someone would be holding up a map in front of me.  Others would be in my way while pointing at a map.  I often found maps in front of me.  These sorts of hints kept up for some time, until on on 20 June 2001 I finally wrote an email to serve as a ‘map.’
The map I wrote included the sorts of political offices in jurisdictions I have mentioned in this chronology, as well as a suggestion that we extend the three-month probationary period at Asahi.  I wrote the map on my Yahoo e-mail account and sent the email to myself using a non-Yahoo forwarding account.  I sent the message from a public Internet terminal at Kinko’s Copies, a computer and printing services store.  I will call this map email the Geography 101 email.
I had used Kinko’s frequently in America, and generally like the business model.  A ‘kink’ is a peculiarity.  The letter ‘O’ or zero, is a recurring symbol, I associate most closely with the concept of origin.  In the OriginSun language, kinko291 means a “safe; vault; treasury; provider of funds.”
Simply hacking into my Yahoo email account would not be particularly difficult for anyone determined to monitor my activities.  Moreover, emails are sent as bits and bytes over the internet.  Technology enabling individuals to piece together these bits and bytes to find emails of interest to them is readily available.
After I sent this email, I began meeting various people from all over the world who seemed to have pieced together some of my emails, such as the Geography 101 email.  Users possessing this technology may view messages from or to particular addresses or containing particular keywords, even though the user is not a sender or receiver.  An Internet user with this technology may have been able to intercept the message on the way to or from the servers and routers on the Internet.
One American company builds all the routers on the Internet.  A quasi-governmental organisation officially owns all the routers on the Internet.  The US military created the quasi-governmental organisation owning the routers at the time of the opening of the Internet to public use.
Writing the map was a relief.  For weeks, I had been mentally rehearsing what to write.  I had been enduring the constant influence of others who wished me to give them some indication of my goals.
Harassment is an understatement.  I now felt comforted by the thought that I had surmounted a hurdle.  Little did I know I had simply set myself up for bigger, more bizarre hurdles ahead.
After sending and receiving the Geography 101 email, I read the messages in my e-mail inbox.  I received a message from Heather Yoselow, a former University of Connecticut Law School classmate.  A birth defect paralysed Heather below the neck.  She had recently received excellent news, and sent me an e-mail to let me know.  I was happy enough for tears to well up in my eyes.
At that moment, Seward called me.  He was returning my call I had made a week or so before.  As I spoke on my mobile phone, I left the computers so as not to disturb the users at the other computers nearby.
I faced large windows looking out on the street.  I wanted to be sure that someone watching me could see that I was not sad.  I was happy, although teary eyed.  Seward, apologised for not returning my call sooner, and asked if I was well.  After a cursory conversation, we said good-bye.
After sending the map message from Kinko’s, I went to the Mister Donuts Bar.  When I arrived the master, as usual, contacted other regular patrons by immediately sending some emails from his laptop behind the bar.  One of the regular patrons who arrived greeted me, and began saying how wonderful e-mail was.  He was unusually cheerful.  He asked me repeatedly if I thought e-mail was wonderful.

Are we on the same page?

After sending the Geography 101 email, the requests for a map ceased.  Nonetheless, a new type of request began for information about how I intended to achieve the political offices listed in the map message.  For example, an Asahi associate and I had arranged to have coffee at Starbucks.
Using the Name Game and steam of consciousness thinking, the name of this coffee shop originating in Seattle indicates fame and money.  Using more established references: “[t]he company is named in part after Starbuck, Captain Ahab’s first mate in the novel Moby-Dick, as well as a turn-of-the-century mining camp (Starbo or Storbo) on Mount Rainier.”292  One might argue that the mining camp refers to prospecting, and the story Moby-Dick is a metaphor for the aerospace project.
The novel Moby-Dick:

“. . . tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab’s boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge.”293

Perhaps most authoritative: “starbucks is also a currency in Spaceballs: The Animated Series.”294

This Starbucks was on the ground floor of the Akasaka Tameike Tower Building.  This building was half a kilometre or so from the ATT New Building that housed my office.  Like the building housing my office, this building also used the acronym ATT.  In the same building were new offices of Goldman Sachs, and as I mentioned, the law firm Clifford Chance/Tanaka, Akita, Nakagawa.
The Incubator told me the former chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs was the star of former American President Clinton’s administration.  Some weeks before, I had been waiting for the light to change at a crosswalk, and two supposed Goldman Sachs employees in front of me spoke in a loud voice about opportunities available at Goldman Sachs for someone who submits their CV at the right time. At the moment the color of the light changed, I thought: ‘What a fucking crock of shit.’
In the lobby of this ATT Building, as I sat on a sofa facing the Starbucks inquisition, the American conversation at the table behind the sofa was closer to my ears than my inquisitor.  The foreigners sitting in front of me, who were behind the inquisitor and not in the inquisitor’s line of vision, were waving a flow chart around for me to see.  Meanwhile, the conversation behind me was talking about a deadline.
These were people attempting to solicit more information from me.  We returned to Asahi.  At my desk at Asahi, I wrote a memo on my work computer about what had happened at Starbucks.  I was unsure whether Asahi had seen my Yahoo electronic mail from Kinko’s which I wrote in response to solicitations for a ‘map’.  Furthermore, I was unsure whether Asahi wanted any part of my political plans.
By this time at Asahi, I had been through enough computer experiences similar to computer experiences at Rutan & Tucker that I knew Asahi staff could see what I was writing on my computer screen.  Nevertheless, just in case, I saved the Starbucks memo in the Asahi system, rather than on my desktop.  I explained that Goldman Sachs wanted more information, and if we did not come up with a more detailed plan by Friday, I would resolve the situation myself.
Friday was a week before the last business day of my three-month probation period at Asahi.  Prior to the end of the probation period would be my last chance to legally terminate my employment contract.  If I did not terminate my employment contract I would have to wait until the one-year contract ended.
Asahi never indicated they wished to assist me with my goals in the Geography 101 e-mail, or the memo I wrote after returning from Starbucks.  I do not know if law firm management had even seen either of the messages, but I suspect not.  In some respects, I think Asahi was as much a pawn as I was.
Given the panicked, ill-prepared responses Asahi manifested on other occasions, I think Asahi severely underestimated the extent the Incubator monitored me.  My relationship with Asahi had not developed enough for them to trust me.  At the same time, I was not inclined to cooperate with Goldman Sachs because of our differing political party affiliations, former President Clinton’s perjury, and my general distrust of Americans.

Leaving Asahi

I had begun to conclude that I should quit Asahi.  I had become frustrated with the childish, clandestine Game played first at Rutan & Tucker, and now Asahi.  Again, I felt as though there was no real value in the work I was doing, and I did not wish to participate in this charade.  Moreover, my tremendous respect for the OriginSun people, and OriginSun society, was beginning to erode because of my experience with OriginSun attorneys imitating American legal practices.  I expected inefficiency and pettiness from the Americans, but when I saw the same traits in attorneys at the law firm, I wished to end my association.
Once I left Asahi, I thought I would be able determine what course to pursue with less interference.  Given the amount of interest in my every movement, as well as the number of interviews and job offers I had just over three months before, I felt certain that another opportunity would quickly arise.  I made a point of not saying a word during my waking moments about my plans to resign.

Radioactive

I participated in a series of meetings at Asahi with Client Radioactive.295  Client Radioactive was the client of senior partner HusbandObey RicePaddyMean’s.296 I worked for Mr. RicePaddyMean’s on this matter with a junior Asahi associate, Mr. Exertion ForestChestnut.297  ForestChestnut had practiced in Texas.
We three met regularly with three senior Client Radioactive employees, including a Vice-president.  The Vice-president was the heir apparent of Client Radioactive, one of two or three OriginSun nuclear energy conglomerates.  ForestChestnut and I drafted and rewrote contracts for Client Radioactive, under the supervision of RicePaddyMean.  In previous meetings, ForestChestnut took the minutes.  In my last meeting with Client Radioactive, ForestChestnut was not taking notes, so I did.
I had become accustomed to the OriginSun language as spoken by RicePaddyMean’s and Client Radioactive’s Vice President.  You could say we had good Image Guidance connectivity because I was able to take verbatim notes in English of their OriginSun conversation.  I trusted RicePaddyMean, and felt comfortable with the Client Radioactive employees.  The meeting lasted about two hours.  By the end of the meeting, I had about 15 pages of notes.
Metaphorical remarks indicated Client Radioactive was referring to my plan to quit Asahi.  I do not suspect RicePaddyMean was aware of the subtext of Client Radioactive’s remarks.  I do not know the extent to which Client Radioactive was aware of my plans.  I knew the fact that Client Radioactive and Enron were both in the power industry was incoincidental.
In this and other instances, the use of Affiliation Products by others could mean entirely different things to me.  However, the Meaning was valid from both perspectives.  If RicePaddyMean and Client Radioactive were notified of my plan to resign, how they became aware of my plan is not clear.
Judging from the remarks, Client Radioactive probably had more access to the Incubator than Asahi or RicePaddyMean.  Client Radioactive’s metaphorical remarks indicated I should not quit until after September.  Evidently there was to be something occurring in September.  Client Radioactive was not specific about what day in September, or what would occur in September.
The three-month probationary period was over at the end of June 2001.  The contract term would expire naturally at the end of one year, the end of March 2002.  If, as Client Radioactive preferred, I waited until after June 2001 to terminate my employment I would be breaking the terms of the contract unless I waited until March 2002.  I think Client Radioactive knew me from the Incubator well enough to know that I would not break the terms of the employment contract, but Client Radioactive thought suggesting I wait was worth a try.
I had potentially notified Asahi of an opportunity to extend the probationary period in my Geography 101 email.  If Asahi had access to the Incubator, which might have included some of the information garnered from the people who were following me everywhere, Asahi should have had access to that email.  If Asahi was not aware of that email, I feared that working at Asahi would be working at cross-purposes.  I thought this would be an indication that I was in two Incubators, and my Handlers at Asahi and my Handlers in my usual Incubator were not communicating.  Occupying two distinct Incubators was resulting in two disjointed Administrators: one of which was Asahi, and one not.
After the meeting with RicePaddyMean, ForestChestnut and Client Radioactive, the Client Radioactive staff left.  RicePaddyMean, ForestChestnut, and I reviewed the meeting.  I was exhausted, and wanted a short break.  I wrote: “ten minute break” on my note pad in big letters.
I looked around the ceiling.  I realised that there was no tinted half-bubble in the ceiling in this meeting room.  I tuned out the discussion.  RicePaddyMean and ForestChestnut quickly finished speaking.
Walking down a street in ValleyAstringent at the time I was working on the Client Radioactive matter at Asahi, a European family and their OriginSun guide stopped me to ask for directions to a sushi restaurant.  The head of the family worked in OriginSun for one of Client Radioactive’s competitor.  We exchanged business cards.  The incoincidences kept coming.

