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Chapter One: Decent into Whimsey
A squat little shed of barely any apparent significance. Overlooking a shabby garden of dirt paths and shallow beds. The Director walked up the steps to the entrance of the shack, taking out a brass key and opening the door, “Come on inside my dear boy,” he said over his shoulder. Stepping inside, the Director…
From the dawn of humankind and far before and beyond, creatures of consciousness, with capacities for sensory experiences taking place within their minds, have explored, tested, and expanded their knowledge and appreciation for these senses. Today, this act of marching forth through life seeking new and interesting sensations of reality, and our perception of it has been watered down, abandoned, and muddled. The goal of the distinguished and benevolent Ministry of Sensations is to bring back this noble goal. To help others unfold their minds, like an explorer or adventurer of old, bravely pushing forth into the unknown to seek the new, the novel, and the sensational. The Minister of Sensations cares NOT for merely seeking pleasurable sensations, for this constant need to coddle and comfort the mind is the source of the current lack of sensory exploration we face in society. Rather, this office is driven forth by the desire of any sensory experience, be it of pleasure or pain, pure ecstasy or terrible tragedy, the blissful peace and happiness of the universe and the unending suffering and uncaring nature of the world. To unravel the mind, the Minister of Sensations will seek to guide the Benevolent Society for the Propagation of Assorted Tomfoolery and Other Sorts of Peculiar and Otherwise Absurd and Baffling Nonsense (The J.U.G.G.L.E.I.N.G. C.L.U.B) into the beautiful and mysterious world of sensory perceptions, and to aid all in the seeking of new kinds of absurd and baffling experiences to the mind and soul.