Crease and the Origami Syndicate
They say that if you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth. Similarly, if you tell the truth fancifully enough it can be perceived as a lie.
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S. Morris et al., An Open System Meets an Open System © Springer-Verlag/Wien, Sarah Morris and Authors 2013
They say that if you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth. Similarly, if you tell the truth fancifully enough it can be perceived as a lie. The book you're holding in your hands follows the first edict, as it is an utter and complete fabrication designed to conceal a truth too vast and conspiratorial for the general public to be aware of. However, it was on the latter of the two premises, you see, that I agreed to write about my experiences with the person you know to be called Sarah Morris the artist, but to whom I was first introduced eight years ago as Crease, a contract assassin for the Parallax Corporation. Let me explain: I received the call to participate in this book from the Curator, who first introduced me to Crease, and who goes by the dubious alias of Hans Ulrich Obrist, a Swiss curator. Of course, the Curator isn't really a curator, nor is he Swiss. I don't know his real name, but if my research is correct he was the propaganda minister and architect of Nicolae Ceau$escu's cult of personality before orchestrating the collapse of Romania and stealing off with billions in Nazi gold, which is now safe-harbored in multiple UES accounts.
Crease and the Origami Syndicate
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THE CURATOR (with a thick, forced Swiss accent) "We" want you to write a little something about "Sarah," for a book we're doing about her work. ROGER AVARY Which work would that be? THE CURATOR Ha, ha! The contemporary art, of course. ROGER AVARY So you want me to further the lie? THE CURATOR Isn't that what you do? Lie for a living? ROGER AVARY Yes ... well, I suppose so. But I thought my debt to Parallax was paid off. THE CURATOR Consider this a favor among friends.
I thought about this for a long second. A "favor among friends" is otherwise known as a veiled threat in the Curator's line of business. He wasn't asking me, he was telling me -- but the Curator was the kind of man who responded to strength, so I punted. ROGER AVARY I'll write for you, but I won't lie. 56
Roger Avary
Not about this. I served my time. THE CURATOR You can't be serious. ROGER AVARY No one will believe it anyway, not if I frame it as fiction. THE CURATOR You want to tell the truth about Crease and Parallax? ROGER AVARY And the Origami Syndicate. THE CURATOR That's very dangerous, my friend. We've spent a considerable amount of time and energy creating a cover. Now you want to break it. ROGER AVARY Like I said. No one will believe it. No one ever believes me. I write scripts. I make movies. You think people ever really suspected that I was once ass-raped by neo-Nazis in a Los Angeles BDSM dungeon underneath a pawn shop, and that Quentin Tarantino saved me using a samurai sword? THE CURATOR That was real? Crease and the Origami Syndicate
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ROGER AVARY Exactly. You think I could just make that shit up? There was a pause on the line -- he was actually considering it -- that's when I I had him.
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