A Theory of Vibe — Glass Bead

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This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Privacy Policy Inhuman Transformations Impersonal Entanglements Denaturalizing Experience Inhuman Transformations 141138 READS AestheticsAmbientComplexityMachine learningModernismPoetry Across the foliated space of the twenty-seven equivalents, Faustroll conjured up into the third dimension: From Baudelaire, E. A. Poe’s Silence, taking care to retranslate Baudelaire’s translation into Greek. From Bergerac, the precious tree into which the nightingale king and his subjects were metamorphosed, in the land of the sun. From Luke, the Calumniator who carried Christ on to a high place. From Bloy, the black pigs of Death, retinue of the Betrothed. From Coleridge, the ancient mariner’s crossbow, and the ship’s floating skeleton, which, when placed in the skiff, was sieve upon sieve. —Alfred Jarry, Exploits & opinions of Doctor Faustroll, pataphysici

Across the foliated space of the twenty-seven equivalents, Faustroll conjured up into the third dimension: From Baudelaire, E. A. Poe’s Silence, taking care to retranslate Baudelaire’s translation into Greek. From Bergerac, the precious tree into which the nightingale king and his subjects were metamorphosed, in the land of the sun. From Luke, the Calumniator who carried Christ on to a high place. From Bloy, the black pigs of Death, retinue of the Betrothed. From Coleridge, the ancient mariner’s crossbow, and the ship’s floating skeleton, which, when placed in the skiff

A Theory of Vibe — Glass Bead

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