DEEP SCRATCH

Author: flyagaric23

  • My Trip to Chitchen Itza and Tulum 21st December 2012

    http://www.360cities.net/javascripts/krpano/krpano.swf
    The Great Ball Court, Chitchen Itza (South End) in Mexico Amsterdam-Madrid-Cancun-Chitchen Itza-Tulum-Cancun-Madrid-Amsterdam (19th-26th December 2012)

    Tuesday 18th December, 2012: AMSTERDAM

    Board plane-Amsterdam (11.00), exit plane
    Take off from Madrid, exit….
    ‘The hunger Games’ in flight movie
    babies crying all the way
    ….into Cancun (6012 Kilometers from Madrid)
    Met with nova ‘red’ apple travelling to Cancun city,
    A Hotel room for 660 pesos, split fair
    Good fan, smelly sheets.

    Hip convo’ with nova, including
    fire up of the CERN super collider
    on the 21st December
    A fascinating story of 23 yr old North Korean boy,
    who escaped the prison complex to tell
    his Orwellian tale.
    Monsanto death cultures…
    sound of oil rushing under the ground,
    Our mother planet degraded daily.

    And Permaculture, the mosaic of new tribes,
    those who disperse the seeds of solution
    An array of characters R>A>I>N>B>O>W
    coming together to
    start a new world word:
    I LOVE YOU.

    Visited British pub with live covers ,
    6 people in the bar. 160 pesos for 2 corona.
    a bit steep me thinks.

    Wednesday 19th December 2012 (Cancun)

    Up early with nova, packin’ bags, and board coach
    back to airport, meet the earthlings
    jamming at airport: Chris, Issac,
    Cappi, Ashley, Ra and Jonathon,
    bringing the musical magix

    Waiting hours for the synthesis coach,
    THE OTHERS FIND EACH OTHER
    Packed bus of the unhinged
    depart around 6 P.M
    to Piramide Hotel, the cues, chaos, trickets.

    I hope to get performer pass and
    sell my 500 dollar ticket to dude behind me

    Michael refuses to believe my truth
    about being the house band drummer
    for Synthesis2012!
    Ticket funk, and graphical wizards
    all around me. I concede and take the full
    experience pass.

    Cafe hang with the earthlings,
    Camping in KIM’s tent without KIM,
    who thankfully found a room
    donated her tent to the fly.

    I scored some Mexi’ weed, seed and stalk
    rolled and talked opposite cop shop
    with Jonathan and Justin
    showing off ‘starwalk’ Ipad App and
    Solstice Galactic alignment.
    Angry looking Cops buzzed
    the temporary camp ground.
    As it turned out i was lucky to get a tent
    and/or a room during the festival.

    Thursday 20th December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Visit Piramide hotel pool with Chris and Shawn Berry.
    Qucik Swim
    first pano photo of mini Kukulcan Piramide
    Meet with Fantuzzi.
    Practice drum parts in room.

    Opening ceremony at Hacienda
    Shabazz, Al Tourre,
    Fantuzzi wisdom and smiles,
    Panoramas at sun down.
    Divine feminine meme.

    (Synthesis coach did not make the long trip
    festival equipment was missing
    musicians and artists pull together to figure out
    what they have.

    I hear more than three rumors
    there IS a drum kit, and then four that
    there is NOT a drum kit!?!?
    I thankfully find a bed in a shared room with Jaris
    and his band, who i also jam with.

    informed by Synthesis2012
    organizers at dinner
    that we’ll be meeting at 5.00 A.M
    outside the piramide HOTEL to
    honor the moment of the Winter Solstice
    with a candle walk to Chitchen Itza
    and the Mayan ruins 10 minutes down the road.
    we were to wear white, and be of sober mind.

    Friday 21st Winter solstice. 2012. (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    430 up. Flossed my teeth. Ate some words
    Candle walk and song, shuffle and smile. Minty fresh
    The Candle drip from the mouth of the man
    in the candle holders.

    The spooky wind blowing out candles
    My lighters maxed out!
    Hoooo naaaab kooooo.
    Hoooo naaaab kooooo.

    Ticket funk beyond the Kong sized wall
    gifted super bright green superfoods by Rainbow kids
    After 30 mins’ unconscious incompetence
    Synthesis tribe gain access to (time machine?)
    Panoramas dictate my first movements

    Sun ruh and Michael JaiDev criss crossing
    Sun, moon, stars all out.
    Panoramas. Video and audio phenomena
    Mayan Ceremony, the press gang
    My apple, my toothfloss minty FRESH.

