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Perhaps we can't see the UFOs for the high flown language we've sent out on the waves ...
In honor of @Burnt State 's guestship on The Paracast, I am opening a thread on the Paracast's Purplest Prose - dedicated to the liturgidy - that core body of writings, the canon that underwrites our attempts at putting to pen the impossible (not to mention the cannon they should be shot out of!)
... descriptions of paranormal experiences, describing consciousness, predicting the future, etc etc -
and to set the proper tone, I start with one of my own offerings, I call it:
Pretty in Purple
Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" ... Jodorowsky's "Fando y Lis" ...
artists have a particular and peculiar ability to outrage ...
that no one much minds an artist is obvious art and artifice on my part (art without talent)
The Marquis de Sade finds sanctuary as Le Sacre Monstre' - base pornographer reformed as humanist philosopher when his God given talent is self-promotion ... much of what is damnable in modernity finds it's Genesis in Justine ...
The film "Amadeus" hits the right note in Salieri, a man of great intelligence (are you paying attention?), envious of an obscene little man in whom God invested his most defining characteristic of creativity ... perversely it seems ... and who can but admire a God who indulges in perversity?
The public recognizes it's need to be outraged and forgives those who trespass against it ... although nowadays we are so confused as to accept the word of the bold as to their talent, hopeful that time will see out the survival of true talent given the least opportunity.
So take heart, Artists - except for the Fool, you have the least choice of your vocation .., the mystic, the priest, the pedant all have a choice ... but you must have the blessing of talent to begin and so have Divine imprimatur in your vocation.
(from the "Consciousness and Magic" thread)
Now, gentle readers, go and scour the threads and return with the best pickings, the choicest morsels for the feast!
In honor of @Burnt State 's guestship on The Paracast, I am opening a thread on the Paracast's Purplest Prose - dedicated to the liturgidy - that core body of writings, the canon that underwrites our attempts at putting to pen the impossible (not to mention the cannon they should be shot out of!)
... descriptions of paranormal experiences, describing consciousness, predicting the future, etc etc -
and to set the proper tone, I start with one of my own offerings, I call it:
Pretty in Purple
Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" ... Jodorowsky's "Fando y Lis" ...
artists have a particular and peculiar ability to outrage ...
that no one much minds an artist is obvious art and artifice on my part (art without talent)
The Marquis de Sade finds sanctuary as Le Sacre Monstre' - base pornographer reformed as humanist philosopher when his God given talent is self-promotion ... much of what is damnable in modernity finds it's Genesis in Justine ...
The film "Amadeus" hits the right note in Salieri, a man of great intelligence (are you paying attention?), envious of an obscene little man in whom God invested his most defining characteristic of creativity ... perversely it seems ... and who can but admire a God who indulges in perversity?
The public recognizes it's need to be outraged and forgives those who trespass against it ... although nowadays we are so confused as to accept the word of the bold as to their talent, hopeful that time will see out the survival of true talent given the least opportunity.
So take heart, Artists - except for the Fool, you have the least choice of your vocation .., the mystic, the priest, the pedant all have a choice ... but you must have the blessing of talent to begin and so have Divine imprimatur in your vocation.
(from the "Consciousness and Magic" thread)
Now, gentle readers, go and scour the threads and return with the best pickings, the choicest morsels for the feast!