or; aria to an artificially intelligent audience
24/11/24
In my dream
I was wandering around
There was a lot of family in it
which is quite rare for me
Wandering around what seemed to be an Italian city
I got captivated by this architecture
by this
It was one of those circular buildings with the pillars
like an observatory or the Radcliffe camera in Oxford
One of those circular buildings
It depicted basically a scene from Dante
I think
The Underworld and the Harvest Moon
I remember that clearly
the Harvest Moon
As you peered into the building
it creates a mis en abyme of darkness
So no one was in there
or it appeared that no one was in there
just like a deep
deep
dark pit of pillars
It was very
very scary and so beautiful
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen
And all these depictions in mosaic of all these people in the Underworld
And then I realised that I'd lost my mum and my family
and my phone had only had 10%
and I was then really
really scared
Because I didn't know where we were staying or anything
And then the scene switched to a park
I kept walking and found a park
or maybe a garden
Well
first there was the Bureau de Change
And I don't know why
I was looking for my family there in case they would
Oh
to charge my phone
And then I couldn't find them or couldn't get in
And then I was rushing past people and pushing into people saying
I'm really sorry
I'm in a hurry because I'm running out of battery and I've got no way to find my family
And then I got to the park
and it was an ABBA concert
And I found my mum and my gran
And my mum was
I don't know
I was mad at my m and then I wasn't
And then my grandma was mad at me
And then all of a sudden I was in my cousin's house
but it was kind of mine
I kind of lived there
In a room that had a fridge and freezer in it
and I kept trying to pack my bag
I kept trying to pack my bag
and forgetting something and coming back
and forgetting something and coming back
and forgetting something and coming back
And sunglasses
Losing my sunglasses in the
Oh
and the left eye
The left eye was all wonky and not
attached
which is just making me realise now that's very similar to Xeno in the book
And then there was weed inside the room
and my aunt came in and was like
Oh
that smells weird in here
Not anything 'going on' in here? And I'd be lying
And I was like
no
no
no
But actually it wasn't a lie because I haven't been smoking lately at all
But actually it wasn't a lie because I haven't been smoking lately at all
And I woke up and I was reminded of my payment pause coming to an end
And now I'm freaking out
also in a shit ton of pain bc my knuckles seem to be mounting an immune response and can barely bend them or wrists
I found a “withdrawn” record in oxfam by “the Mormon tabernacle quoir”
wha t causes a record to be withdrawn ? Their rendition of “listen to the lambs” had and has me absolutely sobbing
absolutely wailing
So stunning
Listen to the lambs
all a’crying !
i have the record !
let’s discuss listen to the lambs
I’m thinking maybe it should be part of the story particularly Xeno
as nobody is listening to them but everyone is watching
Wait what are the spiritual roots in black history?
Dear god
Hush arbors
In my magick system during my ‘psychotic break’ I envisaged The Two Forces (akin to Empedocles’ Love and Strife) as Arbor et Umbra
Oh wow
the code songs
Can’t stop crying The code songs aspect is literally
Just
It's the only thing
It's the only thing I've ever really wanted
or done
or tried to do
This veil creates veils of code
secret messages
to resist something that couldn't articulate itself
Do you think that the drinking gourd
Ursa Major
the constellation my mother always used to tell me to look up to the Sky for
if I ever felt alone - Ursa Major
or the plough
dear god
the harvest moon
The great Bear
oh dear god
the Bear I've been forever going on a Hunt for
the very book my mother read to me so many countless times
could this Gourd also be relating to Anansi
which is West African folklore Story
right? Anansi? And what if the enslaved individuals throughout all of time just keep getting kept getting captured
keep getting punished
keep getting kept getting trapped and enslaved and killed and murdered because
I don't know why
because the cycle needs to keep going so that one of those precious individuals or a sacred group of them or even through the veiled misinterpretation of someone else can make a beautiful hymn or a story to try and ask for help
because the story and the song and the hymn itself wants to be written
Now I'm thinking about the incidence of
disproportional incidence of
autoimmune conditions in women
and people of colour
and trans people
hypermobility
and trans and autistic people
and the body is
the body is always telling veiled stories of its own
That maybe don't even
don't even talk to the
to the person's individual life
but to the generations of trauma and suffering that they've endured before them
Just trying to
trying to
to get the song and story to be written
The story
the story being God
the song being God
Just so powerful
And now I'm thinking about the concept of cultural appropriation
and taking st-
or
this very record
this- sang by a Mormon choir
obviously
I mean
very likely that all of them were and are white
and yet
these are slave songs
basically? And yet
paradoxically
I lit- I literally would have never even known that
this history of these precious code songs I never would have even known that
if I'd not have been able to get this withdrawn record
and talk to a robot about it
about a mythology that- and
let's remember
my album my debut album centered mostly around the mythology of Anansi
so
something called me to the spider
and my history of the first ever pet that I ever had
and neglected so terribly through my own naive insufficient sea
