Dear Robert Nexis Pas (c) 2007 by the author
[Thanks to Francois for his help with this.]
Dear Robert-
Thank you for writing. I'm glad you liked the story and, don't worry, praise is always welcome. I'm not insulted by it. Far from that. Horribly conceited author here.
I have thought about writing longer works. In fact, I have two half-finished novels. Time, or rather my lack of time, is the major problem in finishing these works. Both of them are suspense/thrillers, and the lead characters in each are gay, but they're not gay' novels per se. The characters in straight' novels have sex every few chapters, of the earth moving variety. If I ever get these two works finished, it will be the same. Of course, it will be socially significant sex and intrinsic to the plot or character development. There will be absolutely no gratuitous sex in my works [insert smirky face here].
To answer your other question, as you surmised, I have an interest in hypnosis. I have experienced it from both sides, as a hypnotist and as the hypnotised. These days, I use it mostly for self-hypnosis, to help me relax or focus. I've been doing it for so many years now that I slip into a trance easily. I don't know what trances are like for others, but for me, they involve a state of increased awareness and focus. I find that often my stories develop in my head while I am in a trance. The trance helps me block them out and conceive the characters visually and in terms of their personalities and interactions. Then, provided I can find the time and the energy, I get them written down- eventually. My `story ideas' folder is bursting at this point with sketches for stories that I will probably never get written.
Anyway, forgive these long-winded thanks for your note. One of the surprising and nice things about posting the stories online is the number of emails I've been getting in response. Some good correspondences have developed from them (a hint there).
Graham
****** Dear Robert-
Good to hear from you again. My longer works are still very much in development and not ready to show anyone. Thanks for your interest in them. If I ever get them finished enough to have others read them, I'll email you the files. I haven't ever thought of publishing my works commercially. That's another hassle I don't have time to deal with.
To move on to the more interesting parts of your email, it is, as you noted, generally accepted that one cannot hypnotise someone into doing something against their will. I think, however, that with patience and extensive training, one could begin to modify a subject's behaviour and gradually bend it in the direction desired. One would have to begin very gradually and train the person to trance easily and to associate the trance with pleasurable things. Only after that association had been strongly implanted in the subject's mind should the move toward modifying behaviour begin. But it would take months, if not years, of effort. Brainwashing is possible-we have all been brainwashed into our current set of beliefs. But think of the years that it took our parents, teachers, and society to make us what we are. The military seems to be able to take recruits and make at least some of them into `good soldiers', although there, I suspect, the mindset is already there and is simply moulded along lines the military needs. Those who can't be moulded are pushed out or leave as soon as they can.
So my answer to your question would be yes and no. With the right subject, one who was susceptible to hypnosis and docile/submissive/open to suggestion/easily led, it might be possible to create the perfect slave. If I were looking for a good candidate, I would choose someone who is imaginative and becomes really engrossed in the novel he is reading or the television show or movie he is watching. Those states are really trances, and a person with the ability to get lost in the plot is a good subject.
Thanks for writing again. It's an interesting question. Do
you have someone in mind for this `experiment'?
Graham
Dear Robert-
Let me see. If I were writing that scenario up as a story and assuming that I had found someone I thought would make a good subject for hypnosis . . .
My fictional hypnotist would wait until his victim' came back from work one day and appeared to be very tired. He would suggest a neck massage to help the person relax. He would make comments like Your shoulders are very tense today' or `Wow, I can feel the tension in your neck' that implanted the suggestions in vic's mind that he was feeling tired and needed to relax. Then FH would suggest that perhaps a visualisation technique would help vic relax. I would use my favourite-lying on a warm sand beach with the warm sun, a mild breeze, the sound of the waves in the background, just relaxing one's body. Then I would take the vic gradually into a trance.
Something along the lines of `I've read that visualisations can help you relax. Let's give it a go. All you have to do is listen to me as I present several images to you. Just let the images fill your mind. Just dream about the images as I speak. You are on a tropical island, lying in the sun on the white sand. The sun is so warm and you feel so comfortable, so relaxed, so warm and comfortable. The sun penetrates your body and relaxes your muscles. You feel so good. The sun is so warm and you feel so good. A gentle breeze blows across your body. It is just the right temperature. In the distance, there is the sound of waves gently washing up on the shore. So quiet, so peaceful, so content. You feel so good.' (This is just a summary of the scenario, mind; the actual induction would have to be much longer and much more detailed.)
