DEEP SCRATCH

Category: James Joyce

  • AM is for AMANITA MUSCARIA: PISS AND FINNEGANS WAKE P. 570-71

    AMANITA MUSCARIA, WORD ‘PISS AND FINNEGANS WAKE P. 570-71.

    “The cyclops, however, “Is” also soma, the “Not-born One-eye” the source of unitary vision. Therefore, while the giant (or dragon) may not appear as wise, nevertheless he frequently guards a “treasure” associated with wisdom or even soma, such as a golden fleece, golden apples, or simply gold. —Peter Lamborn Wilson, Irish Soma.

    FLYNAGAINS AWAKE AGAIN BLOG 2005.
    FW BLOG 2005.
    Horseplay & Finnegans Wake. BLOG 2006.
    FW Part 1. Episode 5. Page 106. 2006.
    Resurrect The Wake 2007. (Full Article)
    THE BREW IS ALL 2007.
    JOYCE AND POUND TRANSFORMATIONS 2007.
    ALP 111 and RAWs WAKE 2008.
    BACK IN THE MUSEYROOM. Page 8 of FW. 2008.
    The Jinnies and the Museyroom. Page 8 cont… 2008.


    Yes, O pity! At earliest moment! That prickly heat feeling!
    Forthink not me spill it’s at always so guey. Here we shall do a
    far walk (O pity) anygo khaibits till the number one of sairey’s
    place. Is, is. I want you to admire her sceneries illustrationing
    our national first rout, one ought ought one. We shall too
    downlook on that ford whcre Sylvanus Sanctus washed but
    hurdley those tips of his anointeds. Do not show ever retrorsehim,
    crockodeyled, till that you become quite crimstone in the face!
    Beware! guardafew! It is Stealer of the Heart! I am anxious in
    regard you should everthrown your sillarsalt. I will dui sui,
    tef –570

    nute ! These brilling waveleaplights! Please say me how sing you
    them. Seekhem seckhem! They arise from a clear springwell in
    the near of our park which makes the daft to hear all blend. This
    place of endearment! How it is clear! And how they cast their
    spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaff
    branchings! The druggeted stems, the leaves incut on trees! Do you
    can their tantrist spellings? I can lese, skillmistress aiding. Elm,
    bay, this way, cull dare, take a message, tawny runes ilex sallow,
    meet me at the pine. Yes, they shall have brought us to the water
    trysting, by hedjes of maiden ferm. then here in another place is
    their chapelofeases, sold for song, of which you have thought
    my praise too much my price. O ma ma! Yes, sad one of Ziod?
    Sell me, my soul dear! Ah, my sorrowful, his cloister dreeping
    of his monkshood, how it is triste to death, all his dark ivytod!
    Where cold in dearth. Yet see, my blanching kissabelle, in the
    under close she is allso gay, her kirtles green, her curtsies white,
    her peony pears, her nistlingsloes! I, pipette, I must also
    quicklingly to tryst myself softly into this littleeasechapel. I would
    rather than Ireland! But I pray, make! Do your easiness! O,
    peace, this is heaven! O, Mr Prince of Pouringtoher, whatever
    shall I pppease to do? Why do you so lifesighs, my precious, as
    I hear from you, with limmenings lemantitions, after that swollen
    one? I am not sighing, I assure, but only I am soso sorry about
    all in my saarasplace. Listen, listen ! I am doing it. Hear more to
    those voices! Always I am hearing them. Horsehem coughs
    enough. Annshee lispes privily. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Part:3 Episode:14 Page:571

    From here you might like to check out WITCHES BREW by Eric Rosenbloom, that explores Joyce’s use of alchemy within Finnegans Wake. PDF Download..
    Maybe you’ll listen to Bitches Brew by Miles Davis while your reading?

    I’m off to bed..

    –fly

    http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fflyagaric23%2Fshannanigums-wave-book-1-chapter-1-d& Shannanigums Wave Book 1 Chapter 1 d by flyagaric23

    Steven James Pratt

  • IE is for Interview by Email: They shall come to know Go(o)d

    Every yin needs a yang. Every Hodge
    needs a Podge. We should be united.–Illuminatus Trilogy! Page 423!

    Fly: Could you explain a little bit about your holographic prose?

    RAW: No. I’m struggling to write a whole book about
    that right now and can’t imagine how to
    condense it. Besides, it’s the hardest
    part of my work to translate…
    I’ll give you two related samples from the Illuminatus and see what you
    can make of them: “They shall come to gno gods.”
    “They shall come to gnu godz.”

    email from–Tue, 8 Jan 2002, 11:10:54-0800.

    I have slept on this small riddle Bob spun for me, or i shd/ say i have not communicated my thoughts very much, and in retrospect i think it helps us in our continued investigative and independently minded research into RAW and his communications. So here i will expand a little on my research into these related samples.

