[...]classifications (banned libraries, archives, catalogs, arrangements)
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='lgc'>=/= light ='lgc'>--promises='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a certain stability of Being

those with a pathological need to rule
those with a diabolical impulse to abandon (subvert, reinvent)
those with nothing to lose (desperation)
those with everything to gain (quest)

time of weeping
(mourn, “this should never have happened”) creation as error; being as error


solipsistic cruelty='lgc'>: no longer recognizes itself in anything else nor anything else within itself


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[="ppl">Mohaghegh, prototype harbour, night harbors:='lgc'>]
return of the full moon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> werewolf
return of the nightmare ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dreamer
return of the sacred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resurrection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> redeemer
return of the curse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vengeance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enemy
return of the tides ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> migration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sailor
return of the banished ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hatred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exile
return of the ancient ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idol
return of the text ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evocation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> messenger
return of the threat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimidation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extortionist
return of the dead ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disappearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghost
return of desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> obsession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stalker
return of pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virus
return of the discarded ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waste ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vagrant
return of glory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vindication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fighter
return of the s="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concealment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> criminal
return of dust ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mortality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation
return of instinct ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creature
point of no return ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> irreversibility ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lost cause


masochistic skepticism
sadistic truth
(="ppl">Mohaghegh's) ='strcls'>*deception theory='strcls'>*


death of God ='lgc'>+ death of the Human ='lgc'>+ death of the Real ='lgc'>==> limitless epochal existential era of lying

existential forgery
ingenuity
deceit
treacherous play
="trms">fictive double-crossing
elaboration


(thief's, runaway's, in="trms">somniac's, hysteric's, sorcerer's, and other night-="trms">traveler's) sensorial orchestrations of the dark ="trms">intervals

="large lg1" stl="font-size:117%"> ="trms">morphologies of the night-="trms">traveler='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the old boat-passengers once placed under enforced isolation
="lsts lst1">•the exiles displaced from occupied homelands
="lsts lst1">•the marauding sectarian factions who patrolled city streets each night (darkness='lgc'> = ideology)
="lsts lst1">•the s="trms">laughtered minorities ="trms">traversed into non-being
="lsts lst1">•night-revelers عیاش
="lsts lst1">•

militant ="trms">storyteller
phantom ="trms">ancestors
phantom offsprings


night="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club='lgc'>: a place of nocturnal survival

="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club manager
lighthouse-keeper

(catastrophic ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of) slum='lgc'> = the true face of the city

persecuted, transient, unrescued

(wunderkammer) a cabinet of curiosities (='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?= pandora's box) of subjects, objects, atmospheres, as="trms">sociates, body parts

="trms">ontocidal='lgc'>: decimation of Being, both individual and universal


medieval islamic ="trms">world renders us countless templates linking night to sacred and profane realms='lgc'>: ="trms">stories of augury, mantic beings, and vatic utterances in circulation from all sides

Thousand and One Nights
god's turbulent ="trms">relation to obscurity

crescent moon

...brilliant speculative accomplishment of the Golden Age of Islamic Thought now a dark age of its own

معراج miraj (="ppl">Mohaghegh's Dante's ascension)
sky-voyage of the Prophet Mohammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and then upwards into heavenly spheres, filled with super="trms">natural descriptive passages of guardian angels, paradisiac gar="trms">dens, hell-bound valleys, meteorological orbits, fatal latitudes and meridians, and the gargantuan throne of God itself

night-journey='lgc'>: spiritual ='lgc'>+ corporeal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prophetic night (of strange breathing ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- angelic wing)

angel's wing ='lgc'>[that spans entire ="trms">worlds='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--reopens='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ="trms">relational channel between) desire ='and'>& fear
(descriptions of seeing an angel's body)
='lgc'>==> sarin, cyclosarin, tabun, soman
='lgc'>==> respiratory fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, diaphragm hyperactivity, fainting, pupil constriction, salivation, myoclonic jerks (muscle spasms), cardiac arrest
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> synaptic breakdown ='lgc'>==> cholinergic crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> captive in a state of poisonous ventilation

