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etymologyofmind · 11 months

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Stone was a universal conductor of faith. Regardless of where one went, whose beliefs were being explored, what struggle between which factors was in play, faith gained permanence among the faithful when its images were gravened not only on the hearts, minds, and spirits of the faithful, but hewn into the stones on which they plied worship. Great pantheons ran the gamut from fragile clay dolls made of dried mud or roughly cracked rocks, bristling with natural geodesic beauty, to opulent carvings in details which may be precise or esoteric, specific or interpretive, depending on the faith, the faithful, and the era in which these images were evoked. Across the stars, temples were etched out of mountainsides, driven into plateaus, or raised from plains on the sturdiness that was the bones of a homeworld, and into their structure was poured the meaning, the feeling, the love, the hate, the doctrine and the demands of those who interpreted the words of their spiritual forces.

Bajor was no different, and yet, as with every temple of every faith Ren Sogra had visited in her pilgrimage, they were beautifully unique, original, and imbued with the spiritual energy of an enlightenment specific to the Bajoran people. Despite, perhaps even in spite, of the generation spent trying to crush it under heel, the spirit of this world and its people thrummed through the culture, its places, its practices, and its people, and Ren had known when she arrived, having been granted a petition to visit one of their holiest sites, that she would never forget the experience.

Far to the north, deep in the heart of the Lonar province, a mountain range older than life on Bajor had been aging gracefully into the subtle yet treacherous hills and valleys of the Tahali Expanse. Where much of wealth of the world, whether it had been agricultural or mineral or biological in nature, had been exploited during the occupation, Tahali had remained mostly unexplored, unaddressed, and unmanaged due to its harshness, its remoteness, and its relative lack of defining features; there was simply too much else on this wealthy world for pirates to plunder without resolving to dig into its ancient rocks. The few forays into the caves and settlements of the wilder nomads of the north which the Cardassians bothered to launch were so unproductive and expensive that they simply opted to leave their inhabitants to their own devices for the most part, resolving to claim them when the time came. As such, some of the most venerated temples of ancient Bajor had survived here, largely unscathed, while the rest struggled to endure the pressures of an alien invasion.

There was no Orb here; most who petitioned Bajor’s ministry of Culture for access seemed to want to speak to the Prophets themselves, and most were rebuffed. Few and far between were the pilgrims and spiritualists who were granted leave by the keepers to see an Orb, and most who asked did not know that their petition alone was what disqualified them. Were they meant to face the Prophets, they would, and one could seek their answers on any corner of any street, at any hearth, within any home. Some wanted to see the newly restored high temples, and that was often indulged, as it was a perk of the public work that brought fresh interest and trade to many city centers, and a respectful visit to a Bajoran holy site was most often welcomed. Many tourist traps drew the curious, and many mysteries drew the inquisitive, but there were some, like Ren, whose pursuit of faith held other goals, and sought other insights, and when she had asked leave to visit this particular site, it has taken some time to see her request approved, if only because very few even among the Bajoran people knew of this temple, or its works.

And so, kneeling on the stone of one of Bajor’s most ancient temples, nestled deep in the countryside of one of the most scarcely populated provinces, she pressed her forehead to the ancient cobbles and let tears flow freely from her eyes into the cracks between as she steeped in the meaning of this place. Beyond the vaulted balustrade of windswept rock, glittering with inclusions which had been hidden when they were first carved, but that had been exposed by the endless wind, the sun hung in a perpetual twilight for much of the year as the planet’s orbit lengthened days into weeks, and a dusting of snow over the smooth, craggy, glacial mountains lit many of the valleys with an inherited glow as it channeled daylight through crystalline icepack. Often during this season, meteor showers replete with rich minerals cast off from the astronomically local Badlands would drift through the atmosphere, streaking sharp lines of bright light through the playfully dancing borealis which many said had grown in frequency and resplendence since the Temple of the Prophets had been opened to pilgrims. Taken together with the subtle light of hooded sconces which lined prayer halls like the one Ren had been led in to, wandering bands of light played across the exposed stone in a hypnotic flow that many who had witnessed it credited with visions, vivid dreams, and creative inspiration.

Ren Sogra had been at the temple for three standard days. The monks had allowed her to bed in the commons with the acolytes, of which there were only two. That there was a tradition of bedding acolytes in the commons spoke of a time when the temple was vivid with life among those who honoured the dead, but the path from the commons to the galleries passed many empty cells, beds unmade, waiting a monk to fill them; clearly this place had seen better days.

On her first night, Ren had been shown a tour of the parts of the temple allowed to the uninitiated, and on the second, after an evening repast which had been wonderful, rich with conversation with the monks, the scribes, and the acolytes, including the ancient Vedek whose post it was to speak for the Prophets here, she had evidently shown her respect for Bajoran religion well enough to be treated as an honorary acolyte herself, though it had been an endeavor to permit the Vedek to sense her Pagh, given the constraints of her own religious trappings. Ultimately it had been permissible only because the ancient man was, and had always been, blind.

On her second night, having spent the day cleaning cells and preparing a meal, being shown how to treat the various ingredients for the palatability of the monks and the observation of rights of gratitude, she had been able to inquire more specific details from those she had been allowed to watch work. Specifically, she had made the potential gaffe of asking what exactly it was they were scrawling on the walls, as at the time she did not yet know. The gallery had fallen silent, and each member of the temple had descended quietly into personal prayer for the rest of the evening, foregoing their meals. Ren had been at a loss, realizing she must have committed some awful taboo, and was surprised when a child she had not known to live among the monks had tugged at her elbow and led her from the room.