    “SIMON MAGUS. You will come to know gods.”–Illuminatus Trilogy, Page 183.

    And then a little further down the page we find:

    “The note said:
    “Machen’s dols = Lovecraft’s dholes?”

    VECTORS. You will come to no gods.”

    Near the end of the bugguiness of Finnegans Wake (page 615) we find the line

    “Mucksrats which bring up about uhrweckers they will come to
    know good.”

    I suspect Bob might of sailed across this line on one or two of his many readings of Finnegans Wake. And he put it into I.T! ?

    While researching this small puzzle that Bob left for me to unravel, i discovered something else that grabbed me like T-Rex or King Kong, out of my seat. Typical of RAW in many ways, or typical of the ever expanding infinite-flux of being? On Page 183 of Illuminatus, the page on which we find Simon Magus saying: You will come to know gods, also features a dialogue about Amanita Muscaria (fly agaric) in the context of the investigation of Professor J. N. Marsh, who appears to have gone missing, in the novel?

    Maybe Bob was actually answering the question directly without being consciously aware that his example from Illuminatus! was right next to a passage describing fly agaric intoxication and some of its background history. (Amanita Muscaria appears as the 24th entry of the INDEX to Cosmic Trigger, and this is where i first came across it in the context of RAW. I had however read a little of Terence Mckenna around about the same time who also writes of Amanita in his book “Food of the Goods”. But the point here is that i was still unaware of Amanita and its use and ab-use within Illuminatus Trilogy! (!). Up until re-reading the book in the class Illuminatus! with Bob himself.)

    As this communication with Bob was facilitated by email, he might have noticed fly agaric@hotmail.com, my email address, and then so maybe he did choose the line from Simon Magus especially for fly, as an answer to my question about Hologramic Prose?

    With a fully searchable PDF version of Illuminatus Trilogy! you can find thousands of Joycean like–coincidances of contraries–but often on a different level of magnification to Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and its maximal condensation. Hodge-Podge seems to have Viconian, Joycean, Zen-Koan like qualities tied-up-with-it.

    During lunch (which always ended with golden apfel-strudel), Galley and Eichmann danced for her,
    a complex ballet which Hagbard called “Hodge-Podge”; as many times as she saw this, she never
    was able to determine how they changed costumes at the climax, in which Hodge became Podge and
    Podge became Hodge. –Page 412.

    And just like the DANCE of Hodge-Podge described, the Illuminatus Trilogy itself comes to a climax with the Appendix and its greater explanation and exploration of Hagbard’s Hodge-Podge principle in a more Geo-political, Historical, cybernetic language.

    In this chaotic period, the Hodge and the Podge are in dynamic balance. There is no stasis: The
    balance is always shifting and homeostatic, in the manner of the ideal “self-organizing system” of
    General Systems Theory or Cybernetics. The Illuminati, and all authoritarian types in general, dislike
    such ages so much that they try to prevent any records of their existence from reaching the general
    public. Pre-Chou China was one such period, and its history (except for some fragments in Taoist
    lore) is largely lost; we do know, however, that the I Ching was reorganized when the Chou Dynasty
    introduced patriarchal authoritarianism to China. –434.

    I find a new beauty in the fact that Illuminatus Trilogy! combines these literary principles, in action (Captured by Theartre) and also with a CODEX, or appendix that begins to divulge the methods by which the author created the “Action” of the novel itself, and also being bound into the novel itself in a self-referncing or “hologramic Prose” technique; unique to Uncle Bob and his magikal communications.

    I have started a piece called the Unkle Bob principle”which uses a term i read by Hugh Kenner in his book Joyce’s Voices to describe James Joyce’s technique of using a general principle, that i understand to mean: The voice of the narrator need NOT always be the narrator him or her-self. Kenner’s Uncle Charles Principle honors the character called uncle Charles who sits in his outhouse reading and doing his bog business, and maybe also narrating parts of Ulysses?

    Anyhow, i’ll be putting these bits of research together and then applying them to I.T! Plus adding some source’s and sauces.

    –DJ Fly Agaric 23
    MPHDJ

    Steven James Pratt

  • Back in the Museyroom. Page 8 of Finnegans Wake

    “enjoyable of our mounding’s mass, now Wallinstone national
    museum, with, in some greenish distance, the charmful
    waterloose country and the two quitewhite villagettes who hear show
    of themselves so gigglesomes minxt the follyages,

    (follyages, folly, fake, calendrical inconsistency, hstorical written method and inconsistency with VICO’ Bruno RAW Pound Mcluhan Korzybski, “Process” of history)

    the prettilees!
    Penetrators are permitted into the museomound free. Welsh and
    the Paddy Patkinses, one shelenk! Redismembers invalids of old
    guard find poussepousse pousseypram to sate the sort of their butt.
    For her passkey supply to the janitrix, the mistress Kathe. Tip.