Nationalists like me

I regularly went swimming at a sports club in BagReservoir298.  One day after my workout I was walking to the train from the sports club.  I stopped to buy a sports drink at a convenience store, and  sat down in front of the store on a bench to drink.
I noticed there were ten or so police officers stationed at various points on the sidewalks.  Normally there were no police in the area.  There was no embassy or police box in view which might have explained the number of police.
Sitting within easy conversation distance of me was a man older than me by about ten or fifteen years.  He seemed like the sort of person who only uses loan words derogatorily.  He did not seem like the sort of person who spends much time with foreigners.  This is the kind of Chivalrous Organization individual I tend to find trustworthy.  I never learned his name so I will refer to him as the Older Man.
We started a casual conversation.  I noticed the Older Man was facing a vehicle across the street that was typical of the type OriginSun Nationalists drive: a black truck with some garish writing in white, and traditional crests.  One of the police officers was a few meters from us.
The police were close enough to hear the tone of the conversation, but far enough away to not hear the content.  If either the Older Man or I had posed a threat to the other, the police could have defused the situation rapidly.  They seemed to be standing guard on a perimeter.  They did not appear to be expecting anything, but they were clearly vigilant.
Our conversation turned to politics, as most of my conversations do.  The Older Man’s political opinions were clearly right of center, and our views had much in common.  The Older Man asked me how long Prime Minister FountainLittle could remain in office, and I replied: ‘two terms is good, yes?’  We continued speaking a bit longer, I finished my beverage, and thanked him for the conversation before leaving.  As I walked by the last officer on the perimeter, I held my hands in a Hindu peace mudra.

Happy Fifth Anniversary: Los Angeles

I left RicePaddyReach to visit Los Angeles for our wedding anniversary on 12 June 2001.  I flew on Singapore Airlines.  The Malay man sitting next to me on the way to Los Angeles seemed like a serious, middle manager.  However, our conversation was peculiar.
He claimed to be working in the computer industry in Malaysia.  Gradually, he told me how much he admired Bill Gates.  He praised Gates’ work, including Gates’ relationship with Malaysia.
He wanted to know what I thought of Gates, and Antitrust, a film on the in-flight entertainment.  The movie was a story about a conspiracy by a computer mogul who resembled Gates.  The conspiracy involved video surveillance and monitoring of young, potential competitors, killing them, and stealing their work.267
I believe he was trying to determine if I had some connection to Bill Gates.  Judging from recent conversations partaken and overheard, apparently people had replaced the theory that I had some military connection with a theory that I had a computer industry connection.  A brief note about the sort of murder and violence suggested by the film Antitrust: intrigue does not prefer violence or murder.
If violence and murder is used, attention is brought to the intrigue.  Invoking plausible deniability becomes much harder if attention is drawn to the intrigue.  Blood and death tends to leave a trail.  If attention is brought to the intrigue, the intrigue often becomes an Event.  If the intrigue becomes an Event, the plausible deniability must be rock solid, so violence and murder is generally kept at a minimum to reduce the required time, effort, money and lack of traceability.
I told the Malay about Gates’ alleged arrest when Gates was about 20 years old.  Gates’ arrest occurred in the same state as the Los Alamos Nuclear Research Facility, one of the primary places the atom bomb was developed.  The crime(s) Gates was charged with were not public information in 2004.  However, in 2010, the incident involving Gates alleged arrest is now purported to be a traffic violation, and the “details of which have been lost over time.”268  Apparently, Mr. Gates has a short memory. After I raised the issue of Gates arrest with the Malay, he seemed convinced that I did not work for Bill Gates.
The Malay discussed the advantages of living in Singapore.  Apropos of nothing, he said one could have one’s own airplane there.  We discussed my trip to Singapore in 1994, what I thought of the country, and if I could ever live there.  I told him I liked OriginSun because it had mountains.  He sat somewhere else for most of the remainder of the flight.  I think he may have known someone on board the plane.

Writing on Empty

AT&T

On my visit to Los Angeles to see Persistence for our wedding anniversary, the Incubator, just as in OriginSun, repeatedly subjected me to Image Guidance tailored for me.  For instance, an AT&T television commercial simultaneously correlated with a conversation I was having with Persistence in our home.  I suspect the Incubator wished to remind me of my opportunities in OriginSun in the context of my discussion with Persistence.
The AT&T commercial featured international calling information to OriginSun from the U.S., and ended with a name to contact: South (Minami).  At the time, I shared an office with a Mr. TimberTreesTrouble South269 at Asahi Law Offices in the ATT Building.  We had gone drinking together in RedHill AreaLyingOutsideTheGatesOfACastleKeptUnderSurveillanceBySoldiers.
Months later, just a few days before 9/11, I met Mr. South in New York.  South is also the lower hemisphere of the world, an area I was taught was less financially advantaged than the northern hemisphere.  I have always found the appeal of an underdog more romantic.
This example of the AT&T commercial is just a single, simple example of the constant media barrage I experience.  One definition of brainwashing is: “any method of controlled systematic indoctrination, esp. one based on repetition or confusion.”270  If the media barrage I had suffered before entering law school was not a “controlled systematic indoctrination,” the media barrage I was and am experiencing most certainly is “controlled systematic indoctrination.”
The media barrage could also be defended as a form of Image Guidance.  This sort of communication is a constant exercise for both the Incubator and the Asset.  Gradually, I had become less of a student of Image Guidance.  I suspected the Incubator now expected me to be taking on the role of instructor or leader.
Increasingly, I found myself deciding the Affiliation Products, defining the Meanings, and determining the Components.  In a sort of real time, rapid fire Rorschach test, I was frequently being increasingly confronted to select Parts and Methods.  The deepest blue comes from your own shit.

Taxi Driver

While riding in taxis, I often chatted with the drivers.  Sometimes the drivers seemed to have an agenda, or items they particularly wanted to ask me about, or discuss.

Taxi 1

While leaving Asahi late on a Friday to visit my in-laws in the country, a taxi driver wishing to discourage me from politics in OriginSun told me no one cared about politics in OriginSun.  Compared to the US, OriginSun has almost twice the voter participation rate, but I replied that no one in America cares about politics either.

Taxi 2

I needed to find a place to live.  After my experiences telephoning supposedly typical commercial phone operators such as T1 and T2 while employed at Rutan & Tucker or my attempt to call the career guidance office of the American Bar Association, I knew any call I made to a putative landlord would be a feeble attempt at self-determination.  Consequently, my father-in-law at the time called around and found a long stay hotel for me.  I knew the place he found was the result of a search a bit more contrived than my father-in-law just picking up a phone and randomly receiving some available housing.
A long stay hotel with units for rent by the month in OriginSun is called a monthly mansion.  The place he found was a monthly mansion a few blocks from Non-Persistence Avenue271.  The ideogram for Persistence is the same ideogram as my former spouse’s personal name.  Persistence Won was still in America at the time.
The Incubator may have been trying to tell me one or a combination of the following by providing me with housing near Non-Persistence Avenue, a main thoroughfare.  I lacked my wife at the time, and therefore, we could not progress.  Alternatively, I lacked the personality trait of persistence.  Another alternative was the Incubator intended the street name to indicate I was better off without Persistence.
The name Persistence is a traditional woman’s name in English or OriginSun.  The previous year when I had described Persistence to Darren Peterson from Rutan, Peterson had recited a jocular expression he said he had heard about OriginSun individuals named Persistence: ‘the Persistence who lacks perseverance’272.  The closest station to my home was PimpleHeadHaven273.
In the Incubator, much was made of my political efforts to plough the middle course, and take the moderate view between the two poles of the OriginSun and United States, or left and right.  Perhaps consequently, the fact that my monthly mansion was located in MiddleValley274 was often the subject of conversation.  In addition, a few hundred meters from my home was MiddleValley Graveyard,275which included the grave of the final Generalissimo276 of the StreamBenevolence Era: RejoiceCongratulate,277 the last of the 15 generals of the Era.
The burial sites of six of the preceding 15 generals are on the other side of GateSay Way278 at EternityFeelAtHome Buddhist Temple279.280  In MiddleValley I often saw fireflies.  Apparently, EasternCapitol used to be full of fireflies.281  This is the ancient OriginSun that I love.
A taxi driver taking me back late one night to my monthly mansion after a wild evening orally asked me who had found my accommodations for me.  I answered ‘the company.’282  I used the word ‘company’ as Seward had used it in February.  I do not know if some sort of intelligence agency had found the monthly mansion, but I would not be surprised.  The Incubator mixes that sort of responsibility around, so I have a difficult time knowing who is to blame for what.
The taxi driver clearly heard my answer, ‘company,’ but asked me again, and I answered the same way.  The driver seemed to know I was wrong.  The time was 4 A.M. or so.
I was tired after a long evening of drinking, and socialising with fellow Asahi attorneys, and Asahi Arthur Anderson accountants.  The driver orally asked me yet again, and I again responded ‘company.’  I suspected the driver wished to discuss my family because my father-in-law was the person who reported the location of the monthly mansion to me.  Moreover, my reason for suspecting the driver wished to discuss my then father-in-law was because the driver still eventually wound the conversation around to discuss my father-in-law by way of asking me if I was married.  As I am rereading this chronology, ten years after the fact, even though I vividly remember this taxi ride, I still remark to myself: ‘I can’t believe this shit.”
Another possible explanation why the driver asked me five or so times how I found my monthly mansion was because he was startled that I would be sending him a Central Intelligence Agency Affiliation Product concerning my then father in law.  Asahi did not suspect my father in law was working for the CIA.  From my perspective, Asahi was working for the CIA, and my father in law was working for Asahi.  However, after Asahi’s suspicions, my Affiliation Product: Pushing the Buttons of the Military Industrial Complex, and other similar experiences, I realised how communicating with these people had become a completely fucked up mess.

Taxi 3

Not only in OriginSun, but when I returned to Los Angeles for our wedding anniversary, the taxi driver in America had a seemingly prearranged agenda for conversation.  The driver who took me to the airport to return to OriginSun began discussing Middle Eastern women.  I had told him I was returning to OriginSun, and he began comparing OriginSun and Arab women.  He said: ‘like OriginSun women, Arab women were also very good at understanding men, and took good care of their spouses.’

