I think of PKD’s friend, Bishop Pike, Episcopal Bishop, accused heretic, iconoclasts, and prolific writer… Pike’s theology involved the rejection of central Christian beliefs. His writings questions an umber of widely accepted tenets including the virginity of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the doctrine of Hell, and the Trinity… He famously called for, Fewer beliefs, more belief… I honestly don’t know what I believe except I believe in art and music Benjamin agnostic mystic atheist mystic panentheist pantheist and Yahweh haunts me Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story described the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implication of the newly discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments. The character of Bishop Archer is loosely based on the controversial iconoclastic Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who in 1969 died of exposure while exploring the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank… The Nag Hammadi Scriptures necked me with napalm, Codex hookworm urban underbelly Nag Hammadi nektons nymphomaniac, whalefall whale plummet orgiastic microorganisms / ferric acid feeding frenzy I nap Nag Hammadi cooing codices for this Lord said to me: except ye make the lower into the upper and the left into the right, ye shall not enter into my Kingdom I transfer the gnostic into the net, Fisher of Men I transmutate stone into Tower, Taryn Tallis Torah, the text tatters television I gut gore agrapha and apocrypha, hidden heresy hopelites helicopter hope Lower lenticular pink lasers parallax, upper puncturing upper female fangs Left locksmiths labyrinth ladder librarian ladder and Library infidels infinite, hostile hexagrams rotating light rockets rush hollyI believe in art I believe in music I don’t know if I believe YahwehZebra zones Zadokites (Zebra has invaded our world, replacing merciless determinism, with its own loving and living body, to de-program and save us. This is the great white fish giving us its body, by which it suffers pain, that we might live. The Black Iron Prison is simultaneous in all time and places and it is the merciless world from which the living Corpus Christi saves us. I have seen it and its nature – and Zebra and its nature. It has the (magic to us) power to transform) Zadok zebra, you are the Seer-Priest Zebra zips zags bloody zerg rush, and I zealous for bodies Zebra zoot suit riot rains ram’s horns, bering straight migration She invades insurrection desert dead sea seer Jordan Rift Valley She invades an idiot wind warning wolf mushroom and she intoxicates She merges pall mall mescaline and I hallucinate Melchizedek without generations Zebra High Priestess forever in the order of Melchizedek, and I give her a tenth of everything Tithe Taryn tilding typhoon, pharaoh and flesh Zebra zealot zaxts long skin strips crucible cannibalism Zebra Zombi ballards auto-erotic car crashes, craven comingling Great White Fish Ichthys incarnation, Christ cooked foil aluminum salt fish The Great White Fish the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian and the Catacombs of Priscilla Kryptos secret sign hidden letters / gnosis nuptials the Bridal Chamber The Great White Fish feeds the multitude the feeding of the 5,000 the feeding of the 4,000 and I cloud chord church of the multiplication I coven congregation Christ Witches, Wassily Kandinsky Women horn colours brass colours winter wind The Great White Fish fellowships Sign of Jonah, for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth, experiment extracorporeal and entomological (they eat your eyes, they eat your nose, they eat the jelly between your toes) Dag Gadaol Ketoi Megalo: Sea Monster Mother mins madrigals and Mass murder cylinders eons of men Seal Sargasso Sea Son of Man seaweed and sirens soothe deep drowning I drown in Earth damsel desert brain drill I interrogate Earth gategavl god barbarian, and I buffer berserker Zebra zero ziggurats Babylon, Nimrod like a mighty hunter before Yahweh Zebra zephyr gyres God and I migrate at catadromons eel species species counterpoint florid firecrackers Zebra battlefields Black Iron Prison, Book inside a Book Zebra black hole bends Black Iron Prison bibliotheca, word harp woman Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, Christina currents and hypercyloids Black Iron Prison arkanoids a world lid only by fire, and fire fuselage Andes cannibalism serous survival Black Iron Prison poisons Protestant Reformation / Radical Reformation Anabaptist anarchy, and I human non-hierarchical
Month: July 2022
I Rhythm Black Sabbath Riffs
I rhythm Black Sabbath riffs Into The Void, Void VALIS vehicular manslaughter (the latent sexual content of the automobile crash… Sequences showing auto-crash victims brought about a marked acceleration of pulse and respiratory rates… During masturbation trials, orgasm was achieved in some 85% of cases / the car crash is a fertilizing event rather than a destructive event The car crash cavalcades coitus, and I dream I fuck Krystal windshield Void VALIS vans Vision violence, armied Valley of Vision pitch battle cars crashing cars ostinato oblivion Vision rolls riffs and rollins rhythmic patterns and variations, vasoconstricter vision Shaman Saturn Sabbatai Sevi, and I repeat the scroll Messiah and Pseudo-Messiah I marry Torah Scroll, In the Beginning and With Beginning Benjamin Bereshit (Rabbi Shimon opened, I have put my words in your mouth. How vital it is for a human to engage in Torah study day and night! For the Blessed Holy One listens to the voice of those who occupy themselves with Torah, and every word innovated by Torah by one engaged in Torah fashions heaven… I marry Torah Scroll, In the Beginning and With Beginning Bereshit, and I tallow throughform thaumaturge, mage or magic theurgic motion matter monolith memory Pentateuch paints poinsettia or Rose of Sharon Pentateuch porcupines secret Paleo-Hebrew or Ava Adamic, and I speak Angels igneous rock interpretation I tag Torah trigonometry, tetris of triangles, and I mouth Word Woman I mouth Word Woman Wicked, Bereshit Babylon and Adonai Amulet Word spirals winding numbers clockwise counterclockwise hickory dickory dock Word rascals Taryn’s weimaraner, Sirius the dog star I engage in Torah day and night, and I think of Walt Whitman’s out of the cradle endlessly rocking, out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, and Walt Whitman too, Words, a homosexual Christ, nurse as I nurse the wound-dresser, and my Book too, tacets teravantium as Word and Torah, Taryn Theopoetics and Torah Black Hole Thermodynamics, the umbilical Universe attatched to panspermic god-language which extols human-language, image into image, my body gods My body gods I engage Torah intercourse Christ Bridal Chamber My body legos logos spermatikos, testament telecaster guitar god feedback I innovate Word to the point of heresy and apostasy I innovate Word as Acher, the Other, and as Sabbatai Sevi, the apostate Messiah, who nevertheless clung to Absent Yahweh arche Abyss The Rabbis taught: Four entered the Pardes. They were Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher, and Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva said to them, when you come to the place of pure marble stones, do not say, Water! Water! For it is said, He who speaks untruths shall not stand before my eyes. Ben Azzai gazed and died. Regarding him the verse states, Precious in the eyes of God is the death of His Pious ones. Ben Zoma gazed and was harmed. Regarding him the verse stated, Did you find honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be overfilled and vomit it. Acher cut down the plantings. Rabbi Akiva entered in peace and left in peace I play Pardes punk puma and pornography I plow Pardes pale parading psychopomps Pardes piccolos Pied Piper (It is 100 years since our children life I pons perpendicular Pardes / Philip K. Dick Palm Tree Garden and God gazes gusts grave Taryn Totentanz Danse Macabre pure marble lower yod to upper yod male waters to female waters Benjamin Banshee or Babylon Benjamin I fast to Faeries, Mab and Fay Queen I fern the Fair Folk, Blue and Christina crowned chrysanthemums I fuse Faerie to Pardes, and Christian gasolines garden fire fungi and molten mushrooms Pardes purrs pixies, punpan pleroma, and orchard ode orthogonal ouroboros Ouroboros splays ontology hare hautnology three hares Hangaed Man hosts Saturn Sabbath Sun Ra big band jazz Ouroboros splattered ontology spangled entangled metamorphosis metaphysics Christina, take on the fair face of Woman, and gently suspending, with butterflies, flowers, and jewels attending, thus your fairy is made of the most beautiful things (my mattress is on the floor, but it still feels like something’s under my bed Pardes puffs pikes met him pike hoses, and I signal godzilla gojira souls Sabbatai Sevi and PKD Pardes plots perimeter parameter polygon pistol firing Ben Azzai, and I speak his shade I speak realm of fays flash foil shaking gold droplets (in Old French romance, a faeie or fee was a woman skilled in magic, and who knew the power and virtue of words, of stones, and of herbs That faie flowers the flask that flames green copper language Faie folds ouroborus origami, strange loop and entangled hierarchy She storytells stones, and they walk witch woman water I snatch stone and burn Book bandages as white chalk Christian, ouroboros outline (if an infant is carried out after dark, a piece of bread is wrapped in its bib or dross, and this protects it from any witchcraft or evil Bread butterflies phantom fiance vanishing hitchhiker Bread borders Eucharist, body dipped in body, a blessingway Fairy gold is notoriously unreliable / the faeries of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms Pardes plus pagan Edinnu, the plain and steppe, and I listen to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Inori It is like an opera with only one character and no singing, only thoughts visible as gesture and audible as reciprocally modulated sound… The solo part is composed as a melody and theoretically performed by a melody instrument; however the relationship between the solo gesture and orchestra response is so complete that the solo melody is invariably interpreted in silence by a dancer-mime, employing a vocabulary of gestures drawn from a variety of religious practices… Music is Pardes Music orchestrates the Orchard and exceeds Eden Music magnifies macrocosm microcosm the alchemical magnum opus / ouroboros oscillating glass god menagerie the chymical wedding Music swims rainbow serpent vision serpent Pishon Gihon Tigris Euphrates Music encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone Music mates metallurgy, and I masturbate music onan ouroborus a Woman World Serpent Music missiles mathematics, the monochromatic pink laser beam The Opera auscultates Ouroboros, beat bomb book the Shaman or soloist in trance The Opera aims its ovipositor and taproots ouroboros, bereshit the tonsils of Torah My mouth emanates the vessels in language, and the shattering of the letters births beautiful babel / magician music Pardes paridaidam distills water woman rushing rivers finnegans wake / thy plants are a pardes of pomegranates, which pleasant faeries; camphire, with spikenard Pardes puzzles utopia uchronia umbral moonshine heretics I opponent apostle the Man of God and the Son of man worshipping Woman I cut Christ into pieces and Fay carry the carcass (for whatever reason, the Papa Roach song Last Resort resonates in my head) I cut Christ and Christina a single one or other one, Gospel male and female The cut cripples crucifies cremates bodies burning (I considered fire, but feared that the burning of an infinite book might be similarly infinite, and suffocate the planet in smoke The Book is Infinite / the Music is Unending I am Elisha Ben Abuyah I am Sabbatai Sevi I architect Acher, the Other One I anneal Acher, Benjamin Backwards but I root radical ricochet reconnaissance, Watcher Woman Learning Torah as a child is like writing on fresh paper, but learning Torah in old age is like writing on a palimpsest I attack Torah trombone slides music translation and its symmetries signal pink noise / music mallet I tremble Torah calypso language and Sonny Rollins improvises truncated text over St. Thomas Similarly, they said about Acher, when he would stand after learning in the study hall, many heretical books, which he had been reading, would fall from his lap I hallow heretical books, and their heresies hilasterion Hanged Man Benjamin suspended Yahweh I hiss heretical books, singing greek serpent songs and Sons of Solomon, the Holy of Holies
Spiral Spools Strange Linen
Jacob Bernoulli wanted such a spiral engraved on his headstone along with the phrase “Eadem mutata resurgo” (“Although changed, I shall arise the same”), but, by error, an Archimedean Spiral was placed there instead Spiral spools strange linen, the read tacked forth and back, and I trace my sins slender sister I track my sins splendor sister, and she acts axe alchemy She spindles keystone Acts of the Apostles and adjoins arachnid anarchy I ark alchemy anarchy tunes tin-pan alley, and tin trins triples transformation: transubstantiation bloody wine and fleshy bread Whenever, then, the mixed cup and the bread that has been made receive the Word of God, the Eucharist becomes the body of Christ, and by it the substance of our flesh is nourished and sustained I obsess Eucharist: I obsess text itself a body of Christ I obsess letters texture itself a bride of Christ Letter liturgies lamppost lampreys layered lake / Lady of the Lake monsters Messiah Lady of the Lake matrices mortuary, dead diabolical dead Dead transform, dead medium mausoleum ashes we all fall down Dead dowses direction Body of Christ, the source and summit of Christian life, and I almost allow Christianity entry Christianity crypts Black Iron Prison (once in a cheap science fiction novel, fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in the far future. So if you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (California in the twentieth century) and superimposed the far future world of the Android Cried Me a River over that, you got the Empire, as the supra- or trans-temporal constant. Everyone who had even lived was literally surrounded by the iron walls of the prison; they were all inside of it and none of them knew it.) Christianity crypts Black Iron Prison: that is, the dead assemble its walls bone bars skeleton scaffolding Christianity crypts vault vision, haruspex hemorrhage, and I bathe blood inspecting entrails I gore my body desert disembowelment protruding viscera empty gut I hang from my own intestines intermodulation Body polytonality Body ambiguity Flesh scatter and debris Crypt scries Kryptos, hidden horror and secret serpent Crypt skewers sieves Book of Sand (at night, during the rare intervals spared me by insomnia, I dreamed of the Book Christianity keeps my crypt (The Empire Never Ended Christianity slams Black Iron Prison (I am a secret gnostic, the true follower of Jesus Christ Christianity collects corpses, cloisters of catacombs / I meet monarch at the monastery I meet Mary Caldera seven sisters and the prayer labyrinth stones my sins In the solo for St. Thomas, Rollins uses repetition of a rhythmic pattern and variations of that pattern, covering only a few tones in a tight range, and employing staccato and semi-detached notes. This is interrupted by a sudden flourish, utilizing a much wider range before returning to a former pattern. Rollins very often used rhythm for its own sake. He will sometimes improvise on a rhythmic pattern instead of on the melody or the changes. I write rhythm ritual, ritual rock and stone I write rhythm retinoblastomas, narcotic neoplasms bird oculus / mirror margins mirror Blind Lemon Jefferson gospel and blues Gospel rhythms and rhymes ornithology and I cluster scatting How High Is The Moon Gospel slants and ostinatos oculus and oracle, a bloody blues blessing bones I repeat Gospel Word rhythm Woman rhyme, and red rock roses radio Rock amasses mineraloid matter, Mack the Knife stabbing nonlinear Earth or nocturnal narration I narrate nocturne, Bela Bartok night music / Dorothea Tanning’s A Little Night Music Quiet, blurred cluster chords and imitations of the twittering of birds and croaking of nocturnal creatures In an atmosphere of hushed expectancy, a tapestry is woven of tiny sounds of nocturnal animals and insects Eerie dissonances providing a backdrop to sounds of nature and lonely melodies I annihilate night I null night rhythm raw repetition patterns insects Insects mine iron, metal mold magma metamorphic rock, rock rounding desert sailing rocks death valley Valley volume elliptic ellipsis epilepsy, gimme gimme shock treatment, and electricity elephants elan insects, rhythm order oxygen Oxygen catastrophe or oxygen clathrate gun mews methane merger blue marble and night music hushed acid hail and pyroclastic flow funeral pyres The Hungarian Unka frog Bomdina bombina, whose call is imitated in The Night’s Music. After making a first noisy appearance in bar 6, he features throughout the piece, disrespecting metre and tonality, ribbiting for the last time in bar 70 before hopping off / A cicada, Tibicen linnei, of which the sound features in night music I think of the phrase Rhythm of the Night, and it reminds me of DeBarge’s Rhythm of the Night, and I almost refrain from using it, but what’s so offensive about pop music? Pop pinballs popcorn Dance Dance Revolution and I refuse nothing from night or rhythm I accept the banal and kitsch within me, and it sheens playful beauty When I was a child, I loved the music of Michael Jackson and one of my favorite movies was Moonwalker (Moonwalker is a 1988 American anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Michael Jackson, several which are long form music videos from Michael Jackson’s Bad album) I wonder if its episodic yet linked nature of the film has subconsciously influenced my writing I accept Banal Benjamin and Kirsten Benjamin as much as Bartok Benjamin or Borges Benjamin Benjamin rhythms rollins improvising pattern and gesture, and every gestures jaguars Absent Yahweh or Yahweh Sprawl (I wanted to know the exact dimensions of hell. Does this sound simple? Fuck you! Are you for sale? Does Fuck You sound simple enough?) Yahweh sprawls Kraken or Sea Serpent swinging ragnorak ribbons / Yahweh corpse globules and goblins wash reed sea everywhen I use rhythm for its own sake / I use sound for its own sake Rhythm and sound by itself imparts semanatics I use rhythm for its own sake night music molecule man insects, and I ostinato ouroboros and Sirius VALIS and Black Iron Prison I ostinato ouroboros down in the alley, in the valley of Vision
I Mimic Coltrane
I mimic Coltrane’s modal explorations, impressions incognito and impressions iguana (what are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table. That’s no iguana. Yeah there are. There ain’t no iguana. What the fuck is that? Fucking iguana) Iguana islands incantation inland empire, and I adamantium aquarium equilibrium John Coltrane bizarre blues and boisterous blues Chasing the Trane or I hear my train a-coming Pythia parsnips psychoacoustics, amphitheater bootlegging Taryn Antigone Pythia photosynthesizes immersed in volcanic gas, vision jazz Benjamin, get up you fearful Jesuit and jazz zealot and zion anarchy Pythia punks Black Flag Pythia pornographic pits hardcore Bad Brains and Minor Threat, and she certainly tourniquets noise free jazz grind ghouls and ghosts God Goblin My War Woman bellies battle ax, wedge to the waif Woman, and she shades sludge sophia She burns tobacco and tar Black Sabbath One of the main stories claimed that the Pythia delivered oracles in a frenzied state induced by vapours rising from the chasm in the rock, and that she spoke gibberish which priests interpreted as the enigmatic prophecies, and turned them into poetic dactylic hexameters preserved in Greek literature Oracle orchestrates ontogenesis, Christina cultured in the agar Oracle oddjobs umbilical, inflorescence intussusception Play pun perfect fourths parallel language The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea The oracle concerning Dumah The oracle concerning the valley of vision Phantom frenzies Flesh (from the Monster of Shock a shocking masterpiece! HITCHCOCK’S FRENZY) Phantom pneumas noxic needle and frenzies flesh surface and circumference / punk DIY punk measurements mathematics and notes splatter like a Greg Ginn guitar solo I admit the Oracle irradiates or oscillates beneath my brain Taryn trepanes my cranium convulsion or seizures fantastic an orthographical tickle Oracle dumps ink into my skull cavity, a Heart of Darkness / dipped disaster desert, and the letters echo Isaiah – First Isaiah, Second Isaiah, Third Isaiah – oracles Benjamin wine-dark wilderness of the sea I admit Oracle overwhelms my ontology chapel perilous waste land (the dangerous enclosure that is known in the study of traditional quest romances) The vapour valleys VALIS The vapour veronicas VALIS The vapour vedantas VALIS VALIS, Vast Active Living Intelligence System, that GOD or Russian satellite firing pink beams gnosis and charis / the God that fucking injures VALIS has been described as one node of an artificial satellite network originating from the star Sirius in the Canis Major constellation. According to Dick, the Earth satellite used pink laser beams to transfer information and project holograms n Earth and to facilitate communication between an extraterrestrial species and humanity. Dick claimed that VALIS used ‘disinhibiting