    (The janitrix sounds like the “Oracle” type figure from the popular Matrix Trilogy of movies. Kathe, Kathe, where art our Kathe? Maybe Pound’s “Cathay” is evoked from the air-sound-power, Kathe has a key? Pound’s seal, calendoor dated from the publ;ication of Joyce’s ‘Ulysses” October 31st, 1922? TIP” on the outside window of the dreamers bedroom, the tree’s finger branch knocks’ TIP. Reminding the dreamer of the great tree.)

    This the way to the museyroom. Mind your hats goan in!
    Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a
    Prooshious gunn.

    (During my readings of this page for one of our weekly assignments at the Maybelogic Academy “Tale of the Tribe” class with RAW, i made up my mind that “Museyroom” sounded enough like “Mushroom” to grab my attension and make me read closely. I then went on to presume that Mycological terms were being used by Joyce, but mixed up with the more widely known historical war-stars and other war type language, military devices, but somehow de-flowered as fighting machines, and re-constructed as polyrhymic’ seeing devices. Neutral for the most part. But willing, more than willing to assist you in any area of research you wish to pursue, linguistic studies maybe at the least. The future of human language, humanity and our relationships to nature as the other more, exciting and critical studies to be pursuing.

    So my mushroom gloss theory for FW seems rather short sighted in retrospect, but now nearly 3 years later, i still remember my Mushroom gloss, but forgot that most of the references i originally used were grouped around page 8 of Finnegans Wake. I am back at page 8 by way of a commodius Vico’s of recirculation (searching Finnegans Wake on the internet for words and references that help define the new word “WOOt”, the title of a new album by the Jam-band for computer geeks “Garaj Mahal” who i recorded and played with in the United States 2001-2005. The second to top web link that came up when i typed finnegans wake concordex was a link that HIGHLIGHTED the word JINNIES, and when i followed the link i discovered they were spread over pages 8 and 9.

    So now i am back in the museyroom, musing over the JINNIES (the women) woven through the museum sequence like traces of perfume. (The plurabelle hologramic prose’ of Joyce writing of anything and everything in FW)

    This is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the
    Prooshious, the Cap and Soracer. This is the bullet that byng the flag of
    the Prooshious. This is the ffrinch that fire on the Bull that bang
    the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your
    pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of
    Lipoleum. Tip. Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his
    same white harse, the Cokenhape. This is the big Sraughter
    Willingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs and his ironed
    dux and his quarterbrass woodyshoes and his magnate’s gharters
    and his bangkok’s best and goliar’s goloshes and his
    pulluponeasyan wartrews. This is his big wide harse. Tip. This is the three
    lipoleum boyne grouching down in the living detch. This is an
    inimyskilling inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy,
    stooping. This is the bog lipoleum mordering the lipoleum beg. A
    Gallawghurs argaumunt. This is the petty lipoleum boy that
    was nayther bag nor bug. Assaye, assaye! Touchole Fitz
    Tuomush. Dirty MacDyke. And Hairy O’Hurry. All of them
    arminus-varminus. This is Delian alps. This is Mont Tivel,
    this is Mont Tipsey, this is the Grand Mons Injun. This is the
    crimealine of the alps hooping to sheltershock the three lipoleums.
    This is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting to read in their
    handmade’s book of stralegy while making their war undisides
    the Willingdone. The jinnies is a cooin her hand and the jinnies is
    a ravin her hair and the Willingdone git the band up. This is big
    Willingdone mormorial tallowscoop Wounderworker obscides
    on the flanks of the jinnies. Sexcaliber hrosspower. Tip. This “

    (A War Museum full of hyperdimensional “blogjects”
    and it seems to me today that considering the coded,
    encoded “ent-twinned” nature of their word “homes”
    these words–through Joyce’s poetic genius–are a precursor to the
    “enigma” type code “wars” that were of critical importance to the world wide wars erupting
    Just as gentle Joyce was falling into his own dreamstate.
    Ever since WW2, till Today, these cypher wars continue
    under many new more technologically charged names,
    Joyce’s Hologramic prose IMHO has stood the test of old father time
    very well, very very well indeed.
    In 2008 a single page of Finnegans Wake can hold various structural
    scaffolding upon which to hang a theory.

    Steven James Pratt

  • Woot the fook? the Jinnies and the museyroom.

    If your reading of James Joyces “Finnegans Wake” were to begin at zero years (the new Christian Gregorian Roman type millennium zero. 0. Or 2000 A.D.
    Then, maybe, while carefully reading each day, and dreaming it each night,
    you might, with a bit of luck, got all the way in to page 8 by now?
    In 2008?