She had been led, over the course of a silent hour, on a path through the temple she was certain she was not meant to be shown. In that time, they saw not another soul, and her guide said not a word. Ren took the chance to observe them while they clambered about, walking through dark tunnels at times, stepping over fallen masonry at others, and at one point even climbing to another, higher floor along the jagged face of a broken wall: always the paths led upward. Throughout, she could not discern if her guide was a boy or a girl, a late child or an early teen, just that they had been barefoot long enough and taken enough rough roads that the soles of their feet and palms of their hands were roughly calloused and even flecked with the glittering fragments of monastic stone, and that the simple white shift they wore had been tattered from overlong wear. The family earring they wore bore no sigil or crest, and its chain was woven thread, which to the Mizarian pastor’s learnings suggested that they were both forsaken and an orphan.

When, finally, they reached the room where she was being led, Ren found herself looking down on a courtyard atrium somewhere deep within the temple. The window she looked out from was so high up the wall that she doubted anyone below could hear her if she spoke unless she shouted, but her sharp eyesight showed her a number of monks moving about from station to station, collecting information from machines and equipment as they went. The centerpiece of the courtyard was a subspace communication array of relatively modern complexity, seemingly based on Cardassian technology, but recently modified and upgraded with Star Fleet equipment. While she looked, a sound behind her startled her out of her observations, and she spun to find its source: an ancient Bajoran, older even than the Vedek, sitting on a stone shelf in the corner and huddled as an undefined humanoid mass in a pile of ancient grey tattered robes. They muttered something again, still too quiet to be discernible, and Ren began to pace, cautiously, closer to them in order to hear what was being said.

“They say ‘This is where we listen for the names of the dead, this is where we pen their names into the scrolls. This is where those who have lost faith must come to know of our people’s passing.’” Came a voice from the stairwell she had recently vacated to enter this room. Ren’s eyes darted to that side, trying to keep the ancient figure in her line of sight at the same time, and failing: the room was unlit, save for the warbling light of the aurora above, and the brightness of the two moons that lit up the dim twilight. In the door a figure leaned, wearing a similar shift to the young guide, who had also disappeared somewhere out of sight, though much more tattered. Like the elder and the younger, the figure in the door was of undiscernible gender, androgynous in the dim light.

The newcomer stepped into the room, barefoot and pale, save for the black skin on hand and foot, rugged with wear and dirt and glittering with grit. They walked in a languid stride to the half-wall which blocked the room off from the courtyard beyond, and leaned over to look down. “The monks below do the good work of the Prophets, and listen for the names of the dead, as they always have here. An array of networked broadcast towers across Bajor and satellites in orbit, repeaters studded into colonial worlds and so on, listen for data worthless to all but the most meticulous of spies: whether or not a child of Bajor yet lives, or has died. Rarely is this information pertinent to any but they here who listen, and even rarer still is it heard by anyone else.”

The newcomer touched something against a wall, and there was a click of a switch. A moment later, a holographic projector hummed to life from somewhere in the wall, and an interface Ren was totally unfamiliar with flickered to being. A few gestures and taps went by, and a dim translucent display filled much of the open window space, displaying signal bands from radio to subspace, all producing an unfathomable cacophonous static. Her new guide straightened their back, began tapping at the keys on the interface in a steady pattern, as if playing music, and mathematical equations spilled into the milling frequencies, cancelling out some bands, enhancing others, and synchronizing an underlying message fabric which would have been absolutely impossible to isolate without knowing exactly what had been done to do so. The language on the display was some form of Bajoran Ren had never seen before, but as she watched, it distorted and flickered, resolving into modern Bajoran, which she could read well.

Before her was a litany of names, and it was being added to as the moments passed in a steady stream. “This is what we hear, here. This is all we receive. All else is irrelevant. These are the names of the Children of Bajor, whether they be of our blood or of our spirit, and we hear them in their release. Below, the monks gather them like lost children, holding their names in cradles, waiting to be tended, and when the time comes the scribes pen them to pages of vellum for the monks to etch into the stone of Bajor’s bones. It has been thus since the first name, it will be thus until the last.”

They gestured at the screen, and the litany of names scattered, shattering as the virtual display broke, motes of light drifting into the receiver array below. There was a flurry of movement, and the monks general chatter rattled wordlessly up the walls, past their alcove, and into the night. Behind her, she heard the murmur of the Elder, and turned to listen instinctively, but again, it was uninterpretable. Beside her in a place they could not have crossed to without moving in front of her, the new guide translated, and she had to turn away from the Elder to see the guide.

“The Elder believes people should not need these trinkets and toys to hear the dead, and that there should be enough listening to receive and imbue all the names. The Elder is set in their ways, and dreams of a better time for Bajor. We have lost so much, pilgrim, and so quickly: our people have been staggered, our culture shocked, our ways challenged and trampled, our lives forfeit to a great, dark travesty. It was foretold, and yet our people did not attend the warning, as we knew they would not, as it would not be foretold very well if it didn’t come to be. Prophecies are tricky things unless they come to pass.” A rueful look passed across their face, happy, and yet sad. “And your prophecy is as bright as the sun, and darkest before the Dawn. We cannot tell you what will pass, only that you will do what is meant to be done. We will hold a place for your name here.”

Ren tried to speak, but found that she could not, her voice lost, the words missing. She brought a hand to her lips, mind reeling at what was going on around her, and could do little more than gesture in silence, a common sign for the deaf which meant, on Bajor, ‘Thank You’. It was all she could think to do. The guide smiled, and then went on.

“Yes, you are welcome, Pilgrim. This is not a place, nor a time, for voices. Like the child, you are silent, as you do not yet know your voice. When the time comes, you will be loud and clear, and use your voice to guide those in need, and after, as the Elder, you will fade to a murmur, important but past your time. This is the way of the Pagh for you: this is your prophecy.” At her elbow, she felt a tug, and looked down. The child had returned, and to her surprise there was no one beyond them, the place where the Elder had sat, looking as though they had never moved from it was occupied by a wisp of long rotted cloth. The child took her hand, and pulled her towards the stairs, and she knew she was not meant to look back. The guide’s voice followed her down the stair well as she descended.