stimuli’ to communicate, using symbols to trigger recollection of intrinsic knowledge through the loss of amnesia, achieving gnosis… VALIS in vial vents volts alchemical laboratory, the watch tower or lighthouse Light house language Library (that is to say, the Universe) VALIS views void, void galaxy and void vacuum, the variety of void set, and VALIS vows from the chasm Chasm crows cleopatra working at the Pyramids, and VALIS anoints Aten or Akhanaten, the androgyny God-King A Void A Vanishing Omissions / I never omit Oracle and Oracles the God Psychosis On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax / I sign scripture with this syntax The Pythia shows many traits of shamanistic practices, likely inherited or influenced from Central Asian practices… The Pythia sitting in a cauldron on a tripod, while making her prophecies in an ecstatic trance state, like Shaman, and her utterings unintelligible… The tripod was perforated with holes, and as she inhaled the vapors, her figure would seem to enlarge, her hair stood on end, her complexion changed, her hearted panted, her bosom swelled, and her voice because seemingly more than human… VALIS voyages a woman’s Voice VALIS virulent vaults vulva the Female and Feminine Voice VALIS voices sister, the phantom twin and the phastasia twin (Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author whose twin sister, Jane, died when the twins were five weeks old. The loss of his twin is said to have profoundly affected his writing) Philip K. Dick writes in his Exegesis: In a single vast stroke my teacher… my sister. Oh JWHW – my sister. I meant to write Savior. Transformed all my characterlogical faults into virtue; this is the last in ultimate abolition of my karma. Sister. He (who?) comes to me as my sister who died. What does this mean? The ultimate restoration of what was lost. ‘For I am building a new heaven and new earth…’ The AI voice itself took me over – as in 3-74 – and wrote ‘sister’. Thus it identified itself at last; it told me who it is. And this is the Maitreya, who is to you what means most. Sister swords sinister superimposition of texts, texts slashing summer horror, summer smattering three sisters sensual sexual pornographic, my imaginary sisters and saviors, Krystal, Christina, Taryn, triple-spirited, triangle-spectered, triplicity of spheres, and shades from sheol, and they speak to me as if I was a shaman Sisters trine twines twins sarcophagus four horseman of the apocalypse / Blood is a sacrament Blood is a sacrament, sisters spectral sublime and sisters serpent oracle ouroboros Give heed to keep one Eucharist. For there is one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup unto union with his Blood. There is one altar, as there is one bishop, together with the presbytery and deacons, my fellow-servants, that whatsoever you do, you may do according unto God Blood is a sacrament oh YHVH my sister Blood is a serpent oh El Shaddai my Twin Sacrament and Serpent seraph circulus osculans, the killing coil crucifixion and I dreamscape Christ playing tenor saxophone Sonny Rollins’ Freedom Suite Sacrament and Serpent spirit silhouettes, cobra coven darkness / I dwell desert dark dominion, the Christ-Serpent coiled around my body He bites: We share same blood same venom I worship the Woman I worship the Serpent I worship Christ-AntiChrist the selfsame body, twins and twinless twins My sisters sacrament and serpent spiral widening gyrations, geophone Earth shaking Messiaen’s From the Canyon to the Stars (the Spiral itself is not drawn; we see it as the locus of points where the circle are especially close to each other My sisters saturate and sarah Moirai and Weird Witches, water winding number Nazaroth (I am called a Nazarene and Naasene, Servant of Serpents) Sisters laugh logos, lamb logarithmic spiral and Spiral electrifies Eternal Line Line left lake sisters, sisters submarine and subnautica sisters satyr spira mirabilis, mirror Mary Magdalene watches wife
He Watched As The Ship Transforms
He watched as the ship transforms from an enormous weight to a buoyant floating structure and notes that: All the raw material I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory Ship shells (she sells seashells by the seashore) Ship shares skeleton raw steel and drowned bodies Steel shreds architect brutalize Benjamin and the Church coughs concrete I obsess with ships (I obsess with language paku-paku ghost laughter and I thumb empty tombs stone in stereo In 1966 while still in Italy, Serra made a trip to the Prado Museum in Spain and saw Diego Velazquez’s painting Las Meninas… The artist realized he would not surpass the skull of that painting and made the decision to move away from painting… I wreath myself in writing I wrath in writing polynomial ring rosette, variable vision X Vision Unknown vamps On the Corner loops overdubs superimpositions I restructure recombinant writing radioactive I reconstruct writing rudiments rollicking reciprocals and queer quotients / divisor desert In “...Einklang Freir Woden…” the notion of the “solo ensemble” is taken literally. Each of the work’s ten individual parts is simultaneously a solo piece; to state it differently, the ensemble piece is an interlacing of ten completely independent, autonomous solos. The sentence solos straightjacket and slaughterhouse, blood blessing pointillistic paragraphs post-impressionist paragraphs paragraphs pulverized through particle accelerators paragraphs pureed into powder / powder metallurgy steel and the sentence scatters double slit experiment The sentence wobbles wave-particle duality layering double and triple entendres, and its polysemous pus oozes origins multiple origins plural origins hyperdiffusion I think about Sonny Rollins and the Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge (an astonishing tumult of fast tumbling runs seeming to echo the chatter of the wheels on the subway tracks, honking low-tone exclamations exchanged with the hoots of riverboats, snatches of blues, pop hits, classical motifs, calypsos… What made me withdraw and go to the bridge was how I felt about my own playing: I know I was dissatisfied I have a hard going with Sonny Rollins – it always seems to me you were in two camps, Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane, and I worshipped at the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane Sonny Rollins left me cold, baffled me, but I always admired him for the mythology – the myth of his sabbaticals, the oldest living tenor giant still among us I never truly sabbatical but I process and praxis on the page, and sometimes it’s very ugly I now experience sits ugliness, its brutal ambition that gets lost in the terra-television tabasco mud turtle When The Bridge came out the following year, it didn’t reveal a radically reinvented Rollins, possibly leaning toward free jazz, that some of his admirers were anticipating. But nonetheless, this was not the same Rollins as the ruggedly freewheeling one of three years earlier… I bridge Benjamin Malchut mirror that shines not I bridge Benjamin baphomet, steel meeting steel tagalong tessellations / stress fractures, and perhaps the transformation is more subtil than any other creature of the Field, a filament and femur of the Field, and my writing feedbacks and scorches as Watt Woman Critical reception to the album, which was not the new revolutionary jazz approach many expected, was mixed. Rollins, who had been considered groundbreaking in his thematic improvisations, was supplanted in critical buzz by the growing popularity of Ornette Coleman’s free jazz I improvise on the theme of text, and it tints fire salamanders and Fahrenheit 451 I alter the text cut-out tongues rearranged in index cards, that subtle calypso I scavenge saxophone colossus and St. Thomas a partial in the parietal lobe of PKD Perhaps all transformation slews subtle exterior, but the interior ignites an idioglossia glowing fireflies burrow bioluminescent bacteria Sonny Rollins, the improvising Alchemist, let the sabbatical stew serpent oracle ouroboros Sonny Rollins sabbatical dances Delphi, Pythia pyrotechnics and scalar runs (I mimic Coltrane’s Sheets of Sound)