‘Nuff with the taxi drivers

These taxi drivers suddenly just started speaking about subjects relevant to my life.  If this happened occasionally, I could dismiss these as unrelated events, but I began to recognise a pattern.  I have only related three instances of conversations with taxi drivers.  In the interest of keeping this concise, I will not list more.  Besides the experiences I recall, there were more that I cannot recall.

No present, no future, just now

In August 2001, I went drinking at a Kirin City restaurant with Tony Fay in RelayStationNew.  The parent company of the restaurant is called Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd.  Kirin took their name from the creature featured in their logo259 which is “a mythical hooved Chinese chimerical creature known throughout various East Asian cultures, and is said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.”260
The ideographs for the OriginSun name of the company also means giraffe.  Giraffes have long necks.  A giraffe’s long neck may be the evolutionary product of natural selection because the longer neck enables giraffes to see over obstacles to observe events, such as the approach of predators, from a greater distance than animals with shorter necks.  Seeing a great distance could be a metaphor for the ability to see a great ‘distance’ in time, either backwards or forward as a prophet would.
At the Kirin City I met a Korean woman whom I found particularly appealing due to a certain physical quality.  This quality gave her the impression of youthfulness.  Ironically, this quality normally associated with youthfulness could also be interpreted to suggest she was further evolved.  Compared to a person that appeared more mature, one could argue that she had advanced more genetically.

“Humans have evolved by a general retardation (or slowing down) of developmental rates, leaving our adult bodies quite similar in many respects to the juvenile, but not to the adult, form of our primate ancestors―an evolutionary result called paedomorphosis, or ‘child shaping.’”261

A note about time: I doubt time is linear.

“In general, the Judaeo-Christian concept, based on the Bible, is that time is linear, with a beginning, the act of creation by God.”  “Ancient cultures such as Incan, Mayan, Hopi, and other Native American Tribes, plus the Babylonian, Ancient Greek, Hindu, Buddhist, Jainist, and others have a concept of a wheel of time, that regards time as cyclical and quantic consisting of repeating ages that happen to every being of the Universe between birth and extinction.”262

“There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again – now”263

Believing time is so simple seems naïvely anthropocentric.  The idea that humans are the only intelligent life in the universe is equally anthropocentric, and naïve.  The sort of thinking that suggests we are alone in the universe is the same self-centred thinking that allowed Europeans to tell themselves for centuries that there was no land mass in the ocean between OriginSun and Europe, that the sun and other planets revolved around the Earth more than vice versa, and equally childlike conceptualisations of our shared reality.
The Special Theory of Relativity has “been experimentally verified,”264 yet we still wish to believe time is linear.  Perhaps, like many other concepts which humans have believed for so long, relatively recent discoveries in the last hundred years or so will take several centuries, perhaps millennia to seep into our individual consciousnesses.  I think humans are presently too simpleminded to conceive of how time really works.
Perhaps there are intersecting planes of time, or wormholes linking different moments in time or a variety of other possibilities that we cannot even envision.  In any case, given our past record with understanding our world, whatever we believe now is probably wrong.  Some time in the future we will have a better understanding of how time works, so one should not become too attached to whatever you think right now, including the idea that time is linear.
Time is one example of our existence being defined by our shared reality.  A note about this shared reality: I have repeatedly cited Wikipedia as a source in this text.  Wikipedia is generally not the most reliable source, but Wikipedia serves as a general overview, and makes a point: we define our reality.
Even the CIA admits assassinating Allende, the President of Chile.  However, many organisations and individuals continually monitor Wikipedia to make certain the web site does not disclose information harmful to the purposes of the organisation or individuals.  Consequently, although the CIA may acknowledge in scholarly articles that the CIA assassinates people, the CIA sees no reason for permitting such information to become common fodder in the media such as Wikipedia.
We often forget that reality is quite literally what we make it, and my citations of Wikipedia and Wikitionary are to reinforce my point that reality is determined by majority rule.  For instance, the colour red is defined by our agreed determination.  “Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm.”265  What one person sees as red, and refers to as red in communication with others, may be physically perceived by her as a different colour than the red perceived by everyone else, but she commonly refers to that colour as red.
Reality has been defined by shared agreement.  We believe, therefore we exist.  If we could all sincerely and completely believe that we do not exist, we would cease to exist.  The power our mind has over our existence is frequently underestimated, and when we do realise the extent of our created reality, we often neglect or forget to consider that self-creation when dealing with philosophy or even everyday problems.

[A] reality completely independent of the mind which conceives it, sees or feels it, is an impossibility. A world as exterior as that, even if it existed, would for us be forever inaccessible. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, what is common to many thinking beings, and could be common to us all; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws. It is this harmony then which is the sole objective reality, the only truth we can obtain.266

In trying to determine the reason for this alleged sudden interest from foreign women who wished to return to their nations of origin, I realised on two occasions before my first marriage I met and dated women whom I later moved long distances to live near.  The first instance was moving from California to Sweden.  I dated a Swede, Carina Lennartsson, for a couple months before she took me to Sweden.
The second instance was from Florida to Connecticut.  Several months before I moved to Connecticut, I met a woman from Connecticut on vacation in Florida.  We began a long-distance relationship.  In hindsight, there may have been more planning involved in these introductions than I suspected at the time.
Yet in these two instances when I moved there were at least five differences with my current situation.  The first difference was there had been financing for my moves to Sweden and Connecticut.  The woman paid my way to Sweden, and I received money from my grandmother just after meeting the woman from Connecticut.  A second difference was I had known the Swede and the Connecticut native for months before moving to their places of origin.
Most importantly, a third difference between those moves and my circumstances at this time in CapitalEast was I had not been married at the time I met the Swede and the Connecticut native.  A fourth difference was I left places well-traveled people generally agree are less refined for places that are more refined, specifically from California to Sweden, and from Florida to Connecticut.  A fifth difference between the introductions to the Swede and the Connecticut native and these introductions in CapitalEast was I was attracted to the Swede and the Connecticut native.  I was not attracted to these women in CapitalEast attempting to entice me to move home with them.
In the case of the Middle East, I had no financing.  Second, in contrast to the Swede and Connecticut native, I had just met this Israeli working in the hostess bar, the Indonesian, or the Korean in Kirin City.  Third, I was married.
A fourth distinguishing characteristic of these introductions, the refinement factor of the woman’s place of origin, is difficult for me to gauge in these CapitalEast introductions because I have never been to the Middle East or Korea.  Consequently, I will not pass judgment on whether those places are more refined than OriginSun.  In any case, refinement is a subjective measure.  Nonetheless, if one uses life expectancy as a measure of refinement, OriginSun and Sweden rank first and second.
Fifth, I was never attracted to the Israeli.  I was simply trying to be pleasant for the sake of my employer.  After that conversation over drinks, I never saw her again.  Even so, the imaginary trip to the Middle East soon became an obsession of the Incubator, and, by extension, an inescapable part of my life.

Welcome! When are you leaving?

I assisted with the annual recruiting by meeting with many of the attorney candidates for attorney associate positions at Asahi.  Many of the prospective associates asked me when I was returning to America.  Someone from Asahi had obviously coached them to goad me with these questions, but since all of them were only a few years out of high school, I could not become very upset with them.
Even the thought of my employer engaging in this pathetic pantomime did not irritate me as much as disgust me.  I was embarrassed to be associated with Asahi.  I simply wished to distance myself from my employer and these OriginSun attorneys.
During my employment with Asahi, my return to America was a topic of almost daily conversation.  Frequently strangers, taxi drivers, barbers, etc., would ask me in casual conversations when I would return.  I usually explained that my birthplace was in Asia, and I had no plans to return to America.  Perhaps this sort of harried questioning was what motivated my replacement to return to Utah after less than a year on the job.
The repeated questioning regarding my return left me with conflicting impressions.  First, I felt as though people were teaching me to memorise a script.  In other words, I was to convince myself that I would stay in OriginSun indefinitely.  Perhaps this is brainwashing.
At the same time the other impression I had was I was not giving the right answer.  The Administrators and Handlers wanted to be sure that they would receive a return on their investment.  They may have thought that a reasonable return on investment would only occur if, working through Asahi, I returned to America at some point.
Another possibility was that competing Stables were overlapping in questioning me regarding this and other issues.  These Stables may have simply sincerely wanted to discover and confirm my plans.  Most likely, the persistent questioning was because of all of these reasons, my own uncertainty and other reasons of which I am not aware.

Patsy’s Folley

After Weinsaft’s move to CapitalEast from New York City, Weinsaft and I met for a drink in the evening.  She suggested meeting at Paddy Foley’s, a pub in TreeBookSix240.  At the pub that evening, I met a group of customers interested in questioning me extensively on my practice of law at Asahi.  I also met my predecessor at Asahi.
In addition, a Spanish man approached me privately.  He said he used to live in Phoenix.  He had an incredible amount in common with me, and was very chummy.  He offered to introduce me to James “Jim” Moynihan, the ranking American Federal Bureau of Investigations officer in OriginSun.
Moynihan was drinking at the bar.  He could discern this Spaniard was pointing him out to me, but Moynihan did not acknowledge us.  I declined the offer of introduction to Moynihan.
I was concerned that if this Spaniard introduced Moynihan to me, my reputation in Moynihan’s mind would be associated with this Spaniard.  In addition, I did not want to reinforce the suspicions of Asahi, and others, that I had some affiliation with the US Government, particularly a law enforcement bureau known for cooperating with the CIA.  Moreover, I suspect Moynihan had set the Spaniard up to introduce me to Moynihan.
I found out later that Moynihan was also raised in Rochester, New York.  We both have OriginSun spouses, and we are both attorneys.  Rochester is a community more than 400 kilometres from New York City with a fairly distinctive accent.  I have never known another person raised in Rochester married to an OriginSun citizen.
As well as his Federal Bureau of Investigations connection, Moynihan was also the Legal Attaché at the American Embassy.  He has served in OriginSun and China for years.  After the events relayed here, he was transferred to the FBI in D.C., and then left the FBI to work in-house at Louis Vuitton in EasternCapital where he is now.   Moynihan is also the name of a famous Senator from New York.  I heard later that Paddy Foley’s is popular among American Embassy, and military personnel patrons.
I called John Seward.  He returned my call to my mobile phone one day while I was at my desk at Asahi.  Seward was going to China.

