Hope the birthday was the start of a fine year to come!
Sat down with all of Luvkraft vs. Kutulu to read in a single shot, and along with enjoying the story, I'm impressed with managing to hop back on mid-stride after decades away. I'll often look back at my own old writing with a "now how the hell did I do that again...?", shifting back into the proper mindset is no joke.
I also finished Laidlaw a few weeks ago, very satisfying and useful read. It was a funny experience, being almost totally new to the genre beyond broad cultural osmosis; the fallen nature of the mechanisms of society are I know a given, but how often is The Good Cop treated within it half as cryptid, half rote workplace exasperation, working overtime to make the grim realization of how the world works the necessity of grace instead of the inevitability of damnation? How many are this invested in a kaleidoscopic view of its central horror, such that it feels like the race is against less the relatively simple mystery than the grinding inertia of human nature acting in a dozen directions at once? It's hard to tell where my admiration for McIlvanney's talents end and my appreciation for a field I had only been casually acquainted with begins, but it's absolutely informed the project that prompted the request and I'm looking forward to more viewing to come. Thanks again for the recommendation!
(Thanks as well for that bit of detail on The Just - my friend was very, very happy to hear that no how much they rose up to prove themselves, the heroes of this world would remain true to their roots as schmucks when the dust began to settle.)
Looking forward to those projects coming to fruition.
The book research has me traveling down a path that must, at the very least, engage with magic and all the implications therein. What would you recommend with regards to biographies that engage with mystical systems?
Currently finishing up Karamazov (which has been delightfully bleak) and working my way through Count Zero (which I'm a bit cold on, though maybe I should've read Neuromancer first). The research is going to have me read Faust (both Marlowe and Goethe) as well as a bunch of other texts. What's your favorite discovery from researching for one of your works?
Start your normal s from the top, when you would normally stop your s at the bottom it’s the beginning of a new s underneath- keep your pen on the paper until you have completed your second, joined s downwards and you have a doubless. It should look like a snake.
"11 million bits of information enter and are processed by our brains. Of those 11 million bits only 0.0004% are registered in our conscious awareness."
In this era of "fake news", references help. We don't want to fall foul of the prevailing winds
“I chose to end that period in May 2023, again because I felt a sense of completion and a change in the seasons, and since then I’ve been exploring the intense and directionless creative energies of Chokmah (I struggled with their formless ferocity at first until I remembered that these energies require to be incubated in the matrix of Binah, and there given form. Otherwise, they’re as much use as a chocolate oven.”
Ah — that would explain the recurring delusion I’ve been having about Vomiting up a live Octopus, following a tasting session of Ultimate Sushi : The Despair Squid — WSH : Weird Shit Happens.
THAT explains Dan Turpin’s Black Vomit — it’s Octopus Ink.
…..You know what I Think? I Think Kroll still exists, and he’s just about due for His Forth Manifestation.
The Signal Transmission in Plur1Bus containing the genetic recipe for the RNA sequence originates from Kepler-21b, an oceanic planet in Cygnus, in the year 1356 : it was sent by An Octopus, with a radio-telescope dish the size of Africa.
I associate that also with Barbara Ehrenreich's idea that hominids lived as a species of prey for all but the last 4% of our history.
Which may explain some of humanity's perceptual maladaptations.
"I am the defense early warning radar system. / I see nothing but bombs."
- Allen Ginsberg
I see the function of art and magic as consciously curating which 0.0004% we tune in, without forgetting that it remains merely a different abstraction of an incomprehensible whole.
The pyramid vs. network dichotomy works perfectly!
And clearly the social isolation of ascending the hierarchy does the aspirant no favors. These folks become sick with excessive wealth and power, they actually suffer from it. "This is a rescue mission."
Re-reading the Book of the Law the other day and was struck by AC's description of the societal ills of his era in the intro, and how they pretty much exactly match our current predicament. At least in the very broad strokes he was sketching with.
The surface level details move very quickly, but the underlining structure moves very slowly?
I think I have my take on the Thelemic Aeons worked out.
Keeping AC's three stage cycle and adding Ma'at as a meta/non-local paradigm.
Assessable during any of the other three aeons, because it exists outside of time.
The Aeon of Ma'at is spread about the earth, but men do not see it!
That sort of thing. Solves the concurrent aeon problem, keeps AC's original structure, and encodes a winner script for any future aeon.
Right now I'm dealing with Aiwass before the door of the law (Agnosis! #3) and Sigismundo Celine down in the hollow earth (HTOI #1), but after I get through those gauntlets, THE HEAP can emerge from the mycelium network :)))
Oh ha! "Shite version," not like poorly developed, but actual excrement, detritus, fertilizer, and nutritious substratum. I can dig it!
Glad you had good birthday! I like the quieter celebrations more anyway but it’s because I’m an old fucker at heart (tear rolls down cheek) jk and yeah sorry about that I didn’t see your response in another post that’s my b, after I found out I freaked out to my gf “He’S GuNnA tHiNk I’m StUpId Or SoMeThInG” lmao.
Hope the birthday was the start of a fine year to come!
Sat down with all of Luvkraft vs. Kutulu to read in a single shot, and along with enjoying the story, I'm impressed with managing to hop back on mid-stride after decades away. I'll often look back at my own old writing with a "now how the hell did I do that again...?", shifting back into the proper mindset is no joke.