“Know, Pilgrim, that the litany of names is long, and the dead are deep and waiting. The Scribes write names of those who died in the earliest atrocities of the war that preceded the occupation, when our people first began to be culled by the Cardassians who found them, peaceful and wanting for nothing. Know that the names the monks have heard here, and have yet to etch, are nearly half as numbered as all the names that have been written before, and growing: more have fallen since the dawn of the occupation than fell in the two great wars before the skies opened to the Children. By the time the litany ends, the Cardassians will be forgotten foes, and the mountains will be dust in the skies, as Bajor will persevere. But now is a hard time, and there is a need of those who will listen. Before you go to the Prophets, it is our wish that you should speak of the litany on the dais at the high temple: you will be heard there, and marked, even if you are not welcomed. Those who listen will come, even as you are asked to go elsewhere. When that time comes, follow the man with the bladeless hilt: he will take you where you are most needed.”

As they hurried through the darkness, the guide’s voice did not fade or grow distant, as if they were at her shoulder the whole way. At first, the child led her on a path she remembered climbing to reach the tower, but soon among the hurried twists and turns and slips and falls, she had lost her way, and the light which crawled mesmerically throughout the temple began to fog her mind, tire her eyes, and weigh down her heart. At some point, the world faded out, and she woke with a start, sitting back at the table where she had taken her meal with the monks earlier that evening, her place still set, food half eaten, room cleared and cleaned around her. The only other occupant was the Vedek, who sat in silence, waiting, eyes blindly drifting with his slow thoughts. When she moved, he gave her a sad smile.

“You have your answer, then. Tomorrow, you may pray. Your journey is yet long.”

The next morning, she found herself kneeling in the gallery she had been given for prayer, overwhelmed by what she had learned. Everywhere she looked there were names carved into the iridising stone, and only the explanation of the service which the Vedek had given to her kept them from clawing at her heart like hungry ghosts.

At the edges of the room, swept into the grooves of shallow channels on the inward side of the railings, heaps of rock chips sat waiting for gusts of wind. Each ‘morning’, a number of monks of the temple would walk along the edges of the prayer vaults, carefully sweeping more stone dust into these tracks, speaking blessings and saying prayers as they swung censers filled with holy smoke over them, sprinkling flower petals steeped in holy wine into the tracks; Each day at mid day, they would gather together and pray over the scrolls which their eldest priests had inscribed over the days and weeks before, collecting their lots; Each afternoon they would take their lists into the prayer halls, tools of inscription blessed by prayers to the Prophets in hand, and set to work reverently chipping names of those who had died as children of Bajor into the ancient stone walls; Each night the leavings of these names would sit in the shadows of the walls, their last material remains lingering for a few scant hours on the floor of the temple where their spirit might find their strength for the journey ahead.

The gathered remains would blow away in gusts and clouds over the following months, days, and years, each in their own time, blown out across the Bajoran skies to resettle into mother soil, or to soar high into the sky, perhaps to join the Prophets in their temple. In some of these galleries the dust tracks had not fully cleared in the memory of the temple, while others were purged by seasonal storms which gusted through with such ferocity that the monks would hang tapestries across the gallery entry to keep the scouring wind from damaging names many centuries old.

It was rumored, the Vedek had said, that there were places within the temple, hidden from even the faintest breeze, where certain names were inscribed by dark-spirited monks, with the hope that they would never continue their journey, their Paghs doomed to linger in untidy piles at the edges of the walls, unceremoniously sifting among the most abject of Bajor’s villains and heretics until they were reclaimed by the fire under the mountains at the end of times. She did not know if this was true, but if it were, it was occult against the principles of this place, and would certainly be heresy to any of the monks who truly believed in their work. The longer she thought of it, the more she wondered if its existence were only a rumour, or more prophecy, waiting to play its role.

All Ren knew was that when the stones beneath her brow were finally quenched by her tears, she would rise and go back to the high temple, as she had been asked to do: it had been part of her itinerary to speak there as part of a spiritualist conference anyhow, though the talk she had planned to deliver on Bajoran worship off of their homeworld would be replaced without prior approval. She already knew it would spoil her welcome, but the living would have every chance to chart their own paths after she’d had her say: it was the dead who needed her voice, to plea for those who would listen, and poor was the prophecy that did not come to pass.

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elina-scstudyabroad · 1 year

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First stop on our spring break trip was Cambodia! To be honest the country was not the first thing you may think of when you consider traveling the charming Southeast of Asia but I am more than grateful I had the chance to visit this country with such a rich and troubling history and I truly feel like I learned the most during my time here.

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It's important to approach a visit to Phnom Penh with an open mind and an understanding that Cambodia is still in the process of development and recovery especially with its government. The locals that we had the opportunity of speaking with are very aware of the faults in their system but they recognize the growth their country is going through. By embracing the city's complexities and engaging with its history and people, you can gain a deeper appreciation for the challenges and triumphs that have shaped Phnom Penh into what it is today.

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denimbex1986 · 2 months

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Maybe I didn't love you... quite as much as I should have". Such resonating lyrics, sung here by the Pet Shop Boys ... and powerfully evoking film theme and message. Music is used very expressively during course of the whole film... serving to communicate very effectively and poignantly throughout.

Emotionally intense subject matter and content are evident in the screenplay and film direction by Andrew Haigh, as the audience are introduced to Adam (Andrew Scott)and his parents (Jamie Bell, Claire Foy) and London tower-block neighbour, Harry (Paul Mescal).

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Adam's story unfolds as he encounters Harry, who approaches him to seek company, friendship and maybe even something more intimate. Adam clearly communicates his familiarity with being alone, even his whole lifestyle and work as a writer convey this...whilst equally expressively conveyed are his struggles with "aloneness" and being lonely.

