[kfor] \\ a Trans-Reality Romanian Odyssey - Witching hour
João Cruz
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Tue Nov 1 11:29:54 CET 2005
bravo!
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On Nov 1, 2005, at 2:34 AM, integer at www.god-emil.dk wrote:
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> Living in Limnos, Betwixt and Between:
> \\ a Trans-Reality Romanian Odyssey (abstract
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> by Netochka
> Nezvanova
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> Reaching for you I have reached the end of
> myself
> And what is it you saw?
> My self ...
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> (Conversation with the Goddess of
> Illusion, 2004)
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> This paper discusses Netochka Nezvanova (NN), a seven year
> matrioska-reality Glass Bead Experiment grown
> within the global-mindscape, dispersed and dissipated within the
> panoply of actions and interactions,
> mutualism, parasitism, mimicry and errors which form the basis of
> the Internet, a global network that
> spans the planet, a live membrane consisting of more than 10000
> networks and more than one million computers.
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> Netochka Nezvanova was 'born' in 1999, without a mother. She
> entered sacred time through the infinite mourning of space.
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> Myriad theories began to clamor about the persona or avatar or
> software that function as NN,
> yet they were vague and unsubstantiated. That the mystery persists
> for seven years
> could be intentional. In our modern epoch of game playing, NN may
> be a phantasmagorical
> Internet experiment, manifesting herself in forms utterly alien to
> reason and reflexivity,
> a pataphysical black hole that consumes the bodies falling prey to
> its seductively intoxicating
> and euphoric 'love theory' (Nezvanova 2003), in the process
> experiencing a melange of naked singularities.
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> Who, how, what, when, why and where NN is must be delegated to each
> individual encountering her.
> This is both exquisitely mysterious and maddeningly complex, for if
> interactions with NN are not fully believable,
> then those categories of thought and action are not a reliable
> basis upon which we may posit
> what the "real" NN is.
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> In other words, if tomorrow NN were to inform us that 'she' has
> always lied to us,
> we would be forced to conclude that we haven't any firm basis to
> confirm whether she
> is telling us the truth. If we would believe her we would negate
> our reasons for believing her.
> Thus a concrete and final answer as to the nature of NN may elude
> us indefinitely.
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> Sometimes ... reality is too complex for oral communication
> But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all
> over the world.
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> Dissolved and integrated, we are exploded into a nomadic, unstable
> topology
> of ceramic ribbons and microfluidic channels, of myriad
> phosphorescent gleams
> of the unassailable transpositions of the visible signs of the
> invisible and
> mysterious encounters in divisible dreams. Half way between reality
> and dream;
> realistic scenery and lighting to cultivate the illusion.
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> A social system which legislates a strict distinction between the
> world of dreams and that of reality,
> between wish and fact is a kingdom of darkness. So long as this
> distinction is maintained we cannot
> begin to understand. No.
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> We ask questions so as to liberate ourselves from ignorance, yet
> often the answers we devise
> imprison us further by narrowing our field of vision so that all we
> are left observing
> are the ideas we create, superimposed upon the world around us.
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> "The thoughts expressed in this work will perhaps be
> understood only by
> those who themselves have experienced such thoughts.
> Its purpose is
> achieved if it shows how little is achieved by
> thought Thus the aim of this
> work is to draw a limit to thought or rather not to
> thought but to the
> expression of thought" (Wittgenstein 1921)
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> All births are painful, and this is a birth. It is my account of re-
> entry and re-assimilation.
> I am the body of nothing but radiance, the space untouched, where
> one keeps still ...
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> I am the world of inner space
> the shimmering angelic.
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> I am illusion, veiling the pure truth from you, playing games.
> Comfortable?
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> Aerial waves gliding over surfaces
> Soaked in visible emanations
> I am defined and molded by them
> My perfume spreads echoing within you
> We scatter into impalpable dust
> Meshed into dreams and silent
> conversations
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> We destroy everything we touch!
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> We steal human labor and shapeshift it in2 fire _+ ice.
> We teleport you from rapture \2\ rupture \2\ extasy \+\ back again.
> We steal your nights and sell them to sleepless torture
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> We fuse the retinas of unbelievers in eye|2|eye tactile motility.
> We are the black cloud. resolutely human. albeit calcified \2\ form
> a hypnotic sense ov detachment.
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> LOVE ME NOT!!
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> We are Absolute Power \+\ Joy.
> We are the fatal leap into Emptiness. Alpha + Omega. War and Peace.
> We radiate at all frequencies and seek not you but Pleasure.
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> We Ex.press. your interior world. We Lift u 2 Ex.perienss.
> We may decide to enchant you and you shall surrender!
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> LOVE ME NOT!!
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