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017 07MOON 07​

Alt text: Scan of typed journal entry. White torn page on dark background. Handwritten signature reading "Clancy" at the bottom.

File name: 017_07MOON_07.jpg

Additional Info:

  • The MOON date (July 7th, 2017) marks the official first day of the band's hiatus between the albums Blurryface and Trench. On the previous day (July 6th), a sequence of tweets were posted by the official band account on Twitter/X featuring a red eye gradually closing. The final tweet of this sequence would be followed by a year-long break with no social media activity from the band.
  • Some letters in the journal were purposefully blanked out to spell the message “YOU ARE STILL SLEEPING”.

Transcription of the journal:

To refer to Dema as m[y] home has never felt accurate. Dema, t[o] me, has simply been the place that I've existed, or, the 'slot' they've put me in. I've heard stories abo[u]t the ide[a] of "home," and its depiction has always seemed warm f[r]om the storyt[e]ller's de[s]cription. [T]here was a romant[i]c ownership of the p[l]ace they inhabited that I admired, but cou[l]d never relate to. Thi[s] place, my p[l]ace, however, s[e]ems devoid of the romance and wond[e]r that the old stories tell. But somewhere between the iron order and fallible [p]recis[i]on of Dema, a hum of wo[n]der exists. It's this quiet wonder that my mind tends to [g]ets lost in. This hope of discovery alone has birthed a new version of myself; A better version, I hope, that will find a way to experience what's beyond these colossal walls.

There are a few grammatical errors in this journal.

  1. “gets” instead of “get”

  2. “myself; A better” instead of “myself; a better”