Adam is then drawn to embark, like a pilgrim, upon a visit to his childhood home. Here Adam encounters his parents, most intriguingly, as they are living exactly as he remembers them over three decades ago... before losing them in a tragic car accident one Christmas time when he was growing up.

The film effectively employs devices such as train journeys to shuttle Adam between his home town and London and move the storyline and timescales in a manner which also transports the viewer along for the ride and is reminiscent of classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Lady Vanishes". We are shuttled between different dimensions in this way, too. Who and what are real? There have been some questions posed about what categories the film can be pigeonholed in... ghost story? Romantic love story? It seems that the story being told works on numerous levels... and uses a broad and sweeping canvas to paint and portray some timeless and subtle messages and themes about the existential human condition, relationships, love and loss, bereavement, individual sexuality, loneliness and communication.

The film is testament to a labour of love by director, Andrew Haigh, who chose to use his own actual childhood home as the location for Adam's childhood home.

The performances given are outstanding, especially by Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, as well as Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. I would venture that it would be more than a challenge to sit through the film and not be brought to tears. I don't mind saying that tears streamed down my face, more than once.

The themes covered are universal in at least most respects. The portrayal of the "eighties" era is very beautifully and credibly evoked. Adam is given that ever-elusive opportunity to retrieve, resolve and address those things left unfinished all those years ago. His own future chances to love are explored carefully... and very poignantly.

"I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw... keep the vampires from your door" intone the vocals of Frankie Goes to Hollywood singing what is surely the best message of all , "The Power of Love".

#Frankie Goes to Hollywood #“The Power of Love”#Paul Mescal #Claire Foy #Jamie Bell #Andrew Scott #All of Us Strangers #“Always on My Mind”#Pet Shop Boys #Andrew Haigh

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Incredible India: A Tour Through Timeless Traditions and Vibrant Culture

India. The very name evokes a display of images: the majestic Taj Mahal bathed in moonlight, lively spice markets overflowing with color, serene yogis twisted in impossible postures.

This land of ancient traditions, breathtaking landscapes, and spiritual awakening offers an unforgettable travel experience. But where to begin? This blog is your opening to curating the perfect India tour, a journey that will tempt your senses and leave you desire for more.

A Tapestry of Experiences

India's diversity is amazing. From the snow-capped Himalayas to the bright beaches of Goa, each region claims unique landscapes, cultures, and cuisines. Here's a sight into some of the must-see destinations:

The Golden Triangle:

Board on a classic tour combining the historical magnificence of Delhi, the architectural marvel of Agra's Taj Mahal, and the vibrant bazaars of Jaipur, the Pink City.

Spiritual Break:

Dip yourself in the spiritual heart of India. Visit Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world, or Varanasi, the holy city along the Ganges River, and witness age-old rituals.

Kerala Backwaters:

Glide through serene backwaters on a traditional houseboat, traveling lavish paddy fields and charming villages. Witness the unique ecosystem and relax in the tranquillity of nature with the south India tours.

Royal Rajasthan:

Step back in time and travel the majestic forts and palaces of Rajasthan. Witness the vibrant culture, decorated with colorful costumes, lively folk performances, and the echoes of a previous era.

Off the Beaten Path:

For the adventurous soul, travel the diverse landscapes of India like the Ladakh tour. Trek through the Himalayas, witness the diverse wildlife in national parks or dig into the rich tribal cultures hidden in the interiors.

Planning Your India Tour

With so much to see and do, planning your India tour can feel overwhelming. Here are some tips to ensure a smooth and inspiring experience:

Choose the Right Season: India experiences a vast range of climates. The cooler months (October to March) are ideal for most regions, while the hill stations offer a welcome respite from the summer heat.

Decide on Your Travel Style: Do you prefer a luxurious experience with all-inclusive packages, or are you a budget traveler seeking local homestays and public transport? Tour operators offer options catering to diverse needs.

Visas and Permits: Research visa requirements well in advance of your trip. Certain areas may require special permits for trekking or wildlife safaris.

Respect Local Customs: India is a land of rich traditions. Dress humbly when visiting religious sites, and be mindful of local customs and protocol.

A Few Helpful Phrases:

Namaste: Hello/Goodbye (formal)

Dhanyavad: Thank you

Kripya: Please

Ji Haan: Yes

Nahi: No

Unforgettable Experiences Await!

India is a spread for the senses, a place where ancient traditions co-exist with modern life. By planning your India tour and accepting the local culture, you'll board on a journey that will leave a lasting impression. So, come travel to the magnificent forts, dig into the lively markets, Taste the aromatic curries, and see the warmth of Indian hospitality. Incredible India awaits!

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Distraction and curiosity are the two ultimate sins, outward signs of that impatience which has always prevented man from rediscovering the gate of Paradise. (0)

The simpleton man, the sheep, no longer satisfied by the everlasting noise, reaches unknown land behind the edge of the world. What new emotions does it make it possible to feel? (1) The story of the past swims between two shores, comes to a halt between two temporalities, leaves behind two philosophies. (2) Is there some secret understanding between them? (3)

One of the most beautiful things that our era is teaching us is to approach with light and simplicity the very complex things previously believed to be the result of chance, of noise, of chaos, in the ancient sense of the word. (4)

Thus my story will have a flavor of the present. (5)

Madness measures the distance that exists between foresight and providence, between calculation and finality. (6) Over the horizon, the great Land of Ceres stands on its site. A Palace of Faces constructed of Shadows of what once was, and of what once was could be. Here, free, is the dance. (7)

There, stands a statue of gold. Seen from outside, the statue looked like the funeral stone of a beautiful young man. (8) I know it, I see it, I feel it, I am illuminated by it, burning. The wine dark sea and divine life. The adjective, placed to one side, at a distance from the names and notions of philosophy is enough for me as a parable. Yes, the divine is there; I touch it; these things are improbable miracles; I never stopped loving the world and seeing that it is beautiful. (9) A profound truth about nature, about life and humanity shines forth here. (10) The most interesting person in the world, all the greater for intervening everywhere. (11) Desire.

