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diff --git a/extra/anthology_non_philosophical.tex b/extra/anthology_non_philosophical.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b48f385 --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/anthology_non_philosophical.tex @@ -0,0 +1,209 @@ +\chapter{Anthology of Non-Philosophical Cultural Works (1961)} + + + + + + + + + + +\section{Introduction} + + +I cannot include here my essays which discuss at length +the purposes of lingart, audart, strange culture description, +concept art, and so forth, tell what they aro good for. However, +each of the works in this anthology, if considered +without rigid preconceptions, is pretty obviously good for +only one thing. (For example, the value of "Innperseqs" could +hardly be that it has a deep emotional impact, or of "Audart +Composition" that it gives the experience of awareness of an +aesthetic complex structure.) Thus, the lack of explanation +need not prevent the reader from understanding the works. +In fact, the lack of explanation mill be a good thing if it +leads the reader to decide for himself what the value of the +works is, rather than depending on their being in a tradition, +or having acadmic certification, or having a standard label +(such as 'music' or 'mathematics') to tell him. These works +stand by themselves. + +\section{Lingart: Poem 1 (early 1960 / August 1961)} +{\vskip 2em \centering [Instructions \vskip 2em} + +Any lines (a line may be repeated) may be read, in any +order. A line must be either entirely normally voiced or +entirely whispered. Two lines may be read "at once", one +normally voiced, the other whispered. That is, the words of +one line are inserted between the words of the other; the only +restriction is that the order of the words from each line must +be preserved. The two lines should be clearly distinguished +in reading, each being given its proper phonemic intonation +(light fall at end of sentence, and so forth). Example: +`(w)Mild (n)Oceans (n)prayed (n)sleepily (w)steel (n)in (w)dissolves (n)weary (w)in (w)eats. +(n)cheeses.', or, in a bettor notatien, + +\setlength\tabcolsep{0.1em} +\begin{tabular}{ r c c c c c c c c c c c } +whispered: & Mild & & & & steel & & dissolves & & in & oats. & \\ +normal: & & Oceans & prayed & sleepily & & in & weary & & cheeses. \\ +\end{tabular} + +Within these limitations, the lines should be read in any may +which will maximally \uline{bring out their content} (for ex, slowly).] + +\vskip 2em + +\noindent +Bitter carbon was moons. \\ +Vinegar crushes giant monsters. \\ +Moons are viciously decaying cream. \\ +Frozen cream erratically crushes eats. \\ +Carbon crushes giant moons. \\ +Black vinegar sleepily was nights. \\ +Black cheese loudly was oceans. \\ +Empty sound dissolved cheese. \\ +Bitter night is vinegar. \\ +Vinegar quiets giant silences. \\ +Steel is erratically decaying oceans. \\ +Scattered sounds sullenly lay in oceans. \\ +Mild steel dissolves in cats. \\ +Nights sullenly mocked green monsters. \\ +Oceans bled precisely in weary sound. \\ +Mild monsters opened in sound. \\ +Scattered cheese viciously fell in cats. \\ +Silences were erratically decaying carbon. \\ +Carbon was sleepily decaying silence. \\ +Cats bled in screaming cheeses. \\ +Sounds were blue monsters. \\ +Sounds clearly grasped green oceans. \\ +Monsters bled in weary nights. \\ +Cats endlessly burned green steel. \\ +Oceans were blue sounds.\\ +Empty oceans crush steel.\\ +Scattered silences killed analytically in vinegar.\\ +Frozen vinegar dulcetly crushed night. \\ +Cheeses clearly crush green sounds. \\ +Oceans prayed sleepily in weary cheeses.\\ +Frozen nights sleepily mocked vinegar.\\ +Moons open blindly in weary carbon.\\ +Mild cats pray in cream.\\ +Empty cream quiets moons.\\ +Monsters prayed in screaming vinegar.\\ +Bitter moons were carbon,\\ + +\section{Audart Composition (May 1961)} + +To experience this composition, one must be alone in a +quiet, darkened room. Relax, and accustom oneself to breathing +slowly so that one's breathing will be as quiet as possible. +Then put one's fingers in one's ears and close one's eyes. +Listen to the very low sound (subsonic vibration) and the medium +high---high noise (the sound of one's nervous system in operation), +and "look" at the changing pattern of light and dark. +At first the low sound will be the easiest one to hear, then +the high one. Try to have maximum awareness of both sounds +until the low one becomes difficult to hear. Then concentrate +on the high one, being aware that it is the sound of oneself +listening to it (and of oneself being aware that it is the +sound of oneself listening to it). It is unlikely that the +visual aspect of this composition will be very interesting, +but if it is, as sometimes happens if one has looked at a complex +array of bright lights before starting, the way to appreciate +it is to seize on images as soon as they appear and concentrate +to bring them cut. If done properly this should be a very strange experience, + +\section{Audart: A way of enjoying a Non-Controlled Acoustical Environment (July 1961)} +Let me distinguish what I will say, for want of better +terms, are "highly select sounds", such as popular music and +indistinct talking (like a radio in an adjacent room), as +opposed to "highly unselect sounds", such as the sounds of a +busy street; and "non-controlled sounds", sounds not produced +for one to listen to. Then this activity is a way, of enjoying +an acoustical environment, developed as an alternate to +listening to highly select music when none is available---a +way of enjoying a