Nonpublic Law

Asahi has no Public Law Section as Rutan & Tucker has, but I felt I was in a similar situation concerning a client hiring the firm to learn more about me.  Asahi seemed pressured by a third party to explore my intentions.  Again, I have suspicions of who that or those clients might be, but no hard evidence.
One client paying for the Incubator then might have been Enron, simply carrying over the activities Enron had started with Rutan & Tucker.  The American Federal Bureau of Investigations, the OriginSun government, the United Nations and China may also have hired Asahi to test my metal.  Unlike Rutan & Tucker, where Enron had an office on a floor below, and the media reports relating to my personal life, the clues indicating who might have hired Asahi to Incubate me were insubstantial.
Consequently, I am inclined to think at least one of the clients never changed, even when I changed firms, in which case at least Enron was still one of the Administrators.  Enron went bankrupt not long after I left Asahi.  Judging from people I rode with in the elevator, the client possibly had offices on a floor above Asahi.
In the basement of the building was exit 12 of the MagnateMountain CisternJewel241 subway station.  The MagnateMountain festival was one of the big three festivals during the DoorInlet242 (1603-1868) and GovernmentBright243 (1868-1912) Eras, accorded condescending notice by Lord StreamBenevolence244 himself, but fared badly in the nineteenth century.  MagnateMountain was the shrine to which baby StreamBenevolence magnates were taken to be presented to the company of gods.245  Sid Weeks and others used Affiliation Products to symbolically liken my awakening to an infant’s birth.  The MountainMagnate symbolism was just one more example of this.

Lunch Break

During afternoon breaks from work, I often walked to StreamEternity246 RoadToDivineMorality Shrine.  On the way there, I passed the US Embassy Housing Compound.  One day, as I walked by on the far side of the road, I turned my head and glanced at the housing compound entrance.
There was no one around except an ethnically Asian guard by the gate.  The guard snapped to attention and saluted me.  I thought that was strange.  As time progressed more people, uniformed and otherwise would snap to attention and salute me.
I sat for a bit at the shrine, and left.  A US Marine is not difficult to spot in CapitalEast, even in street clothes, and one day when I strayed from my usual route back to work, a person who fit the stereotype of a Marine was standing on the corner glaring at me as I walked by.  The people monitoring my actions wanted me to know they were observing me.
While working at my desk at Asahi, I generally left my mobile phone on my desk.  I usually left my phone in manner mode.  On occasion, although I had placed my mobile phone on my desk, I felt a sensation in my breast pocket, or my slacks pocket where my phone would have been had I not removed my phone from my pocket.
The sensation was similar to when one’s phone is receiving a call in manner mode.  Neither the office nor mobile phone on my desk was ringing, or vibrating, but I had a physical, Pavlovian sensation of receiving a call.  This is a common sensation.  Mike Dunn acknowledged he regularly had the same experience.
The meaning of this sensation did not become clear to me for at least a year.  The phone was not receiving data, but I was.  This is an example of Image Guidance naturally developing without any conscious effort.  The vibration sensation is a Source>Self>Tangible>Body Indicator.  The Affiliation Product: telephone suggests telepathic reception.  Phones, calling, etc., are often used as euphemisms and metaphors for telepathy.
Occasionally I went to lunch with other OriginSun attorney associates at Asahi, but only if the lunch were scheduled a week or so in advance.  The other associates would never check their calendar, or confirm a lunch appointment on the spot, but would contact me later to confirm.  I think they needed to obtain approval to lunch with me.
There was one other Asahi staff member who was not ethnically OriginSun: a British man of South Asian ancestry working as a proofreader.  He did not have a law license at the time, but has since been called to the New York Bar.  He introduced himself in the hallway one day, and suggested we have lunch some time.  I suggested that day.  He agreed, and we met for lunch that day.
On our way to lunch, we discussed psychology.  My mind flashed back to the psychoanalysis I probably underwent at a lunch with the alleged senior partner at Rutan & Tucker a few months earlier.  I asked this proofreader if he had studied psychology.  He answered cryptically: “I read a little.”
We entered a restaurant, sat down, and ordered.  As we were waiting for our food, an associate from Asahi suddenly appeared, and sat down with us.  After having such difficulty arranging lunch with the OriginSun associates, I did not think this was a coincidence.  By this time, I did not think anything that happened to me was a coincidence.
I concluded that the proofreader was not a mental health professional, since the two of us did not seem to be trusted to have lunch alone.  After lunch the proofreader and I went for coffee.  On the way, we passed a procession of limousines and police vehicles.
The proofreader looked at me and said that could be the Prime Minister.  Perhaps he was trying to indicate he was aware of my political agenda, but was simply amused.  Then again, perhaps he was just making conversation.
About this time, I went to dinner with ten or so associates from Asahi.  In a taxi on the way back to the office after the dinner, a supposedly inebriated man in the crosswalk collided with our taxi.  The incident seemed to me more like the man bumped into our taxi, than vice versa, but the taxi driver apologised profusely.  The pedestrian was belligerent, and someone, perhaps the taxi driver himself, called the police to take down the information about the incident.
We were not far from our office, so the other three associates from the taxi and I walked back after paying the taxi fare.  On the way, we discussed the incident, and the three attorney associates told me this was the first accident any of these people had ever seen, much less in which they had been involved.  The contrast with my childhood, where I had been in and seen multiple automobile accidents before I was an adolescent, was striking.  The Incubator probably staged this incident to send a message to distinguish OriginSun and Western transportation safety.

Attorney Supervision: Heisei 13: lucky number?

A matter I worked on at Asahi caused me to question the thoroughness with which we were practicing law.  Our client, a United Kingdom-based financial services company, was acquiring an OriginSun insurance company.  The supervising attorney, TrueWisteria, was less cautious than American due diligence would require.
I was concerned about the ramifications for my New York and California attorney licenses.  I was also concerned about whether Asahi had malpractice insurance.  I consulted Mr. EnglishLeader WisteriaHelp, a senior Asahi partner whom I trusted.  I asked him if I was covered by malpractice insurance.  I am not sure if Mr. WisteriaHelp  did not know the answer to my question, or did not want to know, but he suggested I consult Ms. SignOfTheRatPure FountainLittle,247 one of the founding partners.
FountainLittle had supervised the foreign associates in the past.  Now TrueWisteria had taken over these duties.  Ms. FountainLittle also would not answer my question about whether Asahi had malpractice insurance that covered me.  She told me to ask the Business Manager, Mr. BeautifulVictory WellCribNew,248 about the malpractice insurance.
Mr. WellCribNew was not an attorney.  He told me: until that time, no foreign associate had inquired about malpractice insurance.  What should have been a very simple question for administrating a law firm: ‘do we have malpractice insurance?’ resulted in an extensive investigation, multiple meetings, and a not very satisfactory answer.
Persistence was still in America, but I spoke with her several times a week.  In a conversation with her from my hotel room, she said she had noticed a gradual change in my manner of speaking.  She said I sounded as though my conversation was more measured, thoughtful, and mature.

What’s in a name?

Asahi held joint meetings with the accounting firm Asahi Arthur Anderson.  Although Asahi and Asahi Arthur Anderson had no formal ties, these meetings were more like section group meetings.  According to what partners at Asahi told me, sharing the name created some sort of bond.  We discussed general issues of an educational nature.  Afterwards we went for dinner and drinks.
During the series of meetings I associated with a president of a company within the Asahi Arthur Andersen group.  This president and I generally related well to each other.  He had lived in Palos Verdes, an area of Los Angeles that I particularly enjoyed, which had also been home to DeerSmallBell, another OriginSun national whom I related to well.  Once when we were drinking late into the morning, this President said: “you and I are similar: you can do everything, so they do not let you do anything.” He meant I was not permitted to do anything.

