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4.17.19: That Barton Fink Feeling
“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”
–Kerry Thornley
Welcome to Butterfly Language, a look at the world inside and outside my head!
2.13.19: Il mio nome è Nessuno, seconda parte
“In other words, it’s a common theme in my writing that a dark-haired girl shows up at the door of the protagonist, and tells him that his world is delusional, that there is something false about it. Well, this did finally happen to me.”
—Philip K. Dick
After waiting and waiting to either move or have my house painted, I finally decided to unpack my boxes and decorate my office. Who knows how long this precious idyll will last?
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The Metaphysics Of LEGO
With these simple building-blocks, you can create an entire universe; you are only limited by your imagination. That’s the central premise of the widely-popular LEGO franchise of toys, movies, and videogames. It is a world populated by something akin to the idealized forms of Plato; where anything (vehicles, people, droplets of water) can be replicated by infinite combinations of a set # of pieces.
LEGO—especially now that much of it has made the “jump” from actual physical plastic pieces to uncanny replicas of such in the digital realm—is like a blueprint not only of the underlying structure of our reality, but where reality as we now know it might be heading in the future.
2.4.19: The Reality Superbowl
“Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.”
–George Carlin
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1.26.19: The Nightmare
“I don’t sleep, I just dream.”
–Rust Cohle, “True Detective”
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1.20.19: In Dreams
“…somebody comes into the house to install this red box-like machine. It has a red button on it to set it and turn it on. I somehow manage to program it with the power or gravitational pull or energy of “trillions” of suns or other measurements. I have no idea how I did this—but it is bad. A man that looks like Pres. Obama is there, and he is highly alarmed that I did this. I want to leave the room before it “explodes”…there is this eerie energy/force-field coming off of it. We suddenly run out of the room, but the energy/force fills the house…warping time & possibly reality. As we try to leave the house, we see other “versions” of ourselves run through the house; these are possibly versions of us from slightly earlier (or later) in time. It’s like what happens when an event like a black hole happens. Time itself is being warped…linear time is being revealed for what it really is.”
–dream, January 19 2015
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