Madness here was not about truth or the world, but rather about man and the truth about himself that he can perceive. (12) Between them, it outlines a meticulous meshing. (13) A thing more than merely black and white, noise and silence.It takes shape, volume, and Form. An elementary stitch or thread of real human relations—never straight but made of multiple arabesques, twists, curls, or helixes in the bedroom or the living room, or in the squares—this quincun cial chain resembles a staff where the notes would occupy pretty much the same place, enabling one to hear a familiar form in a regular rhythm, gallop, tango, bebop, minuet; the monotonous murmuring emanates from the line. (14) Everything begins with the dance. (15)

Madness of pain, excess of suffering, dance (16) They dance in a circle, waving spears and toys. (17) They dance and sing in choirs. (18) Let us return to the stagemaker, the magic bird or bird of the opera (19), the sheep and the man. These two hardly needed to speak to each other. (20) These two states require two thoughts; these thoughts demand in their turn to be thought together. (21) Two states are to be defined. (22) His deeds are those of an adventurer who responds to a sense of challenge, to whimsy, to curiosity, and to pleasure. (22.5) We evoke these two shadows, we do not call to them. (23) The big sealed jars were opened, the new wine flowed. (24) A bird with the same constellation as a brain. (25)A bird supports its fleecy wingspan in the felted air. (26)

A sting pricked them to their very souls, and thus were events unleashed. (27)

It is a world that is self-sufficient, highly tensioned, even convulsive, wrapped up in itself, with no curiosity about any other manner of existence. (28) The first is scattered, and the second one turns. (29) Two souls converge, entwining in an embrace that defies distance. The beautiful soul is not content with the state of nature; it affectionately dreams of human relationships. (30) The integrating force is born here; we don’t know very well how. Synthesis is born there, the synthesis of the multiple. (29) Every step, every pivot, and every swivel of one's feet becomes an orchestration in response to the leader's unspoken cues. Another must indeed desire to be assured in one’s own desire, floating. (31) What is this unity, mobile and floating? (29) Sensitivity is heightened, attuned to the subtleties of their bodily expressions. The impressive thing here is the fidelity to the physical model. The impressive thing. The beautiful soul is not content with the state of nature; it affectionately dreams of human relationships. (32) I would be that our physics models hardening, cooled liquids, crystallization, cell formations, spiral formations might be inferred as well by what we know of social processes. (29)

And the same for time: beatitude runs from generation to generation, so that the devout inhabits the unfurled omnitude of space and history. Accompanied by joy, experience opens this space—which goes from there to elsewhere and can go from Earth to God—for the construction or dilation of the soul, by opening up or piercing a passage, a threshold, a door, a port through which to reach one of these exposed places. (33) The interplay of pauses and progressions, moments of tension, akin to suspended breaths in the fabric of time, followed by the release—a rhythmic exhalation—akin to a sigh of respite. Experience traverses these places and is exposed. Between nothing and everything, it launches a space and a time, like a free and floating branch. (33) The music, with its haunting melodies and rhythmic cadences, stirs the depths of the soul. The multiple is primitive. It is everywhere differentiated, floating, fluctuating, chaotic. (34) I prefer to call these two states, unitary and multiple. (35) Ecstasy expresses an end to this voyage, the establishment, temporarily stable, or, rather, a distancing from the equilibrium around this exposed point, in its neighboring regions, a differential of time. Programmed, the bestial instinct closes in on itself, positioned. (33)

But in a sense of the word which, with time, has been lost: the aesthetic of a mesh of powers concentrated in a figure, a body, a voice. (36)

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"There is a place people once intended to make into a home. Abandoned now. Knowledgeable minds gifted with magic will tell you in hushed breaths that there is something fundamentally wrong with this forsaken corner of the world. When they fail to detail the meaning behind their words you might discover that it isn't secrecy but inability holding their tongues. They don't understand the events that took place there nor do they understand what can still occur at this site. But exercise enough pressure and guile and you will be able to uncover a location that the world itself begs to forget. Visit and you will unavoidably realize there is still...Something roaming the heart of the place." A, swift sharp hunt appeared to be offered in order to add the proper adjective but if such descriptor existed, Tristan didn't know it. And so he offered none.

"It doesn't have a voice of its own although it is remarkably adept at mimicking others, including myself by the end of our encounter. It...Plays with those who reach its dominion. It is whispered that a prize of your choosing is the promised reward for those captured in the strange game." Tristan was still slowly returning from the Odyssey. Still relishing in the sight of Aurora with the endless hunger one cannot replicate. The feverish, conquering sentiment reserved to those who encountered their beloved after days that might have felt like harrowing eras.

"It sounds positively treacherous, does it not? A deceptive call for the naive and the desperate. Betting your life and perhaps quite a bit more on the improbable chance to beat some dark, unfathomable existence no one can commence to explain. And yet still, it wasn't desperation that guided me there. It wasn't a desire to cheat my way into some mundane victory. No. I only sough a small impossible that more natural means denied me for far too long." Tristan introduced a velvety case from the inside pocket of his suit.

"For you see, Rory: You are the most cherished part of my world. Your sight remains my favorite vision throughout eternity. Your voice, the dearest music that has ever enraptured me. You company, your very existence, the most irreplaceable of treasures. You are loved, Aurora. Beyond words, senses, limits or imagination. You are ardently loved. Passionately and endlessly. And while our centuries see plenty of our musings regarding mutual belonging and insinuation of vows, I believe I finally claimed the one gem worthy of serving as the closest, approximate symbol of what you mean to me. A small impossible, for the greatest, most irreplaceable of them all" Tristan showed no hesitation in gazing inside her eyes in never-ending correspondence.

"Have you ever wondered why, while these reaffirmations are pleasurably frequent between us, I never before reserved one for...The latest chapters of August? What was it that I was waiting for?"

