Hyborian Bridge 67

So, illusion is where there is no flow of line and everything becomes a scripted routine. The illusion has to appear very convincing so it has to appear as though there’s action but, in fact, without a flow the action has no fighting grace, and is pure routine.

From pop, a good example would be Ed Sheeran, who made a mundane routine (and career) out of KT Tunstall’s stirling debut (Hyborian Bridge 63). Grace is expression, and so has a spontaneity of feeling; the spontaneity comes out of training (technique, practice). Grace Slick says much the same in Hyborian Bridge 62.

My problem was that I detested performing without lots of rehearsals, without meticulous preparation.. until I have the technical side down perfectly. (page 110)

There are continually two things going on; nothing is pure technique and nothing is pure spontaneity. The former would be a robot and the latter a wild beast (Bruce Lee Denizens of the Netherworld 3). That’s mainly why the phrase “the vanishing point of technique” is quite descriptive; there is no physical content so it is something that is pure illusion (Pictorial 46, pictorial 50/2, Drama2).

The physical content is the physique as it relates to the universe (see Madame Blavatsky C14). There are no verifiable proofs such as DNA, which are scripted routines. DNA is pure technique and has no relation to the physical universe (of primeval rhythm and shape).

This comes from Bruce Lee’s phrase, “A war between a robot and a wild beast”, to describe his fighting style. There are two different realities and they can only come together through expression (line).

The physical universe of rhythm and shape, balance and proportion is an expression of Earth’s physical rotation against the cosmos of sun, moon, planets and stars. It’s a place with no verifiable proofs (of inductive empiricism a la Newton), a place of physique and psyche.

That’s partly why I was saying (Pictorial 51) Weird Tales was the folk/fairy tale poetry of the 30s; the psyche expressed through a very physical universe of warriors, weirds, harlots and heroines. The wizard of Howard’s Hyboria is the illusionist who seeks to distort physical reality for nefarious aims – see the encircling “lens” of the master of Yimsha (Hyborian Bridge 61/1)

The wizard seeks to articulate what is inchoate in reason, and by such means create an articulate realm of scripted routine (spells). Welcome to the modern world! It started with Newton’s lenses (C4) and ends with the world of scripted routines we have come to know, be it monetary, numerical, algorithms, DNA or quantum consciousness (see Slick’s quote Hyborian Bridge 62/1)

On the latter, I wrote to Hameroff that a worm is a sensual slitherer that symbolises destruction and creation. That’s its being in the physical universe of moon and stars, of blood, death and rebirth in a universe of physical action.

That is, the hunt, Diana and her hounds baying under the moon (she’s singing, maybe). This entire universe of predatory action, running with bow, blood and gamesmanship (Elrig Pictorial 42, 43) is denied by the illusory world of scripted routines.

Don’t worry, I’m not picking on anyone since it applies to almost everything that is scripted as opposed to active. The reason is there can be no revival without decay. Noto’s universe of blood in “Red lace” (Pictorial 51) is bestial and macabre, and Sonja loses her sight to the blood of a centaur; but the blood of a roc restores it.

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Why? Who knows? Perhaps the inarticulate cycle of decay and rebirth; the physical universe doesn’t have all the answers since that’s the province of acolytes (politicians) of those supreme sorcerers of the past who impose illusions on mankind! Only a very few, such as Rory Stewart (C16) are able to see through to a physical reality (of dirt and cleanliness, empirical traditions).

Politicians are conduits for routine, and they suppress the free-flowing grace of communal living (Harlem etc). Routines can imitate reality to a degree, but it is always too perfect, like 3D animation (prev.) The imperfect vernacular line is always a mixture of two elements; the technical knowledge (training, practice, apprenticeship), and the spontaneous flow. Together they make up expression (Bruce Lee prev.)

These two things are always completely separate, like sun and moon. This is why a solar universe is only a good illusion; it cannot be expressive of the individual in the free commune of yore (see “Indian Summer” Alternates 7, Detroit Pictorial 46, Drama3)

What is the inarticulate universe of expression? It’s the universe that animates the poetry of Man, the origin of western culture in Homer, the same universe that animates the dark prosody of Howard.

What is an articulate universe? One that’s not inchoate; that starts with perspective (of the sun) and ends with scripted routines of political acolytes of the competitive order (where there is no disorder Hyborian Bridge 64)

There is always subcultural hope for free expression. From intro to Sheryl Nome’s concert (Pictorial 52)

In the beginning was the song

Stars singing as they’re playing a beautiful tune of heaven