The first time the only suggestion I would implant is that the vic feels so very good to be so very relaxed. Just a strong association between the feeling of being so relaxed (don't use the word `trance' or anything that suggests hypnosis) and feeling so good. Then I would tell the vic drift off to sleep and that when he awakens, he will feel very very good and would like to visit the beach again with me. That would be all that I would do the first time.
If the vic asked for further `massages', I would simply
repeat variations of this technique until he began to trance
readily. If he appeared to be developing into a good
subject, I would implant a shortcut to take him into trance
more quickly and then begin programming him, always
carefully associating what is happening to him with
pleasure. Seduce vic into the proper frame of mind with
physical pleasures and mental wellbeing, peace, security,
warmth, contentment. The goal would be to have daily
sessions within a couple of months. Once the vic reached
that stage, then I think it would be possible to move ahead
more swiftly, but always being careful to work in small
increments of increasing control.
Of course, this is all just speculation.
Graham
Dear Robert-
Good to hear from you again. A few days ago my email service sent me a message that I was over quota and needed to purge some of the messages. I was going through the list and ran across your earlier messages. Needless to say, your messages were not among those I deleted. As you saw, your messages served as the inspiration for my latest tale. Thanks for your comments on it. That kind of feedback is very helpful and always welcome. You read the story very closely indeed! And no, I'm no further along with my longer works than I was the last time we corresponded. I just can't find the time to work on them.
Your report on your successes with Vic is fascinating. It's highly unethical, of course, and you are quite naughty to be doing this to Vic, but still I find the account quite titillating. Tell me more. Please!!
Graham
******* Dear Robert-
The indoctrination scenario you propose is quite intriguing. I'm flattered that the idea for it came from some of my stories.
I've read over your script. It's quite good. My only advice would be to avoid suggesting the behaviour you wish to eliminate. Saying something like you cannot resist X' or all tension is draining out of your body' introduces the ideas that resistance is possible or that tension exists. Better to emphasize the behaviour you're trying to induce: You feel so very very good when you just listen to my voice and do what I am telling you to do' or Your entire body is relaxing. You feel so wonderful.'
Does Vic already have a liking for underwear or is that just
something you hit upon for the next stage of his training?
Graham
Dear Robert-
Thanks for sending the file you recorded. I didn't know it was possible to email such files. Thanks for the introduction to this technology. As you guessed, I am a duffer with electronics. I followed your instructions and transferred the file to a CD. I listened to it last night, but I was so tired that I fell asleep during it. I will listen to it again and then give you feedback on it. You have a great voice, by the way. It is very relaxing to listen to you. I am afraid that I was so lulled by it that I just let go. I may even have gone into a trance.
I followed the link you sent to that underwear site. Thanks
for introducing me to this too. There are some great
pictures there. The style you choose for Vic is quite sexy.
I hope he enjoys what you have planned for him.
Graham
Dear Robert-
I have been listening to the file you sent a lot. It is quite wonderfully relaxing. Thanks again for sharing this with me.
I was clothes shopping today (something I usually avoid, but
I couldn't put it off any longer). I saw the underwear you
bought for Vic and bought a couple of packages for myself.
Will try it tomorrow.
Graham
Dear Robert-
I see why you chose that underwear. It is incredibly comfortable. I hadn't heard of these microfibre fabrics before. Plus the way it is cut makes it quite snug around the balls and cock. It seems to caress my body when I move. I didn't know underwear could be quite this much fun to wear.
The attached file is my latest story. The hardworking Nifty
Archivist assures me that it will appear shortly.
Graham
Dear Robert-
Thanks again for sending the next file in the series you prepared for Vic. I'll listen to it tonight as you suggested.
And thanks for your comments on the new story. Your approval means a lot to me. And I have been thinking about finishing the longer works. The attached file is the one that is most complete at this point. This represents about half of what would be the complete version (should I ever finish). I look forward to your comments on it, if any. The paragraphs at the end summarize the rest of the story.
Graham
Dear Robert-
My god. That was wonderful. I listened to the new file last night, and this morning when I put on the underwear, the sensation was incredible. It took me totally by surprise. I wasn't aware that anything was about to happen. I just put the briefs on and took a step and then suddenly found myself on the floor being ravished by them. It was as if I were being touch by a dozen hands-and what hands!!! That was an experience. I'm almost afraid to put the briefs on again (but I probably shall). Thank you for allowing me to share in your training of Vic. He is one lucky man to have you programming him.