    The Hawk and Condor fly above the Pyramid
    many pray, some dance, all gaze,
    many snap and click
    fiddle with zips and clicking
    wack pack snaps.

    Here we are, spacetime invaders,
    putting our bean-sprouts in the mix
    …aeons later, 10 panos or so,
    The ball court, temple of Tables
    Glyphs, Pictographix, Graphs, Maps,
    Cenotes, Tree’s, ants, sun beams
    Shadows tales and tales and tales

    Caroline Casey interviewing Kevin
    Whitesides. Wise words on Terence,
    The Trickster Redeemer, the play
    The timewave, the 2012 meme in the
    BIGGER picture.

    Sitting and rapping with Carol and Mark Stone,
    waiting for steve vermin (Swami Beyondananda)
    Re-connecting with Michael Stocker of
    Seaflow (whom I met in the early part of 2000’s
    when I lived in the Bay Area).

    Rapping about Michael New book
    some Lilly, some Thelonious Monk.
    Walk to hotel with Caroline Casey and Michael.
    Food at Hacienda with group, and orientation
    Beer and the thought of my Drum kit in the air?

    Meet Mayan scholar called Alphonso.
    Kevin W. and his sweet girlfriend.
    We discussed his new Raw book project!
    His proposed Terence Mckenna transcription Project.

    I go Jam with the earthlings
    in their room till early hours, then
     Retire back to bed
    and sleep pretty well really.

    Saturday 22nd December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Dreams of a final Drum kit theory,
    Up at 8 for good fruits and veg. and juices. 
    I discover my Fantuzzi gig moved to 8 PM

    See Caroline, sit and enjoy the Luminaries hip hop
    Group dinner with thrive gambles, Swami beyondananda
    His loverly partner and Caroline.
    I draw the Konnokol pyramid for Mr. ‘Thrive’
    He gives support during my show without cymbals.

    Fantuzzi show at 8
    my sticks/brushes missing. I improvise
    buying two bottled beers and emptying them
    placing the bottles on the stands
    PIING PING

    Earthlings invite me to their jam
    Technical Hick-ups, not on behalf of the band
    a challenging set,
    made it through with impossible
    latency issues, Latency…. and
    managed to throw down hard
    for the last freestyle.

    Chris and I went for beers in taxi
    trip to a backstreet hut, a Tarrantino set.
    4 GRANDE beers 160 pesos.
    minty fresh.

    Van parked up outside hacienda,
    We board with earthlings, rap de ruiz,
    Beatbox jam and rap to the
    campground Ascendance stage.

    Funkin shuffle all night till morning,
    till the following night in fact
    Locals in the dance, smiles, fire spinning,
    goddess patrol. In the trees!

    Goddess dance, fire, baby faces, sunrise,
    local maya, to them the mothership?
    Great Stage pyramid, Fantuzzi and Kat, Justin. Chris.
    Earthlings. Sun Ruh, Mr. Henson having a ball.

    Sunday 23rd December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Taxi from camp with Chris Michael and Mr X.
    Cocoa share, chocolate shaman tale,
    breakfast with sunrise at Hacienda.

    the story of the solstice by Michael!
    The Litter, the flower gifts, (intersecting with news item)
    hands around pyramid,
    Condor and Hawk together.

    Drum kit is gone again?
    Now its back in the form of an
    An electronic kit. (with a broken bass drum)
    but better than nothing, which is what we had,
    so Aho to that.
    Schroedingers Drum Kit paradox?

    Trip to the pool briefly,
    Caroline arrives, we hear Patrick Flannagan,
    smoke a rollie and watch Swami Perform.
    My next live Show wth Jaris, Greg Pit, Oliver.
    The Peace tribe band perform

    I improvised a kick drum from
    an upright hand drum
    thanks RC.

    Carol delivered her
    exquisite work-shop
    play at heart.

    A special invite to Dinner
    at ik ilk with carol.
    John carlson, Mark Stone, zia zeff, Paul Carey,
    Kevin Whitesides and others.

    RAW talk with Kevin, Finnegans Wake and beyonda.
    Raps with John Carlson:
    The Mayan Letters by Charles Olson,
    which came to my attention by way of John Sinclair.

    I Described my interest in the principle of
    epic poetry as a medium for Mayan studies,
    pictoglyphix. Ezra Pound studies, Olson, Joyce.
    Kevin and FW, RAW, and Terence Mckenna.

