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Divine Madness

18.03.2010 | by Peter

I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

– Hunter S. Thompson

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madness emerges

from dark and shallow pools

teeming in my moonlit brain

with anaerobic life

madness submerges

this swaying ship of fools

afloat on frozen silence

my old unruly soul

on alkaloid currents

my old unruly soul

luminous silent

while

the

snow

fell

forlornly

adrift like

frivolous flotsam

on a tide of images

made to appear prophetic

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Ghosts of Energy

14.03.2010 | by Peter

“We are the ghosts of energy, let the tridents strike unsuspecting flesh!”

– Tristan Tzara, 1919

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O these brittle white squiggles

among flowers of ink

floating so languidly

on sombre silence!

O the sparks that I’ve picked

on the black autumn nights

dusting with fine gold

the quivering windshield!

Ions are dancing

in a grazing frontlight -

wistful eyes towards where

the stars are sleeping!

And in the sacred neon

I was floating down the dark withered plain

among souls too pale-eyed

to know the skies,

as ghosts of energy

with soft little shivers

ooze random patterns of radiowaves

into the tide

of the night.

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by Peter Bies & Arthur Rimbaud

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L’Absinthe

10.03.2010 | by Peter

(For E.)

“Sex, desire, longing and solitude.”

– Allen Ginsberg (on the essentials of poetry)

I do not mind what it is about you that disaffects
and hurts, there’s only something in my breathing - - -

a smell of glands

and corruption,

wasting my soul

so gently - - -

And the mad poet cried:

Let rest in your dark almond eyes

the shadows of your wanton rage!

The echoes of those choice torments

kiss me with silence,

absorbing tears and organs

with each hiding - - - !

Heed what I am to whisper

into this auburn night:

the iron of your laughter

is true to more than fire

and rust -

no night has ever heard

such hateful noise - - -

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Like I Would Care

6.03.2010 | by Peter

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

– Rollo May

I keep on charging

so wantonly

brave

dream captains

call to attention

obsolete memories

cast into molds

of flesh

the pain dump

in the squalid basement

of my modern mind

electric tide

dusting
the plaster

of wayward resolution

a scraping feeling

a grazing pain

dream captains

call to attention

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Not only science, but language, myth, art and religion as well, provide the building stones from which the world of ‘reality’ is constructed for us, as well as that of the human spirit, in sum the World-of-the-I.

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

common reality

is an endoparasite

hiding in your deepest cortex

making contact

through misunderstanding:

the ultimate objective

the appropriate mode

for any paranoid mind

And the mad poet cried:

Like an organ of iron

grinding the night

splendid new cities

affecting true light

spill intricate whispers

and hateful white noise

upon hateful hearts

and into jealous eyes

of people

oblivious

to their own

impending

demise - - -

beyond the towers

the pleasure gets weird

darkening leering

blurring at the edges

like a broken promise

as you ‘re speeding past

treacherous roadsigns

flickering

at a crossroads

in the late

night

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Amino Acids

27.02.2010 | by Peter

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
– Bertrand Russell

Essential:

Isoleucine

Leucine

Lysine

Methionine

Phenylalanine

Threonine

Tryptophan

Valine

Nonessential:

Alanine

Asparagine

Aspartic Acid

Cysteine

Glutamic Acid

Serine

Thyrosine

Arginine

Histidine

Glutamine

Glycine

Proline

Selenocysteine

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Your Dying Kiss (Dissociative Fugue)

22.02.2010 | by Peter

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

— William Shakespeare, King Lear

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Acting out a Dissociative Fugue:

- sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one’s customary place of work, with inability to recall one’s past

- confusion about personal identity, or the assumption of a new identity, or

- significant distress or impairment.

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memories of love

which in their cruel nature

rest on mere contingency

burning like cold sores

on the skin of my soul

memories of love

a roaring surge

of brainwaves

pounding against

the screaming rocks

of disowned passion

memories of love

hide

in a maze of flesh

craven parasites

concealed

in mucous membranes

their damp

dripping

shadows

exhaling

cold rust

And the mad poet cried:

Come fruitful Madness - - - !

To spill stoning silence

among the searing stars!