    Page 8 from Finnegans Wake is one of my own favo-rites
    Of passages.
    I will first post the full page of Joyce’s work,
    Then go in with my goggles and flippers to flop around in the sea-weeds
    See what treasure i can PULL-UP!

    yours…

    fly agaric 23

    “enjoyable of our mounding’s mass, now Wallinstone national
    museum, with, in some greenish distance, the charmful
    waterloose country and the two quitewhite villagettes who hear show
    of themselves so gigglesomes minxt the follyages, the prettilees!
    Penetrators are permitted into the museomound free. Welsh and
    the Paddy Patkinses, one shelenk! Redismembers invalids of old
    guard find poussepousse pousseypram to sate the sort of their butt.
    For her passkey supply to the janitrix, the mistress Kathe. Tip.
    This the way to the museyroom. Mind your hats goan in!
    Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a
    Prooshious gunn. This is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the
    Prooshious, the Cap and Soracer. This is the bullet that byng the flag of
    the Prooshious. This is the ffrinch that fire on the Bull that bang
    the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your
    pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of
    Lipoleum. Tip. Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his
    same white harse, the Cokenhape. This is the big Sraughter
    Willingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs and his ironed
    dux and his quarterbrass woodyshoes and his magnate’s gharters
    and his bangkok’s best and goliar’s goloshes and his
    pulluponeasyan wartrews. This is his big wide harse. Tip. This is the three
    lipoleum boyne grouching down in the living detch. This is an
    inimyskilling inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy,
    stooping. This is the bog lipoleum mordering the lipoleum beg. A
    Gallawghurs argaumunt. This is the petty lipoleum boy that
    was nayther bag nor bug. Assaye, assaye! Touchole Fitz
    Tuomush. Dirty MacDyke. And Hairy O’Hurry. All of them
    arminus-varminus. This is Delian alps. This is Mont Tivel,
    this is Mont Tipsey, this is the Grand Mons Injun. This is the
    crimealine of the alps hooping to sheltershock the three lipoleums.
    This is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting to read in their
    handmade’s book of stralegy while making their war undisides
    the Willingdone. The jinnies is a cooin her hand and the jinnies is
    a ravin her hair and the Willingdone git the band up. This is big
    Willingdone mormorial tallowscoop Wounderworker obscides
    on the flanks of the jinnies. Sexcaliber hrosspower. Tip. This “

    James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Book 1, Page 08.

    Reproduced and seduced by fly agaric 23
    2008.

    [p.s only 30 minutes ago did i decide to make this post, i was doing research into the word

    woot’ the title of the new Garaj Mahal album.

    woot the fook, i thought to myself, when i discovered this (Joycean) list, of synonyms…at wiki

    hoorah!, hurrah!
    hoorah!, hurray!
    huzzah!
    whoohoo!
    whoopee!
    yay!
    yeah!
    yes!
    yippee!
    alright!
    OMG!

    woot: “Of uncertain origin, it seems to have been derived from the obsolete ‘whoot’ which essentially is another way to say ‘hoot’ which itself is a shout or derisive laugh. Other sources suggest that it might be a corruption of root, shouted by hackers when they obtain root-level access in a targeted system. – http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/w00t”%5Dwoot at wiki

    “feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. “–James Joyce, Ulysses.

    Steven James Pratt
  • TTOTT is for The Tale of the Tribe: v1.0

    TTOTT is for The Tale of the Tribe: v1.0

    The Tale of the Tribe. [TOTT.]

    An ambiguous and widely missunderstood grouping of FIVE words, or four if you miss off THE’

    I think the phrase “A Poem including History” works as a helpful pointer. Finnegans Wake and the Cantos’

    Are each “The Tale of the Tribe” in their respective ways. “Illuminatus! Trilogy” too!

    These 3 texts when considered together may constitute a triangular structure, from which RAW’s TOTT SHINE most

    Brightly?

    Also the book by Michael Berstein [1980] “The Tale of the Tribe: The Modern verse epic of Ezra Pound.”

    Steers us once more toward uncle [EZ] who with [JJ] become the two primary exhibitors of

    RAW’s TOTT. [which i figure is NOT his final published book “email to the Universe”, but something much bigger

    woven and threaded throughout his books, and sombunall of his literary influences, an invisible landscape. ]

    So what i refer to as [RAW’s TOTT], as opposed to anybody else’s idea or conception/perception

    of the TOTT remains something we have yet to define. But he left us many clues. [rising drums and Cello’s]

    Maybe it requires a total revision of RAW’s entire catalogue

    With the new TOTT gloss, [best condensed at the back of his bookTSOG]

    To move closer to lifting this great ball of TOTT crystal IMHO.

    …the alphabet vs. the equation….?

    …language as Class Warfare…?

