[...]et, Terror, ="trms">Thick, Threaten, Trailer, Training, Trees, Trench
U) Uncontrolled, Urgent
V) Victim, Vigilant, Volunteers
W) Watch, Water, Weakness, Weather, ="trms">Wilderness, Wind, Worse
X) X-ray
Y) Yelling
Z) Zone



="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (Ajayeb)
Know! That I saw in fire many benefits, insomuch benefits that ‘he’ set in fire, the intellects of India and Greece erred and prostrated this fire-thing and this betrayal stayed in magus ='lgc'>[Zoroastrians='lgc'>] and they became fire-worshiper until it became certain that the God's guidance offers and just with reason alone work cannot be done fully and if they worship fire of its benefits then in mud there is more benefits than that and in water more benefits than there is in fire and if The Creator wants to make wanderers of a folk he infects them with a substance as he infected the Indians with worshiping cow and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians with worshiping the hoof of Christ's donkey and the pagans with worshiping idol and ="trms">matter
and we shall mention the attributes of fire and its properties='lgc'>:
Know! That fire has taken the whole ="trms">world of universe and no stone and no wood is not uncharged with fire. If a fool takes a piece of wood and asks “where is fire='qstn'>?” I say the way of everything is in manifestation as when two woods strike together made of Margh and Afar,='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] fire will appear or hit stone to ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal

='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] ="trms">According to Jashn-e Sadeh recalls the importance of light, fire and energy; light which comes from God is found in the hearts of his creatures. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Hushang and the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of fire

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we are too abstract, we are thinking yes there are things out there ="trms">wild or whatever. then we must be surprise to see that the abstract far thing is made of flesh, quartz, or fire.

unlike camels and rats and sheep, other four legged or mammals, fire is not designed for something, the way organisms evolved to have meanings and re="trms">presentations to each other. fire ="trms">embodies a vast place in our ="trms">material and industrial and ="trms">semiotic ="trms">world but itself is not a creature of evolution. it knows nothing of ="trms">symbiogensis nor of molecular compartmenship. fire is an elementary radical reaction to closeness. the third person. pure manifestation.

every mountain range have personalities. rock is arrange by evolution. it tells you about itself when you feel it firm in your hand pressing to your ear, asking thousands of ="trms">questions, exploring with ="trms">imagination. stone is not a ="trms">social creature, maybe that's why we ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to them. fires are ="trms">social beings, death sentences.
their ="trms">society and ="trms">ecology
reaching access to the ="trms">literacy of fire-work

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(...) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the black-box ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ka'ba ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> an ="trms">intermediate mechanism to reach beyond the door-knob ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> dark medium of worship ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the jinn ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">ontology of the envelopment ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> an ="trms">interiority that is exterior ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> talking-fire ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> mediums of the beyond ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> put your ‘thing’ in the fire ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> going through the fire ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> test some fossils ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ice age ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">databases that survive ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> promises of futurity ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> tech ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> black-box is always about the-envelope and the-beyond ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> going back to the cave ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> monotheism invented darkness (praying in the dark marked singulaity of worship as the begining of subjectivity) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> there is a sudden big shift from telling-stone to talking-fire (introducing the ="trms">spectacularization of truth-event, where risky ="trms">aesthetic of fire ="trms">coded as masculine is traded for a ="trms">mutuality of slower ="trms">wilderness a more feminine ="trms">trope. the telling-stone proposes a totally ="trms">different ="trms">ecological model than the survivorship ="trms">narratives en="trms">coded in the trial of the talking-fire. truth became untouchable visual ="trms">spectacle that can burn and annihilate charging off the haptic closeness of the stone to the ear. truth became the ="trms">matter of untouchable, visual. the angry truth god came with the fire both as tool of worship and punish (human taking lessens and used fire to discipline the forces of ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the darkness that enveloped the worship, made the absence of light crucial for constructing ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>[note='lgc'>: before going to light-fire the worshipers must wash themselves in Vozu, in Namaz the worshpers wash themselvs before going to the darkness of prayers='lgc'>='lgc'>---is this water that we make vozu the same as ‘abe heyvan’='qstn'>? before going into the hyper space, the ritual plays a key role and a key hole. like all hyper spaces that forwards you yo the beyond the box as well is about deliverence (to the ="trms">lover='qstn'>?)='lgc'>: (for the sake of) salvation ‘rastgari’ is about delivering ‘you’ (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Ma'ad ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> masaleye “enteghal” ='lgc'>[be alame digar='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[dar tarikh falsafeye eslami ="nms">irani ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='gtrw'>go to footnote in Motakhabat 2nd volume page44='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> for ='strcls'>*="ppl">Rumi people is firewood, hizom, inflammables; fire is the ="trms">present tense, its light is about the future and its ashes about the ="trms">past='lgc'>: we like ash to perform our archiological ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings of old fires and we like its light becsuse it helps us to push through and constatly make-="trms">imagine-lighten the future, i this model the ="trms">present is untouchable.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the beyond is beginning to loosen its ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> accumulation of synonyms (before ="trms">language) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors given birth slowly ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> from the Pleisto="trms">cene to Ordovician ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the accumulation of oxygen ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> fire was permitted to exist ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> etc.
(keeping a fire burring for a long time is a very strange thing to do. it is utterly Paleolithic to do keep fire, making it stone. it was Muhammad who turned off the lights, ="trms">literally. when he was born, one the oldest Zoroastrians fire temples suddenly extinguished for no apparent reason. the blessed dark. the box, fire, both are means to have access to the inaccessible. ='at'>#Muhammad inception/birth had to be connected to a super="trms">natural event.)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:116%"> (talking) fire ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> speech
(telling) stone ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">written

