43. KONTRAKT

This Kontrakt (our first) was written on the back of two napkins in a café on Princes Street, Edinburgh. GANTOB, squiffy with kaffeine, scribed. The Benefaktor diktated. We have both signed it and also agreed the wording of this blog.

Here are terms:

1. The Benefaktor, and associates, will not be allowed to post on the blog/ social media accounts or send emails, without GANTOB’s prior agreement.
2. The Benefaktor will maintain access to the above forms of kommunikation, but solely as a backup in case anything happens to GANTOB.
3. The Benefaktor and The Foundation Doktor will retrakt the bootleg Curt Finks story (The Twilight Years of Life), posting this in The Benefaktor branded announcements from the GANTOB2023 account on Instagram and X.
4. The Foundation Doktor will produce an image based on The Twilight Years of Life, using competition entries if there is a clear winner by 19 November. She will also animate this using stop motion techniques to share on social media.
5. The Benefaktor will pay for a new book from GANTOB Books. This will be based on the blog – 99 posts (400 words each, except the slightly longer first post), and options for a (genuine) Curt Finks story. The book will be illustrated, in colour, and will be sent to people who have a blog accepted that is based on one or more of the cast of characters previously included in the book, associated pamphlets and paraphernalia, or blog. Either 17 or 23 copies of the book will be printed, depending on the number of applications received. The terms of that competition will be announced separately in early November.

6. GANTOB will ensure that a daily post is made from GANTOB.blog until the end of 2023. This will roughly follow the plot of 2023: A trilogy by The JAMs, but will attempt to be more coherent and believable than that book. If GANTOB is ill or otherwise unable to post she will arrange a deputy to post on her behalf, within these same rules.
7. GANTOB and The Benefaktor will complete the story of their meeting and the circumstances that led to their joint operation, either in blogs that GANTOB will send to The Benefaktor in advance, or in a specially produced pamphlet for a book drop(s).
8. The Benefaktor and GANTOB, and associates, will stop making threats/ attempts on the life of the other.

Signed:

GANTOB and The Benefaktor

5 NOVEMBER 2023

Don’t forget to enter The Foundation Doktor’s competition to win a unique piece of art by GANTOB (inadvertently using TFD’s bootlegged text of an imagined Curt Finks story).