Today's update introduces two additional characters and subplots of the novel. Aaron Brock is an industrious Internet blogger who has been writing critical articles on world events. His bad typing mechanics and propensity to extend metaphors are the least of his real troubles, though he does not know that yet.
This character could be any of a hundred popular bloggers that may be on your reading list each day. Their incisive commentary and critical thinking have skewered the patently false offerings of the government statistics machine and the main stream media that regurgitates these numbers. (As in today's "announcement" all the BLS job loss numbers for 2009 conveniently overlooked an additional 824,000 more jobs that were lost.)
The bloggers root out truth with a consistent application of common sense, honesty and considerable analysis. They have taken on the assumptions of the powers that be and largely discredited them in article after article, and they have had a vision and uncanny knack for predicting the inevitable outcome of events that most government politicians, academics, news outlets, and "economists" have failed to see. Aaron Brock is one such voice on the Internet, and his vision and writing will serve as a way of narrating coming events in the future.
In the brief scene 9, "Drilling" takes on a new meaning with the introduction of Ian Thomas, who has been patiently, (and secretly), excavating a tunnel in a remote hamlet in England--but to what end? The fun in this scene is trying to figure out what in the world he is doing, and what this nefarious subplot has to do with the other plot lines of the story. Future scenes will make this more apparent, and show how Mr. Thomas serves to deviously lead us to other important characters down the road.
Here are the Scene Links:
9 Days Falling Project Gateway Page with all scene links
Scene 8 - Bad Metaphors
Scene 9 - Drilling
Enjoy!
