Quote Unquote is divided into three sections / acts / discs, whatever terminology you find preferable.

"Inner Mysteries" (1-3)
"Outer Deceptions" (4-6)
"The Maelstrom" (7-9)

Previous works by the group More fullwidth question mark sugar follow. The fullwidth question mark is to avoid erasure of the symbol by the Windows file system, as a standard question mark, ?, is erased from a file name and replaced with a dash, similarly for both frontslash and backslash, presumably due to their employment in the layout of partition, drive and folder structures and substructures.

"Goodbye and Good Day??" (1916)
"Worst Winter Ever" (1917)
"Para-" (1920)
"Never Having Taken Place" (1921)
"Lunar Need, Shadowless Creed" (1922)

The group More fullwidth question mark sugar is AEVP, STAP, R.R. Aerith Vippman, Stimonna Appleseed (records of their dazzling adventures can be found at Barney and Riches bookstores nationwide in the Western Territories a blank space across from Free Quebec) and Roxy Radclyffe. The group's output follows an annual schedule after inconsistency in its first five years. The induction of Mme Radclyffe came rather anticlimactically with a letter delivered into the sixth heap of unopened mail that is ever-building at the Château Ætherist, although its deer-horned seal, antlers stretching out of the envelope (and actually seeming to shred any letter nearby!), both in its curious appearance and fundamental danger to the integrity of any proximate paper-bound communications aroused interest. "you're doing another one, can i join?" The answer was a resounding, and the crassness of the language here is preserved, "fuck yeah, why the fuck not?".

After the untimely passing of Æris Vippman (discussed in some length in "Ætherist Void", 1923, Last Year's Blizzard and "Vippman and Appleseed Take the Free World", 15.99$, available at Barnacles and Sir, Schuyler, Literature-A-Billion), the hereditary von de Blue estate came to be occupied almost permanently by Appleseed and Vippman, the latter of which did not make it very far from the grounds after the explosion of her car which is recreated in "Ætherist Void", although relations between Ms. Appleseed and Mme Vippman were sour for quite some time, with both of them sitting at two extremes of the forty-meter dining table with no one else present, the Baron vacating due to his presence being demanded in the political company of the Free Quebecois junta. A year came to pass after the explosion and the dinner party, and the realization overcame both of them: "perhaps is there some tradition we have dishonored?". The antlered envelope awoke in the dark reaches of their memory a sense of obligation, and a deep desire to pay for the transnational travel fares of a stranger, whose message perhaps was not even about the very obligation at hand (the revival of this group) and may have been misdirected to the castle far from any nearby forgotten quaint provincial towns by a courier who strayed from the damning cycle of forest loops and dirt roads and plowed straight on forward, in search of the nearest monumental landmark.

Obviously this is misdirectional presumption, as you will have deduced from the existence of this very full-length outing. The transnational transit was conducted oversea, as you will likely have guessed from the nature of distribution of civilization on the 2nd Earth, The Deep. Relevant quote from The Fundamentals of the Appleseed & Vippman Story, available via summoning altar on The Incipient, follows:

"§1.5 Specifics of the Setting

Due to the non-occurrence of the phenomenon known on The Incipient as 'colonialism', most of the Northern part of the Twin American Continents on the Deep lacks an inland population. Large cities occur exclusively along coasts, although some insular inland outposts such as the Château Ætherist and a few largely irrelevant surrounding towns of some three hundred people each and inland capitals of settled shore such as Québec City have seen rise and continued population."

Acquisition of a copy is not possible at this time as the instructions for the altar have seen battles over patent rights and superstitious fringes prefer for it to not be voiced in transdimensional communications at all, Shannon&on&on Appleseed, mother of Ms. Appleseed, being a junta representative chiefly allying herself with the fringes.

Due to the coastal location of North Carolina and the principle of insular inland extension, Mme Radclyffe being situated there, a cruise of some days was facilitated to the nearest Atlantic coast to Free Québec, and an armed high security motorcade courtesy of the House von de Blue met the vessel transporting Mme Radclyffe. Piracy along the route had ceased due to the bureaucratic restructuring prompted by the junta's newfound tributary relations of aquatic suzerainty, from which followed many successful deals between junta and seaman of forgiveness and record erasure in exchange for flying the flag of Bloc Québécois and conversion of pirate operations to junta-subsidized freighter & transport vessels. This narrator suspects, with brazen honesty, that the seamen's hearts were no longer in it. This demotivation can largely be attributed to the absence of the British Empire, as the pirate of the Atlantic and the Pacific stood as a noble adversary to the English colonial cause.

('The Deep' is referred to 'The Dark' in some literature, stretching mostly from AD 1000 [1100 IE] to AD 1700 [1800 IE]. 'IE' is deabbreviated to 'Incipient Estimate'. It seems to have been chosen to intentionally arouse anger and confusion, as the abbreviation 'in essence' now has to be compulsorily written in lowercase and with two dots. IE is in itself an abbreviation of IRE, Incipient-Relative Estimate, however the full IRE acronym did not see adaption due to its lack of phonetic appeal. Quoting the foremost aestheticians, 'it just did not have the same ring as AD, and why does it have to be 3 letters long, and oh dear god why have a rhotic in there?'. Your narrator, a utilitarian and firm supporter of stuttering and slurring as necessary sacrifices to be made for chronological accuracy, only uses the unfortunate IE abbreviation due to its wide adoption, although let it be known a groan is emitted every single time it is employed by yours truly.)

Quote unquote was completed primarily in the Inner Sanctum of the great von de Blue family library and in a huddle circle around an unnaturally durable and sanctimoniously meltless tower of ice cream that required standing (shoes off! socks on!) on the forty-meter table of the main dining hall to even take spoonfuls of (many advisories to not move any electronic equipment close to the tower were issued, although some indiscretions were committed by all three members of this group; arrogant cries of 'I'm just built different, watch me avoid stepping on or knocking this laptop off the table' resulted in many near-misses, Mme Vippman having to somersault in the way of the airborne laptop and intercept it in mid-air, making sure to conduct this maneuver pressurelessly as not to incur the wrath of some sleeping god that deems that a laptop about to break even if lightly brushed by a feather or meeting the tip of a promise-pinky is a laptop then broken.)

It was recorded in the snowless, unwintry and disappointing early days of December 1923 in an alcohol-free, ice cream-spooning environment, and many phantasmic deer were seen on the premises, which were then discovered to have been astral projections of a colony of moose (plural) who, upon being granted extradimensional consciousness but no ability to speak, attained the unrealistic expectation that they would only be perfect if they were born Dismal's Bambini, first screened in 1842. The appearance of real deer co-existing with the moose population however stunted this realization, and this narrator does not believe it was revealed in a dream to the involved parties, which is the case for this narrator, yours truly having woken in a cold sweat, turned mute for hours by the immensity of the revelation. The company of three perceived the phantasmic deer and the real deer to be the same. When asked for comment, Mme Vippman shrugged it off with a 'Fake's realer than the real thing, so those are all just all deer to me, monsiuer, madame, maman. Whoever you are. Why are you in my house? Get the fuck out of my house.'

I doubt I actually said that.

Got you!

It seems this is all there is to be said, so I shall not bore you any further.

(Postscript: My apologies. This seems to have slipped my mind. The features from the two non-members were virtual and integrated as part of stem exchange. Just thought you should know.)

Talk again soon,

A.V.
03.12.1923