spoiler (have to have read about to 300)- The Cover!!!!

Jordan Fink jordan at riseup.net
Tue Nov 28 15:56:00 CST 2006


Look at these pictures:
http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blcalcite.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/npl/mineralogy/Blowups/Calcite_rhombice844.jpg

the book is being seen through iceland spar. the strangest thing is that
the fonts are different in different refractions: much like the gold and
silver in argentaurum. we are told that argentaurum is produced by like
changing matter from silver to gold: a metafore for transmutation of
consciousness. we are shown how iceland spar allows us to refact images
from other realities, thus making alternate stories just out of visible,
visile. We are shown how this relates to social change and the ability to
make manifest social utopias or how destruction of the earth is just on
the next reality as well. Each font is an image of the book in another
universe.

woah.



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