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| author | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2021-04-14 23:20:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2021-04-14 23:20:37 +0200 |
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diff --git a/frontend/site/projects/museum/charles-pages.js b/frontend/site/projects/museum/charles-pages.js deleted file mode 100644 index 9fcb590..0000000 --- a/frontend/site/projects/museum/charles-pages.js +++ /dev/null @@ -1,122 +0,0 @@ -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", - ], - }, -} |
