TFv03 CH 00 Intros (annotated)

Annotations for the "intros" of Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 9

**Richard Purdy Wilbur**

 (born March 1, 1921) is an
American poet and literary translator

**full poem**

**Trismegistus**

O Egypt, Egypt—so
the great lament

Of thrice-great Hermes
went—

Nothing of thy
religion shall remain

Save fables, which
thy children shall disdain.

His grieving eye foresaw

The world’s bright
fabric overthrown

Which married star to
stone

And charged all things
with awe.

And what, in that
dismantled world, could be

More fabulous than he?

Had he existed? Was he
but a name

Tacked on to forgeries
which pressed the claim

Of every ancient quack—

That one could from a
smoky cell

By talisman or spell

Coerce the Zodiac?

Still, still we summon
him *at midnight hour*

To Milton’s pensive
tower,

And hear him tell again
how, then and now,

Creation is a house of
mirrors, how

Each herb that sips
the dew

Dazzles the eye with
many small

Reflections of the All—

Which, after all, is
true.

\_\_\_\_

Hermes Trismegistus (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς ὁ
Τρισμέγιστος, "thrice-greatest Hermes"; Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus)
is the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of sacred texts that
are the basis of Hermeticism

*Reflections of the All, Which, after all, is true*. – probably referring to this passage from Emerald Tablet:

1. Tis true without error, certain & most true.

2.That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.

## Pages 10-11

**Pure été**

pure summer

**Who said that?**

“Justice is the first
virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory
however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue;
likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must
be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an
inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole
cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for
some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that
the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages
enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship
are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to
political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.”

― John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

**Aung San Suu Kyi**

a Burmese social democratic
stateswoman, politician, diplomat and author who serves as the First and
incumbent State Counsellor and Leader of the National League for Democracy. She
is also the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar

## Page 18

**hues, / Y.O.U.S.**

nice wordplay

## Page 19

**Electroweak Epoch**

period in the evolution of the early universe when the temperature of the
universe was high enough to merge electromagnetism and the weak interaction
into a single electroweak interaction

## Page 33

**Mechropolitics**

Mechropolitics: Death and Dying in Computational Media

*Mechropolitics* tackles the
political, technical, and social meanings of death, dying, and dismemberment in
computational media, from headshots and ragdolls to permadeath and x-ray
vision. The simulation of death as both technological feat and gamic goal
produces a playground of mortality in which new orientations toward death and
dying might be invented, rehearsed, and even normalized. These simulated death
worlds, governed by what some have called procedurality and others protocol,
enact what I call “mechropolitics”: a virtual, often whimsical, politics of
death and dying with complicated resonances in the real world.

More on the subject

## Page 35

**73,656**

Vol 1.     243.243 5:04 PM Spring

Vol 2.     106.101 2:07 PM, Summer

Vol 3.     73.656 11:52 AM Late fall

Looks like V4 will be winter. And I noticed that the hours are going backwards.

**Perak**

one
of the 13 states of Malaysia. Hulu Perak District is one of ten administrative
districts located in the north-east corner of Perak