The Lakannyi-Eràsis Interview: A Fragment

The Lakannyi-Eràsis Interview exists only in fragments imported from offworld. The devastating Eràsis virus destroyed all of the Ameisa-based recordings. While originally containing both video and audio, the video is too badly damaged to play. The controversial pieces mentioned by Amkzí, if they existed at all, must be in the eleven minutes of static before Màrasis* is mentioned.

Ellipses enclosed by square brackets indicate small pieces of inaudible text. In some cases, I have attempted to reconstruct the words. These words and phrases appear in curly brackets.


THE LAKANNYI-ERÀSIS INTERVIEW: A FRAGMENT

The first nineteen minutes of this recording are too corrupted to hear.

LAKANNYI

How excited are you {for this concert}?

ERÀSIS

It was always [... ... ...] mine [... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...] assassination plot against [... ... ...] not excited, really, more fulfilled. I feel like this is a cumulation, and I anticipate a success tonight [... ... ... ...] women [... ... ... ... ...] to make [... ...] smoothly.

LAKANNYI

You [... ...] one of the best {ksibja} players in two generations. Do you find [... ... ...] stressful?

A brief interlude of static.

ERÀSIS

{myself} as a great {ksibja player}. [... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...] with a broken arm! Once I may have, back before I {became an adult}. [...] heard cylinder recordings from the nineteenth century. The ksibja technique has really changed since then, and sometimes I think for the worse. I try to emulate {those recordings when} playing.

Five minutes of static.

ERÀSIS

It’s not like that at all!

LAKANNYI

About “Demon Child,” could you give {an explanation of its origins}?

ERÀSIS

[... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...] best pieces. It’s not about the {nuamë nuaf} iča. There was a boy I knew while growing up, a nahitakhë orphan. Is that the word you Tveshi use? His {adopted} father beat him. I don’t know what happened to him. That song {is dedicated to} him and all the others like him.

LAKANNYI

As an

Eleven minutes of static.

ERÀSIS

Màrasis committed suicide because she hated what {nanotech antidepressants} did to her head, and I think everything {would have been all right} [... ... ... ...] possible.

LAKANNYI

There are rumors that you were involved [... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...]** before your band became a huge success. How much of the hype surrounding Tapestry do you think derives from the tabloid publicity, and how much is genuine?

One minute of static.

ERÀSIS

{people hear about} the group and begin listening to what we have to say, it’s all good. Personally, that the controversy has stayed alive this long is mind-boggling.

LAKANNYI

Now, lastly, what kind of music do you listen to?

ERÀSIS

That’s easy. I like a lot of really weird stuff.

Hundred Hands Yielding is my favorite modern group. Nakàmennyi uses chords in amazing ways. They’re older than we are, so I feel like Nakàmennyi has been an indirect mentor to me. She’s the one who knows what the next trend will be, and she’s the one who began combing through the old myths for modern music.

Other than that, I think I mentioned the music cylinders.

Player 19L has the most surviving recordings. I bought datastream versions. Other than that, I have a weakness for opera and classical Narahji music. Tveshi music doesn’t really speak to me that much. They use different musical scales, and the lack of micronotes makes their music seem rather flat.

* Màrasis is considered by many, including Amkzí, to have been Eràsis’s mentor. Their friendship lasted from 1913 to 1917, when Màrasis poisoned herself. Eràsis did not come out publicly against nanotech antidepressants until after Màrasis’s funeral. Her condemnation raised public awareness of the failures of this type of medication and drew strong criticism from many medical nanotechnology specialists. – Nàsis

** It is my belief that Lakannyi is referring to the relationship between Eràsis and Prince Hamā from Baqara. Prince Hamā probably contacted her because a relationship with the daughter of a deified mortal would have increased his popularity on Ameisa. We know that his country, Meġi, wanted an easier relationship with the International Congress of Ameisa for trading purposes. Eràsis will discuss him more later. – Nàsis


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When I had attained the ripe old age of five weeks, my parents brought me to an amateur astronomy convention called Stellafane. A journalist doing a piece on children at the convention recorded that my mother called me “a refugee from Betelgeuse,” a red giant star in the constellation Orion.

In a small American town, my mother revealed these origins to me and I set out on my life mission: to explore strange new places, to seek out new experiences and new perspectives; and to boldly pursue my dreams.


I graduated from high school in May 2005. By that time, I had several novel drafts, a large and brilliant constructed language, and notebooks of emo poetry to back up my claims to the Betelgeusian throne. At Smith College, I learned to hone my writing and editing skills. (My emo poetry from college only fills ¼ of a notebook.) I also developed a passion for current events, politics, public policy, astronomy, and literary science fiction.


Now, a recent Smith College graduate, I blog and go to grad school. My web novella, Akačehennyi on a Diet of Dreams, was completed earlier this year. I also write KALLISTI, a Hellenic Polytheist-oriented blog. My poetry has appeared in print in AlienSkin and in Eternal Haunted Summer.

Thanks for choosing to read Ossia. I hope you enjoy it and that you stick around for stories to come.

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