    Here’s a condensed paragraph from RAW, giving us
    Further clues:

    **I hereby acknowledge the debts my works owe to Remy de Gourmont,
    for his method of dissociation of ideas, to Alfred Korzybski, for his
    formulations of general semantics; to Richard Bandler, for his
    invension of neurolinguistic Programming; to Buckminster Fuller for his
    synergetics, to Claude Shannon and Norbert Weiner for their studies of
    control and communication between animals and/or machines; and to
    Ezra Pound for Ideogrammic Method.
    None of them deserve any blame for my errors or blunders.** -Robert Anton Wilson, email to the Universe.

    I would like to echo Bob’s sentiment here, as he does not deserve any blame for my earaws or blunterz.
    !

    And here we have a neat introduction to [RAW’s TOTT]compiled by the sparkling MLA.

    “==Tale of the Tribe==
    The first of Wilson’s MLA courses bridging the political,
    the social and the psychological, [[Tale of the Tribe]] promises to be a landmark
    journey with our dear Dr. Bob. Starring **Giordano Bruno, Giambatista Vico,
    Friederich Nietzsche, Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Alfred Korzybski,
    James Joyce, Buckminster Fuller, Claude Shannon** and **Marshall McLuhan** —
    the nucleus of the extraordinary minds that have helped shape the
    information age of 21st century and the mindscape of **Robert Anton Wilson.**
    Join Wilson as he explores the themes, minds and ideas of his forthcoming book, The Tale of the Tribe.–A.A MLA Admin.

    And here is a question by BOB,
    from the back of his book TSOG: The thing the ate the constitution,

    That i think crystalizes RAW’s TOTT,
    And deserves DAILY revision…

    What do Giordano Bruno, Giambatista Vico,
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound
    Alfred Korzybski, James Joyce, Buckminster Fuller,
    Claude Shannon, Marshall Mcluhan and Internet all have in
    common? You”ll find out. -TSOG.

    I have started doing this new work, condensing the nodle clusters

    From RAW’s work’s [the names of the characters to begin with]

    And started arranging them in different ways. [having searchable source’s has greatly inspired this posting]

    I feel that i have stepped over/through some boundaries in some sense,

    By cutting bits from RAW’s writing and sticking them together. [byte-ing RAW]

    But, with the strictest supervision, and with a community who can FEEDBACK

    with each other while doing so, we can basically continue RAW’s work,

    And study his structure, technique and methods?

    In some sense this new work of mine is nothing more than a collection of Robert Anton Wilson quotes.

    But unlike any other collection of RAW quotations,

    This one focuses on RAW’s Tale of the Tribe, the historical characters,

    who “make it new”.

    I hope the MLA, TRIBE, and everybody else can join this great

    Work in conception/perception.

    But for me this is just the beginning, the bare bones, an historical

    Kind of invetigation. [phase I]

    I wish for audio/visual components, and hyperlinking which help

    Make the words NEW.

    Maybe email is the best way to work this out in the initial stages?

    axistao@yahoo.com

    Sinceritas.

    Fly Agaric/Acrillic
    Steven James Pratt

    Sharing Pound’s ‘Ideogramic method’
    Sharing Joyce’s ‘Hologramic Prose & Epiphany & Finnegans Wake’
    Sharing Bucky’s ‘Synergetics and Planetary design-science’
    Sharing Shannon’s ‘Information Entropy and BITS’
    Sharing Nietzsche’s ‘Eternal Return and influence upon Existentialism’
    Sharing McLuhan’s ‘Global Village & The medium is the messsage‘
    Sharing Bruno’s ‘Pantheism and Decentralized Multiverse’
    Sharing Vico’s ‘New Science & Ricorso’
    Sharing Orson’s ‘Cinematic Methods’
    Sharing Fenollosa’s ‘Chinese Written Character Poetry’
    Sharing Yeats’s ‘Gyres, Symbolism & humanitarianism’
    Sharing Gesell’s ‘Natural Economic Order‘
    Sharing Popper’s ‘Open Society‘
    Sharing Remy De Gournmont’s ‘Dissosociation of Ideas’
    Sharing von Neumann’s ‘Theory of Games and Economic Behavior’
    Sharing Leary’s ‘Eight Dimensional model of consciousness‘
    Sharing Reich’s ‘Bioenergetic Force’
    Sharing Crowley’s ‘System of practical Magick’
    Sharing Korzybski’s ‘General Semantics & English-prime’
    Sharing Alfred Jarry’s ‘pataphysique’

    RAW transfers a torrent of open ideas
    Wrapped up in cutting satire, oozing Hilaritas
    Sharing ideas that have shaped the 21st century,

    Steven James Pratt

  • UB is for UNKLE BOB: The Principle.

    UNkle

    The U.N.K.L.E BOB’! principle.