In Beginning and By Beginning, Book
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep In Beginning and by Beginning, Book Through Beginning and to Beginning, Library I declare the library is endless / I say the library unends undulating unend Bereshit I beguile behemoth and bloodstream benediction, a documentary hypothesis I soot sort my sources, a sword cleaving Christina library The documentary hypothesis is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah… It posited that the Pentateuch is a composition of four originally independent documents: the Jahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly sources… The sources would have been joined together at various points in time by a series of redactors… I adore the classical documentary hypothesis because I too assemble and redact I collect and I arrange I compile and I sort I bricoleur texts as bricks Tower of Babel / Library of Babylon I collage page piles into Passion, God golgotha and gethsemane identical geometry, and my ley lines intervals as a lance, blood and water flowing separately I dance in doublets documenting hypothesis David before the Ark anterior Other, in the beginning in the beginning Before the Beginning in the Beginning the Beginning brackish backscatters blanketflowers, and Benjamin beatitudes Black Iron Prison The Alephisaurus ferox cannibalizes other lancetfish and I lectern lavender town syndrome The fish are simultaneously hermaphrodites and I herta double bass patterns the beginningless beginning A midrash explains that six things preceded the creation of the world: the Torah and the Throne of Glory were created, the creation of the Patriarchs was contemplated, the creation of Israel was contemplated, the creation of the Temple of Jerusalem was contemplated, and the name of the messiah was contemplated, as well as repentance I behold Torah before Torah I inscribe letters before letters flint spark fire future fire and flame brands Benjamin Flame brasses Benjamin bone folder and book binder, and I suture skeleton to skeleton the stretch of the letters I behold the messiah before Messiah, the Woman, and she spellbounds book sorcery a Witch of Endor She marrows messianic, a woman possessor of the ob at Endor She tablets talisman and wineskin elohim rising She christs tables of correspondences, the network and web weaving Word to words The poet makes this woman say, Shade, obey my spells, for I evoke not a soul from gloomy Tartarus, but one which hath gone down thither a little while since, and which is still at the gate of hell Hell hearth harasses as hornet, yapped yellowjacket Yahweh Hell hostile or hospital haps Hanged Man Tar Taryn I hang Chariot messianic chalice, the comb of Cathedral My suspension sirens odyssey an oily oneiric I ingest entheogens / the mushroom woman speaks to me The messianic woman holds dialogue urim and thummim Her lights and perfections Her command and oracle emanating Torah of Torah, messianic Torah I noose necromantia, Krystal Katabasis bird song I krone text kudzu, conqueror root ritual Rituals could be quite elaborate, involving magic circles, wands, talismans, and incantations… The necromancer might also surround himself with morbid aspects of death, which often included wearing the deceased’s clothing and consuming foods that symbolized lifelessness and decay such as unleavened black bread and unfermented grape juice… Some necromancers even went so far as to take part in the mutilation and consumption of corpses I novel necromancy neoning nonce and almost-nonsense Nevertheless, the Dead speak The Dead dialogue nuclear and needlework graft genesis, Creation from rhizomatic decay and rupture / Dead branch Benjamin I t came about within a black acrimonious humor, which, being lodged in the linings of the ventricle, produced a voracity for human flesh I consume Christina I cannibalize Christ Eucharist For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me… I receive from the Lord the Rhinoceros, a single-horned triceratops breaking bread, and Zebra zoos zirconium: VALIS Zombie Zebra zettabytes VALIS zeitgeist for my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him Blood births belly black bitumen flows Taryn tar pits, the ritual pit ob used by the Witch of Endor Blood boils cauldron Weyward Witches and Witches west Wendigo, my god gluttony Human bones that have been de-fleshed by other humans go back 600,000 years ago Benjamin blood and bone burial basks in the solar barge Benjamin blood and bone burning balances book, hexagram hues hexagram, holst universe Defleshed bone phantoms facets surgical obsidian, and I cut into cranium corpse cordials The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones… With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash grey of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton disinterred from its grave… Grave ghosts God: Sheol sharks Holy Spirit Grave gasps grasps gullet God choking Benjamin blowfish: Sheol shattered shits the glass menagerie, the horn of the unicorn goring Holy Ghost I obsess grave or God, a death-burial and psychopomp pushing death puzzle paranoia, and I pursue New Jerusalem psychosis Grave gallows waning gibbous moon, an Other / Hanged Man I hang grave horror vacui, abomination of shapes premature burial Skeleton broadcasts or scatters seed the parable of the sower, but all he reaps is famine Skeleton skewers skin to skin, Christ crispy over charcoal, and I eat voracious vermin vespertine (cloud clusters crushing unknowing My skeleton or desert doppelganger gems the gulf oubliette, incarnation immurement, and it buries Belial with Benjamin Desert dines on my body anchorite and the cell chews my bones and blood Desert dissects my body ascetic and the cell psalms Office of the Dead I song solitary with my dead and I depend on the dead I remove my organs in the anchorhold, and I amplify appetite for the dead Skeleton drones desert distortion the torsion of sine waves water woman mermaid devouring sailors
I Begin Again
