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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",
+    ],
+  },
+}