Graham
****** Dear Robert-
I was completely taken aback by your praise of the `novel', and it's kind of you even to refer to Unstable Equilibrium by that title. By all means, if you think it is ready to show to your agent friend, then do so. I will trust your judgement on this.
And yes, if you don't mind, I would like the next file in your Vic-training series. I probably shouldn't indulge, but I haven't felt as much pleasure in years as I get from putting on the underwear. It's all I can do to keep from exploding. I barely got them off in time today.
Graham
PS: I've never mentioned anything about myself, but I couldn't publish anything under my own name. I would lose my position if it became known that I write gay fiction. So a pseudonym would be necessary. Hope you understand.
****** Dear Robert-
Thank for sending the video of Vic's `performance'. I
wouldn't have believed that if you had simply told me about
it. His body is so completely immobile except for his cock
that when the ejaculate shoots through the underwear, it
comes (pun intended) as a complete shock. The way you
photographed it, it was almost like getting hit in the face
with it. That degree of control is so erotic.
Graham
Dear Robert-
Thank you so much for this weekend. It was great to meet you at last and have a chance to talk with you in person. Of course, the high point was being taken into trance by you and putting on the underwear and re-enacting the scenario with Vic. That was simply the best orgasm I've ever had in my life, and amazingly it was totally hands-free. I think being so much under your control only enhanced the pleasure you gave me. Thank you again. Any time you want to visit or even to phone, I will make myself available to you.
Thanks also for the encouragement about Unstable Equilibrium. After you left on Sunday, I opened the files again and reread it. Your comments are bang on. I took today off and spent it revising the portions you pointed out were problematic. I'm looking forward to finishing it off now. I've two weeks' vacation at the start of next month. I should be able at least to rough out most of the remainder of the work during that time. After our discussions, the plot is very clear in my mind.
The pen-name you suggested is wonderful. Vic Dancer sounds both real and promising at the same time. I hope the paperwork I signed while you were here clears the way for you to act as my agent in this. I can't thank you enough for all that you are doing for me.
And now I have a file to listen to (insert very evil grin
here).
Graham
Dear Robert-
I hadn't realised that I had given you the files for the second novel as well. Yes, Albatross is very different. I don't like sequels and chain novels. They are such a lazy way of doing things. Each time Kinsey Millhone reaches into the back seat of her VW and pulls out the black dress and shakes the wrinkles out of it, I cringe. Every novel has the same page in it about that dress. The series is almost through the alphabet by now and Kinsey still hasn't found time to buy new clothes. Even I am better about shopping than that.
I'm looking forward to treating myself with the latest file
for Vic. I will follow the instructions you sent with it to
the letter. I found the underwear your instructions say to
use with this file, but I don't think it will cover much of
me, especially in the rear.
Graham
Dear Robert-
I see your point about the sequels. I hadn't thought about that before. If I am to become a professional writer, I will have to start thinking along those lines. I am so grateful to you for helping me with this. I have written three more chapters, which are attached for your comments.
The new file is just great. These orgasms are overwhelming
in their intensity. I never knew sex could be so good. I am
becoming addicted to these files.
Graham
Dear Robert-
Well, here it is, the complete work finished, finally I can write "the end" on the last page of Unstable Equilibrium. Thanks for being so patient and listening to all my concerns about this. I feel that it is as much your work now as mine. Now, I am going to celebrate with the latest file and the new pair of underwear.
Graham
Dear Robert-
Thanks for letting me share in the celebration of the sales of the movie rights to your novel. The experience was incredible, as always. It was very generous of you to remember me. I have almost finished the Albatross now. I won't disappoint you and will keep to the schedule you have set. It is so rewarding to be allowed to help you with your work. The house sale is moving along, and I have disposed of most of my belongings in preparation for the move to the cottage in your garden. The bank will transfer the funds to the account you set up. I will call before I leave to let you know I am on the way.
The attached file is the outline for the third book, the sequel to Unstable Equilibrium. Is this what your agent needs? I've never done one of these before, and I'm not sure. Let me know and I'll make whatever changes you require.
Congratulations again on the sale of the rights and on being on the best-seller list for so many weeks. Every Sunday I get a thrill when I see your name and Unstable Equilibrium at the head of the list. I couldn't be happier or prouder if I were the author myself.
Graham