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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",
+ ],
+ },
+}