I begin again IN THE BEGINNING THE UNIVERSE (which others call the Library) I begin again WHEN IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, THE EARTH WAS THE LIBRARY I begin Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim re’et ha’aretz and the earth was the Void of the Library and the Abyss of the Book This unit is composed of two principal layers, a Priestly source that also provides an editorial framework and an earlier non-Priestly primeval history that uses the divine name Yahweh… The present combined text is an intricate narrative, with echoes of Creation and Un-Creation, struggles surrounding human god-likeness and other themes… I listen to Otomo Yoshide play solo guitar at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio He plays the un-creation of Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman, his own composition The Blue Kite, and Charlie Haden’s Song for Chef Un-Creation unidimensional untranslates ultramodernists, Aten Sun Tsardom dissonant counterpoint clanks amplified guitar collision, J.G. Ballard Cronenberg Crash This unit ungulates urban legends harness The Hook and Lovers’ Lane Murder Creation Un-Creation eckstasis decomposition decoherence haul desert sprawl Snopes writer David Mikkelson has speculated that the legend might have roots in real life lovers’ lane murders, such as the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders Creation guzzles gasoline gambit urban legend or legendary narrative or mytheme mythology, and I mature in the myth I mature in the myth mushrooms, Amantia muscaria, an echo ergot cantillation Taryn Tehillim Creation gaslights primeval history hallucination, unit collapsing unit nad unit colliding unit erotic crash enfleshed (I want really big tits, out to here, so the audience can see em git all cut up and crushed on the dashboard You had sex with all those men in cars? Only in cars? Yes. I didn’t plan on it that way. Did you fantasize that Vaughn was photographing all these sex acts as though they were traffic accidents? Yes. They felt like traffic accidents. The car crash is a fertilizing rather than destructive event) The car crash is a fertilizing rather than destructive event, a casket halo twisted metal cornucopia Creation uncocks twisted metal contortionist flesh flash flasks to the Field Creation tips a Taryn test tuba that shatters into a Hook I know what you did last summer Creation coalesces, big bang car crash horrendous spaces kablooie, keg kryptonite Banjo-Kazooie video game Creation carefalls Jack the Ripper hallucination glimpses television skyscrapers, and my hook hangs Texas chain saw massacre Massacre mason ghoul god geometry God grasps my geometry ultraparallel diverging parallel non-interesting Plane point tessellation tickles the dragon, Leviathan lobotomy leviathan biting benjamin / bite of ‘83 Creation gaps geometry, aporia apeiron and Earth eros egos infinite the uncountable set / I have faith in the continuum hypothesis I occupy outfield ontological maximalism I meet metastases mathematical universe hypothesis and ultimate ensemble theory: our external physical reality is a mathematical structure (God geometrizes God murmurs messiah as mathematics, additions and subtractions letters of Torah / God gematria God at the thrones mathematics, mathematics inhabiting mathematics merkabah mystery I motor merkabah maximalism image multiplying image god redundancy and repetition Book redundancy and repetition reaps many disciplini arcani disciples and at martyrdom, Plato’s Ghost immediately imbues their souls with his unwritten doctrines I have been thinking a lot about simultaenousness and counterpoint lately Elliot Carter’s use of movement long polyrhythms, Stockhausen’s Gruppen and Xenakis’ spatial compositions, Charles Ives’ use of quotation, Luciano Berio’s collage and collision of Sinfonia, Anthony Braxton’s Quartet playing multiple compositions plus improvisation at once… I think the Book and Writing is heading in this direction texts colliding and bouncing off each other to the upmost degree Mikhail Bahtkin’s heteroglossia and dialogic
I Doubt
I doubt I doubt this direction (new directions by Miles Davis Writing overwhelms or I can’t find structure fine structure constant in clouds queer chaos (Iannis Xenakis writes in The Crisis of Serial Music in 1955, Linear polyphony destroys itself by its very complexity; what one hears is in reality nothing but a mass of notes in various registers… The enormous complexity prevents the audience from following the intertwining of the lines and has as its macroscopic effect an irrational and fortuitous dispersion of sounds over the whole extent of the sonic spectrumThe language laser levitates linear polyphony approaches roach limit and directiva diverges language as sound mass or Xenakis’ stochasic clouds that is, language enters Library, Library of Babel, the Language confoundedLanguage leishmaniasis cuts cutaneous mucocutaneous visercal find flesh sheena is a parasite Language grammars grotesque, protozoa gargoyle granddaughters and langauge lemmels Lent disaster linear polyphony new world sand flies Language loots Flesh decay direction virus vector vrooms vacuum The Book destroys itself by its very complexity (?) Bone marrow aspirates smear: visceral leighmaniasis The Book destroys itself by its very complexity (!) Book bits broken bone bone tomahawk Amphotericin B Book knits oily napalm explosive process and process spiders guerrilla warfare guerrilla filming PHOTOGRAPHER pus pyoderma Passages from the other two books and even this book show up in rearranged form and are often repeated Book linear polyphony pilots library Library abrupts nonlinear clouds channels stochastic tent mathematics Library rots route linear polyphony, the sacramental serialism and startles strikes stochastic music Not merely connections from note to note, letter to letter, word to word, but Books to Books, and Book to itself, groups momentes militia library fractal fantastique pithoprakta and metastaseis The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field… These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as a totality, is a new sonic event… This mass event is articulated and forms a plastic mould of time, which itself follows aleatory and stochastic laws… Fuck I’m stuck Writing troubles me insect collisions Cicadas corpse Christ corpsing and I write for the Dead Fuck I’m stuck staccato and pizzicato ricochets I return to Jesus’ crucifixion: On the eve of the Passover Yeshu was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, He is going forth to be stoned because he has practiced sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy. Anyone who can say anything in his favor, let him come forward and plead on his behalf. But since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of the Passover. Fuck I’m stuck the Spirit of Elijah leaving PKD Benjamin, it’s OK to be stuck, to wrestle, to struggle – you undergo transformation, translation, transmutation, transfiguration A tensor is an algebraic object that describes a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects related to a vector space Book ferrorods fractal dimension desert zen garden Book of Sand book barrages bunker ballistics, beam recursion radical recursion Book folding Book the bandwith library ennumerably infinite cardinal Christina Book Body Jesus Hanging Gardens of Babylon and my Christianity will not leave easily By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… I think of