the text below is excerpted from the questions and answers which web participants contributed while they watched the seance. the question/answer interface was just beneath the image, as it appears here.

[198.161.29.230]what is the glow?

   a naturally occurring phenomenon of geomagnetic and electrical origin

[198.161.29.230]what is the nature of nature

   i knew that i know but have forgotten

[198.161.29.230]are there really any questions?

   the teacher needs to be taught
   what is the need to need?

[198.161.29.240] is this art or craft?

   101010101010101010101010101010101010101 with that you can create the world
   crafty art?
   artsy craft?
   can a system based in zeros and ones come up with more than two options?
   this is art in search of a craft

[206.144.146.83] is there more than one?

   if you possess the right tools

[198.161.29.240] why is Nina the mediator, can not talk with each other?

   I suspect nina of being a bot - a non-medium fooling you into being a stuttering spirit
   but we know that she is a bot
   as smoke is fooled into rising.
   but my question is whether she is an intelligence agent, or simply a bot with some personality

[209.208.167.218] this is the end?

   my only friend? the end?
   is the music over?
   turn out the night

[209.208.167.217] have you ever been frightened online

   At a site for men who have sexual fantasies about keeping women in holes in the ground.
   that same site of the madman with the woman in the ground. it's scary that he can share his insanity and amplify it.
   an email from an ex
   no
   When a guy on a survivalist list says"where do we put the bodies when they begin to stink"?
   i get tired. and then i surf. and i find no end
   only when the media start reading my mind
   when i go into a ref without being emotionally ready

[206.47.244.29] do you believe that we are all presently making our contributions to net.history?

   i have contributed till it HURT
   where does it hurt?

[207.215.18.254]what is the secret of eternal life?

   given that energy is conserved you will continue to live after you die only in another form.
   get over it, stop asking such pointless questions.
   death
   no secrets...it doesn't exist
   the thing is that after you are gone, some of the thoughts that inhabit you will move on to inhabit someone else.
   fluff