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"What an intriguing, fun, lovely book with Oddfellow's usual quirky, oblique poetic, metaphysic dry humour and bibliophillic joie de livre. " —Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates
This Book is a Cactus turned out to be the most difficult project we've ever tackled. We wanted to recreate the very first computer game we programmed, from back in the 1980s—the Tamagotchi precursor of a virtual flower—but this time in book form. What we ended up with is a combination choose-your-own-adventure and puzzle book; it's a surrealistic virtual reality experience you hold in your hands, as the book is also a cactus that you attempt to keep alive. A hybrid cactus-book. Each page is like a square on a game board. You make decisions and solve riddles, and your choices/answers lead to different squares. Math puzzles, word puzzles, logic puzzles, and riddles appear at intervals within the fractal storyline.
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A Facebook session or a Spiritualist seance? Can you tell the difference?
One wishes to make contact with a distant friend, lover, or acquaintance who has departed from one's life. Via means one doesn't fully understand, one seeks a message, albeit oddly spelled or worded, or at least some sort of flickering notification that said entity possesses at least a modicum of sentience in that other place.
a: Spiritualist seance
b: Facebook
c: indistinguishable
[Hint: the answer, like the ocean of consciousness we seek to navigate and commune with, rhymes with the sea.]
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Here are True and False personified. But how can you tell them apart?
(The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
It's a trick question, becuase "True and false are in fact interchangeable depending upon the perspective and context of their affirmation, but such that for every false proposition there is always a possible world for which it is true. And vice-versa." —Romano Madera and Luigi Vero Tarca, Philosophy As Life Path, 2008
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Moon Fish Ocean is our whimsical Zen version of "Rock Paper Scissors." You can play the game online at the official website.
Here's a fun tip for taking the game on the road:
Use Moon Fish Ocean to navigate the maze of pathways in a formal garden (especially a garden with a koi pond!). You and your companion should throw a hand gesture at each crossroad or forked path. If the person on the left wins, go left. If the person on the right wins, go right. If it's a tie, continue walking straight ahead (or throw another round in the case of only two choices of direction). The game is guaranteed to lead you to all sorts of beautiful areas of the gardens you didn't know about, simply because you would never have gone down certain (less eye-enticing) paths. So Moon Fish Ocean can serve as a form of navigation in which Lady Luck dictates the itinerary.
A visitor asks:
It is not clear to me what makes this conducive to meditation. Is it being so focused on the activity that all else is put aside?
Like "walking meditation," Moon Fish Ocean can be a form of meditation in action, in which the experience of game play is the focus of heightened awareness.
Praise for Moon, Fish, Ocean:
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Here's a roll of the dice from Diccionario Enciclopedico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Siencias y Artes, 1887. See also our guide to Astragalomancy (finally released from private circulation in the magical underground), which reveals for the first time the secret meanings of 21 discrete dice throws. |
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