non-controlled environment. In general what +one does is to listen to the environmental sounds, and by +selective listening and the addition of "sounds heard in one's +head", imagined-sounds, "form them into" highly select sounds; +so that one seems to be hearing, from outside, from the non-mental +environment, highly select sounds and not just the non-controlled +sounds. It would seem that to some extent this +activity is an exercise in autosuggestion. It can be done more +easily the more unselect the environmental sounds are. One way +of learning to do it is to have highly select music on; then +turn it down so that it is almost or just covered by the rest +of the (non-controlled) environmental sounds, but keep on +"hearing" it, filling in with your imagination when you can't +quite hear it, "hearing" a continuation of what it was when +clearly audible, modified whenever necessary to fit in with +the environmental sounds; then cut it off entirely but go on +"hearing" it in(to) the non-mental environmental sounds. It +should be clear that this activity is not just listening to the +environmental sounds, and is not just "hearing music in one's +head". The music is made from the environmental sounds with +imaginings, and seems to be part of the non-mental environmental +sounds, come from the non-mental environment. + +\section{Strange Culture Description: Instructions Accompanying Two Identity Structure Standards (April--May 1961)} + +These standards are for determining the type of identity +(continuity) structure of an exercise awareness-state in a +conscious organism, and thus determining whether the awareness-state +can be annihilated. There are two standards, corresponding +to the two types of identity structure: enclosure\footnote{A rectangular $6\times9$ inch envelope made of tracing paper open at one end. Inside, a rectangular $3x5$ inch sheet of white paper.} and +organic--rotation\footnote{A blank white $3x5$ inch card.} (the terms are somewhat arbitrary, do not +essentially characterize the structures). If the awareness-state +has enclosure structure, it can be annihilated; if it +has organic-rotation structure, it cannot be. + +Use of the standards: An entity has an identity structure +of one of the two types if its identity structure is observed +to be isomorphic to that of the standard for that type for one +hour, and if it is not deflected before or after that hour. +It must be emphasized that determination of identity structure +type involves use of the actual standard (in non-ruined condition) +accompanying these instructions through the actual hour +in which the determination is made. The specification of the +conditions under which the standard is ruined which will be +given does not define the standard, for the purpose of determining +identity structure type, as anything which is not ruined. + +Care of the standards: With respect to the enclosure +structure standard, if the sheet of paper inside the envelope +is turned over in the envelope, or is allowed to project out +of the open and of the envelope, the standard is \uline{ruined}. Thus, +it is advised that if the shoot is shaken around in the envelope, +a hand or other surface be held against the open end to prevent +the sheet from coming out. With respect to the organic-rotation +structure standard, from the time the standard comes into one's +possession, it must be turned over once a day or it is \uline{ruined}. +The exception is that if one can make it into a strip by +joining opposite edges of it, without tearing its fibers, that +is, tearing or creasing it, then it does not have to be turned +over, and it is not ruined. If the standard is heated until it +becomes a gas, it is \uline{ruined}. If the standard is transmuted into +a gold leaf by nuclear bombardment, it is \uline{ruined}. It is advised +that persons who do not know all this or are careless or destructive +not be allowed to handle the standards. + +\section{Concept Art: Work Such That No One Knows What's Going On (July 1961)} + +[Ono just has to guess whether this work exists and if it does what it is like.] + +\section{Concept Art: Innperseqs (May--July 1961)} + +A "halpoint" iff whatever is at any point in space, in the fading rainbow halo which appears to surround a small bright light when one looks at it through glasses fogged by having been breathed on, for as long as the point is in the halo. + +An "inittpoint" iff a halpoint in the initial vague outer ring of its halo. + +An "inn'perseq" iff a sequence of sequences of halpoints such that all the halpoints are on one (initial) radius of a halo; the members of the first sequence are initpoints; for each of the other sequences, the first member (a "consequent") is got from the non-first members of the preceding sequence (the "anteeedents") by being the inner endpoint of the radial seg-ment in the vague outer ring whom they are on the segment, and the dater members (if any) are initpoints or first mem-bers of preceding sequences; all first members of sequences other than the last appear as non-first members, and halpoints appear only once as non-first members; and the last sequence has one member. + +Indeterminacy A rtotally determinate innperseq' iff an innperseq in which one is aware of (specifies) all halpoints. + +An rantecedentally indeterminate innperseql iff an innperseq in which one is aware of (specifies) only each consequent and the radial segment beyond it. + +A rhalpointally indeterminate innperseq-liff an innporseq in Mich one is aware of (specifies) only the radial segment in the vague outer ring, and its inner endpoint, as it progresses inward. + + |