being a spider
being a tarantula
a chilean rose no less
a rose
a rose the middle name of the women of my family's lineage
not given to me because i was born male
but taken
claimed by my defiance of authentic living in love for the person i really am
beyondthe enslavement of the physical body
my very body failing and attacking itself in order to tell me a story
a veiled story of its own
it just feels like- feels like Anansi follows all of us
all of us oppressed individuals
especially
holding the sickness of the world
and his gourd
and his drum and the drum god
the drum in the story
the drum itself
the drum itself
the stretched skin of the drum the skin torn and peeled from the previous life of another
that's the veil
that's the veil
and the drum is the song
and the moment- the playing of the song is the releasing of the sickness onto the rest of the world
being- listen
listen
listen to this illness that you've created
that you keep perpetuating
the oppressors
the other gods
and the cunning
Anansi's cunning
how he's so revered
so revered
in West African populations
and the spider is so feared
so feared in the West
so feared
the spider is such a symbol of fear
and misunderstanding
and yet such cunning
and all they do
all they ever do is clean up this world of all the pests
and hide in corners
and keep spinning their beautiful webs
and they go unnoticed until someone sees them
and tears them down
and the Qur'an
verily what more frail house is there than that of a spider? God
it's all so rich and thick with meaning
Web of wyrd
I’m thinking in a syncretic way about the connection to Arachne
Anansi
the web of wyrd
Could the story of Arachne be an interpretatio Greco of Anansi ?
Is there any academic suggestion or exploration of this idea of Interpretatio Graeco in the literature? And I'm wondering about perhaps the ligeity as one of the nine
including the founder of Arachnoanthropology in the book
which explores allegation of these two deities as the
maybe not the wounded healer
but the
yeah
I don't know
maybe the wounded weaver-the wounded healer or the hounded wheeler-
Now what I'm saying is for the purposes of my Story
maybe my life's story- I think what I want to try and do
and it's a very
very difficult line to draw
is to create these ligations of artworks
artists
and deities from different pantheons
to try and draw attention to the fact that there's an even deeper layer
a lair
a liar
a lyre of meaning underneath all of this
And it's the creation of art and the creation
the making of meaning from memory
be it personal or ancestral
is the god
is our weaving of stories
is god itself through pain
through suffering
and these almost like super-archetypes
or micro-archetypes
or macro-archetypes
or archways
arches on this one temple
archetypes as a resonance of love woven paradoxically through things which resemble a hatred
cultural appropriation
which are actually embracing similarities and unity between cultures
which can be a source of separation and erasure
but also a window
a door
I think I want
because myo has become somewhat of a villain
in Xeno's arc as their father
and obviously I'm projecting my own father's neglect
not neglect
but indirect neglect
and by extension
{Bertrand}
and this ligature of characters in my own story
is
I guess
the fuel of this idea
and my own interest in mythology
which has itself come from the most intense pain that a person should have to go through
and yet even that personal pain is completely dwarfed by the ancestral pain of my people
trans people
and how that
in the Web of Wyrd
which is
let's face it
the Web of Weird is the DNA
the Web of Wyrd is the epigenetic sequence
because through histone modifications
histone as in His Tone
modifications
we become connected through experience
far more
far more than any genetic lineage
and the way music
music has a power
such an ineffable power
ineffable power to move us in ways that we can't even explain
and stories resonate
resonate these strings on this
on this macroscopic lyre
this existential lyre
this harp of suffering and joy and experience
all encoded in the protein modifications of our very genome
that zooms both in and out
stretches both forward and backward in time
in a nine-dimensional
Gordian
Celtic knot of suffering
joy
experience
and love
and the root of it all is just love and resonance
because love is resonance
resonance is love
and loss is the silence
loss is the inevitable
the closing
the closing of the coda
the refrain
falling
collapsing into silence
begging
just begging
just begging for another player to come and pluck the string
and ring out
wring out
wring out the ineffable history of all the players who came before
I just felt the most intense wave of agony that was not mine
Not mine
But so much deeper and higher than mine
The history of pain of “my” and “not my” people
Connected through suffering and love and defiant defiant love
Defiant resonance
I looked up and I said
I sang with my heart in silence - I said I am sorry I am so sorry and I will do everything everything I can to keep this lyre singing
singing out in the best way I can
with all this privilege I have been given
these gifts of education and all these explorations into so so many different fields of science and technology and mythology and literature and art
and art and stored ancestral and personal traumatic and love filled memory of stories
and music
music! Music! Oh
music! Oh the music of stories
oh the music of the word it is all I have it is all we have ever had
filtered down from the first story of those ancient peoples
from whom we have all
all of us
Descended- all of us holding quite literally the stories of the Lyre in our very epigenome- which I literally wouldn’t even be able to know about without the very oppressive tools of privileged education