     

    Fly Agaric 23
    ©®–

    ‘Reality it is not I who am writing this crazy book,” said Joyce of Finnegans Wake. “It is you, and you, and you, and that man over there, and that girl at the next table.” Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era, Page 126

        The late great Hugh kenner (1932-2003) in his book “Joyce’s Voice’s” creates something he calls The Uncle Charles Principle, so called in honor of the “naming” pipe smoking, uncle who sat on his arbor or “shitter’”, in James Joyce’s early master work “A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man”:

    ‘Every morning, therefore, Uncle Charles repaired  to his outhouse, but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and put on his tall hat.” –James Joyce, Portrait  of the Artist.

              In Robert Anton Wilson’s book Coincidance, described by some as a kind of readers guide to James Joyce, Bob describes and exhibits the “Uncle Charles Principle” in many ways although the three words: “Uncle Charles Principle” are suspiciously absent from Bobs writing. Wilson’s gives off an aura of the “UCP” with his  vivid reflections and methods for teaching along theories synthesized from such great minds as David Bohm, Alfred Korzybski, Giordano Bruno, Timothy Leary and many other of the goodvibe Illuminati, ‘those who incorporated some version on the hologramic principle in their individual and particular system, scaffolded into RAW’s fantastically condensed essays. The Title of the book “Coincidance” is taken from Finnegans Wake itself,

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

    (more…)

  • R is for RAWrientalism

    RAWriental

    RAWrientalism.
    RAW: Robert Anton Wilson
    rientalism: Orientalism.
     “The two philosophers most frequently mentioned in Finnegans Wake, Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno of Nola, taught a dialectic of resolution of opposites. Joseph Needham in his monumental Science and Civilization in China, repeatedly mentions both Bruno and Nicholas as the only two Occidental philosophers before Liebnitz to have a basically Taoist outlook” –RAW

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

    (more…)

  • R is for Resurrection:


    “Helmingham Erechenwyne Rutter Egbert Crumwall Odin Maximus Esme Saxon Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht Ydwalla Bently Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann? – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake P. 78

    I have been channeling the inner sap of the fly agaric mushroom for over ten years now, taking her everywhere with me, perched on my shoulder like a parrot she has become an integral part of my thinking writing and general creativity. A Destroying Guardian Angel, shamanic ally, or just a sham? fly agaric has influenced many parts of my life, e-mail addresses, pen names, DJ avatar’s and on. The deeper i look into fly agaric the more she throws up interesting information at me. Everytime i try to walk away she just pulls me back in again.

    “Announced by the hundred-lettered word,(3) the story of the fall begins with Tim Finnegan (H.C.E), the “bygermaster” or Ibsen master building. Building a tower he falls from his ladder. His wake, attended by friends and relatives, and his revival proceed according to the ballad. Builder dead becomes a sleeping giant, extending from Howth to the magazine. A Salmon, he is sacramentally devoured by his survivors; for this “brontoichthyan form” is a thunderfish or Jesus-God. Adam, jesus, faller and creator, Finnegan will be Finnagain. (4-7) – William York Tindall, A readers guide to James Joyce.

    So, a few years back i finally flew, i flew all the way from my home and visited the New Age worlds of America in beautiful California and found myself wrapped up in Finnegans Wake and Illuminatus! Trilogy and other wild and fantastical Psychedelic counter-cultural activities. Bands, Movies, War protests and lots of love and great weed. Living in a book is probably the best metaphor for it but without full control of the narrative. But thats a bedraggled idea in 2007, living in a book, especially after that movie “The Number 23”.®

    “When we confuse the orders of abstractions and ascribe objective reality to terms and symbols, or confuse conclusions and inferences with descriptions., a great deal of semantic suffering is produced. – Alfred Korzybski, Un-sanity versus sanity, VII. The Mechanism of Time Binding, P. 499, Science and Sanity

    I originally figured back in the mid 1990’s that by creating an avatar (fly agaric 23) and alternative (acrillic) devices for changing perception, i was developing a method by which to experience things simultaneously, together as more than one “I” labelled Steven. Readings of “In search of the Miraculous” by P.D Ouspensky combined with “Cosmic Trigger” by Robert Anton Wilson and “Design for Dying” byDr. Timothy Leary gave me the confidence to experiment comfortably with changing the parameters of my consciousness and also having the will to write it down and translate it for recording purposes. To play. Which led to me slowly taking it more seriously, the jokes i mean…

    “Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake P.540

    The fabled mushroom Amanita Muscaria or the fly agaric has been widely considered as a resurrective elixir in many cultures across the globe from China to Ireland and in ancient times, 30’000 years ago and up into so called modern times. Even Post-Modem times. Today with the abundance of telecommunications and the new language tools with which to conduct independent research into such matters, like Marijuana and also global internet (Google, Wikipedia, Amazon) with which we can now provide a more encyclopedic representation of ourselves based on faster broader feedback mechanisms. Previously occulted papyrus such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Finnegans Wake, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Illuminatus, The Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Cantos of Ezra Pound can be processed in a completely new way now. The ability to conduct research quickly and without having to be geographically localized to the original texts, among other advances has moved humanity and culture closer together i think, psychologically and spiritually. Only the scaffolding of the words remain around us today, the language dependent media viruses that propogate and project reality are broken down. We have a new model for free, playful individuals to get connected together in a global community – a stateless socialism, a new world based on peaceful communication. Read on.