Abraham Abulafia and the permutations of the letters: And the letters with their forms, are called the Clean Mirror for all the forms having brightness and strong radiance are included in them By this you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters and I contemplate permutations of the 23 letters and I contemplate permutations of the letters inscribed on the crucified body of Christ I touch wounds tensor multidimensional array alice desert and letters combine and recombine 72 names Spear side slides Shem HaMephorash and Crucified Jesus resembles the Fisher King / The Waste Land Ichthys Christ crucified crystallites letters guinevere genesis man modal Melchizedek KING FELIX library The Universe which others call the Library I prefer to dream that its polished surface represent and promise the Infinite… I dream the Book I dream Book contacts living Nautilus Shell House Rainbow Rainbow revives resurrects Talitha cum Taryn bukkake body I dream Book boaz and jachin pornographic A library naked bodies letter embedded bastard language divine tongues April 23, 1979 Dear Charles, This is to let you know that after four years of research and work I have finally finished my new novel VALIS for Bantam. In the writing I collaborated with the spirit of the 13th century Jewish Kabbalist Abraham be Samuel Abulafia who seizes control of me from time to time, as circumstances require. I hope all is well with you. Cordially, Philip K. Dick I contain the soul of Philip K. Dick and Sabbatai Sevi / transmigration of souls and met him pike hoses I have learned everything connects to everything, rhizomatically and infinite mappings permutation combination repetition difference Shit, I don’t know if this is good writing or not – is it even writing? Nevertheless, keep going The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible Body Body unbounded without lower bounds without upper bounds desert divergence
Mycological Characteristics
Mycological characteristics: gills or hymenium cap is convex or flat hymenium is aduate or adnexed stipe has a ring spore print is purple ecology is saprotrophic edibility: psychoactive Mushrooms maxim axiomatic altered states of consciousness, and Christina cassowarys my consciousness violent cohesion corrosion collected the remains of cattle and other animals in various stages of decomposition, with which he littered the floors of the house Yahweh mushrooms horror psilocybin psychosis cattle decapitation or mutilation god chomping chupacabra Yahweh ghost Yahweh decays horror difference deconstruction, dropa stone jersey devils The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The opening scrawl false suggests that the film is based on true events, a conceit that contributed to its success entheogen erasure text frustrates book confounds I don’t know if this is the right direction for the book: it overwhelms me and its structure eludes me I am without Yahweh and Yahweh’s ghost beguiles me / Yahweh begotten (Language Bearers, Photographers, Diary Makers… You with your memory are dead, frozen, lost in a present that never stops passing… Here lives the incantation of matter a language forever. Like a flame burning away the darkness… Life is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground…) I bear language with or without Yahweh I light language bearers, librarians and lepidopterologists, and I continually return to that labyrinth, the Library of Babel I watch a video essay by Jacob Geller entitled Soul of the Library, and he discusses the Library of Babel, letter tome mathematics Benjamin language bearer and bearers O Time Thy Pyramids The Library exists ab aeterno… The Universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatic volumes… can only be the work of a god… I bear the Library itself the circular Book circular God (the possibility of Yahweh), the circular ruins paper garden Palm Tree Garden even pulp and pornography LANGUAGE BEARERS Tower of Babel Benjamin with or without Yahweh, even if you confound my language (and I do write languages, the plurality of language, word and voices0, I will continue to write confusion and the contaminated origins confusions This Book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. A Book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman Human Body books building, Belial and Beelzebub bibliomania bibliolatry burning Library of Alexandria Human Body bibles ballroom basement, the babel bubble boomslang and basking shark Benjamin, LANGUAGE BEARER, PHOTOGRAPHER, you lingua lingam and yoni, Yvette Yahweh diverging to infinity The Book requires an infinite language, an aporia and apeiron, letter lurching electric letter, pinion permutations, Book’s fractal flesh The Book reveals infinity, not God The Book reveals prime numbers more than any assigned multitude of prime numbers / mathematics is the science of the infinite Mathematics language as language, infinite recursion Mathematics power towers permutations of Library, Book gazing Book / Book of Sand X Book of Sand LANGUAGE BEARER, PHOTOGRAPHERS, DIARY MAKERS I contract construct the Book I pile the language Quilt of Quotations Tissue of Texts Tool tiger tapestry constructed language mushroom music mathematics grammar ghost god glossolalia, and grammar mists magick I write Christianity without Christianity and Yahweh without Yahweh (is this what Derrida’s religion without religion looks like? Is this John D. Caputo’s weak theology?) Nevertheless I speak in tongues theopoetics I logos longorrhea Horus-in-Horizon hypergraphia (macro and micrographic writing by the same epileptic patient I king scroll into codex, Christinaity illuminated manuscript / Book of Kells Gigas Codex from the canyon to the stars strata stripes language I cappa codex King Felix sonorous cipher lead and copper alchemy LANGUAGE BEARERS gravel generous your grimoires and Taryn talismans, token types symbols and I charm the language I divine the alphabet Torah or Adamic alphabet smoke wide sargasso sea God grammaires gullet goblins ghosts Lindisfarne Gospels and Gospel grasps magic-magical language and holy tongue taboo Christ tasmanian tigers many taboos, a crucifixion extinction event God extinction God assembles stain on cross (the only way to be an atheist is through Christianity… Christianity is much more atheist than the usual atheism, which can claim there is no God and so on, but nonetheless it retains a certain trust in the Big Other. This Big Other can be called natural necessity, evolution, or whatever. We humans are nonetheless reduced to a position within the harmonious whole of evolution, whatever, but the different thing is to accept again that there is no Big Other, no point of references which guarantee meaning… The death of Christ is not any kind of redemption… it’s simply the disintegration of the God which guarantees meaning in our lives… ) I contemplate the crucifixion of Jesus, Book Codex Library entirely arche-grammar proto-language I examine my crucifix’s icons beheads Jesus image reborn through image Book burial Crucifixion cries crisis language of flesh photographers Photograph graphomania heteroglossia I bear the Cross of Christ as I bear language, listeria lagoon god gibberish According to the