    Lift back with Paul to Stardust Inn and a last night
    Earthlings Jam, but just closing up
    Ah, moments to late, but off to sleep,
    must catch bus to Tulum on the morn.

    Monday 24th December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Up  at the 7 AM.
    Sun Ruh. Jaris, Greg and Oliver all trap too
    Coach to tulum. Panorama coach,
    seated new to AKI the Japanese poet (also in Pyramid Pano)
    I gave him my Basho book as a parting gift in Tulum

    Dinner with Chris and Indra.
    Head to beach hotel. Wow wow wow.
    Swimming with indra 2 miles out past breakers,
    Singing, wisdom tale, briefly thought we were
    being pushed out to sea.

    Good Meal after, with margaritta,
    Geopolitical raps with Chris,
    Cool beach hut hang, soft room jam,
    cello vibes with Indra.

    Tuesday 25th December 2012 (Tulum)

    Awake up in Tulum 7A.M
    Diamente hotel and the perfect cabin PARADISE
    Chris and i stroll beech to find web access
    success at the restaurant, good food.

    Christmas day on beach.
    See raw360 for the first time.
    Visit site of mini festival and try to hustle gig

    Take taxi to cenote encantado with Chris,
    arrive in dark, sit around fire, Jaris, Tuzzi, Zia, Greg Pitt
    Diego, Gizzele, Pedro, Kat, Sky,
    and synthesis folks, and others gather.

    Shroom choco splitt, play drums
    Fire pit drums, many more arrive from the blackness,
    Mayan elders, mexican shaman, all sitting in.

    Acoustic girl, jamming on occupy and my dnB tip.
    Sitting with loverly Zia. Amazement and tears
    at Pedro and his girlfriend singing.
    The Bambino tears. Oh Sleep on,
    the wooden floor in shack quite good for my back

    Wednesday 26th December, 2012 (Tulum)

    Up at 7 on wood,
    post shroom mind seeks to go swim in cenote
    and film underwater places, I go back in again
    with Zia and friends on a boat, diving,
    searching for the crocodile.

    Listening to the flute, diving and
    pulling up rocks from bottom. Swimming,
    laughing with love. So clear waters.
    Barely dry off and take taxi back to diamente for bags

    Fortunately they are there , I pack bags,
    head to Tulum town center, chris kindly
    lends me 100 Dollar!

    I take taxi back to cenote, catch Tuzzi just leaving,
    with Kat, and Jeff and Zia. (by seconds)
    Big kiss and a hug.

    Journey back to town to eat lasagna.
    Buy some gifts. Head back to cancun,
    Time is tight for tuzzi and kat.
    I say goodbyes. I check in, drink bad coffee,
    board plane, exit-Madrid.
    board plane, exit-Amsterdam.

    –Steven ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt (31st December, 2012)
    http://www.raw360.net

    Steven James Pratt

  • 4 days until December 21st 2012

     “Conspiracy theory, in my humble opinion, is a kind of epistemological cartoon about reality.—Terence Mckenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time.

    I must remember to remember the 21st of December. Who else will remind me? I must have my room in order and my personal space hoovered and clean, ready for any visitors who might stop by. (little did he know that fly would be playing drums at Chitchen Itza and the birthplace of the Mayan Long Count calendar)

    Flyting: Selected Writings

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/f5pSkqP

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  • Outline for a short film/animation/story?

    Raising Mycelium

    Terence Mckenna awakens from a long sleep, an extraterrestrial mycelim strain enters his corpse and reanimates him.

    T starts a journey across california to sprinkle the magical mycelium onto the ashes and corpses of  Timothy Leary, Ken Kessey, Robert Anton Wilson and Bill Hicks.

    Together, the group travel across the USA to Washington in a yellow bus, taking on the presidential race, the war on some drugs, immortalists, scientologists and fundamentalists of all denominations under the sun.

    Upon reaching Washington the group of countercultural zombies stage a psychedelic rock concert. Soon drawing the attention of government officials, the zombies have a stand off with the police, arguing their case on human rights, zombie banks, the war on some drugs, and the death of satire.

    The group retires to a new Millbrook in 2013, so developing Artificial General Intelligence and a new open source school for hopen learning, O’pen research. A radiodio show, open-circuit TV, broadercasting services, alive performance space, study area squared, Kitchen Itza, Mu-music rooms.

    –Steven ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt.