    “Not only were Marsh’s theories now beyond all scientific credibility, but his methods— such as quoting Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross or Graves’ The White Goddess as if they were as reputable as Boas, Mead, or Frazer— seemed to indicate senility. This impression was increased by the eccentric dedication “To Ezra Pound, Jacques De Molay and Emperor Norton I.” The real scientific scandal was not the theory of Atlantis (that was a bee that had haunted many a scholarly bonnet) but Marsh’s claim that the gods of Atlantis actually existed; not as supernatural beings, of course, but as a superior class of life, now extinct, which had preexisted mankind and duped the earliest civilization into worshiping them as divine and offering terrible sacrifices at their altars. – Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus, Page 181.

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    Anita
    the wife of Honophrius, has been told by her tirewoman,
    Fortissa, that Honuphrius has blasphemously confessed under
    voluntary chastisement that he has instructed his slave, Mauritius, to
    ur;,e Magravius, a commercial, emulous of Honuphrius, to solicit
    the chastity of Anita. Anita is informed by some illegitimate
    children of Fortissa with Mauritius (the supposition is Ware’s)
    that Gillia, the schismatical wife of Magravius, is visited
    clandestinely by Barnabas, the advocate of Honuphrius, an immoral
    person who has been corrupted by Jeremias. James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, page 572

    Steven James Pratt

  • JJ is for James Joyce. EP is for Ezra Pound: transformations.

    Joyce and Pound Transformations.

    Don’t be a, I’m not going to! Sh! nothing! A cricri somewhere! Buybuy! I’m fly! Hear, pippy, under the limes. You know bigtree are all against gravstone. They hisshistenency. Garnd ond mand ! So chip chirp chirrup, cigolo – Finnegans Wake, Page 146.

    Each pioneered a new method with which to present to the rest of the world what they had learnt – “Epiphany” and “Ideogramic method” respectively. Often, and more especially with Ezra Pound they presented encyclopedic information without personal commentary, quoting and using an impersonal sampledelia of worldwoid historical artifacts. Or records. They were both denounced at various times in their lives as Mcloonatics for their genius and gift. Charles Dodgson once accused Joyce of turning his back on the common man after he read Finnegans Wake; i think mebbe this was a kind of sick joke. But in 1939 when the book came out, maybe Joyce wanted to communicate some kind of turning, revolution without killingry.

    Uncle Ez experienced twoeeks in the human-bird cage while under U.S custody charged with high Treason for his famous, radical M.C’ing and Disc Calendar jockeying, while in Pisa, Italy during WWII. When he finally returned to America the scholar poet spent thirteen years in St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally unfit; ironically situated in Washington D.C, today a global hotspot for the mentally ill and wholly dogmatic nut job cranky leaders of the know “free” world.

    Pound called many of his villains “usurers” to denote their tendency to take a particular form of natural abundance, naturally naturally abundant in nature, and then slowly trickle this natural abundance through a corporate capitalist controlled channel the size of an average ass hole, to the rest of humanity. (99.8%) with extra added taxes, tariffs and further unholy blockages of a naturally regenerative system, ironically in the name of profit, business and “fair”trade.

    Joyce has a powerpun’t stereo effect that spins like a spiders web and knots like a vine certain propositional functions into a breathing constellation of seemingly contradicting processes, a perpetual “paradox”; throughout Finnegans Wake. A semantic vortex full of semtex. Like a poetic transcript of Joyce flicking TV channels or surfing old 30’s internet TV-web sites, seemingly on a whim with a dance and a cheer. When combined with the intelligent interactive processing of a reader, these revolting identities begin to awaken and piece themselves together seemingly miraculously to any observer; weaving a tapestry of mental imagist scenes surprisingly different from the usual subject-predicate formal logic executed in literature and modern new-speak to such devastating effect. These hierarchical and multi-valued teachings are a part of what we call maybelogic. Propositions like: “Enel-Rah” is the “Nine gods of egypt”, or “Kong Gander O’Toole” is “Kung Fu Hsei” seem to become more surreal and illogical than the use of the culpa (is), in simple everyday speech.

    This kind of is’ing thinking categorically thrusts the reader/thinker into a character identity crisis; inevitably forcing us into more flexible, non-aristotelian perceptions upon which we can crystalize relative constellations of multiple attributes, resonances and characteristics. Plurabelle. With aristotelian bricks in your breeches you may take a heavy fall. With relative maybelogic models and metaphors the bricks will transform into smaller atoms and then flowers or maybe bright mushrooms, and you will find yourself swimming back into the authors videotext; grasping at new semanticklish maps and punny gridlooks and various keys. Very Helpful items when out on the ocean surfing Finnegans Wake among the hungry great white Fnords.

