on apocalypse, shakespeare, Clarke's Third Law, the corporate take-over of Star Wars and els

paul bali

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1.\ We’re bad history, like Brunnhildes in King John, or billiards in Antony    Cardenio, the dialogues of Aristotle, we expect these losses: but when recent & near as:  the Dumont Network, Upper Harbour,  unsettles     2.\  “’twas all a dream” was always an option Repping itself ambiguates the levied anachronisms  yet dreams are rarely: cinema-crisp, our inner V.O. Iowa-workshop Realist The advent of VR makes the Simulacrum plausible; our temporal location reasonably dubitable: Bostrom  pkDick: It’s ‘Rome versus Jerusalem’; the archetype agon ever replayed, the varying eras giving cover  “We’re always in Oz—  but sometimes it looks like Kansas”      “on outzoom it’s a booth at ComicCon”   3.\  our newer Uhura is more neutral, by the zylar jumper, minimal coiff— yet sleek is a style, & our Earthsuit-eternal may be decreed: retro-60’s so on with the old and bouffant     4.\  prestige of the Ancients or trajectory of scientia in the Greco nomenclature? minimalism’s timelessness: inductive conservativism or Clarke’s Third Law? Monodrama Theatre: first or latest, avantest garde or crudest of Performance Art?    stellar radio,  mosque & parapet, Olympic aerodrome  2500 B.C. or A.D.     “Democracity”, diorama,  detail (1939) Lubbner Jet-plane behind  much of it is retained:  the Airstream Futuropolis is here, in that   Speed increaseth aerodynamism thus was a good bet, though trains not the carrier  by Bauhaus repudiation of frill, carven gargoyles made guards of class; curlicues Veblen staus markers,  ornament as frozen gloat over the poor’s labour hours; the Sun King’s descendienta each has place on the wooden dias, aneath the wobbly gantry, by century’s close.  Your formal gardens, flora mandalas finely set around the deified monarch, have fallen from sway,— tastes wends wilder, evermore English, to a Jesuit-seeded style-Xhinoise the “janglo-xhinoise” of a rustic asymmetry  the medieval alleys by a Haussman raze overlayd in victory for all future,  and the miasmatic theory of the vector of disease  in Gibson the Gropius has just enough swoop and doo-hick to concelebrate the technology that binds us     5.\  a floor between floors: entresol, mezzanine  the alder pilings from batting surf uplift Venice and for every crossstreet, an exclusing sluice  by coffer,  a ceiling’s sunken panel— soffit or vault, also caissons ('boxes"),  or "openings"— ; thus resolved by role-call to the lacunary ceiling;  echoed in the modern drop; whereby pressboard trap room was made for Latin skygods: super-wing hold for Jupiter’s descent in Cymbeline, for: from false to pukkha: plenum space for office Ether, so: for every balding boss a custom array  of almahs on the laptop, angely esthers over,  in-relay: a heartattack team of egger and response       6.\  Oleanna, off-Broadway, at the Orpheum;    Popo by Rosser Reeves  a novel, from Knopf;   Vat, the Hell    :whole material cultures lately undug bones gave dress for muses’ freezeplay  holding hominids who, of future gawkers unawares did what did what, o liddle spider?    Of flesh & kind they’ve stripped us,  we stone-carven Adonii,  long ago slapped garish in paint, now by the sands and acid of History made abstract and appropriate to the times     7.\  Fortunes in a Cookie, By A Lady (Marie Raine)  To recall how we got to The Office off-topic,  She pushed BACK in her brains, w/ analogue thumbprint  Her smartphone’s arras is the face-camera’s loadscreen She knocked it, in-pocket, and it tried to take a picture But finding only darkness, turned instead w/in  :this is no less plausible  than the Sunyatic void on the black back of our eyelids, or dogs enwound in knowledge of self  when her flashlight app coopts the camera’s L.E.D. a nightvision scan of T minus 3 seconds of our planar environs jarred ninety degrees  feeds the screen her inner purse, clippers or keys retrieved     8.\  In “The Approach of Al-mu-tasim”.....the gesture has life unending through receding filmstream of effects.....discernable even in the iso-strewn sands at Equilibrium:  a photogravure, data tablet extracted at Trial N’s end     “and I had all the stuff about the kid not going to sleep” “much amassed material on “The ←nsleepable Beta”  “and it finally occurred to me, about the millionth draft, it’s about why can’t this kid get to sleep.”  -assumedly we’re late in the scene, as Mamet advises: from office to seminar, a brusque-with-purpose walk-n-talk.    “But what do we want?  An Author would want us to want;  “ let us resolve to Action.”  Enter Oberon, and the Emperor Faerie, entrained.  Their tandem presence attracts all attentions.  stutters matins chatter brows lift inquiry over broadsheet & bowl; cutlery’s clatter abates  Lysander s Helena               r                              t  Hermia q  Demetrius   A circuit made perfect, though what sufferance therein!  And Players’ forbearance! a seething Amory for gods to draw joules from our miseries feast on; from OUR corporal shock  THEIR jollies Within all’s strife;  but to godly peeks what perfect delight!      9. \  Mamet, of course, may hate this all like all Manhattan.     10.\  Egality is utopic, yes: thus apocalyptic, thinkthru its demands: every nicety of Selection made to paste  “In the Equilibrium shall all be free   every divisive gradient   that now set man upon mother, dissipated; all babelous spite in Unity’s refrain Wikipied: measured, respectful of Fact, cognizant of our limits;  sparingly witty”  There are two male voices, and a female. Specifics are lost in a swirl of echoes, but attitude and even a worldview can be discerned.      11.\  Alf Bet Gaml Delt;  Oxen, Villa, Camel, Portal  alf to bet, the homely aurychs gaml to delt, camel thru portal a g-ray thru   bab-ili ’s yawn   ALIENS SEIZE VAN NUYS WAREHOUSE \ RIGHTFUL CAPTURE OF BOUNDS AND EMBLEMENTS DECLARED \ PROP-STORE ASPORTATED OFF-GLOBE \ AND SO BEGAN THE WARS IN HEAVEN [titlecrawl]   Lazers arced astray find their orbital grave, join in a ring a prick would detonate  the unsprung detritus of the celestial wars:  a circumsolar aura worth a billion Tsar Bombas,  a trillion World Wars; whose gestalt effect, to watchers afar  was to honour starfields fallen from   November 2012            

we're bad history

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