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IV:
Boku (Me)
The scenes and events
in this story do not make a single plot. I know that. Life is
not supposed to be a single story. Life is just a bunch of
little events tied up with the same character, each a different
story than the next.
There are three sides
of me: Liang, Eiji, and Tom. They are the equivalent of me,
myself, and I. Or, better yet, the superego, ego, and Id. Liang
is the intellectual one, learning and reading, a geek in his own
right. Eiji is the cyberpunk one, the entity that lives only on
the net, and can’t live anywhere else. And Tom is the crazy one,
the one who drinks and mischieves, yet is creatively able to
write and draw without fear. These are my personas, masks used
in order to survive the everyday events that happened by without
permission or granting.
The truth is, Eiji
didn’t come to life until I was introduced to the wired world of
the net. “Close the world, open the next” was the logo of
Serial Experiment Lain, a kind of disturbing anime (Japanese
animation) that both excited my creative self and disturbed my
conscious self. The truth is, Liang and Tom were always my good
and bad sides, which is good, because every writer needs an ego
and an id, each side used to write the good and bad guys of a
story.
Each story tells an event from a persona’s encounter. First one
is Tom’s, second one Liang’s, and third one Eiji’s. Each
remembering the tales they told. Each holding dear the memories
they hold.
I’m not done yet. This is yet not my end. I have not seen my end
yet. I’m starting on again. Aren’t you?
---Written by
Tom Lin |