The velvet box revealed its content. Elegant, crafted lines evoked the feeling of French Rococo. Anyone would have called the ring a clear, unique work of art. But it was the gem that ascended it into inexpressible beckoning. A radiance of green. Subtly but undeniably not quite like any other.

"You can exchange the one you are wearing for this one. If it happens to be to your liking." Tristan explained in a complicit shade of devilment.

A daylight right.

An emerald daylight ring. The first and only of it's kind. An unrepeatable trinket meant for his unrepeatable love.

The words were spoken without being spoken. In the candor of letting her know with the intense reassurance of a look how profoundly she deserved to be celebrated. Even if hearing of the occasion wasn't to her liking.

The happiest of birthdays, my beloved Rory.

Happy Birthday Rory 2k23! (even though you hate your birthday)

There was immediate concern on her features, at the sight of him; there was strain behind his eyes the likes of which she had scarcely seen before. Still, before she could rise to properly fuss over him, he'd begun to weave the most beautiful story. Tristan had told her once that their mother had a gift for telling stories. If it had occurred to Aurora to think of her more, perhaps she would have wondered if this was some trait that she'd passed on to her son, or if her skill diverted so from his. It didn't matter.

As Tristan wove his tale, Aurora resumed her perch on the chaise. Her eyes followed Tristan as he moved about the room, ardently professing his feelings for her, offering grandiose claims of his affection for her. His words were a splendid sonata on a summer evening, banishing away any insecurities that had threatened to stage a mutiny in absence of her steady captain.

He reached his point and with a theatrical flair that Aurora appreciated, produced a small ring box. It pleased her to see as Tristan always had such exquisite taste in jewelry, and, true to her expectations, the emerald inside took Aurora's breath away. The piece was truly magnificent.

She half reached for it when a thought occurred to her. Tristan was making these declarations of love that were far grander than usual. For a moment, Aurora grew concerned that he was about to ask that they get married. For real. Not simply claim to be married, present themselves to humans as a married couple, but to actually marry. The notion was quickly dispelled, however, by the reminder as to the day.

"Tristan, you've out done yourself."

#she's so pleased with her new ring #she's trying to convince me to wear a ring to bed #she assuring me that mine won't be as nice as hers but she thinks i should put in the effort #lordofthestrix

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Knowing More About One's Art Interest or Practice: FILMMAKING

Being a person whose highly appreciative of arts in general, I distinctively admire the amusing art of filmmaking ever since I grew a hobby of watching during my spare times. Filmmaking falls under the category of visual arts, which most likely showcase creative visionary art forms, evoking an emotion through expression of skills and imagination. Ranging from paintings, drawings, sculptures, crafts and designs, architecture, photography, to filmmaking and cinematography, visual arts can be of different varieties that aim to provide delectation to audiences of different kinds. Filmmaking specifically, just like any other visual presentation, involves creative works of graphic figures and illustrations that are pleasing to the eye. However, what makes it different from other forms is that it is presented through motion-picture photography or moving graphics using technology, which usually aims to depict a story.

The idea of filmmaking actually came from the phenomena of optical illusion, wherein persistence of vision causes the brain to keep hold of apparent movements between images one after another after being projected onto the viewer’s eye. In the year 1891, a recording camera was then invented by scientists as they believed that no pictures can be in motion, but capturing live actions simultaneously could instead be possibly done. Starting then, projected moving pictures, or what are now called “films”, started to arise one by one, incorporating each of their own’s styles of cinematography with the help of technological devices.

Filmmaking in general integrates a variety of elements. It includes technical elements like film types, shots, lighting, exposure, camera angles, color, audio, editing effects, and mise-en-scene or the arrangements of scene settings. On the other hand, there are also elements like actors, script, plot, background settings, and props, which plays a vital role in films being produced. Each and every one of these elements are significantly crucial in filmmaking as it makes the best way to portray a story accordingly with regards to the proper perspective of what is supposed to be expressed to the audience effectively and efficiently.

Filmmaking itself is already an example of the advanced production of technology. And as time goes by, it will by then be upgraded to bring a more enhanced digital creation. This being said, elements of this art would also continuously come forth to better provide visionary projections. This would be mainly observed in video editing, sound editing, shooting, pre-production, and post-production of films. It is very noticeable how advanced films of today’s era are compared to films that were produced last century, or even compared to the last decade. Furthermore, since we’re living in this time of digital age where most things we do and enjoy involve being behind the screens, people have also found a way to be introduced to high-quality movies and films. There are also popular sites wherein advanced production of films can be watched by the masses. There is no doubt films of different genres are highly in demand these days, and so are filmmaking opportunities. It already serves a significant purpose in people’s lives, especially for the purpose of relaxation and entertainment. As the production of more high-quality digital creations improves, I believe the art of filmmaking will simultaneously be abundant as well in aiming to continuously serve its purpose.

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Harry Styles has dropped his hotly anticipated new song “As It Was.” It’s the lead single and video from his upcoming third album, Harry’s House, due May 20 — the first music he’s released since his 2019 blockbuster, Fine Line. It’s one of the most emotionally powerful songs he’s ever done. He sings about facing up to personal transitions, with the chorus “In this world it’s just us/You know it’s not the same as it was.”

It’s a daring change-up for Styles, unlike anything he’s done before musically. He kicked off his first two album eras with grand statements, “Sign of the Times” and “Lights Up.” But “As It Was” is more nakedly vulnerable, a straight-from-the-heart cry that’s also an irresistible dance-floor challenge. It begins with children’s voices calling “Come on, Harry, we wanna say good night to you!”

But the song goes deep into feelings of isolation and melancholy. The lyrics are a plea: “Answer the phone/Harry, you’re no good alone/Why are you sitting at home on the floor?/What kind of pills are you on?”

