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="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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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)


="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> 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)

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)

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


astigmatism (a type of refractive error, retinal tearing)
cartographical layerings



(="ppl">Mohaghegh ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a Babylonian nocturnal prayer)

(old) god ='lgc'>[divinity cults of ancient ="trms">worlds='lgc'>]='lgc'>: signposts of an extra-human ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>==> consciousness trespass beyond itself

in the face of the night's obscurity (when the all-seeing shuts its eyes)
="trms">pastoral life turns murderous (at dark)

signaling the absence of fairness...
b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring of omni="trms">science...
delay of verdict...
aimlessness of quest

="lsts lst1">•blindness to fill the void of divination
="lsts lst1">•wandering, detour, or stillness to fill the void of odyssey


Sin
moon-god
="lsts lst1">•enigma (“he whose heart cannot be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic
="lsts lst1">•futurity (remote='lgc'>: “could see farther than all the gods”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal

="trms">somnolence خواب و بيدارى
='lgc'>==> branches of nonsense ="trms">pervade (disbanding of the herd)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (cypress سرو) tree
inspector of ="trms">cosmological space


in theo-terrestrial plane='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. alluvion='lgc'>: the wash or flow of water against a shore ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inundation
="lstsrd">2. alluvium='lgc'>: a de="trms">posit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> detritus ='lgc'>[residuum alone is left to control the universe='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> Ishtar
guardian of prostitutes
surrounded in myth by death and disaster
goddess of contradictory connotations and forces (fair play ='and'>& enmity, etc,)


Lillith (derived from the Akkadian lilitu='lgc'>: evening creature, specter, or ="trms">monster)
kidnapping sleeping ="trms">children

(="trms">according to the Babylonian ="trms">cosmology) night requires (non-identitarian) gods capable of abomination (backstabing)
="prgrph">-recognized by their tangible outlines as actual constellations in the night sky
="prgrph">-related to the more expansive domains of ="trms">animality, vehicles, and objects
="prgrph">-emanate from a perceptual faculty closer to the ="trms">child's ="trms">imagination of cloud-shapes (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal meaning)


="large lg5" stl="font-size:142%"> Tiamat
primordial goddess of the salt sea, darkness, chaos, and creation
from the time of permanent nightfall
a destroyer-deity and yet whose sliced body parts form the heavens and earth
re="trms">presented as unconscious, reckless annihilation and yet also holding diabolical intelligence
bathed in eternal blackness and yet known as “the g="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening one”


Girra
dystopian potentials of ="trms">technological invention
figure of wicked logos (undoing words)
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