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    Jacks Ravage
    Jacks Ravage
    Jacks Ravage
    Ebook36 pages15 minutes

    Jacks Ravage

    By Jef Louisa Versmissen

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    Jaren geleden, als ik het me goed herinner was dat ergens in 1997, schreef ik de rockopera Jacks Ravage. Ik lag in mijn zetel met een hersenschudding na een motorongeval en schreef het verhaal in een soort van onbewuste trance. Het was slechts enkele weken later dat ik het verhaal per toeval terug op mijn pc ontdekte, en sindsdien speel ik nog regelmatig een nummer uit dit werk.

    De opera zelf is nog nooit in zijn volledigheid verschenen. In de online versie van mijn roman JazzMachine staat Jacks Ravage achteraan de bundel, als een soort van Engelstalige handleiding bij JazzMachine. De werken zijn trouwens schatplichtig aan elkaar. De Nederlandstalige roman is de facto een uitwerking van de Engelstalige opera, opnieuw, moet ik toegeven, onbewust.

    Aangezien heel wat mensen de nummers van Jacks Ravage ondertussen al eens gehoord hebben, wil ik jullie aandacht nog eens vestigen op de volledige versie. Die kan je dus vanaf vandaag hier lezen. Je mag natuurlijk je commentaar geven, en taalcorrecties zijn natuurlijk ook altijd welkom. Het fijnste is natuurlijk dat je je eigen versie van de rock opera zou spelen. Dat mag je natuurlijk altijd laten weten.

    Ik kom zeker naar de première.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKortsluiting
    Release dateJan 27, 2016
    ISBN9789402145748
    Jacks Ravage
    Author

    Jef Louisa Versmissen

    Jef Louisa Versmissen is een schrijver uit de Antwerpse Kempen die muziek en beeldende kunst combineert tot een bevreemdende wereld. Zijn werk kent een eigen beeldtaal, een eigen universum en een onverschillige afrekening met de realiteit.

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      Jacks Ravage - Jef Louisa Versmissen

      Jacks Ravage

      Jef Louisa Versmissen

      INTRO

      Jacks Ravage tells us the story about the end of an ancient civilization. Since some time a Gibous space ship is watching this civilization from eight miles high. The aliens have made contact with human space organizations, but this contact is kept a secret. The reason behind this secrecy is that nor the aliens nor the governments seem to have altruistic goals. The aliens have run out of water, which is fuel for their ships. 

      The human governments agreed helping the aliens, having themselves one condition: the aliens have to help the governments get rid of the overpopulation on the planet. Again no problem, the Gibous force needs slaves on their ships and in their home place.

      An agreement is made. The Gibous start experiments on humans to see how they  react to the different atmosphere on Gibo, their home planet. One of the human beings they want to experiment on is Jack Kuse, a small town criminal on the run for anything wearing a uniform. Jack is put into an alien prison but knows how to escape. He wants to start a rebel fighting unit but no one seems to believe the poor fellow. 

      Now he's on the run. We follow Jack Kuse in his fight against alien invasion. He looses. 

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