Friday, October 29, 2010

Lanczos method

He listened to the radio. Surprisingly clear for this time of year. Bridgeport was up on Abbotsford 3-2. A tight game. Abbotsford is coming off being shutout at Peoria. Embarrassing really. You have to come back strong from games like that. Richard Pryor was from Peoria, and he probably never watched hockey. He grew up in some weird brothel.

Now lost in a thought, Heldrich Erbostron reached into the shallow, damp closet and picked out two slabs of rotted steak. The steak, now rotting in its own brine for 3 months, had formed a yellow crust in the middle, but a moist green ring around the perimeter. He liked hockey, and he liked his methods for steak curing, as he called it. But, just like hockey was not actually for him to play, these steaks were not for him to eat. The steak was currently stored beneath some umbrellas and some old newspapers, just like his forefathers had taught him.

Once removed, the steak would be, as usual, set aside to be viewed. Once absorbed and tuned in by the rest of them, it would be served in the as is state. Heldrich had an army of evil automatons, created in the abandoned post-industrial zone of Cleveland. Atop the floor viewing area of a foundry, a place Heldrich called home, he sat and massaged his steaks. The automatons sought a nostalgic rush from the area and from the rewarding work, but were not programmed to do this. Instead, they were programmed to work monotonously on small time parts and projects and dwizzle away their existence. They had always been programmed to do this. They needed energy for these tasks, and the rotten steak meal provided just that. In fact it provided a wealth of nutrients specifically designed to be loaded with bacteria required to build up immunities. Efficiency. Efficiency was held in highest regard by Erbostron and his types, and his newly developed systems would encourage it. Or so he thought.

Pete Kovalstok, one of the better built automatons, also happened to be a very good automaton. He was in the Soviet army, somehow, for 5 years. In addition, he had studied heavily the Charles Manson mind re-programming methods in conjunction with advanced mathematical methods while doing time in the military. Before much work had even been accomplished in the name of Heldrich, Pete had built a dated cannibalistic suicide cult using only his mind and the powerful Lanczos method to reprogram. Within days, the formerly abandoned industrial site was only occupied by 201 corpses. Twenty days later the corpses had been sold to a wholesaler for scrap, leaving the vintage factory grounds in their original abandonment.

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