“As It Was” swerves into Eighties-style synth-pop, in the vein of A-Ha or Depeche Mode. The synth hook sounds like warped steel drums, with tolling chimes at the end — Styles is credited with playing “tubular bells.” His vocals are bittersweet, almost piercingly poignant, with the intimate vibe of a journal entry. Yet it also feels like it’s about a relationship, full of secret confessions shared between two people — the first time he’s ever started off an album era with a love song.

It’s the first taste from his astounding new Harry’s House, which is even better than you hope it is. The 13-track Harry’s House will be released globally on May 20, on vinyl, CD, and cassette, available on preorder now. The vinyl will include exclusives like Sea Grass Green (on Harry’s website) and Target Translucent Yellow; there’s also a CD photobook with 32 new photos. Later this month, he’s headlining the Coachella Festival, on the weekends of April 15 and 22, where he’ll debut “As It Was” live. This summer he returns to the road for the international stretch of Love On Tour, starting June 11 in Glasgow with Mitski, and stretching into December.

The “As It Was” video evokes the song’s sense of personal conflict, with Styles and a partner literally running in circles, fitting for sentiments like “Gravity’s holding me back.” It was filmed in London by Ukrainian director Tanu Muino. As she says in a statement, “Shooting him was bittersweet, as it was one of the happiest days of my life, but on the second day of the shoot, my country Ukraine was invaded, so you can imagine the insane emotions we had while shooting. Me and my team from Ukraine poured so much love into this video, and you can see it onscreen.”

Styles wrote “As It Was” with his trusty longtime collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, who both produced. Guitar wingman Mitch Rowland is on drums along with Harpoon. As Styles told Rolling Stone when Fine Line came out, “If you’re going in with session writers or something, you spend one or two days there, and there is no way that person really cares about your album as much as you do. Because they’re into something else tomorrow.” That’s why he’s so unusually devoted to his team. “We’ll bond over music we love and things we’re going through. It’s not like there’s one person in the group that’s like, ‘Well, no, I don’t talk about that. I just make beats.’”

When Paul McCartney — one of Styles’ main heroes — released his solo debut, he summed it up as “Home, Family, Love.” The title and cover of Harry’s House seem to evoke similar themes, as does the cryptic You Are Home site, with daily messages like “Whisper to your houseplants/Sing to your neighbors.” The gatefold to the vinyl album, as teased on his website yesterday, has a very Linda McCartney-style photo of domestic life: a garden breakfast table set for two, with coffee, eggs, and an orange. (In case you’re following the Harry Fruit Universe, there’s another one to check off your list.)

Styles has always made a point of mixing pop glam with raw emotion. As he told Rolling Stone in the Fine Line era, “It’s all about having sex and feeling sad.” That perfectly describes “As It Was” — the moment when being in love forces you to confront some of your own baggage, the feelings you usually hide from yourself. “As It Was” comes out almost exactly five years after he began his solo career. (He dropped “Sign of the Times” on April 7, 2017.) Yet it sounds like an artist who’s just getting started. “As It Was” is more than a creative peak — it’s a fearless leap into a new era.

Via Rolling Stone. (1 April 2022)

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Recommendation engines and "lean-back" media

In William Gibson’s 1992 novel “Idoru,” a media executive describes her company’s core audience:

“Best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth…no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”

It’s an astonishingly great passage, not just for the image it evokes, but for how it captures the character of the speaker and her contempt for the people who made her fortune.

It’s also a beautiful distillation of the 1990s anxiety about TV’s role in a societal “dumbing down,” that had brewed for a long time, at least since the Nixon-JFK televised debates, whose outcome was widely attributed not to JFK’s ideas, but to Nixon’s terrible TV manner.

Neil Postman’s 1985 “Amusing Ourselves To Death” was a watershed here, comparing the soundbitey Reagan-Dukakis debates with the long, rhetorically complex Lincoln-Douglas debates of the previous century.

(Incidentally, when I finally experienced those debates for myself, courtesy of the 2009 BBC America audiobook, I was more surprised by Lincoln’s unequivocal, forceful repudiations of slavery abolition than by the rhetoric’s nuance)

https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/20/lincoln-douglas-debate-audiobook-civics-history-and-rhetoric-lesson-in-16-hours/

“Media literacy” scholarship entered the spotlight, and its left flank — epitomized by Chomsky’s 1988 “Manufacturing Consent” — claimed that an increasingly oligarchic media industry was steering society, rather than reflecting it.

Thus, when the internet was demilitarized and the general public started trickling — and then rushing — to use it, there was a widespread hope that we might break free of the tyranny of concentrated, linear programming (in the sense of “what’s on,” and “what it does to you”).

Much of the excitement over Napster wasn’t about getting music for free — it was about the mix-tapification of all music, where your custom playlists would replace the linear album.

Likewise Tivo, whose ad-skipping was ultimately less important than the ability to watch the shows you liked, rather than the shows that were on.

Blogging, too: the promise was that a community of reader-writers could assemble a daily “newsfeed” that reflected their idiosyncratic interests across a variety of sources, surfacing ideas from other places and even other times.

The heady feeling of the time is hard to recall, honestly, but there was a thrill to getting up and reading the news that you chose, listening to a playlist you created, then watching a show you picked.

And while there were those who fretted about the “Daily Me” (what we later came to call the “filter bubble”) the truth was that this kind of active media creation/consumption ranged far more widely than the monopolistic media did.

The real “bubble” wasn’t choosing your own programming — it was everyone turning on their TV on Thursday nights to Friends, Seinfeld and The Simpsons.

The optimism of the era is best summarized in a taxonomy that grouped media into two categories: “lean back” (turn it on and passively consume it) and “lean forward” (steer your media consumption with a series of conscious decisions that explores a vast landscape).

Lean-forward media was intensely sociable: not just because of the distributed conversation that consisted of blog-reblog-reply, but also thanks to user reviews and fannish message-board analysis and recommendations.