in the ="trms">history, the leg-less-stone and the lying-visage have been together. a study of apparition must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the physical ="trms">material as well, not as counterparts, rather as its play-mate.

(fire suppressing) an older ="trms">ecology of reflection (namely the stone)

the telling stone is the same as spirit stone(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>='lgc'>---non-="trms">animal container (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Karin)
(stone is related to the spirits of the ground. the prisoner who throw a pebble into the pit, the pebble's sound is going to tell about the depths and darknesses that the human, on death sentence, does not have a long enough rope to carry too. so the rope is never enough, the linear connection, the closed chain of links, but the throwing stone can risk a disjunction between that mother='lgc'>->king='lgc'>->prisoner='lgc'>->darkness)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> sending a guy into the pit is not typical for the cultures of Pleisto="trms">cene='lgc'>: (using linear connection, darkness ='lgc'>~= unkown, and so on)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>] Pre="trms">historic humans were autochthonous, that is, “native to their place.” (related to the earthly stone ='lgc'>=/= fire that perpetually evacuates) (it is not that of the introvert stone and the extrovert fire, but the op="trms">posite, stone was ="trms">social and fire allied ="trms">interiority, it sent/banished the subject to the land of the mediated, ‘from now on you are coming from mediation.’ (Where the subject comes from='qstn'>? it comes from the mediation.) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> use me ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> industrialize with me ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">technologize with me ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> stone-tech are 1.5 million years earlier than fire-tech ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> with stone you can't reach the sky but by controlling combustion you can go up ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> alienation as the touchstone of humankind ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> then comes the “reflective consciousness” of humankind ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> and later the invention of the very strange object='lgc'>: the mirror ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='gtrw'>go to amazon='at'>#2DifficultForests='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a change in the “structure of existence” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> then ='thdf'>the idea of “selftranscendence” by monotheist ="trms">religions ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> adventures of power and ideology ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> then a very bad idea called “="trms">history” was introduced='lgc'>='lgc'>---an active, psychological force that separates humankind from the rest of ="trms">nature because of its disregard for the deep connections to the ="trms">past.='lgc'>[="ppl">Shepard 2004='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- Lévi-="ppl">Strauss points out, ="trms">historical thought is analytical and concerned with continuity and “closing gaps and dissolving ="trms">differences” to the point that it “transcends o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal discontinuity.”)
='lgc'>[in east mirror was never used as mean to self reflect, rather it was weaponized agains evil, although this evil was female and men used mirror to defeat it. unlike the western thought since the ="trms">greeks in the ="trms">Narcissus ="trms">story where mirror is the foundation of self-absorbance and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and madness, the easterns since they did not posses the same brand of selfhood they found mirror strange and uttelized it in curious ways, another optical problem ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='gtrw'>go to mirror and the ="trms">laughing snake - mar-e ghahghahezan, img='lgc'>]
...through the speaking fire, events “on earth” were finished except for a final judgment by fire ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> invention of sin, spiritual existence ='lgc'>: selftranscendence. ="trms">anthropoce separating themselves from earth and its processes
="prgrph">-‘essence’, ‘appearance’, and ‘change’ became sources of ="trms">anxiety
="prgrph">-other forms of life are now irrelevant to humans
="prgrph">-from now on “you cannot be two things, in two places, or in two times, at once.” , no more overlapping identity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> alienation from (the domains of) nonhuman life
="prgrph">-the “Persian” new mind, (intanced by fire,) divided the ="trms">world into ="trms">material creation and in="trms">finite spirit that would shape the philosophy of the civilized ="trms">world. (="ppl">Shepard 2004)
(-in my amazon ="trms">book i am pointing out='lgc'>: Esthetic distancing also made possible the landscape arts and connoisseurship and commercialization as s="trms">cenery painting, tourism, and recreation. To the credit of the ="trms">Greeks, they resisted converting the landscape into s="trms">cenery and ="trms">wilderness into an ="trms">aesthetic experience.)

