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'It's messy in there', be it a teen's bedroom or a functional body-cell (prev.) For a start, mutations are a type of imperfection; if everything were copied perfectly and there were no problems there would be no mutations or progress.
Creativity and tidiness are not generally associated. In a cell the way things seem to function is through creative redundancy, with a lot of pseudo and misread genes that may at some point in the future become useful.
What does the 'use' apply to? Well, it applies to a body (physique) that exists in a state of balance; actively coordinated and proportionate. The imperfect redundancy of genes only makes sense if these are selected for in a balanced and coordinated universe of active bodily proportions.
In order words, the body reacting to events without the constant interference of thought! Not only the presence of routines, which I suppose will be present in any society to some extent, but the omni-presence of news.
News is the apotheosis of specialised routine, especially in the way that the more specialised something is the more it is convincing to the heads of acolytes (of the mirror of illusions, electromagnetic reflection, number, algorithm.)
So, what news does is interfere with the communal antics of bodies-in-motion which are reacting with noise and speech to the events around them. Whereas news is information that has to be taken-in (by the head), the dynamic self-sufficiency of a community is controlled and coordinated by sounds and speech and graceful motions.
The throat yelling wares in a bazaar; the hulabulu of desert-sore camels in a caravanserai; or, in a pulp-mode, the dance of Leyla in The Eye of Zeitoon (or the swordplay and taunts of Helene in Tros of Samothrace.)
While news is always convincing, it always has the weakness of information. Life in the raw is vastly more dependent on the proportionate throat - that swallows food, drinks, sings, breaths - than the mere sound of convincing information relayed by news channels.
Raducanu said she has a problem taking plates away "like any teen"; it's easier to be messy than tidy. Mess is also creative in that everything becomes an ecosystem in time - through decay - and tidiness is just delaying the inevitable.
Life in the raw has this primitive aspect - food and cleanliness loom large.
One starlet, though, was much more down to earth, confides Ward Kelly. During a party, Kelly thought he should rustle up some food for his tipsy guests, and a young woman came into the kitchen to help. "He had her boiling hot dogs and he asked 'What's your name?' She said 'Marilyn'. It was Marilyn Monroe." (Gene Kelly's wife, DT)
One word for that is culture, that is attached to or attempts to improve on nature, but doesn't move away from it.
By contrast, news is becoming more and more algorithmic (numerical/monetary) and entering a parallel universe away from natural balance. Hence, away from control and coordination by song, speech, movement, rhythm.
European ligne-clair comic books often bring-out the natural rhythms of places because artists don't have to invent the atmosphere of places like Budapest.
Hungarian Rhapsody
Vittorio Guardino's style is different to that of Bilal (The Nikopol Trilogy, prev) but in both there is the same reliance on dramatic architecture to invest the story with atmosphere.
The Gothic trait of Batman has the same aim. It often strikes me there is a lot of fantasy in the 'realism' of atmospheric architecture because it lends itself to drama (BWS does the same in the opening of Young God's.)
These stories are a lot more than plot (in fact, plots can be threadbare). They are more like theatrical set-pieces that use realistic dramaaa and fantasy. Dramatic, naturalistic architecture has the stasis of stone against which the action is a counterpoint.
In a word, buildings are like bodies - as the Earth is (Ymir) - static bodies like sculptures. Instead of the confidence of routine news, there is the stasis that has the patina of age and where there are signs of untidiness or decadence.
The decadence is life in the raw; the sounds and speech and movements of food and frolics (a pig on the loose.)
The rawness is real and allows in the atmosphere of fantasy. The life lived physically is messy and has the aspect of a healthy psyche. The physical life has the tendency to approach an ecosystem, being close to nature.
I would liken Raducanu herself almost to a throwback, since her physical actions (on court) dictate her psychic disposition. She brutally sacked Richardson, the coach who had taken her into a grand-slam, owing to his lack of experience of grand-slam touring! Her freedom and looseness on the court will probably dictate what she takes from any training method, and not the other way round, as with so many athletes. It's the traditional oriental or Bruce Lee approach.
It wasn't a case of friendship but of the brute physicality of life on the court chasing majors. There was also throwing the match which McEnroe implied was nerves and which she coolly asserted was probably "not mental but physical" (excess.)
All of this indicates a closeness to nature in the raw that is a Howard-type hallmark. By contrast, news routines approach the vanishing-point of technique because they is where information and algorithms are heading (ones and zeros). Specialist routines convince the ego and they enter the mirror or illusions.
Being messy and normal is essentially the counter to this unreal future seen through mirrors. It's physically real and also allows in the psychic atmosphere of fantasy, the patina of age.
Creative mess is essentially what is found inside a cell, which is why scientists' DNA routines are really in a parallel reality that convinces the acolytes of what is far from real.
What seems to have happened in Wuhan (going by 'news'!) is a lab-chimera (hybrid) with enhanced spike for human-protease. Humans have plans, but once a virus gets released it is subject to the random mutations of nature.
Nature's only 'plan' is to create stable environments which are actively coordinated and proportionate. A lab does not have it; a body does have it and a jungle has it even more. Nature's plans rely on randomness, and scientists are drawn to the random because of the ability to tamper with RNA/DNA.
They then enter a parallel reality that has logical functions - that attract the ego of acolytes - without the underlying strength of the coordinated pursuits of animals, plants and people in stable environments (places of power.)
Scientists rely on doing without primordial precepts of active parts in order to a achieve results - in other words, in a logical universe that appeals to the ego of acolytes (of the mirror of illusions.)
As has been noted, techniques approach the vanishing-point of ones and zeros ( the dual-tone of Jirel Meets Magic, prev) or electromagnetic stimulation. All senses are forms of electromagnetism. This s is really a nightmare-land where nothing is either completely real or wholely false; where reality becomes dream and humans sleep with the machines (Kantner lyric.)
The way out of the predicament is to recognise the primordial and the primitive are harboured within our bodies; that our coordinated reactions in-the-wild link us to a physical reality and to an inner psyche they is truthful. Strong dream; strong wine.
