Bard: The Wave-Nittany Record

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated 'view' of the quality/composition of local or media 'friendly' folklore/life in the Homeland drawing a 'possession' image of incomplete hand-prayers.

A media-folk 'yarn' inspired (very loosely!) by the hospitality-and-harbinger themes/concepts from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Thanks for reading (and Happy June-13th --- my birthday),

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My name's Amlan Satan. I'd become a special American landscape capitalism-race media/comics 'superstitions' writer in the Homeland (Pennsylvania) and felt moved one vacation-season by the color and 'ghost-magic' of the Nittany Mountain 'image' of the East Coast to find a 'perfect' sports-market/media treasure-item to create a 'personality' rich fortune-tale about why the 'figurative' possession of a sportsmanship/competition-class card (76ers) would offer me the 'chance' to create a social-media culture Selfie-commentary regarding what'd made me a 'unique' Western (basketball) heroist. Follow along.

There's something about that 'ghostly' image of those amazing Nittany-Mountain curves of Pennsylvania that invoke that certain 'tale' of the composition of fortune/fate/superstitions orientation in this land of capitalism-race shopping, media, life, energizers, characters, and of course, sports-heroism. In fact, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) had produced countless 'tales' of media-broadcast 'heroics' for local fans of the Quaker-State, boasting special moments (and celebrity!) for legends and achievements including those at the collegiate level. These 'moments' gave Pennsylvanians those album-photo memoirs of key 'figures' (e.g., Mike Schmidt, Allen Iverson, Kerry Collins, Ron Hextall, Nick Foles, and JJ Redick). It was this 'memory-arm' of this great state that invoked in me that haunted-spell from those Nittany-Mountain curves that would 'force' me to find that 'iconic' Philly/Penn sports-media 'treasure' for a great Homeland mystical tale of 'environmental' hospitality (for all).

I found that treasure/image, and I recorded it (instantly!) on my iPhone/Google-search and took the shot to my laptop for an instant-magic view or 'examination' for Pennsylvania mountains-inspired superstitions-lore for Philly-heroics and social-network spirit/energizers; that image was a 'cool' post-collegiate career JJ Redick (Duke University) 76ers (basketball!) 'hologram' of great/pronounced media-traffic/life value, and I decided that the treasure would 'afford' anyone who possessed it some form for 'immediate' luck (or education!).

Why'd a 'cyber-bard' like me seek to 'mount' this Penn-area magic-image (Redick-76ers) for a Philly-heroics superstitions-tale of Homeland expression (for all)? Well, perhaps because I've been a fan of all East Coast sports/moments, and perhaps because that 'treasure' image I'd discovered on my smart-phone would remind me of the Nittany-Mountain curves of mysticism, and perhaps because the Quaker-State is so simply 'folk' in quality, and perhaps because Redick (Duke University) was a 'pronounced' pure-shooter prodigy, and perhaps because I love Philly-cheesesteak/ghost-stories --- I'd want to (simply) offer an arena of imagery for the storytelling behind fortune/fate/fantasy/fear (for all).

I'm an Ivy-man, you know. I moved to America from afar and lived in Philly for some-time, you know. Therefore, I came to respect that Penn-area 'access' to an Ivy-institution of that state/area, and I darted to the Ivy-library to do some photo-collection/microfiche 'research' on the levels of sports-storytelling/lore in Pennsylvania that would stretch back across generations, and I thought about students at 'play' on social-media now who might (equally) feel 'moved' by those Nittany-Mountain curves of the Quaker-State (theater).

When I was a young man, I dreamt of becoming a 'regular' writer and was fascinated by the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and how the myth of the Headless-Horseman might be 'borrowed' for modernism concepts for fortune/traffic/fate, and when I decided to 'shift' my career-vision into the annals of cyber/social-media 'landscape' writing, focusing more/purely on commerce/market 'treasures' and fortune/capitalism 'imagery' (like that 'rich' Redick-76ers treasure-item image/card I discovered!), I realized that the real 'pull' of traffic-themed writing for the Quaker-State (for students/fans) might involve a more 'personality-Selfie' culture rich 'examination' for what makes commerce/capitalism 'culture' so incompletely vain (for all).

So, I decided to visit a Penn-cemetery where I made some pre-writing 'prayer' for athletes/fans of the media-age concerned about the levels of investment and interest (and dangers!) modern stars contemplate in this 'high-competition' traffic-landscape and why that 'dark-threat' ideation of steroids-use or crime would sully that great Penn Dream of achieved democratic handshakes for social conversation (hmm). Perhaps my Redick-treasure 'image' item/card, which I'd cast as a special possession-haunting youth-tale about competition between bros yielding 'dangerous' forms of envy/scheming resulting in 'accidental' bloody-murder, would invoke a Philly/Pennsylvania social-media 'image' of wrought Homeland expressions (for stranger deviance). Was this a 'hallowed' task (for anyone)?

I'd complement my sports-media (basketball!) treasure-image item/card with a 'cool' consumerism/capitalism Xmastime 'parody' character (or 'avatar') named "Evil-Elf" which I'd reference/inference for a superstitions-Penn 'concept' regarding what made/makes fortune and fate reflective of the 'possessions' we wield...or carry for that social media 'message' of pure wishes (ha).

Would I achieve some form for American 'record' in this storytelling case of the Redick-76ers sports-media 'treasure' card/image in this superstitions-Penn 'tale' concerning fortune/fate and the 'possession' of capitalism-race symbolic 'educational' handshakes (hmm)? I thought about this toy-phone I bought my son (birthday!) which represented my 'agenda' to afford him (Damian) my incomplete 'will' to create substance out of civilization-machinery, and why capitalism may be a 'thing' of achieved supernatural hospitality (for all!). Perhaps he'd inherit my Redick-76ers sports-media 'gem' which would earn me the Pulitzer (ha) in my hand-writing/fiction, and perhaps he'd think I'd reached that 'record' of media-culture image-religion for what makes America so/simply hospitality --- it's the toys!

Now, as I 'ruminate' on the value/chess of casting this treasure-image item (Redick-76ers) card for a Penn-state haunting/mysticism concerning the 'possession' of media-culture spirits and energizers, and as I posit the 'frames' and shapes for this tale of social activity drawn fortune/fate fears and superstitions, inspired by my own 'examination' of Homeland/Philly mystique, I wonder if (somehow) I've become someone like Ichabod Crane, offering an 'educational' view of hospitality's arms...and perhaps feeling 'eerily' haunted by a menace-presence...of that old Headless-Horseman (who just might 'stalk' my Selfie/story on social-media for a ledger!). Nevertheless, I must insist those Nittany-Mountain curves move me to find a form for 'head-rating' courage (for all!).