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C + W ( = W + C ) = Taking each term of the matrix as a paragraph, read right to left, top to bottom, yields the following statement, part of what I call the Preface to the Ceremony of Original Innocence: The human bio-computer is not capable of sustaining its molecular structure in a state of super-consciousness: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, resulting in an insufficient supply of electromagnetic input, who has greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; rendering the electromagnetic field at a density more resonant with a reality stabilized by fear; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions. The ceremony is an impeccable system, holonomically resonant with each individual's point of soul evolution, organically regulated by their capacity for change. And who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; Through the testing procedure of kinesiology before and after the ceremony, delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them, you will see without a shadow of a doubt that where there was once weakness there is strength. But whatever portion of this faculty we must suppose even the greatest Poet to possess, the energy enters and begins its journey through the circuitry passing through the endocrine sytem. There cannot be a doubt that the language which it will suggest to him, where it stimulates and fosters the production of chemicals and neurochemicals, must in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressures of those passions. These centers act as transducers of this energy stepping it down into absorbable data, certain shadows of which the Poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; the relationship between the circuitry, the glands, the centers, the DNA and the point of soul evolution is an impeccably interactive and co-creative one; it takes it origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Thus the Human bio-circuitry comes into alignment with the Earth and the stars harmoniously. The emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears, finally able to respond fully and appropriately to celestial influences, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, not through historically gathered data but by direct assimilation of starlight and does itself actually exist in the mind.
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constrained authorings, copyleft 2000 elizabeth freudenthal and jeremy douglass ucsb hyperfictions seminar in english professor alan liu all writes re-served |
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