More lunch, meals and technophobia

Asahi had recently implemented a system to provide an opportunity for partners and associates to meet for lunch or dinner.  Every month, the system paired associates and partners to schedule a casual outing.  In the three or four lunches I had with partners, I was fortunate to have lunch or dinner with very senior members of the firm, including Mr. WaterBountiful BookCascade249, a former Councillor of the Minister’s Secretariat at the Ministry of Finance.
I suppose the partners enjoyed the chance to practice their English with me, and I enjoyed hearing their opinions.  One opinion I heard from Attorney BookCascade stuck in my book.  He repeatedly said something in OriginSun which I was unsure of the meaning, but I took his wording to suggest OriginSun was insufficient, meagre or undeserving.250  Not until after our lunch was over, and I returned to my desk to consult my pocket PC dictionary, did I understand what I now think is the proper implication of his remarks.
For some years, I mistakenly thought the Don Henley song lyrics from the End of the Innocence: “for this tired old man that we elected king”251 were: for this tired old man with the electric cane.  Even now when I listen to the song, I am unable to distinguish which words Mr. Henley is singing.  The “tired old man” might refer to Ronald Reagan.  I thought the electric cane referred to the technology of the military/industrial complex.  Because of this, I conceived of an electric cane which I understand to be a sort of crutch the US Government uses to keep folks in line.
I am a bit of an early adopter.  I like my gadgets, and I like taking advantage of the most recent advances using those gadgets.  The tailoring of the media for any one individual’s consumption is awe-inspiringly easy in the Internet age.  If you want someone to see something, just misdirect the URL while they are surfing the web, send them an unsolicited email, or edit a web page to deliver the information.  Tailoring the media for an audience of one has now become easy, and relatively inexpensive.
When confronted with this eventuality of tailored media, one can either be technophobic, or as is done in martial arts, try to use your opponent’s strengths against your opponent.  If you are technophobic and you try to limit your use of technology, you might as well go out and live naked in the woods because eventually, no matter how limited your use of technology is, they will use the little technology you use against you.  Alternatively, you might try to go the other way, and use the technology better, faster or more innovative-ly than those who conspire to manipulate you.
I am not sure I have managed to use technology for my own purposes, but I do rely heavily on my electric cane.  I have accepted that running from technology will not work.  The march of technological progress is inescapable, and the sooner you familiarise yourself with what they want to do to you, the sooner you can try to start steering the path in a direction you wish to go.  My willingness to use technology should not be confused with my willingness to consume media.  Most of the information one can learn from the media is nonsense, and you are better advised to consider your immediate surroundings rather than absorb nonsense some media outlet thinks is important for you to believe.
This ship called ‘the media’ is also a juggernaut not unlike the juggernaut of the US Government explained above.  The extent to which each of us are able to steer our own media juggernaut is limited, but I think that if you rely on technology, you might steer a little bit more than without technology.  Moreover, because of the ubiquitous invasions of my privacy, I knew I had already lost the battle to preserve any private portion of my life.  The only solution would be more transparency, not less.
I was aware that that the function translating OriginSun and English in my Pocket PC was the only one I had ever seen.  I had heard there were others, but I never met anyone with such a dictionary.  Beyer’s Pocket PC with an OriginSun language operating system notably lacked the dictionary.  I knew when I looked up words in my Pocket PC this was most likely a dictionary definition tailored for an audience of one.
After lunch with BookCascade, when I looked in my Pocket PC for the meaning of the word I thought he had repetitively used: sukunai, the first word I was directed to was: tsukanu, which means mistress252.  If I was following Image Guidance, and I was purposefully directed to the definition for mistress, I should interpret BookCascade’s remarks as: ‘OriginSun is your mistress.’
Moreover, another important factor that leads into the variety of interpretations that I could have attached to remarks such as BookCascade’s, when I play the Name Game, and many of the other OriginSun words I interpret, is the large number of homophones in the OriginSun language.  BookCascade could easily have intentionally mispronounced the word as: sukenai,253 tsukanai,254 dsukanai,255 sukanai256 or something else according to the OriginSun habit of punning.
Furthermore, BookCascade repeatedly used the phrase more than several times in the space of our lunch.  He did so again at a dinner with other Asahi members, and on other occasions.  BookCascade’s repeated, gleeful expression resonated with me for months.
FountainLittle and I arranged to meet for one of these lunch appointments to enable associates and partners to become better acquainted.  The hotel Asahi had arranged for me was a member’s hotel.  FountainLittle held the membership personally.  A week or so before my lunch with FountainLittle, comments from other partners indicated my visitors were not as quiet a guest at the hotel as they could have been.  The noise in my room that might have been disturbing the neighbouring room was probably due to guests in my room.
I made a point of locating a hotel for rest visits.  On our way to lunch, by reading in between the lines of what FountainLittle was telling me, she seemed to appreciate the effort I had made to find a hotel for rest visits.  In addition, as we walked, FountainLittle indicated that Asahi often used the hotel we were approaching, the ANA Hotel near the US Embassy.  We had lunch at a restaurant in that hotel.  That was the only time I had lunch with Asahi staff in a hotel.
During lunch, FountainLittle discussed recruitment at Asahi.  FountainLittle led the conversation in a way to indicate that I might be of some assistance with expansion of the firm.  We discussed the legal industry in CapitalEast, including firm mergers, and Asahi’s plans.
Asahi tried to keep two or three foreign associates on staff.  However, for reasons that were becoming readily apparent, turnover among foreign staff was high, and at the time I was the only foreign associate.  FountainLittle asked me about evaluating potential foreign associates.  I replied to her question, and added a suggestion that Asahi consider hiring a senior foreign attorney.  I thought a more senior attorney could evaluate potential foreign associates for Asahi better than me.
In addition, I thought, but did not add, a senior foreign attorney could provide mentoring to junior foreign associates with concerns about matters such as the due diligence matter and the lack of clarity on the malpractice insurance, supra.  I was thinking Markus Janssen might be a good senior foreign attorney for Asahi.  I did not use Janssen’s name, but I think FountainLittle felt me.
FountainLittle dismissed the idea that Asahi should hire a senior foreign counsel as ludicrous by giving me a chuckle that indicated she thought I was cute.  Less than two years after I left Asahi, Markus Janssen’s firm, Komatsu, Koma & Nishikawa, and Asahi merged.  One interpretation in English of the new name, Asahi Koma, could be ‘coma of the Rising Sun.’
To understand their hiring goals better I suggested I help with the annual recruitment of OriginSun attorneys.  FountainLittle congratulated me on my idea.  I thanked FountainLittle, but explained the idea was not mine, but hers.
The restaurant we were eating at was effectively on the second floor, although the floor numbering is different because the street level outside varies.  Before lunch, we entered the building on the street level, rode the escalator up one floor, and entered the restaurant.  After lunch, we now needed to descend one floor in the hotel to return to street level to walk back to the office.  Rather than returning by an escalator as we had entered, we walked toward the elevators.  Waiting for the elevators, I suspected FountainLittle was testing me to see what my reaction would be if she took the elevator up to a room.
On our way back to the office, FountainLittle and I were again discussing recruiting of foreign associates.  She asked me a question which indicated Asahi was evaluating potential foreign associates in a way that was legal in OriginSun, but not in America.  I respectfully cautioned her about American hiring practices.
She responded by looking me in the eyes, reaching out with her right hand, and squeezing my left bicep.  As she was squeezing my left bicep, FountainLittle said: ‘we are not concerned; we are consulting the Ambassador.’  My interaction with OriginSun people in public did not usually involve physical interaction, so her touching me took on much meaning.  On subsequent occasions for several years afterwards when someone would squeeze my left bicep while conversing with me I was reminded of her remarks about the Ambassador.
This resulted in an Affiliation Product for an Ambassador that lasted for several years.  FountainLittle’s grasp was a Source>Other>Tangible>Body Indicator.  Her remarks were an Other>Verbal Method.  My bicep was a Source>Self>Tangible>Body Indicator.
The right and the left Indicators gradually took on additional significance.  A person on subsequent occasions grasping my right bicep would indicate the U.S. Ambassador because I was right handed, and I learned American before I learned the OriginSun language.  A person grasping my left bicep would indicate the OriginSun Ambassador.  The Source>Other/Self>Verbal/Telepathic/Cognitive Methods would also alter my interpretation of the Indicator.
At a reception dinner for potential new OriginSun attorney hires, FountainLittle gave a welcome toast.  Prime Minister FountainLittle had come into office just as I moved to OriginSun.  Partner FountainLittle referred to the recent installation of the Prime Minister’s cabinet, a cabinet including a record number of female Ministers.  She suggested the future for young attorneys was particularly bright: the implication being women’s opportunities were increasing.
I also had dinner with one of the other founding members, Mr. FaithDisclose PleasingThree, at a Korean grill restaurant near his home.  Having dinner in the neighbourhood of his home could be interpreted as a generous gesture.  I was discussing my admiration for the rail system in OriginSun, particularly the punctuality.  PleasingThree said, poignantly: ‘yes, but the planes are always running late.’
I did not understand at the time, but he was referring to the universe plane.  I think he was trying to suggest that the Aerospace Project for which Enron was employing Asahi to test me was going slowly.  In addition, ButtocksInlet, FountainLittle, and others made the point symbolically on more than one occasion that they had been waiting a long time for me to come to OriginSun.

Secretarial Musical Chairs

All during this time, Persistence was in Los Angeles.  She eventually came to CapitalEast in July.  To enable the reader to understand the context of future events from this point in this chronology, early 2001, I will jump ahead by explaining that Persistence and I cohabited until May 2003.  We divorced in 2004 after I failed to persuade the Tokyo District Court Judge to deny her divorce complaint.
Returning to the events in the first half of 2001, Mr. TrueWisteria’s secretary also served as my secretary.  Her nickname was “Tai.”  Her e-mail address, , was derived from the transliteration of her OriginSun name.  For some reason her email address had become her nickname.
I began to suspect TrueWisteria wanted me to relieve him of the burden of a present or past relationship with Tai.  Perhaps their relationship was only wishful thinking on Tai’s part.  In any case, I was not interested.  Perhaps because of this issue Tai and I did not have a very good working relationship.
After I had met Takako Nakamura in my visit to CapitalEast in February to interview, I continued to see Ms. Nakamura after I moved to CapitalEast.  At this point I was still thinking I could stick out Asahi for some time, so I proposed to her that after I worked at Asahi for a year, I would see if Asahi would employ Nakamura as my secretary.  Ms. Nakamura told me her friend was ill.  She was not specific, but I could not help the feeling that she was being pressured to meet me in exchange for favourable treatment for her friend.  We parted ways.
I am a rather gregarious person, and did not have trouble meeting another woman, this time with Brad Pirie from TUJ Law when we went out in the evening while he was visiting CapitalEast.  The day after I met this new woman, TrueWisteria asked me: ‘When would Persistence arrive?’  TrueWisteria seemed to wish Persistence arrived sooner, rather than later.
This was just one instance where I felt Asahi wished my social life were less gregarious.  This new woman worked in a department store.  Without any prompting from me, she claimed to want to work in a law office.  She claimed secretarial work was appealing, although she had no experience.
Her comments, and actions, indicated she was receiving information from someone regarding how to behave with me.  On at least one occasion, I suspected there was someone standing behind me giving her instructions.  She was not terribly clever, and we parted company.
Later that year in August, while explaining why I left Asahi to John Adams, I mentioned this second woman expressing interest in being my secretary.  Adams asked me how the second woman could know what I had told the first woman if they did not know each other.  He seemed sincerely mystified.  At times, I had suspected Adams might be advancing the interests of a third party, perhaps related to the Affiliation Product: au, as a sort of Handler.  However, his sincere naiveté here seemed to indicate otherwise, and if I were to categorise him, I would label him a Freelancer.

