VIRTUAL SWORD OF DAMOCLES

Q: Why doesn't the Alien's acid blood burn the Alien?
A: You can't just go around poisoning the allegory. ref# :: Pierce, CSS. :: Man's Glassy Essence

Q: Is reality structured the way a beehive is structured?
A: It is Structure incarnate in the form of honey/phaneron.

↓ ref# :: Logical NOR aka Pierce's Arrow

Geometry dictates that piss smell be strongest in corners.
It frees us from prison cells and wolves roving in packs. ref# :: Kijima, Hideo :: Metal Gear Solid 3

ALTERUM DICTUM

You shall copypaste onto your most ancient of monitors
ye olde Black Screen o' Death when entering The Slime. [download]

^Ex. The ponytailed ice creamist comes
to regale us with Japanese secrets. ref# :: Hinata, Toshifumi :: Hitotsubu No Umi

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It will keep you safe like Cameron's DeepSea Challenger
He dons his "fuck off face" ..... is getting down to business. "I consider every limitation a personal affront"

Within him: a fire for which ashtrays have proven futile.

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In death we're sent down some kind of endless fallopian tube
where the diamond yolk of being is finally to be revealed.

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Imagination is a mathematical wonderland.
Playground for the Munchausen-ly autustic. ref# :: Munchausen by Internet
The only backdrop onto which perfect level
can be mapped.

An undulating cube against a grayscaled life. ref# :: Head-mounted 3-D display
The memory of physical closeness even from
two different seats in the car. Bucket seats as ref# :: Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer™ Ltd. Ed.
separated by
a gearshift, an ashtray, some kind of
dark and lugubrious machine.

I saw a bird fucking a telephone wire.
The whole apparatus began to vibrate.
Like the vibration was intentional.
Like it was an aspect of its design.

At this point our only goal is remove. ref# :: The Pornography of Safe Distance.
It's the whole game in its entirety.

The desert is smiling back at me tonight. ref# :: getting drunk in a lukewarm jacuzzi
In approval is maybe too strong a phrase,
but there seems to be, at minimum, consent.
(A shared penchant for guiltless avoidance). ref# :: smoking a junk drawer clove cigarette

We are both anti--scorpion in both stance & action.

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Bell Helicopter's night vision system used ref# :: Ma Bell Exposed
cutting edge infrared sensors so pilots could
surveil North African and Middle Eastern
rogue states. Rogue as in coming on suddenly
and without warning in the wee night hours.
An ice cold and chainsawing brrrrrrrrrrrrng. ref# :: lasting an additional 1.73 seconds
Rogue as in the leader wears sunglasses indoors
even at large summits around oblong tables
surrounded by Soqotran upside down trees ref# :: The Endemic Vegetation of Socotra
and wild-eyed and unevenly tanned reporters
from the greater British diaspora. The leader's
armpits remain dry despite what appears to be
thick layers of green military garb seemingly
absent of any meaningful ventilation system. ref# :: [predominantly synthetic/polyester]

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When I was a child, the leader was far
away and part of a fictional universe.

Now I see him riding the subway,
standing against the trembling
doors despite the empty seats
that surround him.

For Xenakis, "shards of metal in face" made lasers a basic requisite. ref# :: Le Corbusier :: Philips Pavilion
Also smoke machines so they could be seen in Expo '58 daylight. ref# :: 1958 Brussels World's Fair
Then: a hyperbolic paraboloid. Now: a Flemish teen makeout hut.

It took time for things to come together. ref# :: Xenakis :: Polytopes (various)
Took sticking to his guns.

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ref# :: The Testament of Solomon Shamir were used by King Solomon to create his mighty Temple.
ref# :: Radioactive Nanotechnology They were worms whose green eyes could cut glass w/out debris.
Obtaining the Shamir meant cavorting with the demon leagues.

The Temple was his dream.
It stapled his brain with madness.

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Xenakis saw architecture & music as sister disciplines. ref# :: Xenakis, Terretektorh
His buildings were probabilistic and unwieldy and
hardly ever built. The blueprints are now considered
to be important. A foundation consisting of experts,
colleagues and ex-lovers was formed to steward them.
To weigh in carefully on where blueprints are placed.
In which room and on what wall. On how they're lit.
Xenakis is now a hero now in both Greece and France and
throughout the elitist coastal megalopolises of America, ref# :: Los Angelos 2091
where over-educated street vagabonds "prison tattoo"
their left cheeks with hot paperclips over in his honor.

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ref# :: The Grimoire of Solomon Like Rhyx Achoneoth who causes tonsillitis, the demons
ref# :: Book of Enoch, Ophite Diagrams proved to be a nuisance. As was the Archangel Micheal,
all swirled up in fumbled games of tweenage doublecross.

ref# :: Song of Solomon Sex with the Shulamite: his only respite.

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On holiday in Corsica, Xenakis almost died
paddling his canoe directly into the teeth
of the largest thunderstorm imaginable.

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As he lay with her in the soft Shunem night, a picture began to form.
Another life. Simpler. An endless post-coital expanse in all directions.

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He needed the storm wrapped 'round himself,
to know what it was, to see further
into what he,
as a boy of twenty-two,
had first glimpsed.

So he could live his life without
needing further knowing.

So he would no longer
be afraid.

ADDENDUM

But the Shulamite had a name and loved her teenage shepherd
or at the very least was torn. She tried to escape and was beaten.