we are not directed towards a ="trms">measured location, (as his-="trms">story tries to make belief)

“After you die, others live.” (="frds">Sina)

old ="trms">world's arboreal simians, monkeys

="trms">Anthropos

cultures of Pleisto="trms">cene
="prgrph">-Pleisto="trms">cene was the time of glaciation and ice. Much of the ="trms">world's temperate zones were alternately covered by glaciers during cool periods and uncovered during the warmer ="trms">interglacial periods when the glaciers retreated. it is when the evolution and expansion of Homo sapiens and by the close of the Pleisto="trms">cene, humans had sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read through most of the ="trms">world.

Agonic / Hedonic ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> my Köln group, agonistic doctrine challenges that mode of personality

="trms">ontogenesis='lgc'>='lgc'>---extended in human (the specialized and scheduled development of physical and psychological traits that appear, disappear, or ="trms">stagnate during the life cycle of the individual.) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Neoteny (a “state of newness"='lgc'>--a retardation of certain parts of the maturing process.) preprograms life ="trms">stages, so that our becoming is a lifelong process.
="prgrph">-developement of the self in terms of harmonious ="trms">relations to other ="trms">species and nunhumans.
="prgrph">-="trms">ontogenetic ="trms">agenda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- (The ="trms">agenda is a given; the support depends on a ="trms">social ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness to nurture, itself a product of successful ="trms">ontogeny of an older generation.)
="prgrph">-many myths cor="trms">respond to the ="trms">ontogenesis. in ="trms">Ontogeny, timing is everything='lgc'>='lgc'>---="trms">narrative.
="prgrph">-aspect of the ="trms">ontogenetic self='lgc'>='lgc'>---(the ="trms">modern ="trms">world has lost the ways to guide the) new person emerging at each ="trms">stage
='lgc'>[from kinfolk complexity and elderhood to medically sustained old age='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-- i myself have turned to old folk to do ="trms">storytelling, as necessity(!='qstn'>?)

one emerging in Pleisto="trms">cene, is about perceiving one's place in the scheme of things (and not sending people down the pit into darknesses)

WE NOT ONLY LOOKED ‘AT’ ANIMALS, WE ALSO LOOKED ‘INSIDE’ THEM, realizing that they were more kin than indicated by our exteriors. (it wasn't ="ppl">Aristotle first who was performing such procedures)

attaching sounds to things/="trms">animals/="trms">species when they were not visible
(“Never ignore a sound!”)

in="trms">heritance (DNA, etc.) calls upon human ="trms">society and ="trms">imagination to invent its exact expressions.

human ="trms">species’ “theme” is Paleolithic

(those who are “better” live in a ="trms">natural environment and a cultural ="trms">system that are closer to) meeting the “expectations” of the genes

="trms">Children at age six are typically ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic

trees structure space

='strcls'>**="trms">imagining the possibilities of something else being in there.
(how we were doing it='qstn'>? before fire)

“A meditative stillness that is good for the human soul, sug="trms">gests ="trms">poet Gary Snyder, was invented by motionless hunters. That moment of silent reverence comes also at the final death stroke when one succumbs to the cycle of life.” (="ppl">Shepard)
='lgc'>[from predation to hunting (there is a huge ="trms">epistemological shift) (="trms">matter of re="trms">presentation and ="trms">interpretation)='lgc'>]

mammalian ="trms">ecology

='lgc'>[(let's) risk everything (instead of risk-reducing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- issues of re="trms">presentation and ="trms">agency in thinking ‘with’ ="trms">animals. textual, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ="trms">animal in ="ppl">Attar line of thinking='lgc'>]

a distant call in known terrain says it is the there, not the here, where attention should be paid. ='lgc'>[far, o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of our ="trms">tropes, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='qstn'>? abstraction='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? motionless hunters invented motionless meditative worship='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(kinfolk in) swamps, brush, and forest (in terms of discerning the ='strcls'>*="trms">relationships between ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clues='strcls'>*)
="prgrph">-(indirect) dealing with the escapable (='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> tracking strategies ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbolic thought)