Writing on Empty: ATT & Corporation Q

At Asahi, I assisted one of the partners with a client, I will call Corporation Q.  Corporation Q is an atelier based in Paris, France with 10 worldwide subsidiaries, almost 250 shops, and 2000 employees worldwide.234  I do not recall the partner’s name, but I will refer to him as the Corporation Q partner.
At the time, ButtocksInlet’s office was on the corner of the main floor of the International Section of Asahi.  Bordering one corner, separated by secretaries, was my office I shared with three OriginSun associates, and bordering the other corner of ButtocksInlet’s office was TrueWisteria’s office.  Next to True Wisteria was Mr. FaithDisclose PleasingThree’s235 office, and the next office was occupied by the Corporation Q partner.  This was in the Akasaka Twin Towers New Building.  The acronym for the first three transliterated words of the building’s name is ATT.
The name of the Akasaka Tameike Tower building nearby also uses ATT as its acronym.  The Akasaka Tameike Tower houses the law firm Tanaka, Akita, Nakagawa/Clifford Chance.  Three years later, the Court appointed this firm in 2005 to be my trial counsel.
The ATT buildings are less than a kilometre from the United States Embassy.  In the United States, the acronym of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the former telephone monopoly now deregulated to permit competition, is AT&T.  The Affiliation Product for ATT came to have the following very complicated Meaning associated with the Indicator.
I recall two occasions when the Corporation Q Partner came to my office.  I clearly remember the discussions at my desk because the speaker’s words carried more meaning than the speech alone conveyed.  Certainly a second reason I recall the conversations is that I have turned the discussions over in my mind from time to time.  Perhaps yet another reason I recall the conversations is due to Image Guidance.
We were advising our client on alleged infringement of intellectual property rights by, judging from the ethnicity of the names of the alleged infringers, OriginSun individuals.  The Corporation Q Partner explained that OriginSun, French and most Continental European Civil Code theories of contract are different from American common law contract theory.  The OriginSun/European method tends to find a contract formed by a meeting of the minds.  American Contract theory prefers a more evidentiary method that reduces the agreement to writing.
Without a writing, a meeting of the minds governed by American Contract Law will be more difficult to prove compared to OriginSun/European Contract Law.  As I recall, the Corporation Q Partner suggested a judge enforcing an OriginSun/European meeting of the minds would be relatively more inclined to find a contract without a writing.  I think the point the partner was trying to make was one might interpret the Contract theory distinction to be fundamentally related to different methods of telepathic communication.
America does not as readily recognise methods like telepathy, or subtle indications of intent as do more historical cultures like Europe and OriginSun.  The partner was trying to tell me that he knew my thoughts.  He was suggesting there was general agreement about cooperating with me to achieve my goals.
Then I had not reduced my goals to a writing, but the partner was indicating Europe and OriginSun shared my interest in reducing the militaristic tendencies of the United States.  Perhaps the United States required a writing to satisfy the terms of my disassociation with American Image Guidance.  To facilitate the transition to OriginSun, the United States was indicating a method of transfer.  ATT is an Affiliation Product Component indicating the deregulation of the monopoly the United States holds over my Image Guidance.
On the second occasion, the Corporation Q Partner discussed writing a book with me in my office.  He told me that Asahi staff, from time to time, would write books or publications to promote the firm, publicise research, and advance the author’s understanding of topics of research.  He probably was aware of my knowledge of the monitoring of my computer use when he discussed the advisability of handwriting as opposed to using a computer.  He was suggesting I write something by hand.  In part because I had his advice in mind, I drafted handwritten portions, such as this and other portions, which I wrote while in jail at the CapitalEast Detention Center, and indicated in this treatise under the headings: “Writing on Empty.”

Dining Out

I met an employee of Yahoo Japan, and we went for dinner at the restaurant John Seward and I had entered and left without eating.  The sushi was clearly bad, and my companion declined to eat it.  However, like the medication at Rutan & Tucker, I ate it anyway.
After we said goodnight I became violently ill.  I suspect someone was not pleased I was socialising with people like the Yahoo OriginSun employee.  This was the first incident in OriginSun where I ate tainted food, but far from the last.  On occasion, to condition my behaviour and generally discourage me, restaurants served me contaminated food.
Once at dinner with WisteriaThatOne, Weinsaft and Persistence, the master of the restaurant seemed visibly distraught with the duty of concocting and serving me contaminated food.  WisteriaThatOne tasted my entrée, and I think WisteriaThatOne understood what was occurring.  This became so routine that I eventually became fairly adept at concocting a method for recovering.  The solution was to drink hot sake and take a hot bath.

Asahi Law Offices

Just before the end of my first two weeks of accommodations at the hotel Asahi had arranged for me, TrueWisteria told me that Asahi would pay only the first two weeks of accommodation.  TrueWisteria apologised.  He claimed he had misunderstood the other partners.  Rather than misunderstanding, I believe what happened was a change of opinion among senior partners in the firm.
Once Asahi discovered that Persistence would not be joining me immediately, they became concerned.  Their fears took on many forms.  Asahi was puritanical in curtailing my personal activities.
They made obvious remarks.  There was the reduction of my hotel allowance from two months to two weeks.  Asahi staff tried to excuse the moral fanaticism by saying they had never had a foreign associate with an OriginSun spouse.
Conversations with non-Asahi people included casual inquiries about where and what type of place I wanted to live.  Conversations in and out of work regularly included queries regarding when Persistence would be arriving.  Judging from conversations overheard and partaken, Handlers hoped I would sign a year contract for housing soon.  I sensed that the housing was being prepared, but to do so the Incubator had to first fully vet the sort of place I wished to live.

Privacy Games

There were attorneys I admired at Rutan. One of the partners at Rutan & Tucker and I had a long conversation in his office about various political issues. He suggested America needed a Constitutional amendment to protect privacy. Neither of us referred to my privacy specifically, but he was clearly giving me a friendly opportunity to complain about invasions of my privacy if I chose to object.
I suspect he had suffered similar invasions of privacy. I tried to euphemistically explain I could not envision how a Constitutional amendment could stop the legal invasions of my privacy we both knew were occurring. I was not convincing. He probably still feels we need a Constitutional amendment. For future reference to this partner, I will refer to him as Privacy Partner.
Privacy Partner and another former managing partner at Rutan & Tucker are Jewish, an American religious minority with an ethnic component. As a child I lived in the suburb of Brighton, where that minority is a majority. I share many character traits with my fellow Jews, such as the need for, and belief that there must be righteousness in our world. According to DNA research I am Ashkenazi.

“The term “Ashkenazi” refers to Jews of mainly central and eastern European ancestry. Most historical records indicate that the founding of the Ashkenazi Jewry took place in the Rhine Basin and subsequently underwent vast population expansions.” “Around half of all Ashkenazi Jews trace their mitochondrial lineage back to one of four women, and [my] haplogroup N1 represents one of those lineages. N1 is seldom found in populations of non-Ashkenazi Jews.” “This indicates a strong genetic role in the Ashkenazi founder event, which likely occurred in the Near East.”223

Consequently, I am more comfortable and familiar with Jewish customs and Hebrew than typical Americans. Many of the women I dated in America were Jewish, and I can speak a very few words of Hebrew. In a predominantly Christian environment like Orange County and most large law firms, Jewish individuals notice my familiarity.
These two partners had offices just down the hall from me. In a discussion with a former managing partner in his office, I learned he had been the managing partner for only a year. He stepped down from the post, so that more partners in Rutan & Tucker would have the experience of being the managing partner. He seemed to think that by allowing others to gain experience as the managing partner, he could distribute responsibility more evenly throughout the firm.
I consulted him on a proposed course of action. He expressed disapproval of my proposed course of action simply because my proposed course of action was unethical. This has been the only time a practicing attorney explained a decision based on the attorney’s code of ethics alone. He did not base his ethical objection to my suggestion on a particular rule, guideline, or law. These are just two examples of good, decent attorneys at Rutan.
Persistence and I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. While doing so, a photographer came to take pictures of us working. I met legal professionals there who seemed to have some connection to Rutan, but I have no way of knowing. The Incubator is always on.

Rutan to Asahi: Orange County to CapitalEast

Rutan & Tucker suggested I start making court appearances scheduled by Mr. Ross Berton, and fired me claiming a downturn in the legal business cycle. Peterson, the other OriginSun speaker at Rutan, was fired a month or so later. Berton, who was Jewish, claimed to have worked for a California governor in Sacramento. I had little in common with Berton’s politics, and even less with his ethics. I discovered later that Berton was misappropriating the auspices of another California attorney with a record of discipline for violence.
I performed court appearances for various attorney agencies throughout the Southern California area. Attorneys of record would hire me through an agency to appear in court at scheduling conferences, hearings, and to complete pleadings with or without the client. While there was no ethical or legal guideline on point, judges did not like this practice. They preferred to have the attorney of record make the appearance.
An attorney of record should be able to answer a judge’s questions better than appearing attorneys. In addition, judges preferred to see the attorney of record in the courtroom rather than an appearance attorney because a judge can hold attorneys of record accountable for deadlines, statements by the attorney at the hearing, etc. The attorney of record, more so than an appearance attorney, should know the facts. Indeed, attorneys of record often hired agency attorneys to avoid facing the judge. I came to fully understand the judges’ objections, and began to look for work in OriginSun.

A focus group of one

In the Incubator about the time Rutan & Tucker fired me, the court battle resolved the American presidential election in Florida, home to my parents and two of my siblings. In California, there was a power problem. Apparently, the electrical distribution grid was not allocating energy to cities other than Los Angeles, where I lived. The media reported widespread power disruptions lasting for many hours.
Enron was in the news as being involved in the trading of power commodities potentially contributing to the power outages. The media reported the Vice-president-elect, Richard Cheney, had served Enron in some capacity, and that President-elect, George W. Bush, was on a first-name basis with the president of Enron. Although plausibly deniable, I suspect Enron was the client that hired Rutan & Tucker to put me in an Incubator to test my motives, and actions.
In the news, but years later, the power issue was also a factor in the governor’s election recall. The recall resulted in the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I had heard for probably 15 years that Schwarzenegger was considering a California Gubernatorial run. I had always been a vocal supporter.
Again, as I wrote regarding the Presidential primary election and the New York City Mayoral election, I really do not know whether my casual opinions made any difference in the election of Schwarzenegger. I also do not know the connection between my actions, Enron, Richard Cheney’s cardiac condition, and the power shortages in California. I did see a relationship between Events and resourceful, omnipresent people attempting to persuade me of a connection with my actions and thoughts.
For years Alkalay had joked about the lack of a “wall” in my brain separating my thoughts from my speech. Alkalay teased me now and then. I read in the Los Angeles Times during the campaign that Bush claimed Bush’s friends teased Bush about having no wall in his brain which caused him to say things that might be better left unsaid.
Also in the paper, Bush said from his ranch in Texas he favoured reducing American military forces to far less in number. Bush premised this plan on new training techniques, and technology, to foster a new type of “super-warrior.” That was the first and last I ever heard of this super-warrior. At times like this, I recalled the man I met hitchhiking who had walked from Texas to Virginia.
Years later, while I lived in CapitalEast, I was riding a train to RicePaddyReach224 Airport to catch a plane to the US. On the train I met a man from Texas returning home from business in OriginSun. He made a point of telling me that his Handlers provided him with interpreters, and if he was not pleased with one, his OriginSun Handlers arranged another for him. I think he was alluding to my spouse, and providing another for me if I was dissatisfied with Persistence Won.
On a domestic connecting flight, I sat next to a woman from Texas. She discussed education issues in America. This is not the same woman indicated below who I refer to as LT, who also discussed education issues with me on an airplane. LT was from NYC.
Bush, from Texas, campaigned on a platform of being the “Education President.” In my conversation with this Texan woman, I did not follow the basic common sense tenet of avoiding discussion of politics and religion. The Texan clearly wanted to hear my views, and test her opinions on me.
This is the main purpose of the Incubator. The Incubator functions to tap into the man-on-the-street wisdom that I readily pour forth. Just as when conducting polling, the focus group can be narrowly limited to a very few people if one has carefully researched the representative sample. This Incubator has just one focus group member: me. However, by carefully selecting these individuals, a series of incubators could be monitored to have a very precise grasp on what conventional wisdom, and more importantly, unconventional wisdom is saying.
On another occasion, I met two men from Texas in OriginSun on business. We casually struck up a conversation at a McDonald’s in ValleyAstringent. In this instance, we discussed Mexican immigration into the United States.
The number of people I met who told me they were from Texas escalated just about the time of the first election of the second Bush, a former governor of Texas, to the US Presidency. The second Bush is supposedly referred to as “W.” The repeated meetings of Texans and the topics of conversation were clearly incoincidental. This is the Incubator, and the President’s political machine was putting the Incubatee to use just as someone did in the case of McCain, the New York City Mayoral contests and numerous others.