I’ll take my time

to slowly drown

in Thy whispering

April eyes - - - !

and in the rotting shadow

and rising ever gently

my incidental pain:

a delicate bait

for your

dying

kiss

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This is from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoXNket2pQ

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Permutations #2

17.02.2010 | by Peter

In uno omnia.*

– Athanasius Kircher

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$a\in X_n$

$\sigma = \left(\sigma\left(1\right),\sigma\left(2\right),\cdots,\sigma\left(n\right)\right)$

$(a \; \sigma(a) \; \sigma^2(a) \; \cdots \; \sigma^{|a|-1}(a))$

$\sigma = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & \cdots & n \\ \sigma\left(1\right) & \sigma\left(2\right) & \cdots & \sigma\left(n\right) \end{pmatrix}$

$P \cdot \overline{x}= \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0\\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0\\ \end{pmatrix} \cdot \begin{pmatrix}1 \\ 2 \\ 3 \\ 4 \\\end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix}4 \\ 3 \\ 2 \\ 1 \\\end{pmatrix}$

$1^{b_1} 2^{b_2} 3^{b_3} \cdots n^{b_n}$

$\sigma = \begin{pmatrix} x_1 & x_2 & \cdots & x_n \\ \sigma\left(x_1\right) & \sigma\left(x_2\right) & \cdots & \sigma\left(x_n\right) \end{pmatrix}$

$\sigma_2 = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 4 & 3 & 2 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$

$\overline{x} =\begin{pmatrix}x_1 \\ x_2 \\ \vdots \\ x_n \\\end{pmatrix}$

$P_\sigma \cdot \begin{pmatrix}x_1 \\ x_2 \\ \vdots \\ x_n \\\end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} \sigma(x_1) \\ \sigma(x_2) \\ \vdots \\ \sigma(x_n) \\\end{pmatrix}$

$\sigma = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & \cdots & n \\ \sigma\left(1\right) & \sigma\left(2\right) & \cdots & \sigma\left(n\right) \end{pmatrix}$

$\sigma = \left(\sigma\left(1\right),\sigma\left(2\right),\cdots,\sigma\left(n\right)\right)$

$1^{b_1} 2^{b_2} 3^{b_3} \cdots n^{b_n}$

$\sigma_2 = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 4 & 3 & 2 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$

$a\in X_n$

Quod…

… erat…

… demonstrandum.

* All in one.

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Permutations #1

13.02.2010 | by Peter

“Perfection, c’est travail.” – Paul Valéry

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(For M. Z.)

DEATH LIFE SPACE TIME.

DEATH LIFE TIME SPACE.

DEATH TIME LIFE SPACE.

DEATH TIME SPACE LIFE.

DEATH SPACE TIME LIFE.

DEATH SPACE LIFE TIME.

LIFE DEATH SPACE TIME.

LIFE DEATH TIME SPACE.

LIFE TIME DEATH SPACE.

LIFE TIME SPACE DEATH.

LIFE SPACE TIME DEATH.

LIFE SPACE DEATH TIME.

SPACE TIME DEATH LIFE.

SPACE TIME LIFE DEATH.

SPACE LIFE TIME DEATH.

SPACE LIFE DEATH TIME.

SPACE DEATH LIFE TIME.

SPACE DEATH TIME LIFE.

TIME SPACE LIFE DEATH.

TIME SPACE DEATH LIFE.

TIME DEATH SPACE LIFE.

TIME DEATH LIFE SPACE.

TIME LIFE DEATH SPACE.

TIME LIFE SPACE DEATH.

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A Flashback To The Future

8.02.2010 | by Peter

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

– Heinrich Heine

It’s more a symptom of increasing class and income differentiation. The ultra-rich may be feeding roses and champagne to their racehorses, but that doesn’t mean we’re on the brink of an apocalypse.

– Bruce Sterling

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cortical hellfire

beaming confusion

twisted contorted

scrambled distorted

frequency barbwire

magmatic intrusion

of hot white noise

behind my eyes

raw heavy metal rust

remote supraluminal drunk memories

harsh

glaring

like a flashback to the future

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“New Ice Age!”

“Global Warming!”

“The end is at hand!”

“And we had it coming!”

“The twilight has come!”

“Civilization has failed!”

“This world will perish!”

“It’s the end of mankind!”

“It’s the Second Coming!”

“Judgement is imminent!”

“The cycle is nearing its end!”

“The end of the world as we know it!”

“We will suffer!”

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We are doomed!

- - - for how long?

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We are doomed!

- - - at how many times and places?

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We are doomed!

- - - in whose eyes?

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The end of the world as we know it!

- - - for how long still, my likeness in a blind mirror?

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initialise doom sequence

click edit

click erase

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- - - instant apocalypse of my mind !

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hellfire of my mind

beaming confusion

muffled twisted

like drunk memories

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ARTDOXA blog

Divine Madness

Ghosts of Energy

L’Absinthe

Like I Would Care

Reality Is An Endoparasite

Amino Acids

Your Dying Kiss (Dissociative Fugue)

Permutations #2

Permutations #1

A Flashback To The Future

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