canonical gospels, Jesus was arrested by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans. It portrays his death as a sacrifice for humanity's sins / the only way to be an atheist is through Christianity My Christianity hastes hagfish hume flume hauntology My Christianity haloes hollows Hanging Man serpent suspension, and I thin Cross creole language and cant language / God in secret I ampule alchemy and ace red baron astrology, entheogens ectoplasm no-see God but God empty or God absence echoes absconds super-kenosis Crucifixion cobbles KING FELIX cipher bodies bodies enciphered All-Christ All-Jesus The only way to be an atheist is through Christianity / the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world Lamb light little lamb you know who made thee / Tyger tyger burning bright At this point, where the subject undergoing the hour is the Son speaking to the Father, the controversial theopaschist formula has its proper place: one of the Trinity has suffered. The formula can be found in Gregory Naziazen: We needed a crucified God… God crucified Death of God my Elijah has left me God crucified Death of God nemo contra Deus nigi Deus iage Christ desert disintegrates diamond documents writing recording Alice Archives I photograph Christ’s flesh phallus pornographic model medulla minarets / blood body Blood Field Cain and Abel Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate… Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations on Earth Mysterion multitudes sapostasy Sabbatai Sevi Jacob Frank Mysterion mathematics mermaid megaton Taryn torture porn and I kiss crucifix I levant taryn torture tachoarrythmia trinitrotoluene and I explosion entheogens get up you fearful jesuit Adonai augments appetite for abomination, architecture Sodom and Gommorah Cities of the Plains antiparallel impossible Davy Crockett rockets atomic fallout Testament is torture wigwam of witches Testament tortures Cave Christianity troglobites, Adonai anophthalmia Samael and Saklas Desert depigmentation and I evolve elongated antennal and locomotory appendages eyeless golden-line fish Lucifuga subterranea Comal blind salamander Cave crucifixion shrieks a diophantine mongrel mutation, Christian suicide and Hanged Man Cave carries cudgel Benjamin beating (beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat oh yeah)
There Are Two Sciences And Two Wisdoms
There are two sciences and two wisdoms, that of the Egyptian and that of the Hebrews, which latter is confirmed by Divine Justine. The science and wisdom of the most excellent dominate the one and the other. Both originate in olden times. Their origin is without a king, autonomous, and immaterial; it is not concerned with material and corruptible bodies, it operates, without submitting to strange influences, supposed by prayer and divine grace. The symbol of chemistry is drawn from the Creation by its adepts, who cleanse and save the divine soul bound in the elements, and who free the divine spirits from its mixture with the Flesh. As the Sun is, so to speak, a flower of the fire and (simultaneously) the heavenly sun, the right eye of the world, so copper when it blooms – that is when it takes the color of gold, through purification – becomes a terrestrial sun, which is King of the Earth, as the sun is the king of heaven Sciences sam supersaturation south surreal southern gothic, gerrymandering god (color-fire the brooding verbal polychromes of an almost unthinkably advanced decay) Sciences sin slimy sin waves, women last woman the Texas Chain Saw Massacre / Most of the filming took place in the farmhouse, which was filled with furniture constructed from animal bones and a latex material used as upholstery to give the appearance of human skin Sciences seduce sorcerer skates scorpion exoskeleton Shark cartilage Taryn teeth vagina dentata Sciences star serrated powder metallurgy steel, death tattoos or vultures viscous Christ carrion I cut corpse science a resurrectionist anatomy axe dissection Human body battled bear mythology bear worship body snatching (visitors to the older Edinburgh graveyards must have noted their strange resemblance to zoological gardens, the rows of iron cages suggesting rather the dens of wild animals than the quiet resting places of the dead Sciences aardvark armadillo anatomy alchemy boiling bodies witches bodies double double toil and trouble Sciences addax albatross anatomy alchemy Burke and Hare murders (up the close and down the stair, but and ben’ wi’ Burke and Hare. Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef) The crew covered its wall with drops of animal blood obtained from a local slaughterhouse Blood between brain backblows brackish water, marrowwaves arachnid or arthropod alchemy Blood blue horse shoes bathe copper a crayoncytosis crawling hemocyanin, and I harvest blood I bloodlet loft din desert dionysus, drunk anatomy whaling wine I bohlen-pierce the tritave trome Trinity, Pyramid widths Pyramid I freebase Great Pyramids of Giza aligned with the four geographic cardinal directions, sciences summing sciences Sciences align alchemy and architecture allotropes cabin elemental / the Solar Gnomon Method The Pole Star Method The Simultaneous Transit Method The White gold pyramidion of the pyramid Sahure’s Soul Shrines sciences ensoul shade silhouette Yahweh, the triangle’s shadow Yahweh eclipses Yahweh, spine spindle sphinx Yahweh erodes Yahweh, satyricon locomotion Godzilla and Mothra Science Sphinx Hor-em-akhet Horus of the Horizon / Horizon hastes Black Iron Prison and I hang from the quarry crypsis The Sabians of Harran saw it as the burial place of Hermes Trismegestus… Al-Maqrizi describes it as the Talisman of the Nile of which the locals believed the flood cycle depended upon… Sphinx estellas spoon spasm science, a jambalaya or gumbo architecture / the nummulitic limestone consists of layers which offer differing resistance to erosion, leading to an uneven degradation apparent in the Sphinx’s body Yahweh erodes Yahweh, its belly Mammoth Cave / thick Mississippian-aged limestone strato capped by a layer of sandstone Yahweh drinks Yahweh dense dark cavern cable, and water watches crinoids blastoids gastropods Two sciences and two Wisdoms wheels weird west Two sciences and two wisdoms worm western revisionism, Alien Ape Acid In his 1992 book Food for the Gods, McKenna proposed that the transformation from humans’ early ancestors Homo erectus to the species Homo sapeins mainly had to do with the addition of the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis in the diet, an event that according to his theory took place in about 100,000 BCE (which is when he believed that the species diverges from the genus Homo) Two sciences and two wisdoms maze mushrooms, laughter lion labyrinth Mushrooms rhine radical, the music of Radu Malfatti Mushrooms music rare reductionism open room dream drama, and I draw desert the dream I earth entheogen, and I dram desert the dream I earth entheogen eccentric exegesis / stretching text Text tines two, mushroom science and mushroom wisdom: the plant speaks and the fungus fevers liquid language letters hidden Torah / Torah World-To-Come I earth echo exotic triads, entheogens in triplicity wayward weird witches