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This was written by Robert in 2014, orig. in Estonian. Much earlier, before 2007 when he started writing Sacred and Terrible Air he thought of telling the story of Elysium in three books named by their main characters — Milton, Dister, Dallas — Dallas would later evolve into Dallasz. A lot of the work that has gone into building Elysium firstly appears as ‘a list of cool concepts’, a word-sketch, a matrix of some sort. The world not being readily understandable has always been central to the project, and it of course points at our own world not being readily understandable — it is necessary to make simplifications from the enormous amounts of data, these may constantly be improved, a shift of focus may be necessary, new information may need to be integrated — in short, he would like us to consider the world in a certain sort of way which he believes to be productive. And it is a poetic type of discourse as emotion is central to it, and human emotion in fact should be respected and considered carefully because of how powerful it can be, in both fair and wicked things.
The members of the Dister-RJIKSLIVET VIOLATED THE GOOD JOURNALISTIC STANDARD WHEN PUBLISHING THAT NAME Complex, according to Rijkslivet, 03.07.96:
Marius Dijsters a. k. a. Dister (oranje, son of diplomats, incl. the grand ambassador of Oranje on Iilmaraa), four published ‘collected texts’ consisting of mostly decriptions)
E. August Lakon (vespertine, Dister’s closest friend, calls himself a disterian, his father: an AMG systems analyst)
Ruper Trepkos (oranje, PhD in Literature, about to complete a PhD in systems sciences, political activist)
Filip van Mehring (the crown prince Philip of Oranje — the eldest son of king Philip the Fourth and Maria-Chagal)
Theo Van Kok (oranje, disc jockey, the youngest of the group, four LP-s and features on over 200 compilations, Grand Prix of ’68 of the ‘Le Disc-Jockey’ magazine, was anointed an innossence at Deora by half a million people)
Psara, civil name Peter-Nils Sara (oranje, ornithologist and an analyst of poetry)
Paul Messier (laclef, entrepeneur and poet, a “minion” of the Messier-Visag group, Enemy of the Press ’58 (Trompe du Monde), Enemy of the Press ’67 (Rijkslivlet), Worst Person of the Year ’67 (Trompe du Monde)
Visag — unknown
CORRECTION. “Member of the alleged Messier-Visag group”. The Rijkslivlet newspaper breached the good journalistic standard by claiming in the article “Dister-RIJKSLIVLET VIOLATED THE GOOD JOURNALISTIC STANDARD WHEN PUBLISHING THIS NAME Komplex members according to the Rijkslivlet newspaper” (03.07.69) that the Messier-Visag group actually exists.