    Pound developed an equally perplexing and strange new bird (new Eagle) called ‘ideogramic method’ – influenced by the chinese written character and the Oriental ideographic Zen/Buddhist/Taosit/Confucian lineage of poetry-painting. What became “ideogramic method” seems perplexing and strange to the western alphabetic culture critics who were receiving these strange new picture-poems or, axis pivots, without adequate tools for 21st Century thinking. Condensed mini dynastic dramas and fountains of seasoned prose, picking up signals from the emerging global village; our present. Alphabetical symbol systems, pictographic symbol systems, heraldic symbol systems, musical symbol systems; mixed together with meter into an epic poem, a long epic poem for a new era, a new phase, a new calendar P.s.U and a new seal for humanity. “Revolution… in the minds of the people”.

    Finnegans Wake and The Cantos together seem a kind of literal apocalypse, the end of the word as we know it. The end of the woid as we don’t know it, and the buginning of the eternity of plurality, the “Now” it, the interacting process world of the future. We seem to be entering a knu era where the kind of quantum jumping in literature synonymous with James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson is emerging in more wide spread cultural and social-linguistic phenomena, propelled by internet and social knittworking. This quantum jumping phenomena appears as indistinguishable from magic, prophesy and time-space travel to me. Its just a matter of the terminology used to describe the coex experience.

    Fortunately for the Maybelogic Academy and its members we had a master scholar in the works of James Joyce and Ezra Pound to help guide us through the challenging artists individual reality labyrinths, their most complex works and ideas, models, grids. Their con.texts for describing “what the hell is going on?“. Robert Anton Wilson provided the vital bridge between Finnegans Wake and The Cantos by assigning specific chapters from his 1991 book – Coincidance; providing us with multiple Skeleton Key’s, keys, corpses and texts to hang our own personal and individual world views upon, and watch grow. I highly recommend all three of these texts for every 21st century citizen as a global travel guide and introduction to the New Word order. Dr. Wilson’s 1959 Essay Joyce and Tao, seems an excellent resource for students more interested in his own fascinating relationship, stemming more than half a century with arguably the entire 20th century’s greatest writer: James Joyce.

    My own personal experience with Finnegans Wake and maybelogic has led me to construct my own personal grid, or method, for representing what i have learnt from my teachers, in hope of contributing to a wider awareness of awareness: GUCT.

    Concrete facts demonstrable in nature propose a healthy fishing pond to begin fly-fishing for fat facts. I soon discovered that the after effects upon common house flies having acrilick’d the red-golden white-cream speckled toadstool species: Amanita Muscaria, in common forests provided a perfectly harmonious semantic “grid” for me to present my imaginative ripples and thought patterns. Zillions of critters get high, fall down, sleep and wake up into nature and this process of inebriation is scientifically demonstrable as a chemical processes in the nervous systems of most higher animals. Evolution through inebriation implies chemical compounds found naturally abundant in nature. And there are thousands of different ones.

    Amanita Caps are found abundantly today in nature and have just the right chemical mixture to bring about such vivid weird highs, sleeps and wakes. Lewis Carroll incorporated these chemical reactions into “Alice through the looking glass”, as a space-time morphing device, a literary effect, and included the actual toadstool too. In fact the awakening, uprising, resurrection, coming again, commodious vicus of recirculation, ascension and perpetual “birthing” of epiphanies… nicely represents the “spirit” of Finnegans Wake as i perceive it. I like to think that James Joyce knew of amrta very well, a guinness from nature. Magical resurrections are reflected in the process about which the Book lends its title: “Finnegans Wake” – an irish Ballad in which a fallen Irish-man Tim Finnegan is presumed dead but then miraculously springs back to life at his own wake, spirited up out of his coffin by some wayward spilt elixir from some feisty festive mourners.

    Reading aloud in a group, in a field, in a cave or coffee shop will provide wonderful musical acoustic elements to these books and unlock tongues tied down since first birth. Reading aloud the Wake, especially the Wake can literally grab you, and sing to you, whisking you off to some other place.

    Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing
    bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunchbracken shall decide. Then we’ll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed ! – Finnegans Wake, Page 5

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  • B is for Brews: The brew is all

    Deathless heroes and resurrected gods float through the book to the tunes of street songs, fourth-form parodies of prayers, bits of scandals out the Sunday papers. Whatever Finnegans Wake may be, it is not a highbrow book. Or rather its highrow elements float on the top like tea-leaves: the brew is all’ – anthony burgess, HERE COMES EVERYBODY.

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