This is really fascinating. curb the inceease. so Orwellian yet mysterious and otherworldly at the same time. good luck with your experiment... but do you keep it to 3 readings and three stories that should be linked or is thay random too?
Thanks very much for your comment, Nick, I'm very pleased you enjoyed it. In fact the 'curb the increase' idea comes mostly from Georges Bataille whose book "The Accursed Share" posits that the problem for the hierarchical societies of this world is not scarcity but abundance, and that the true purpose of wars - he gives the examples of the Aztec Flower Wars, which were fought purely for victims to sacrifice - is to curb that abundance both of people and of goods so that scarcity is reasserted and the order of hierarchy can go on.
In answer to your question on how I link the stories, they are slightly linked by the I Ching readings that emerge, and then by the shape I give them which is partly random and partly intentional. There's no reason why it has to be three, there could be and probably will be longer chains of these stories forming a unit. Stay tuned.
thanks for the insights. its great to see inside the minds of other writers. it gives me.... something... cant really capture what it is... but when some beautiful gathering of words ceeates images inside your mind that never before existed and you get a glimpse inside the mind of another person. Substack is giving me this every day! currently OBSESSED
This is really fascinating. curb the inceease. so Orwellian yet mysterious and otherworldly at the same time. good luck with your experiment... but do you keep it to 3 readings and three stories that should be linked or is thay random too?
Thanks very much for your comment, Nick, I'm very pleased you enjoyed it. In fact the 'curb the increase' idea comes mostly from Georges Bataille whose book "The Accursed Share" posits that the problem for the hierarchical societies of this world is not scarcity but abundance, and that the true purpose of wars - he gives the examples of the Aztec Flower Wars, which were fought purely for victims to sacrifice - is to curb that abundance both of people and of goods so that scarcity is reasserted and the order of hierarchy can go on.
In answer to your question on how I link the stories, they are slightly linked by the I Ching readings that emerge, and then by the shape I give them which is partly random and partly intentional. There's no reason why it has to be three, there could be and probably will be longer chains of these stories forming a unit. Stay tuned.
thanks for the insights. its great to see inside the minds of other writers. it gives me.... something... cant really capture what it is... but when some beautiful gathering of words ceeates images inside your mind that never before existed and you get a glimpse inside the mind of another person. Substack is giving me this every day! currently OBSESSED
Ohh you took those readings and came up with something unique here. I still need to give this a shot. And thanks for highlighting my book! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome!
Vergogna!
Very cool, Murph. Reminds me of Calvino's "The Castle of Crossed Destinies."
Must put that on the list, as part of my "learn Italian by Christmas" project.
I read it in English, lol.
Ma deve essere letto in italiano, ragazzo!