SHADOW DANCE!!! And chasing the eternal soulful high of being a dark flame
There is a place somewhere in a major english city, probably london, which is separate from the outer world. You need to pull some strings to enter as they don't let anyone in. What you have in that place is a collection of strange types and all kinds of impulsive, charismatic high society. But they're not part of any garbage mainstream scene, they're part of their own world.
They won't let you in if you're not wearing a mask.
And you better make your own, because if you buy any cloned shit from a store, what kind of lowly bitch are you? Eventually you will come to make your own mask, if you catch the clues the bouncers give you, and if you go really far you'll understand a few more things. They all have their own little social circles, all these make-believe aristocrats are playing secret. All around you, the more you evolve and make your way up this obscure society which plays in cool refined artsy darkness, all around will fuse these rumours and plays and subtleties, and you will find yourself gossiping about the powers that be and their little anecdotal secrets of polichinelle, in a hazy veil like drunk, who knows. If you go far enough... you may become a subject of antagonism, and as is so typical of that place in all its plots and intrigues you will be conspired against... and all these refined nobilities that play in subtle hints and garments and movements may end up pushing you to a wall and ripping your mask off in an alley.
You may realize then, as you panickingly fight for your life in a surge, that when they walk away they boast that they've killed you.
Because you are the mask. You will come to realize, when you try getting back into that madhouse and they reject you, that the mister or madame you've been playing all this time, is indeed dead. And that ─ well, if you're smart ─ when you make a new mask, the bouncers and the secretary and the low nobles which like to play with the commoners, will indeed see you as a new one. The mask is gone. But you're not a damn outsider! Oh no, woe be that any filthy outerworlder make their way into this hidden play. At any rate, if you are exposed as one, you are banned forever. Or until you make a new person. Well, you suddenly realize; They only look at your mask. You polish it, you look good today! You add some new features, you're trying a new style. You are as beautiful as your mask is. And as noble as its materials are. You are the mask.
And when, in time, you inevitably lose yourself in this vibrant play of soulful cocquetterie, and while avoiding all the faux pas and outerworldishnesses you find yourself laughing along with the marquis of whoever in a practiced, controlled cackling in tune with the etiquette of higher standing, and whisper alone with all the skittish rumours about the prince or whoever cannot be disrespected under the highest penalty ─ and they're sitting in the back! ─ then you may ask yourself, in some mad moment of clarity, but hold on ─ is this all just a play? Well, maybe the regent himself or whoever will come up to the stage and reply to whatever senseless fool who dared ask such dangerous question ─ that yes, it is just a play, indeed... And it is the most serious play in the world.
And it is called... Shadow dance!
I'm not far enough right now to know where it is but I don't want to believe it's in london. The nobility talk is not related to the good'ole class. And london is just too fucking disgusting to be host something this soulful. Maybe it's not in Britain. But which folk could house such quarters? I know they take their play very seriously. And over there it's like a world within a world. It's not some secret society shit, but... well... it seems nobody knows what happens underground. I don't even think it's in some seedy back-alley or whatever. Sigh... Long live Soul. This... well, pub, I suppose, is somewhere out there... "Shadow Dance". A place where you cannot be yourself. If you make up a noble title it might even work better than saying you're a plebeian. Secretary might even say Oh, I don't know that name, but We welcome you in our establishment...
These private eyes change tone when the mask takes over, and it's just tables... There's barely lighting, we're all in the dark... And it's such a wild ambiance...
Even the shadows dance.
I'm trying to put into words the high of alcohol if you go the way of Soul. But don't be deceived; Shadow Dance is out there.
Keep creepin. Keep sneaking. Keep spying. Infiltrate. Be the eye in the night. Get fucking drunk, and feel the night breeze. The cool touch of the moon on your skin. Moonburn. Let's go, my favourite is porto cruz. Go to Faro. Thonon summer. The sound is alive. Welcome to the night life. Richelle moment. And long live the purple! Write! The connection is here! Step the way! Right hand up! And listen! This may be the beastly side, the dark! We need a new word for it. The Strom. So, can you actually feel the nocturnal magic?
PS... my apologies for 26. I was out of it. I broke the cycle. I'm sorry. It should have been closer to something like 20, verif says.
Oh well. It begins anew, let's see what it brings.