    Maybelogic
    Dr Marshmallow Cubicle
    Radio Free Amsterdam
    Temple Dragon Band
    Garaj Mahal
    Synthesis2012

    Steven James Pratt

  • Fly Agaric 23 to play Synthesis2012 Festival, Chitchen Itza

     I’ll be heading out to play drums with Fantuzzi and others at Synthesis2012, and enjoy all the celebrations and activities in and around Chitchen Itza. I’ll be writing and recording my experiences, so expect some feedback before the new year.

    I look forward to seeing you out there. Love, steve fly

    http://synthesis2012.com/

    Synthesis 2012 Festival- A Mayan Calendar Celebration in Chichen Itza and Piste Pueblo

    Welcome to the Synthesis 2012 festival, A global gathering, world music festival and spiritual celebration in Piste pueblo and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. This 2012 festival will occur at the end of the Mayan Calendar on Dec 20th to 23rd this year. We will arrive on the 20th and participate in the global gathering on the Winter Solstice on the 21st. The Synthesis 2012 festival team is working directly with the local Mayan people, event producers in Mexico to produce this historical event.
    Synthesis 2012 is also collaborating with “New Beginnings 12-21 Concert” and Mindpix Corp (www.mindpix.com).
    Imagine yourself here at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan with the Mayans and thousands of others at the dawn of the new age and cycle this December.

    Mayan Calendar Celebration

    Contrary to media sensationalism, the end of the Mayan Calendar does not mean the end of the world. When we listen to the words of the Mayan Elders, we learn that the end of the Mayan Calendar is comparable to watching your car’s odometer roll over to all zeroes. The Mayan prophecies foretell of a transition to the age of the 5th Sun, a new time when consciousness, prosperity and the Divine Feminine prevail.

    Mayan Calendar Dates

    Although scholars may debate whether or not December 21st, 2012 is the exact ending date for the Mayan Calendar, we choose to celebrate this time of transition at Chichen Itza on this date because it is also the Winter Solstice and the Galactic Alignment. We invite you to come celebrate and co-create with us for 3 days of music, dance, ceremony and intention-setting for this bridge of transition to the golden age of the 5th Sun at our 2012 festival.

    Synthesis 2012 Festival Attractions

    We are currently offering international entertainment including Reggae, West African Drum & Dance, Steel Drums, Flamenco Fusion,  Afro-Funk Fusion, Cuban,  Mayan Music & Dance, Prehispanic Music and Mexican Dance as well as name bands such as Scott Huckabay, Chris Berry & Pangea, Human, Freedom, Diane Patterson, Al Torre, Mirabai & Ceiba. There will also be a variety of presentations by keynote speakers, a tour of the Mayan temples and access to special places known only to locals and regular visitors. Synthesis 2012 festival participants will also receive a copy of Transforming Through 2012, an in-depth compendium of experts on the meaning of 2012.

    http://synthesis2012.com/

    Steven James Pratt

  • What if John Adams came back to Amsterdam?

    What if John Adams came back to Amsterdam?

    “Novelty of scene, the inexperience of the actors
    against paying for things we haven’t ordered” J.Adams (Canto LXVIII)

    Over ocean wave and round bend of bay
    John Adams with his wooden stump,
    missing eye, parrot and hat
    arrived at Amsterdam Central Station.

    From the land of Mars rovers
    Google and the CIA
    John Adams changed the game
    together with George Washington
    buying cannabis retail outlets
    and hemp factory unions.

    Bringing it all to Europe,
    hemp seed, oil mills, guns
    and the wah-wah pedal
    ‘we must agree on something’
    he said.

    And new loans from Holland
    to buy guns and dope
    and give em to the people
    some truffles are a valuable
    currency here’
    he said.

    John Adams bought a house
    on Princengracht and opened
    a foundation ‘Unistat
    cannabis culture’ along with west
    coast sexmagic and free jazz.

    Necklaces bore the motto
    JOHN ADAMS FOR PEACE
    bongs and rolling tins donned more
    slogans: KEEP OUT OF EUROPE, and
    IGNORANCE OF COIN, CREDIT
    AND CIRCULATION!

    John Adams cycled along the Gracht
    like Albert Hoffmann, a stranger in a
    strange new land, pipe ablaze with the
    finest East Indian charas and Haze.

