Act I - The Dream of the Mall is build atop the Brain Ditch, and the Bus Carrying our Wayward Travelers Descends Gently from atop the Mountain to the Mall Parking Lot.

* The great brain ditch, finally built, provides the ideal foundation for the dreams of the mall to rise. As the images and symbols of oneiric winds circulate above the brain ditch, the fragments begin to form the mall edifice. The dream draft this creates drifts all the way up the nearby mountain, which (although unfortunately causing one death we know of) inevitably shepherds us gently through the sky placing us down gently onto mall parking lot unharmed. The ghost of a dead boy from the nearby building provides the final key.

Act II - The Eye of the Sun Opens Slowly in the Sky Above the Mall Parking Lot

* As we exit the bus, we throw the little-boy-ghost’s object up into the sky and it hits the sun… The object merges with the sun… fertilized by dreams… the place where the object touched the sun slowly bulges and becomes an eye… it opens and sees into the hearts of ourselves and our companions… and we see into it’s fire too…

Act III - The Body of the Mall Proper

* Under the Eye of the Sun, which can see into our heart’s memory, the bus is transformed into a wood-paneled station wagon your mom used to drive… and the great mall is transported and transformed in time and space to become Arbor Place Mall in the year 2001. We enter, and explore.

Act IV - Something About Desire

* The awakening of desire and self-awareness within us and within the mall causes it to swell with child… It gives birth, out of it’s front doors… to a rabbit. As the rabbit hops away, it goes on a journey that forces it to confront the nature of its own desire and, gradually, to remove its own mask.

Act V - Something about Memory

* The desire dream of the rabbit, aware now of its fragility and self-aware to its own fictionality, disintegrates into memories… Memories of death by a thousand cuts, and discussion of what counts as a promise, and wonder about whether we would have the right kind of courage… if we ever had to…. The memory of the mall sinks into the sea, replaced by sand…

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