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Slow Gin and Astral Conversations

"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations" A maze me? I’m the architect of my own destiny he beguiled her incessantly from the depths of his bottled up Carceri she knew him before he became a complex well-hidden Piranesi twixt your world and mine places like that brand you with an addiction for fixed routine remembering to count obsessively knowing your place in life to memorize numbers keeping time in a metronome mind music of a hole ridden heart still beating slowly leaking destiny’s sloe djinn sorrow and the urge to retrieve what remnant of life and love remains fermenting beneath the advertised exterior watching, waiting relentlessly they continue their puzzling communion conversations in the astral interior that never really rhyme he recalls the number of that year placing contracts before her requesting the “Pros” and “Cons” be thought out and written succinctly by She - of course love back then was not virtual it was green and naive she was selling her time and soul to him upon her free will he impressed his cause not to fear to trust have faith believe what he proposed was true and clear all the while hiding the keys in the mouth of a closeted skeleton’s smile ripely residing worm ridden in the apple of the dead dreams cemetery where hurt children cry he acts out like all is pleasantly perfect never a step missed no fall in his life golden it is, like an academy award winning performance routine every day this is essential he is released and animated on a shop floor now he is selling for Freedom some woman came in asking for furniture to fill her empty home and for a moment he was transported taken away he remembered when he looked in Her eyes in the number of that year all that time long ago the cost of the fortune he’s lost he is now looking for his soul there back then standing before him in another dimension was Psyche, full-bellied blooming growing a new life laughing and smiling re-arranging an empty space with photos to build a safe home he like Ophiuchus wrangled with the scales of what was wrong and what was right the perpetually hovering hidden no go zone he'd lost his way lost his light Amaze me, he said bring me back to life tell me a story… very well then, she said, There is a gate to the exit of the hidden garden in her Winter Forest there a sign reads “Forbidden - to remain closed do not open” like an envelope the lost soul opened it and this is where the story needs to be refined he was looking for a maze a story to become lost in her true path was unicursal symbolic spiritual pre-destined eternal the hidden garden in her Winter forest a safe house the soft-centered heart of the thing that must be followed symbolic spiritual pre-destined eternal No maze yet a mystery a ghost mercurial haunting mystical reverent in it's irreverence a Paradox calling (LadyLabyrinth/2021) “Genius” / Sia/Labrinth/Diaplo-Genius //Slowed and reverb https://youtu.be/7qubBMlfwoY https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_hidden_garden_in_my_winter_forest_1017589 "I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down..." "Through dangers untold. And hardships unnumbered. I have fought my way here to the castle; beyond the goblin city, to take back the child that you have stolen. My will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great..." Giovanni Battista Piranesi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Prisons The series of labyrinthine prison interiors, the Carceri, was also created soon after Piranesi’s encounter with the lively printmaking scene in Venice. In these prints, Piranesi explored the possibilities of perspective and spatial illusion while pushing the medium of etching to its limits. Piranesi argued for the complete freedom of the architect or designer to draw on models from every time and place as an inspiration for his own inventions. “I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.” mid 17th century (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius (see genius). Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-century French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinni ‘jinnee’. Carceri gin/djinn Psyche Ophiuchus Maze Labyrinth Astral https://www.diffen.com/difference/Labyrinth_vs_Maze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection lyrics/ "Genius" https://genius.com/Lsd-genius-lyrics

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Date: 9/5/2021 8:01:00 PM
I am a Book,” said Vinculus, stopping in mid-caper. “I am the Book. It is the task of the Book to bear the words. Which I do. It is the task of the Reader to know what they say.” Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Date: 9/5/2021 8:02:00 PM
“There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.” Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Date: 9/5/2021 8:01:00 PM
"Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions.” Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Date: 9/5/2021 8:01:00 PM
“She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.” Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Date: 9/5/2021 8:01:00 PM
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Date: 9/5/2021 8:00:00 PM
“The Theory of Other Worlds. Simply put, it said that when knowledge or power went out of this world it did two things: first, it created another place; and second, it left a hole, a door between this world where it had once existed and the new place it had made." Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:47:00 PM
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never” Hesse, Steppenwolf
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:54:00 PM
“You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice – and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds, or sacrifices, and such like; that life was not an heroic tale, with roles for heroes, and such like, but a comfortable bourgeois parlour, where one is perfectly satisfied with eating and drinking, coffee and knitted stockings, tarot readings and music on the radio. And he who wants otherwise and has the heroic and the beautiful inside him, the veneration of great poets or the adoration of saints inside him, he is a fool and a knight errant, a latter day Don Quixote?” Steppenwolf
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:48:00 PM
“A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.” Hesse, Steppenwolf
Date: 9/5/2021 6:41:00 PM
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." Hesse
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:45:00 PM
“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.” Hesse, Steppenwolf
Date: 9/5/2021 6:33:00 PM
https://aeon.co/essays/how-walking-a-labyrinth-can-trace-a-route-to-self-knowledge
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:01:00 PM
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” Jung
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Date: 9/5/2021 5:39:00 PM
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland.” Jung
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Date: 9/5/2021 5:38:00 PM
“Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.” Jung
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Date: 9/5/2021 6:10:00 PM
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” Jung
Date: 9/5/2021 5:36:00 PM
“To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist’s task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts.” Anaïs Nin, The Novel of the Future
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:22:00 PM
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:20:00 PM
"A word after a word after a word is power." Margaret Atwood
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:20:00 PM
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time." Madama Gaga
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:16:00 PM
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:15:00 PM
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." Henry David Thoreau
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:13:00 PM
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." Franz Kafka
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Date: 9/4/2021 8:09:00 PM
"The Hidden Garden in My Winter Forest"
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Date: 9/4/2021 9:28:00 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_hidden_garden_in_my_winter_forest_1017589
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Date: 9/4/2021 8:09:00 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/lux_vitae_lux_1366518

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