INSTITUTE OF THE MARGINAL AND IMAGINARY REGIONS IMAGINARY PRESS RELEASE; MAY 23, 2021:
Between May 19 and 23, 2021, the main room in the Library of the IMIR was besieged by a dark and turbulent storm. While the weather raged outside, its effects could be felt even under the shelter of the roof. As reported by Marianne Neill, a member of Thin Air Collective and the IMIR, “Throughout the days and nights, the main room of the Library was visited by an intelligence that seemed aware of the forces and energies underlying the storm. It was alert and active, occasionally flying up and then settling back down.”
As a result of the storm, the Library of the IMIR had to postpone its planned event for this week. Arthur Mot, also a member of Thin Air Collective and the IMIR, was expecting to hold a Silent Reading session on Wednesday, May 19, but he was travelling between May 14 and 19, and the storm meant postponement of his return.
Neill says she wrote a cancellation notice on the Slate in the Library (see below), but the public likely have not seen it because the storm cut off access to the Slate.
She says, “Hopefully, the weather will improve soon and perhaps we will hold the event in the near future. An update will be posted on the Slate as soon as plans are known.”
While the tempest thrashed about and darkened the days, Neill avoided the main room of the Library, as the noise and movement were strongest there. She said,”There was little else I could do except to leave the space to the visitor and the turbulence until the chaos was over.” She added, “I had and still have a strange feeling that nothing will ever be the same.”
Throughout the five day sojourn, Neill remained alone in the workroom, where she said she felt safe and the ambience was calmer. She used the unexpected time to focus on the index to “The Record”, an upcoming publication of Imaginary Regions Publishing**.
“I managed to bring in The Orphan’s Lamp and a mug of tea to help warm up the place”, Neill reported. “From this sheltered corner, I was able to observe the storm outside with a sense of security. It was somewhat reassuring to see the eagles riding the wind.”
**“The Record: Mind, Matter, and What Happened in 1987” will be available from Imaginary Regions Publishing in 2021. There will be more about this book in the months to come. It is tangentially and allegorically related to the Tale of the IMIR as told here.
During the night of May 22, the storm finally passed. On the morning of May 23, Neill was able to enter the main room of the Library for the first time in days. There remained an apparition of the visitor, now calm and staring as though trying to communicate. Neill claimed, “I felt the visitor had been attempting to protect the Library and was watching as I surveyed the damage. I felt no fear of them.”
Imaginary books were scattered across the floor. The Globe of the IMIR had been toppled but seemed intact. Neill was distressed to find the Moon Light had broken away from its post, and was lying at the top of the stair, its light extinguished. She remarked, “The entire room was a shell, the life gone from it.” Most curiously, some graffiti had been left at the base of the stair in the form of a large chalk ‘X’.
Neill says that Mot will now be able to return, and Thin Air Collective will discuss the meaning of the graffiti. Neill explained, “Here in the IMIR, we are always waiting for the next sign that we need to change. We will confer as to the significance of this ‘X’.”
Arthur Mot is expected to return either late May 23 or on May 24.
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