buraq='lgc'>: a ="trms">chimera of='lgc'>: ="trms">animality ='lgc'>+ humanoid ='lgc'>+ gemological (multiplicies) ='lgc'>+ machinic ='lgc'>+ vegetal ='lgc'>+ spectral (virtues) ='lgc'>=/= taxonomical purity of creation
="lsts lst1">•stretch the barometers of hybridity, androgeny, disproportionality
="lsts lst1">•zig-zagging, levitation, elliptical arcing
="lsts lst1">•like a horse, smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey. Its face was like a human's face, and its ears were like the ears of an elephant...Its head was of ruby, its wings of pearl, its rump of coral, its ears of emerald, and its belly of red coral. Its eyes were like glittering stars, and its tail of pearl, and its reins of light
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vehicle to ="trms">traverse from geographical to ="trms">cosmological space

journey-to-the-center or exile-to-the-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the old-hag ="trms">world='strcls'>*
being-in-the-="trms">world='lgc'> = old hag with an ugly face, practice of seduction, artifice, cosmetic embellishment, optical tricks, enhancements

the designer, the seamstress, the architect, the sculptor, the illusionist, the surgeon, the perfumer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> surat صورت ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? facade

='lgc'>[infernal-geological finale='lgc'>]
I heard a voice, whose intensity caused me to tremble with fear…I said, “O Gabriel, what is this terrible sound='qstn'>?” He answered, “O Muhammad, know that on that day God created hell, a rock slipped from the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of hell. Until tonight it's been falling down. It has reached the bottom of hell just now.
='at'>#darkness, zolmat, rock
="lsts lst1">•pit's conceptual trinity
="lsts lst1">•hearing/="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening is closely linked to ominous experience (the bell's toll, the wolf's howl, the thunder's rumble)


some passive surrender to vague faith
any sug="trms">gestion of intuitive-experiential awareness (gnosis)

subject caught-between

sitophobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of eating anything
aquaphobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of drowning everywhere

between lamenter and euphoriac

islamic insistence on the concealed (unseen face of God) ='lgc'>==> profuse dissension, variance, discord, agitation (in="trms">finite faces)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> lohe mahfuz
the guarded tablet
quantification
institutionalized record
universal ="trms">finitude

="lstsrd">1. artifacts of hell
="lsts lst2">◦camphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> link between the demonic and the aromachological (mastery of the psychological effects of fragrance)
="lsts lst2">◦chain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experience of ligatures, cords, shackles
="lsts lst2">◦nail ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impalement potential
="lsts lst2">◦stones ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crushing effect
="lsts lst2">◦drink boiling water (hamim) and filth (ghislin)
="lsts lst2">◦devils force-feeding them Zaqqum
="lsts lst2">◦demons were placing fiery bits of corpses into their mouths
="lsts lst2">◦ichor was dripping from their tongues ='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ichor ="trms">interestingly refers both to the mythic substance that runs in the veins of pagan gods and the putrid discharge that oozes from fresh wounds
="lsts lst2">◦hell-dweller='lgc'>: scorpion, ideal killing-machine, back-biter, poisoned tips
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***nonstop leaking of the inward outward='strcls'>***
="lstsrd">2. body parts of hell
="lstsrd">3. topographies of hell

Mohammad's night-journey's hellscape, vivid orchestration of space
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]in one direction, a “river of bile, blood, worms, and fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] boiling together, putrid and revolting” alongside another “black and rippled with fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] growling at itself with clamour and terror”

experimental cuisine (="trms">demand a certain oblique consciousness from the participant)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> angel physiognomy (multi body, collective chant) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= under="trms">world scorpions
atonal angelic larynx ='lgc'>==> non-harmonic, anarchic, cacophonous image of the heavens (='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> divinity as noise)
="lsts lst1">•prophetic ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener (body became organs of hearing, ="trms">schizophrenic audition of شش جهت six directions)

wind of barrenness
rih al ‘aqim (from the ="trms">species of criminal wind bad-e dabur, God sends it to destroy things)
="lsts lst1">•blows throughout the placeless realm
="lsts lst1">•particular condition of absence (in taxonomies of ruin and chasm)
="lsts lst1">•their moon-like faces
="lsts lst1">•innumerable

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">veil='lgc'>: transcendent invisibility, receptacle of competing back="trms">stories (of shame, conspiracy, superiority, covert, elite)

galleries of self-covering demonic beings

Gabriel='lgc'>: angel of revelation (oversees='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•khasf خسف sinking into the ground
="lsts lst1">•maskh مسخ dis="trms">figuration of features

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