a central theme='lgc'>: (a banquet/feast at which) the participants='lgc'>--eater and eaten='lgc'>--risk the improvements of mind against the certainty of occasional poor decisions, (faulty ="trms">memory, carelessness, errors of judgment, and the decrepitude of age and disease.)
="prgrph">-Those who fled had to understand ='lgc'>[the limits of distance, the intentions of the others, and='lgc'>] (the ability to control) the ="trms">abyssal terror that itself would engulf them if they submitted to panic. ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> mind
="prgrph">-“self” emerged as the consequence of “participation,” a calculative and organizational relatoin of the individual within the group='qstn'>? (and perceiving the so-called “inanimate” entities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- shaped by the game ='lgc'>-- a participant amidst other participants oriented by the action
(David Abraham='lgc'>: Perception is Participation, in an animistic logic)

mind, ="trms">memory, ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> cognition and ="trms">communication ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> reference ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> imitating the ="trms">animal's calls ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> stylized performances ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (a repertoire of) ="trms">symbolized references (sign ="trms">language='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> accumulation of synonims (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> we are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">consuming ="trms">symbolic ambition) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> early ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphores ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">narratives get out of hand (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “concrete” is invented) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">narration of ="trms">past is invented which is always about the future) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">codification of ="trms">world without tense or ="trms">causality in ="trms">language ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> tense ='and'>& ="trms">causality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">pervasive truths
="prgrph">-this diagram is about the future for the subject whom is using the signs, telling the others where the game ="trms">animal is and will be. in this text i am trying to panto="trms">mime a mimicked reference (of where the ='lgc'>[game='lgc'>] ="trms">animal is), sharing ='thdf'>the idea of a thing that is syntaxically there, so we can run it. every utterance is about where i have last seen the “="trms">animal,” and how fat or far it is. ='lgc'>[running had “magical ends” - Peter Nabokov, ‘Indian Running’ (Santa Barbara='lgc'>: Capra, 1981)='lgc'>]

="trms">symbolism ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> man ="trms">traveling within himself ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> need to ="trms">travel outside an in="trms">finitely larger reality ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> beyond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ="trms">different brand(s) of in="trms">finity

secular hunting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- the hunt becomes ="trms">monstrous. i am calling for an old sacred hunt ='lgc'>[sustained in myth and ceremony='qstn'>?='lgc'>] of concepts='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-hunt is ="trms">gestalt(en)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:127%"> (with our) hopes and ="trms">tropes

boundary creatures and ="trms">matters ='lgc'>-- fire's function/act was peripheral, was in the threshold ="trms">world of human passages(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[then it made an entrance='lgc'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> humans’ ="trms">mimetic participation with fire

in="trms">finitely complex af="trms">finities



="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> to be noted the nuanced ="trms">differences between talking and telling (harf-zadan/goftan)
='strcls'>*talking='strcls'>* can not be accompanied by a direct object (the talked) and ='strcls'>*telling='strcls'>* might not be accompanied by a direct subject (you are told without a direct teller.) so talking is about the talker and telling is about the told, the ear.
(you ='strcls'>*ask fire ="trms">questions, but you ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to stone what it is telling. ='lgc'>[what fire sug="trms">gesting, offering to the sense='qstn'>? (i am thinking Ajayeb)='lgc'>] with fire you can debate but this debate is bulshit since you are under its ="trms">spectacularity and ="trms">authority, superior to the (inflammable) ="trms">world, became the domminent contemplated object, administrating conditions of existence, you can never touch the fire, you can never become ‘bodies’ with fire, it is immune from human activity, endusing one-way ="trms">communication (auto-governed gusture of comminution), garanteeing an abstract condition of hierarchical power. but stone ‘is’ for touching and bodying, ="trms">sensuous touch is the ="trms">matter of stone, intimacy='strcls'>*, ="trms">sensuous intimacy with the stone, ="trms">sensuous proximity)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---(rock in water ='lgc'>: reef)
="prgrph">-transcontextual; transcontextuality='lgc'> = tanglement ='lgc'>{figures running in op="trms">posit directions but held together='lgc'>}


="trms">nature is a context
='strcls'>*="trms">past is a context

='strcls'>*the landscape is full of ghosts (whether we want it or not)
mediated forms

Some examples of exothermic processes='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-spontaneous combustion (='lgc'>~= fire)
="prgrph">-Nuclear fusion (='lgc'>~= sun)
="prgrph">-(in this ="trms">writing, i am going to take a defenition of fire recovering it from bible, that of the ="trms">spectacle flame that of the ="trms">material of specter in the Qur'anic Jinn, and not other forms of exothermic processes)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:120%"> the issue is reversibility
(“evolution” inevitable='qstn'>? Irreversible='qstn'>?)
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