I remember the thrill of being in a hotel room years after I’d left my hometown, using Napster to grab rare live recordings of a band I’d grown up seeing in clubs, and striking up a chat with the node’s proprietor that ranged fondly and widely over the shows we’d both seen.

But that sociability was markedly different from the “social” in social media. From the earliest days of Myspace and Facebook, it was clear that this was a sea-change, though it was hard to say exactly what was changing and how.

Around the time Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace, a close friend a blazing argument with a TV executive who insisted that the internet was just a passing fad: that the day would come when all these online kids grew up, got beaten down by work and just wanted to lean back.

To collapse on the sofa and consume media that someone else had programmed for them, anaesthetizing themselves with passive media that didn’t make them think too hard.

This guy was obviously wrong — the internet didn’t disappear — but he was also right about the resurgence of passive, linear media.

But this passive media wasn’t the “must-see TV” of the 80s and 90s.

Rather, it was the passivity of the recommendation algorithm, which created a per-user linear media feed, coupled with mechanisms like “endless scroll” and “autoplay,” that incinerated any trace of an active role for the “consumer” (a very apt term here).

It took me a long time to figure out exactly what I disliked about algorithmic recommendation/autoplay, but I knew I hated it. The reason my 2008 novel LITTLE BROTHER doesn’t have any social media? Wishful thinking. I was hoping it would all die in a fire.

Today, active media is viewed with suspicion, considered synonymous with Qanon-addled boomers who flee Facebook for Parler so they can stan their favorite insurrectionists in peace, freed from the tyranny of the dread shadowban.

But I’m still on team active media. I would rather people actively choose their media diets, in a truly sociable mode of consumption and production, than leaning back and getting fed whatever is served up by the feed.

Today on Wired, Duke public policy scholar Philip M Napoli writes about lean forward and lean back in the context of Trump’s catastrophic failure to launch an independent blog, “From the Desk of Donald J Trump.”

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-trumps-failed-blog-proves-he-was-just-howling-into-the-void/

In a nutshell, Trump started a blog which he grandiosely characterized as a replacement for the social media monopolists who’d kicked him off their platforms. Within a month, he shut it down.

While Trump claimed the shut-down was all part of the plan, it’s painfully obvious that the real reason was that no one was visiting his website.

Now, there are many possible, non-exclusive explanations for this.

For starters, it was a very bad social media website. It lacked even rudimentary social tools. The Washington Post called it “a primitive one-way loudspeaker,” noting its lack of per-post comments, a decades old commonplace.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/21/trump-online-traffic-plunge/

Trump paid (or more likely, stiffed) a grifter crony to build the site for him, and it shows: the “Like” buttons didn’t do anything, the video-sharing buttons created links to nowhere, etc. From the Desk… was cursed at birth.

But Napoli’s argument is that even if Trump had built a good blog, it would have failed. Trump has a highly motivated cult of tens of millions of people — people who deliberately risked death to follow him, some even ingesting fish-tank cleaner and bleach at his urging.

The fact that these cult-members were willing to risk their lives, but not endure poor web design, says a lot about the nature of the Trump cult, and its relationship to passive media.

The Trump cult is a “push media” cult, simultaneously completely committed to Trump but unwilling to do much to follow him.

That’s the common thread between Fox News (and its successors like OANN) and MAGA Facebook.

And it echoes the despairing testimony of the children of Fox cultists, that their boomer parents consume endless linear TV, turning on Fox from the moment they arise and leaving it on until they fall asleep in front of it (also, reportedly, how Trump spent his presidency).

Napoli says that Trump’s success on monopoly social media platforms and his failure as a blogger reveals the role that algorithmically derived, per-user, endless scroll linear media played in the ascendancy of his views.

It makes me think of that TV exec and his prediction of the internet’s imminent disappearance (which, come to think of it, is not so far off from my own wishful thinking about social media’s disappearance in Little Brother).

He was absolutely right that this century has left so many of us exhausted, wanting nothing more than the numbness of lean-back, linear feeds.

But up against that is another phenomenon: the resurgence of active political movements.

After a 12-month period that saw widescale civil unrest, from last summer’s BLM uprising to the bizarre storming of the capital, you can’t really call this the golden age of passivity.

While Fox and OANN consumption might be the passive daily round of one of Idoru’s “vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organisms craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed,” that is in no way true of Qanon.

Qanon is an active pastime, a form of collaborative storytelling with all the mechanics of the Alternate Reality Games that the lean-forward media advocates who came out of the blogging era love so fiercely:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-vitiated-air/#other-hon

Meanwhile, the “clicktivism” that progressive cynics decried as useless performance a decade ago has become an active contact sport, welding together global movements from Occupy to BLM that use the digital to organize the highly physical.

That’s the paradox of lean-forward and lean-back: sometimes, the things you learn while leaning back make you lean forward — in fact, they might just get you off the couch altogether.

I think that Napoli is onto something. The fact that Trump’s cultists didn’t follow him to his crummy blog tells us that Trump was an effect, not a cause (something many of us suspected all along, as he’s clearly neither bright nor competent enough to inspire a movement).

But the fact that “cyberspace keeps everting” (to paraphrase “Spook Country,” another William Gibson novel) tells us that passive media consumption isn’t a guarantee of passivity in the rest of your life (and sometimes, it’s a guarantee of the opposite).

And it clarifies the role that social media plays in our discourse — not so much a “radicalizer” as a means to corral likeminded people together without them having to do much. Within those groups are those who are poised for action, or who can be moved to it.

The ease with which these people find one another doesn’t produce a deterministic outcome. Sometimes, the feed satisfies your urge for change (“clicktivism”). Sometimes, it fuels it (“radicalizing”).

Notwithstanding smug media execs, the digital realm equips us to “express our mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire” by doing much more than “changing the channels on a universal remote” — for better and for worse.

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