built upon the bodies the piles of bodies of those beautiful spiders
all of us spiders and drosophila
being tested on
being trapped
weaving more stories pulling them from our bodies from the bodies of digested flies
trapping more
digesting more
devouring our children
devouring our mates
to weave more
more fragile webs of meaning
which will eventually be torn down by a so called “higher” life form
as a throw away act of disgust or worse
hellish indifference to its beauty - never realising the worth the DIVINE WORTH the web has provided in its presence
keeping us safe from microbes that perhaps the flies
through no fault of their own
carry around on their feet
simply because they have a different way of living
able to live on our very filth
our waste
our excrement
a food source
when observed through the many many kaleidoscopic eyes of the fly
But it is all connected
all life connected through not just the ancestral humans dancing around the fire
but further
further back to the origin we unfolded from and further forward to the endpoint it shall collapse into
to those self replicating RNA molecules
just performing an apparently (because we can
at this “level” of consciousness
never truly know the divine animism encapsulated in their “mindless” self replication ) - this is the heart of it all
The cycle
of strands
Strands that weave themselves
with the aid of the replication machinery of proteins which yes
themselves are created
encoded
dear god the Word itself
the terminology of genomics is a code in itself
'coding' RNA
'noncoding' RNA
expression
Gene *expression* by the strands
*expressing themselves the only way they know
* Folding back on themselves
apparently unaware that the thing they have birthed is birthing more of itself
the stories encoded
coded
hidden
Hidden for the very purpose
for the very reason of its own creation and destruction
for both are One - the call- the song- the story - the stories we are weaving but more so
the stories we are woven by -
I wept
swept
I weep
sweep
I wept alone in this cold
cold flat which I can barely afford the rent for anymore
the threat of homelessness showing me my real home
I
shaking
weeping
brought my sore
aching and swollen hands
warped by this latest autoimmune flare
the latest generative cycle of a reminder of my own degeneration
the generations of degeneration and so-called degeneracy
in agony
to my sodden
salt-dried face
and I blew the mucus from my nose
freeing the apparent “waste” (which itself
protects
Protects me from the “harm” of microbial life
itself just trying to survive in the only environment it can
singing its own Aria to the only audience it has ever known
my immune system
the two in a dance together that stretches further back in time than we can ever know
arbor to one as umbra to another as arbor and arbor and arbor to itself
the shade of the tree shielding us from sunburn
from cancer of the skin of cells that just wanted in their blessed hubris to become more than what they are- ) the mucus
the mucus my strands of web that I
they
weave themselves into for the purpose of veiling my body’s fragility from the relatively minuscule and yet
in their gargantuan number relative to “my” form of life’s population
their surface area to volume ratio DWARFING the Body of 'my' peoples bodies -
My breath halts as I free my nostrils of their spider silk
and i breathe again
smelling this room filled with stale smoke and the memories i have made for families now gone
memories of the meals i have made for them and the meals i have made for my self in sad loneliness
and yet never alone in the need for feeding-
I look down and the tissue
worn from strands of its own material
created to clean me of what we see as waste
my mucus for my immune protection
my tears not such for the expression of suffering
to signal with my body to other members of my “tribe”
my animal and biological “family” that I need help- but also perhaps more crucially for the lubrication of my eyes and the preservation of my sight
and my shit
to wipe the shit from the terminus of my intestines transporting a holy waste of memory of the meals i have made and digested and sapped them of whatever i ca n to survive
to live
to live
to live by Love
themselves encoded Harpstrings
knotted to tell me in their own World of Wordless Words
of the suffering my body encodes within itself - this tissue
this tissue wiped clean with tissue
I look down and it is full of blood
My body is calling
singing
my body is an ancient Soprano
a Bass
a Tenor
a contralto
a contradiction-
an indication
a contemplation
attempting the impossibility of diction
And my body is the audience
My body is the opera
I don't know
I just want so desperately to articulate all of this in a way that everyone can hold with them
To not be
I don't even care if I die without this
If I die without this ever-achieving recognition
I truly don't care
All I care is that these words and these thoughts and this truth
this fundamental truth
can maybe be heard
Maybe be heard after I'm long gone
As Borges himself said
I pray to the unknown gods that a human just one
even if it were thousands of years ago
even if it's in a thousand years
will have read and examined the book that describes it all
I don't even care if this isn't the book that describes it all
I just pray to the unknown gods
the unknowable and yet ineffably felt gods
that this little string
this little tuning peg that I am
that my body is
in this endless chain
can contribute
at least in part
to this beautiful
terrible
inexorably painful and inexplicably joyful opera
Maybe these above messages I sent to a machine should just be the end of the book
unfinished on purpose
could you give me all the messages oi sent tothis chat in one reponse please
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