This was supposed to be a song about Harrison Okene.

TASCAM DR-40

4tfwii

pen holder says claw filer says cell keeper says map maker says quill sharpener says map maker is too harsh.
map maker says let's leave the cell.

st jerome and the lion

the temptation of st anthony

Mauritania, 2021

Image: Silver Moon by Albert Pinkham Ryder

mohamed (instrumental)

The post body vehicle embarks.

Image:
Fig-. m. â ASTERINA [sp. "?], parasite sur les feuilles Ã 'Ilex paraguariensis St-Hil. â Filaments mycÃ©liens munis d'un disque. iDessin de M. A. Lendner). ^ l\. Cfiodat. Sur quelques caractÃ¨res Ã©pliarmoniques daus les Algues Ã©pi- phylles. Bail, de l'Herbier Boissier, tome VI, a" 7, juillet 1898.

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Unknown in both interpretations
Assimilated into the human sphere
Discovered still living draft
Discovered still living on tamarisk, feather grass, rhubarb roots

horseweather

"The Stalker tests for various "traps" by throwing metal nuts tied to strips of cloth ahead of them. He refers to a previous Stalker named "Porcupine", who had led his brother to his death in the Zone, visited the Room, come into possession of a large sum of money, and shortly afterwards committed suicide. The Writer is skeptical of any real danger, but the Professor generally follows the Stalker's advice..."

Image from Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky



"...The Writer realizes that when Porcupine met his goal, despite his conscious motives, the room fulfilled Porcupine's secret desire for wealth rather than bring back his brother from death. This prompted the guilt-ridden Porcupine to commit suicide. The Writer tells them that no one in the whole world is able to know their true desires and as such it is impossible to use the Room for selfish reasons. The Professor gives up on his plan of destroying the Room. Instead, he disassembles his bomb and scatters its pieces. No one attempts to enter the Room."

(Source: Wikipedia)

porcupine (instrumental)

For all seabirds eking out an existence on flying fish beaten from the liquid desert by strange vessels. Especially for those found smack in the middle of a 2100nm crossing. And for Vini Reilly.

Image: The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder

1050nm

"I try to find out what people mean by spirit. When people say spirituality in the U.S., it usually refers to the phantom limb that they develop in the absence of culture. And a culture is in some sense, you could say, the spirit of a society that is long game. The thing that becomes self-aware at a level above the individuals where you say: if you don't do the following things, then the grand-grand-grand-grandchildren of our children will have nothing to eat." - Joscha Bach

Image: Ellwanger & Barry's supplementary catalogue novelties, etc. : 1898

tripidium ravennae

Futher intimations of higher-level order (as recorded on a mobile).

"How not to panic when you're made a ghost:
Sidle and slide, choose a smooth surd, and coast,
Meet solid bodies and glissade right through,
Or let a person circulate through you.
How to locate in blackness, with a gasp,
Terra the Fair, an orbicle of jasp.
How to keep sane in spiral types of space.
Precautions to be taken in the case..." 
(Extract from 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov)

Image: Tierra de campos by Raimundo Castro-Cires

hyperbolic space

Image: The Race Track (Death On A Pale Horse) by Albert Pinkham Ryder

"Ryder’s subject was inspired by a horse race that took place in New York during 1888. One of the artist’s friends wagered $500 on the race and then committed suicide after the horse lost. Medieval symbolism infuses the composition: death appears as a skeleton on horseback holding a scythe with which he cuts down the living, while a snake-a sign of temptation and evil-slithers in the foreground. An intense man, Ryder worked on the painting for several years and was deeply reluctant to part with it."

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