VL-IV, Frenesi's god
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Sun Feb 1 09:32:04 CST 2009
the fourth
As I approach the actual (sic) moment of Frenesi's
clairvoyance, as well as the vision contained therein,
I see no reason not to be open about some of the
lines that are crisscrossing my own mental space
where this whole (this being the fourth offering of
the sequence- about half done) is being assembled.
My reasoning here is not without self-interest. It may
turn out that the project will become too complex
to complete by myself, given what time and energy
are available to me. I, myself, may become perplexed
and a safety line extending to this august group,
as a guide back to comprehensibility, is never a bad
idea.
My un-method is not unlike that suggested by Hector
to Zoyd when they were discussing ways and means
of being, over lunch, and Hector brought up Zoyd's
musical training. I am trying to shine a light on a
vision, not necessarily clarify a musical score, although
given the humanoid tendency to seek "hopeful
rearrangements of the past," seeking some sort of
tonic chord may not be too far off the mark.
However, the consideration of clairvoyant moments,
not least of all in the works of OBA, might be more
prophetably (yes) undertaken by a gaming approach,
and especially in the realm of clairvoyance, this
suggests gematria as a better way to stake out the
psychic terrain.
At what point in her cycle Frenesi is, as well as the
phase of the moon at the time of her vision, would
be interesting to know, but such is hidden, or else,
I missed it in the "unmitigated sunlight"
The analytical aspects that come filtering in through
the fig leaves of my attention upon reading the
clairvoyant scene, currently include: computing and
computers- especially the old DEC PDP- machines,
digital v. analog methods, binary, octal, decimal and
maybe hexadecimal numerical systems, "if" state-
ments, Onomatology and onomastics (plastic
terms), and certainly, not least of all, Mereology.
Given the spirit of gematria, playful in this case,
mereology and onomatology seem especially
interwoven. Though Mereology, it seems to me,
has been a gigantic part of OBA's whole since,
well, the beginning- look at the first seance in GR, for
starters.
Hmmm... might be a nice blend there between
science and seance, call it a "sceance,"
postmodern mystical sort of thing.
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