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If you have read “The Secret History of D.B. Cooper” and have the same question we did at the end of the issue, however, some thoughts await you beyond the cut.
So before we begin, let’s start with some information that might be helpful:
As Churilla explained in an interview with CBR some time ago, “This was a program wherein agents utilized altered states of consciousness to assassinate Soviet operatives from afar. Oculus, the drug for which the project was named, was administered in liquid form directly into Cooper’s eyes; traveling through his optic nerve and into his brain. This would allow him to project his consciousness into a realm he affectionately referred to as ‘The Glut.’ This realm, which I’ve admittedly taken a lot of artistic license with, hosted a manifestation of every human’s consciousness. These etheric doubles were indelibly linked with their human counterparts, so if you were to terminate one, their corporeal double would die. This discovery facilitated an entirely new method of assassination, and the CIA began conducting operations in the fall of 1970.” In terms of artistic representation, Churilla has stated that he took liberties with it’s physical appearance, since the information he had about the Glut was limited. However, the Glut in and of itself is a “distorted reflection of the personality of the individual inside.”
Over time, Cooper’s mental abilities begin to wane and the line between reality and the Glut begins to blur. Cooper begins to see his long lost daughter (who makes a brief appearance in the first issue), and her whereabouts will assuredly become a major plot point.
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Of course, there in lies the problem — how do we ostensibly “figure out” what a track of static is? My initial inclination upon listening to the track was to throw it in a spectograph a la the ARG “Year Zero” game Nine Inch Nails had a few years ago, where tracks of static were found to secretly be phone numbers and websites. Only problem is, the spectograph turned up nothing. No wave form analysis of the track gleaned any information as to what the file is, but there has to be something to take from the inclusion of the link.
I’m sorry, but I’m not allowed to say much about the audio. I will say that a spectrum analyzer will not help you find what you are looking for.
And what do you think?
