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authorJules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com>2021-04-14 23:20:37 +0200
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-export const CHARLES_PAGES = {
- 'stankievech-1': {
- title: 'Mountain of the Sun, Cosmic Cave',
- subtitles: [
- "This ‘mountain of the sun’, as it is also called,",
- "is the equivalent of Meru, also entitled ‘white mountain’.",
- "Meru is encircled by a green belt,",
- "by the fact of being situated in the middle of the sea,",
- "and a triangle of light radiates at its peak.",
- "We have said that the zodiac’s two gates",
- "which are respectively the entry to",
- "and exit from the ‘cosmic cave’,",
- "and which certain traditions designate as",
- "the ‘gate of men’ and the ‘gate of the gods’,",
- "inevitably must correspond to the two solstices.",
- "Rene Guenon, <i>Lord of the World</i>, 1927."
- ],
- },
- 'stankievech-2': {
- title: 'An Exhibition of Clammy Solitude',
- subtitles: [
- "If an artist could see the world through the eyes of a caterpillar",
- "he might be able to make some fascinating art.",
- "Each one of these secret dens was also the entrance to the abyss.",
- "Dungeons that dropped away from the eyes",
- "into a damp cosmos of fungus and mold-",
- "an exhibition of clammy solitude.",
- "The double aspect of Quetzalcoatl is less a person",
- "than an operation of totemic perception.",
- "Quetzalcoatl becomes one half of an enantiomorph",
- "(coatl means twin)",
- "in search of the other half.",
- "A mirror looking for its reflection but never quite finding it.",
- "The morning star of Quetzal is apt to be polarized",
- "in the shadowy reflection of the evening star.",
- "Robert Smithson, <i>Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan</i>, 1969"
- ],
- },
- 'stankievech-3': {
- title: 'Superpositionality of the Hidden People',
- subtitles: [
- "Down where the “Hidden People” live, inside their private rock dwellings,",
- "where humans who visit them can be closed in and never find a way out again.",
- "Iceland spar is what hides the Hidden People,",
- "makes it possible for them to move through the world",
- "that thinks of itself as “era,”",
- "provides that all-important ninety-degree twist to their light,",
- "so they can exist alongside our own world but not be seen.",
- "They and others as well, visitors from elsewhere, of non-human aspect.",
- "Thomas Pynchon, <i>Against the Day</i>, 2006"
- ],
- },
- 'stankievech-4': {
- title: 'They Simply Pointed to the Sky',
- subtitles: [
- "The Sumerian word AN.BAR, the oldest word designating iron,",
- "is made up of the pictograms ‘sky’ and ‘fire.’",
- "We shall do well to bear in mind",
- "the early religious significance attaching to aeroliths.",
- "They fall to earth charged with celestial sanctity;",
- "in a way, they represent heaven.",
- "This suggests why so many meteorites were worshipped",
- "or identified with a deity.",
- "Peoples worked with meteoric iron for a long time",
- "before learning how to use ferrous ores.",
- "...When Cortez enquired of the Aztec chiefs",
- "whence they obtained their knives",
- "they simply pointed to the sky.",
- "Mircea Eliade, <i>The Forge and the Crucible</i>, 1956",
- ],
- },
- 'stankievech-5': {
- title: 'The Glass Key',
- subtitles: [
- "Seeing the egg is impossible:",
- "the egg is supervisible just as there are supersonic sounds.",
- "No one can see the egg.",
- "Does the dog see the egg?",
- "Only machines see the egg.",
- "The egg is invisible to the naked eye.",
- "From one egg to another one arrives at God,",
- "who is invisible to the naked eye.",
- "The egg could have been a triangle",
- "that rolled for so long in space that it became oval.",
- "Is the egg basically a vessel?",
- "Could it have been the first vessel sculpted by the Etruscans?",
- "No.",
- "The egg originated in Macedonia.",
- "There it was calculated, fruit of the most arduous spontaneity.",
- "In the sands of Macedonia a man holding a stick drew it.",
- "And then erased it with his bare foot.",
- "Clarice Lispector, <i>The Egg and the Chicken</i>, 1964"
- ],
- },
- 'stankievech-6': {
- title: 'The Desert Turned to Glass',
- subtitles: [
- "My anarchy obeys subterraneously a law",
- "in which I deal occultly with astronomy, mathematics and mechanics.",
- "And my hunger is fed by these putrefying beings in decomposition.",
- "My rite is a purifier of forces.",
- "But malignancy exists in the jungle.",
- "I swallow a mouthful of blood that fills me entirely.",
- "I hear cymbals and trumpets and tambourines",
- "that fill the air with noise and uproar",
- "drowning out the silence of the disc of the sun and its marvel.",
- "I want a cloak woven from threads of solar gold.",
- "The sun is the magical tension of the silence.",
- "On my journey to the mysteries",
- "I hear the carnivorous plant that laments times immemorial:",
- "and I have obscene nightmares beneath the sick winds.",
- "I am enchanted, seduced, transfixed by furtive voices.",
- "The almost unintelligible cuneiform inscriptions",
- "speak of how to conceive and give formulae",
- "about how to feed from the force of darkness.",
- "They speak of naked and crawling females.",
- "And the solar eclipse causes secret terror",
- "that nonetheless announces a splendor of heart.",
- "Clarice Lispector, <i>Agua Viva</i>, 1973",
- ],
- },
-}