OriginSun Language Study at UCLA: 2001

Beginning in January 2001 I took an OriginSun language course at the University of California at Los Angeles as a non-matriculating student. Out of the dozen or so students in the class, three were California attorneys: Mr. Anthony “Tony” Mao Fay, Jr., Mr. James Freedman and myself. I had never met an attorney in an OriginSun language class until then. On the first day of class, both attorneys sat next to me before we had introduced ourselves. Another student in the class, Larry Mahl, was married to an OriginSun woman who was licensed as a New York attorney.
Fay was born in greater China. We met socially, and just after I moved to CapitalEast, he did so too, making us both TCKs. He worked as a tax attorney at White & Case in CapitalEast. On two occasions Fay suggested Freedman might be, or is in the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Freedman began his career with O’Melveny & Meyers, a 900-attorney firm with thirteen offices worldwide, including CapitalEast. He regularly visited me in CapitalEast. Consider the name Freedman in the context of my wish to be ‘free’ of my American Incubator. Another student who frequently sat near me in the class also moved to OriginSun after me, while her husband remained in America. Larry Mahl also moved to CapitalEast not long after I did. Mahl went to work for Sony.
While in CapitalEast, Fay and I met socially with Beyer. During our conversation, I noted the number of fellow students from my UCLA OriginSun language class, almost a quarter of the class, who ‘coincidentally’ moved to OriginSun just after I did. Fay also seemed to think the high percentage of the class that moved to OriginSun after I did was peculiar. Beyer did not.
While in Los Angeles, I heard of an attorney, Bruce Harrison, through the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California. I spoke with Mr. B. Harrison several times on the phone, and we arranged to meet, but due to a change of plans, and my departure for OriginSun, we were unable to.
On the telephone, Mr. B. Harrison told me about his experiences in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He had worked undercover for the American Central Intelligence Agency in Laos and Cambodia when, according to official sources, there was no American defence activity in those countries. I asked him if the CIA permitted him to discuss this, and he said enough time had passed since the incidents. I discussed my interest in American politics, although I was considering going to OriginSun, and he replied that a stint overseas could be helpful to a future political career in the US.
Besides Rutan & Tucker, I heard about the downturn in the California legal market from other sources as well. However, just as I began looking for work in OriginSun, I suddenly received interviews with Southern California law firms, Universal Studios Intellectual Property Legal Department, and a manufacturing company. At the same time, in CapitalEast, within a couple weeks I found 12-15 companies and law firms who had potential job opportunities to discuss with me when I visited CapitalEast to interview.

Interviews

Before entering OriginSun on 20 February 2001 for interviews, the Immigration and Naturalization Service had still not notified us of the status of Persistence’s US residency permit. I made several lengthy calls, and visited the Immigration and Naturalization Service office. Obtaining her residency permit before moving to OriginSun made sense for five reasons.
First, she would not need to enter the US on a tourist visa when we visited. Second, we had invested immeasurable effort in obtaining the residency permit. Third, I did not want to stop and restart the process again later if we should decide to return to America. Fourth, Persistence was interested in obtaining the permit. Fifth, I am an idiot.
Then Mahl was working for Warner Home Video. He introduced me to the intellectual property attorney with whom I interviewed at Universal Studios. Mahl also introduced me to a California attorney, John Terrence Murphy.
Murphy was a partner at the CapitalEast office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, a US firm from the state of Ohio with 750 partners worldwide in 20 offices including CapitalEast. This and the other American firm I interviewed with in CapitalEast wanted me to wait months, if not a year, before I could possibly come to work in OriginSun. They seemed to be stalling me. The vast majority, if not all the OriginSun law firms I interviewed with in CapitalEast had a partner with political experience. These included sitting Diet Member, recent Diet Member, retired Supreme Court Justice, and former Ministry officials.
In late February or early March 2001 I met John Seward from TUJ Law at his home in TaoismBeMadlyInLoveSurface225. We entered a sushi restaurant across the street from his home, and Yahoo Japan’s headquarters, but after looking inside, Seward decided we should go to a restaurant for dinner in South MountainBlue.
I told Seward I was interested in running for a Diet seat. I asked him if he could help me with financing. Seward indicated he might be able to help. I asked him about his father’s swords, and he seemed unconcerned.
He was unaware of the outcome of the search for the attorney or the swords. Seward told me of an attorney in CapitalEast with four girlfriends and a spouse. The Koran teaches that a man may have up to four spouses if he believes he can treat them equally.226
Seward said he owned a Land Rover, and planned to buy a Porsche 911. Ascribing significance to Affiliation Products is problematic. One might assert that the Land Rover was a reference to me because I moved around a lot. Regarding the Porsche, AT&T began using 9-1-1 as the single phone number emergency call system beginning in 1968. Instead of 9-1-1, OriginSun uses 1-1-9. Nine-eleven is shorthand for the 11 September 2001 disaster in the United States.
In hindsight, Seward’s use of the brand name of the Porsche automobile could have been a reference to the 11 September disaster eight months later. The crucial point of his use of these Affiliation Products, here and elsewhere, is there is no way for me to know how conscious Seward was of his use of this symbolism. Was Seward simply an Asset? Was he a Handler? Administrator? None of the above?
Seward paid for our dinner, and made a point of saying the credit card was a “company” card. Perhaps he was simply trying to allay my concerns that I should pay for a portion of our meal. People supposedly use ‘company’ to refer to the American Central Intelligence Agency.227

Show me the Work

After about four interviews in CapitalEast, I received three job offers. At that point, my enthusiasm at the remaining interviews waned. One offer was from Markus Janssen, a German attorney working as a Registered Foreign Attorney in OriginSun.
Janssen was associated with an OriginSun firm, Komatsu, Koma and Nishikawa. Koma sounds the same in English as coma. I mentioned the dual meaning of the name to Larry Mahl and Sid Weeks. Janssen now works for Baker & Mackenzie.
In February 2001 I met Takako Nakamura.228 Ms. Nakamura and I met several times. She complained about work and dissatisfaction with her supervisors.
On one occasion, I had an appointment to meet with her after meeting with Janssen. The meeting with Janssen went late, and I could not help having the feeling Janssen was somehow aware of my date after my meeting with him, and that he was testing me to see where my priorities lay. I postponed the Nakamura appointment.
Sometime later Janssen discounted the offer of employment, explaining he had been unaware that I could not read OriginSun proficiently. Again, this is all conjecture, but I suspect the discounted offer meant that if I wanted Nakamura, the cost would be deducted from my salary. I passed the job opportunity on to others, including University of California at Los Angeles, and TUJ Law classmates. Sid Weeks, my roommate from TUJ Law, took the job. Weeks OriginSun language skills are considerably better than mine.
I received an offer from Kojima Law Offices. The name partner of the law firm had the same transliterated family name as the transliterated portion of my family name at the time: Kojima-Allen. Some years ago, the current foreign associate at the firm had allegedly admitted himself to a mental health facility. Again, I passed the job opportunity on to others, including University of California at Los Angeles and TUJ Law Program classmates.
One of the people to whom I referred the job opening was Pam Weinsaft from TUJ Law. She eventually moved to CapitalEast from New York City to take the job. During the job offer, and my passing the opportunity to others, I never once met or even saw LittleTurf, the name partner. I began to doubt he existed.
After Weinsaft started employment there sometime later, I met her for lunch. After we had taken our seats in a restaurant, LittleTurf and others from their firm entered and sat immediately behind us, facing Weinsaft. She was unsure he was the name partner, so we left the restaurant without Weinsaft addressing them or introducing us.
The third offer was from Asahi Law Offices, at the time one of the five largest OriginSun firms. I had interviewed with Mr. LengthenRejoice TrueWisteria229, the firm’s managing director’s heir apparent. The salary offer was more than double what I had ever received in the United States. Before using the name Asahi, often translated as Rising Sun in English, the firm used the names of Mr. TwoPure RicePaddyMeasuringBox230, and Mr. Hump ButtocksInlet231, the head partners of the New York and CapitalEast offices, respectively.

Following directions too well

Beyer knew ButtocksInlet, and liked him. After offering me employment, Asahi provided me with a proposed employment contract. I consulted Beyer about the employment contract. When negotiating the contract at Asahi, Beyer suggested I add a probationary period. This seems like the sort of advice one usually advises an employer, but Beyer recommended I, as an employee, insert a probationary period.
One might argue that Beyer’s purposes would be better served by assisting ButtocksInlet rather than me. ButtocksInlet had a longer history in the legal market in CapitalEast. Beyer also suggested that instead of vague contract terms regarding my ethical responsibilities, I substitute language that held me to specifics determined by the New York and California professional codes. I relayed both proposals back to Asahi, and we changed the contract accordingly to include a probationary period, and the standard ethical guidelines. During the three-month period, either Asahi or I could conclude the contract with one month’s notice.
Terms in Asahi’s initial proposed contract seemed unusually strict. For instance, I was not to disclose that I worked on a particular matter: forever. Attorneys are frequently required to provide a transaction list to subsequent employers. One reason for this is to determine if there would be any conflict of interest if the attorney accepts the new employment.
Asahi’s proposed employment agreement would have prevented me from avoiding conflicts of interest by contractually prohibiting me from disclosing relevant matters and clients to future employers. At my suggestion, we included an exception for legal proceedings. Ultimately, all the information that I am disclosing here was disclosed in a civil proceeding, voiding the prohibition on disclosure.
Terms of the relocation package were included in the contract, except for the initial hotel accommodations when I moved to OriginSun. TrueWisteria orally notified me that I would have two months at Asahi expense in a hotel of Asahi’s choosing before I needed to find an apartment. I requested the contract specifically state I had two months in the hotel. TrueWisteria refused. This was not exactly the sort of reliance they taught me in law school.