    “and the Farben works still intact”
    he said to the polite officer who stopped
    John and issued an ‘on-the-spot’ fine
    due to insufficient illumnated seers
    or simply (no bicycle lights)

    J.A came to Amsterdam and unified bankers
    in support for CANNABIS
    the British and French found this to be
    a bitter ball to swallow, at first
    “J.A will provide” said Washington, sweating.

    “I have been in the most curious country among the most incomprehensible people and under the most singular constitution of government in the world” J.A

    Steven James Pratt

  • RAW360.net (21st December Launch)

    www.raw360.net will go live December 21st, 2012.

    I made a short introduction to RAW360 by way of describing ‘the tale of the tribe’ and how, in my humble opinion, raw360.net presents a new medium by which to process the encyclopedic and the epic, in literature, poetry, and historicism.

    360 PANORAWMA AND THE TALE OF THE TRIBE.

    (An overview of TTOTT synthesis in the age of web 2.0)

    Over the last ten years, in the company of a sleepless band of independent researchers, I have been tuned onto special information processing of The Tale Of The Tribe (TTOTT) developed exclusively by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007).

    Today in July 2011 we embark on a whole new way of communicating some parts of RAWs ‘Tale of the tribe’ by introducing new ways of seeing and new ways of navigating ‘information processing spaces’ spaces that reflect the architects that RAW highlights in his TTOTT foundation.

     The multi-sensory experience of interacting with the new ‘info-process tools’ feature flash based 360 panoramas and embedded media in a way that ploughs the language for the appropriate inspiring flow.

    I walk in the footsteps of those writers whom wish to show delight in the limitations and boundaries of the art form. Visit any major writers website and be confronted with audio, video, texts and hyperlinks, the sum total of which, I feel, often overshadows the individual media by which they maybe regarded. (a moving picture with surround sound audio of Dali’ painting, for example, may exceed the attension span of most domesticated primates who ‘see’ his static paintings, although they move the mind more than most!

    A new synthesis has emerged amidst the convergence of information technology, social networking and the will to share, and what we are doing with the PANORAWMA is making a new synthesis explicit and demonstrable by example. Look and see, click and watch, read, listen process. I feel that in 2011/12 we can build special ‘information processing tools’ that are designed to interact with a special individuals ‘programming’ and ‘programmers’ and what better place to build a foundation other than that started by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson?

    Together the ‘programming’ (that maybe defined as the principles and methodologies distilled from the works of RAW) and the ‘programmers’ (in this special case scenario the dozen or so characters from RAWs TTOTT) produce a remarkable comprehensive super-computer: an operating system that includes the unique mixture of innovations that we get from study of the tale of the tribe, a new global epic including history and magic.

    Here I shd. offer a word on why you must read on and how RAWs TTOTT  harnesses a lifetimes study in what I, and many scholar activists alike; consider the most important and critical ‘information skills’ to help planetary humanity, make it together and explore mind, earth, space (inner/outer) and each other in harmony.
    Dr. Wilson read and processed each of the characters in his tale of the tribe over a period of approx’ sixty years. SIXTY YEARS, with a taoist modernist method of processing these characters, balanced progressive and featuring suspended judgement, multi-valued logic, poetic surprise principles and cybernetic mathematical balance.

    RAW exhibited a beautifully appropriate 21st century ‘programme’ of humanitarian information processing with a witty creative edge long long ago, and, I may add defined lawyer run capitalism, banking syndicates and secret societies, simultaneously with ‘quantum psychology’ and ‘the eight circuit model of consciousness’ with the likes of Dr. Timothy Leary. He helps place you, the reader, interactor in the driving seat enabled, better informed.

    RAW refused to step down or stop striking his hilariously precise blows at the greedy and corrupt  mummerjumpers who block and sabatage innovation, free-trade (in its proper sense), and art-run humanism from breaking out across planet earth tomorrow, and out into the greater solar system maybe in a matter of months.

    I think that the least we can do might consist of correlating some of his favorite innovators and humanitarian artists into a RAW universe, (PANORAWMA: a place that reflects RAW through the people he expressly named running together in a rogue gang, a sleepless krewe consisting of magicians, historians, writers, poets, film makers, linguists, media theorists, design scientists, comedians, heretics, all raving together in a big soup, engineered into cyberspace by the greatest living web 2.0 geniuses and visionary artists actively building the PANORAMA right here, everywhere and nowhere at once.

    The new 360 degree panorawma spaces are an opportunity for synthesis between the characters from RAWs TToTT, a synthesis between the innovations and principles they contributed to the collective human knowledge base (2011).