I also finished Laidlaw a few weeks ago, very satisfying and useful read. It was a funny experience, being almost totally new to the genre beyond broad cultural osmosis; the fallen nature of the mechanisms of society are I know a given, but how often is The Good Cop treated within it half as cryptid, half rote workplace exasperation, working overtime to make the grim realization of how the world works the necessity of grace instead of the inevitability of damnation? How many are this invested in a kaleidoscopic view of its central horror, such that it feels like the race is against less the relatively simple mystery than the grinding inertia of human nature acting in a dozen directions at once? It's hard to tell where my admiration for McIlvanney's talents end and my appreciation for a field I had only been casually acquainted with begins, but it's absolutely informed the project that prompted the request and I'm looking forward to more viewing to come. Thanks again for the recommendation!
(Thanks as well for that bit of detail on The Just - my friend was very, very happy to hear that no how much they rose up to prove themselves, the heroes of this world would remain true to their roots as schmucks when the dust began to settle.)
Looking forward to those projects coming to fruition.
The book research has me traveling down a path that must, at the very least, engage with magic and all the implications therein. What would you recommend with regards to biographies that engage with mystical systems?
Currently finishing up Karamazov (which has been delightfully bleak) and working my way through Count Zero (which I'm a bit cold on, though maybe I should've read Neuromancer first). The research is going to have me read Faust (both Marlowe and Goethe) as well as a bunch of other texts. What's your favorite discovery from researching for one of your works?
Favorite song from the Threepenny Opera?
It’s time for (invisible alphabet)!
A tripleyou is a long w, horizontal.
A doubless is a long s, vertical.
Start your normal s from the top, when you would normally stop your s at the bottom it’s the beginning of a new s underneath- keep your pen on the paper until you have completed your second, joined s downwards and you have a doubless. It should look like a snake.
Can we please have the defences for this info:
"11 million bits of information enter and are processed by our brains. Of those 11 million bits only 0.0004% are registered in our conscious awareness."
In this era of "fake news", references help. We don't want to fall foul of the prevailing winds
“I chose to end that period in May 2023, again because I felt a sense of completion and a change in the seasons, and since then I’ve been exploring the intense and directionless creative energies of Chokmah (I struggled with their formless ferocity at first until I remembered that these energies require to be incubated in the matrix of Binah, and there given form. Otherwise, they’re as much use as a chocolate oven.”
Ah — that would explain the recurring delusion I’ve been having about Vomiting up a live Octopus, following a tasting session of Ultimate Sushi : The Despair Squid — WSH : Weird Shit Happens.
THAT explains Dan Turpin’s Black Vomit — it’s Octopus Ink.
…..You know what I Think? I Think Kroll still exists, and he’s just about due for His Forth Manifestation.
The Signal Transmission in Plur1Bus containing the genetic recipe for the RNA sequence originates from Kepler-21b, an oceanic planet in Cygnus, in the year 1356 : it was sent by An Octopus, with a radio-telescope dish the size of Africa.
https://youtu.be/uCRAEAHNZuU
KOYAANISQATSI
I love the quantification of 0.0004%!
Gave me a new conceptual visualization :)))
I associate that also with Barbara Ehrenreich's idea that hominids lived as a species of prey for all but the last 4% of our history.
Which may explain some of humanity's perceptual maladaptations.
"I am the defense early warning radar system. / I see nothing but bombs."
- Allen Ginsberg
I see the function of art and magic as consciously curating which 0.0004% we tune in, without forgetting that it remains merely a different abstraction of an incomprehensible whole.
The pyramid vs. network dichotomy works perfectly!
And clearly the social isolation of ascending the hierarchy does the aspirant no favors. These folks become sick with excessive wealth and power, they actually suffer from it. "This is a rescue mission."
Re-reading the Book of the Law the other day and was struck by AC's description of the societal ills of his era in the intro, and how they pretty much exactly match our current predicament. At least in the very broad strokes he was sketching with.
The surface level details move very quickly, but the underlining structure moves very slowly?
I think I have my take on the Thelemic Aeons worked out.
Keeping AC's three stage cycle and adding Ma'at as a meta/non-local paradigm.
Assessable during any of the other three aeons, because it exists outside of time.
The Aeon of Ma'at is spread about the earth, but men do not see it!
That sort of thing. Solves the concurrent aeon problem, keeps AC's original structure, and encodes a winner script for any future aeon.
Right now I'm dealing with Aiwass before the door of the law (Agnosis! #3) and Sigismundo Celine down in the hollow earth (HTOI #1), but after I get through those gauntlets, THE HEAP can emerge from the mycelium network :)))
Oh ha! "Shite version," not like poorly developed, but actual excrement, detritus, fertilizer, and nutritious substratum. I can dig it!
Merrily we roll along <3<3<3
New GD: At Sixes and Sevens:
https://bobby-campbell.ghost.io/at-sixes-and-sevens/
Glad you had good birthday! I like the quieter celebrations more anyway but it’s because I’m an old fucker at heart (tear rolls down cheek) jk and yeah sorry about that I didn’t see your response in another post that’s my b, after I found out I freaked out to my gf “He’S GuNnA tHiNk I’m StUpId Or SoMeThInG” lmao.