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Like A Tomb

from Voxart by H. C. Turk

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Brief readings from my novel, Make The Modern World, and my story, “In The Days Of Still Pictures,” on how photography portrays reality.

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“The terrible magic of death.”

“How’s that?”

“The tiny pictures have the perfect look of people, but never move. To never move is to be dead.”

“What’s the difference between a photograph and any other art, like painting or sculpture?”

“Paintings and carvings only resemble people and things. Your tiny pictures are so perfect that they try to duplicate the world. This type of mockery is false creation.”

“Photographs are perfect memories, not perfect mockery.”

“Memories are not perfect. They are much more than what is seen. Blind people have memories.”

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He had found a vision in his desk: a tintype of Miss Lace given him as a memento when she was especially depressed. But the marshal felt the need to examine the real person instead of her image; for one was kinetic and completely alive, the other just a still picture.

*

Belinda in that moment longed for stasis in her life, convinced that her emotions had progressed enough; for what could surpass the epitome of feeling that Frank had secured with his touch? And here was her wish, to hold this sensation, stopped in stride forever, her emotion the mark of a justified life, not like a tomb, but a photograph.

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from Voxart, released December 5, 2014

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H. C. Turk

Space pirates steal skinny gals. Ideas are greater monsters than the demons they explain. I'd bare my soul, but don't want to bore.

These Mystiphysical treasures can be found in my work, brainy music to make you think about feeling fantastic. In a sonic world where art is the ultimate animal, music evolution never ends, rising from the depths of the psyche to sing across a new sky.
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