    The precise and equalibrius writing of RAW naturally provides such a synthesis, and his books and articles remain testament to this comprehensive wholism as deployed through the medium of literature. The PANORAWMA project reflects the process of making a movie in comparrison with writing a book. We are building an interactive Universe where activities and events take place through multi-media synthesis: video, image, text, audio, game play.

    In my opinion the key to building a harmonious Universe lies in the inter-connectivity between all of its parts, and the tale of the tribe by RAW seems to have been developed to exploit this inter-connectivity, where any of the charcters can be processed and permutated with any other to produce meaningful and complimentary mixtures. The art of mixing and of juxtaposition, however, often requires a very special touch, a rhythm and timing and sense for improvisation, to then travel the posible pathways, the choices, and analyse the path of least resistance, or that which resolves the immediate sense of opposing forces. Enter the poet, enter the painter, enter the photographer, enter the programmer, creating together to balance the equation: language vs. The equation.

    –Steven ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt.
    www.raw360.net

    “Keep the lasagna flying”–Robert Anton Wilson.

  • 1922 year 1 of MODERNISM (Book review)

    A new age dawned on October 30 1921, said Ezra Pound, who claimed that the Christian Era ended on the day that James Joyce finished the final paragraph of Ulysses. Three months later Joyce’s book was published on the palindromic date of 2/2/22 – his 40th birthday —http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9712690/Constellation-of-Genius-by-Kevin-Jackson-review.html

  • Preface to ‘The Mayan Letters by CHarles Olson.

    For me, and my world right now (9th December 2012) Charles Olson and his book ‘The Mayan Letters’ makes perfect sense.

    Here’s the preface:

    Preface to Mayan Letters

    by Charles Olson

    Sometime toward the end of 1950, it was in December I think, but the letter isn’t dated, I heard that Charles Olson was off to Yucatan. A sudden “fluke”—the availability of some retirement money owed him from past work as a mail carrier—gave him enough for the trip, “not much but a couple of hundred, sufficient, to GO, be, THERE. . . .” By February I had got another letter, “have just this minute opened this machine in this house lerma. . . .” From that time on I heard from him regularly, and so was witness to one of the most incisive experiences ever recorded. Obviously it is very simple to call it that, that is, what then happened, and what Olson made of his surroundings and himself. Otherwise, it is necessary to remember that Olson had already been moving in this direction, back to a point of origin which would be capable of extending “history” in a new and more usable sense. In his book on Melville, Call Me Ishmael , he had made the statement, “we are the last first people . . .”; and in his poetry, most clearly in “The Kingfishers,” there was constant emphasis on the need to break with the too simple westernisms of a ‘greek culture.’
    Yucatan made the occasion present in a way that it had not been before. The alternative to a generalizing humanism was locked, quite literally, in the people immediately around him, and the conception, that there had been and could be a civilization anterior to that which he had come from, was no longer conjecture, it was fact. He wrote me, then, “I have no doubt, say, that the American will
    Charles Olson, Mayan Letters (Bañalbufar, Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953).
    ― 103 ―
    more and more repossess himself of the Indian past. . . . If you and I see the old deal as dead (including Confucius, say), at the same time that we admit the new is of the making of our own lives & references, yet, there is bound to be a tremendous pick-up from history other than that which has been usable as reference, the moment either that history is restored (Sumer, or, more done, Chichen or Uaxactun) or rising people (these Indians, as camposinos ripe for Communist play—as ripe as were the Chinese, date 1921, June 30). . . .” The problem was, to give form, again, to what the Maya had been—to restore the “history” which they were. For in the Maya was the looked-for content: a reality which is “wholly formal without loss of intimate spaces, with the ball still snarled, yet, with a light (and not stars) and a heat (not androgyne) which declares, the persistence of both organism and will (human). . . .”
    In editing the present selection, I have tried to maintain a continuity in spite of the limits of space and the loss of some letters which it has meant. I have indicated excisions with dots ( . . .), whenever such were necessary.
    February 12, 1953

  • Fattening Blogs For Snakes (a John Sinclair blog)

    Fattening Blogs For Snakes (a John Sinclair blog)

    Music, radio shows, reviews, movies, photography, flyers, poetry, art, painting. Orbiting the constellation of John Sinclair.

    Kept by steve fly agaric 23.

  • Open Source History (a novel)

     
    • first draft.
    • V.2.0.
    • Google sites
    • Lulu.com
    • Started November 2008. Amsterdam.