Green Card Persistence

While I was in OriginSun for interviews, a notice from the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrived at our home in Los Angeles. This calls to mind my experience with my tax refund while living in the UK. The Service had transferred Persistence’s file from the Deportation Department in Washington, D.C. to the Los Angeles office. We were to appear at the Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Los Angeles for an interview.
I departed OriginSun on 08 March 2001 to return to Los Angeles to consult Persistence. She was enthusiastic regarding Asahi, but suggested she remain in the United States for the time being. Towers conveniently offered to provide Persistence with a visa if she decided to remain in the US long-term.
I called and visited the Immigration and Naturalization Service. On the day of the interview, I arrived early to register for our appointment. Persistence came later directly from work.
The interviewer separately questioned Persistence and I. The interviewer asked me if Persistence married me to obtain a US work permit. I replied I did not think so. I added Towers would sponsor her if necessary.
I accepted the job offer from Asahi, and prepared to return to OriginSun. After I returned to OriginSun, Persistence received her permanent residency permit in Los Angeles. Once awarded, the Immigration and Naturalization Service rarely rescinds a residency permit, despite official policy to the contrary.

Is that a computer monitor on your desk, or a computer monitoring your desk?

The Rutan & Tucker computer network software permitted staff at a different computer to view what appeared on a computer screen at another terminal.  Screen sharing such as this has now become fairly commonplace, but then special software was required.  The official use of this remote-viewing software at Rutan was when computer users called the firm’s computer centre for assistance.  Rutan & Tucker occupied the top five floors of a large building at 611 Anton Boulevard.  If a computer user called the computer centre, computer staff could remotely view the user’s screen to answer the user’s question without either the user or the support staff physically going to the other’s office.
This was the first time I had heard of this software, and I consulted Persistence Won about the software.  She told me the software was common knowledge.  She said also that software at Towers permitted her supervisors to track not only what appeared on her computer screen, but also every keystroke she made.
On one occasion, I walked down to the computer centre without warning.  My office was a short distance from the computer centre, but it was still easier to call to receive word processing computer support than visit.  However, this time I was going to exchange thoughts with one of the technical staff about my pocket PC compatibility discussed below.  When I walked in, I addressed the technical staff member from across his desk.  He drowsily looked up at me, seemed to suddenly realise whom he was looking at, looked quickly back at his computer screen, and rapidly began moving his mouse.
Initially, I thought he was playing a computer game.  As you may have noticed, I enjoy computer games.  I wanted to see, so I walked around to his side of the desk.
On his screen, I saw that he was sorting through several different views.  I found he was closing the software containing the view of what appeared on my desktop.  I was able to clearly see that he had been monitoring my computer use.  I cannot imagine why this was necessary.  Rutan was probably regularly monitoring my computer use.
One day, after a particularly grueling, mind-numbing battle of fighting with the computer and the photocopiers at Rutan & Tucker, I overheard staff indicating the person assigned to ‘play’ with me: Partner Layne H. Melzer.  He was Rutan & Tucker’s rising star, and was supposedly pursuing the California governorship.  I continued until almost everyone had left for the day, and then wrote something on my screen for Melzer to see.  Without saving the file, I closed the document, shut off my computer, and shut my office door.
Before leaving the floor my office was on, I knocked on Melzer’s door.  Without waiting for an answer, I opened the door, as Melzer was closing software on his computer.  Melzer and I made pleasant conversation indicating we both knew what the other was doing.  After speaking with Melzer, I took the elevators down, wary of the doors.
Although I had not pushed the button for the floor, the elevator stopped on Enron’s floor.  The doors opened.  The floor was dark, but I could hear footsteps in the distance.  The large blue-green Enron logo was glowing in the dim light of the exit lamps.
On another occasion, two partners conducted a casual meeting in the conference room across the hall from my office.  They left the door open, and spoke loudly enough for me to hear them.  Their conversation was about a man and a woman.  They said she would leave him in a matter of time, and made other derogatory remarks.
I replied by typing a message on my computer.  The two partners continued their banter.  Someone appeared at the door of their conference room to subtly suggest the partners cease.  The partners continued speaking, and I typing.
A more senior staff member arrived with a little less subtle message that they move to another room.  The partners and I continued.  Finally, a senior member of the firm interrupted them.  We ceased.
Most of my official responsibilities at Rutan & Tucker involved Eminent Domain actions.  Our main client was a municipality. That municipality was home to locations of a former defence company and another company.110  The former was one of seven US locations, and the latter was one of eleven US locations. “Second gate,” a second theme park next door to the original park, was doubling the size of a major attraction in the municipality.
We were acquiring pieces of property for the municipality using the power of condemnation and, when necessary, litigation.  The properties the municipality acquired facilitated access to the theme parks and services in the area.  We sued property owners not willing to accept the price the municipality offered to pay the property owners to sell the desired property. My direct report had never lost a case.  My formal function was drafting pleadings and conducting legal research on the Internet.
My PC would repeatedly crash, so I often would move to another PC at an unused desk to continue working.  On one occasion, after I moved to another PC, that PC also crashed, so I moved to a third PC.  The Rutan & Tucker network connected all these PCs.
Partner Steven Daniel “Dan” Harbottle, who, along with my direct report, had hired me for this job, walked past to see if I was irritated on one of these occasions.  Then my direct report walked past, attempting to discreetly check to see if I seemed upset.  If I did not appear sufficiently provoked, I was afraid the computer might crash again.  Consequently, on this and other occasions, I made an effort to appear angry.  I hoped that whoever was trying to irritate me could have a sense of accomplishment, and stop trying to bother me.
The computer staff would change my PC tower from time to time, so I was encouraged to avoid storing data on the PC’s hard drive.  Instead, I was encouraged to store information in the system.  This also would permit our employer to keep a closer watch on our work product.
Initially, I saved website addresses for legal research on my Internet browser.  When the PC tower was changed, I lost the bookmarks I had saved in the Internet browser.  I started a Yahoo account for frequently used legal research bookmarks.  In addition, when the computer would crash, and I moved to another terminal, I could continue my research on the Internet using my bookmarks from the Yahoo account at another terminal.

Pocket PC

About this time the technical support staff member who I had observed monitoring my computer told me attorneys at Rutan & Tucker were buying pocket computers.  He encouraged me to buy a pocket computer.  For some years, I had been saying that being able to use handwriting to input ideographic characters would be useful for looking up OriginSun words in a dictionary.  About this time, the Input Method Editor (IME) by Microsoft had become available in a handheld version.
To enter ideographs using the IME function one uses the mouse to trace the character strokes with the cursor on the computer screen.  Using IME, the user can look up characters even though the user does not know any of the phonetic readings of the ideograph.  When searching in an electronic dictionary, if the user knows even one of the readings, IME is not particularly useful.  Native speakers of OriginSun will usually know at least one reading of a character, but for beginning speakers of OriginSun one of the more difficult aspects of using ideographs is searching in a dictionary when one does not know a phonetic reading.
One of the people I discussed this with was my father-in-law in OriginSun, who later sent me a pocket PC from OriginSun.  The pocket PC I received from him is the only one I ever saw with the IME function.  Beyer from TUJ Law, now at Morgan Stanley, also received one of these pocket computers from Morgan Stanley, but without the IME function.
Beyer searched, but was unable at the time to find a pocket PC for sale with this handwritten character recognition function.  Rutan & Tucker attorneys who had pocket PCs received assistance from computer support staff synchronising their pocket PCs with their desktops.  However, my pocket PC used an OriginSun language operating system which was incompatible with the American operating system.  Years later this functionality became considerably more widespread.
I had lunch with three partners: the managing partner of the firm, Harbottle, and a senior member of the firm who had previously been a managing partner.  The latter regretted the number of people moving to Southern California.  Since I had just moved to California, I suspected this remark was directed at me.
I heard I was the only OriginSun speaker that had ever worked at Rutan & Tucker.  On my way to work in the mornings, I listened to the OriginSun language radio show.  One day on my return commute, the announcer made remarks in English intending to mock something Persistence Won and I often said to each other.  In addition, the announcer said they were unable to program in the OriginSun language.
Just after this, Rutan & Tucker hired Mr. Darren Peterson.  Peterson was married to a descendent of OriginSun nobility, and he was much more proficient in the OriginSun language than I.  He was studying to be an attorney.
At home, I had installed software provided by Rutan & Tucker allowing me to access the firm’s computer network from my personal desktop.  After a return commute, there was a suspicious incident on my home desktop when I tried to log into the Rutan & Tucker system.  Since then, I heard Internet connectivity is possible through a standard wall outlet electrical connection.222  If that is true, no connection other than electric power is necessary to monitor a computer user remotely.  I am now accustomed to thinking that every keystroke I make, every time I move the cursor, someone may be monitoring my actions.
For example, when I first drafted this chronology in 2003 and 2004 I was using a Windows desktop connected to a wall outlet.  That desktop was supposedly not connected to the Internet.  Due to the length of this manuscript and computer limitations, at the time I saved the first part of this chronology as file <a>, and the second part as file <b>.
In file <a>, the ‘X’ icon appeared normally in the top, right corner of the document permitting me to close the file.  The ‘X’ icon did not appear in file <b>.  The computer crashed almost daily, sometimes more.  I do not know if this was related to my composition, but I presume so.
Several days after writing the preceding paragraphs, I went to Yahoo Café in CharacterBrook to read my e-mail.  Three loud English speakers sat next to me, purposefully speaking loudly enough for me to hear their conversation.  One of the speakers claimed to have had a very old Toshiba laptop.  He recently bought a new laptop.
Years ago, I received a large Toshiba laptop.  I was in the process of considering consulting an attorney regarding my ethical and legal liabilities for disclosure of information in this document.  I needed to show the attorney the text of this document.
I was concerned about even printing this document given my obligations under attorney rules of professional conduct.  I realised I could use the laptop to deliver the text.  Although the consultation of the attorney, the delivery of the documents and the conversation I overheard were supposedly unrelated, I could see Synchronicity.
This speaker at Yahoo Café in 2003 claimed his new laptop ran Microsoft Expert (XP).  Yahoo Café CharacterBrook uses XP on their laptops.  The speaker said ME does not work well, but that XP is great, and 2000 is not bad.  The desktop I used to write the first draft ran Microsoft Millennium Edition (ME) or ‘me,’ a preposition indicating ‘myself’ in English.
Some suggest I am too self-centred, and not appreciative of what America has done for me.  They want to discourage me from the ME or the ‘me’ method of operating.  According to some the year two thousand is the second millennia anniversary of the birth of the Christian icon.  The operating system on the PC used to draft this initial manuscript, the operating system on the laptops at the café, and the symbolism may be unrelated.  However, if we decide there is no relationship, and presume all is coincidence, we may very well miss significant correlations which enable us to see the larger scheme.