Pencils for the first two pages of The Last Brother Hypertext.
This is the first page turn and a proper beginning to the work.
As a preliminary description there’s not much to say. I’m very pleased with these pages in their composition of the first part of the performance. They are as simple and direct as one could wish.
In terms of this website, and the plan for these LBH posts as a literal hypertext, there’s much I have to learn. I’d like to include links to the first two pages in the original FIVE CHINESE BROTHERS since these pages are built as very close parallels to them. That is to say, much of their significance comes from likenesses to and differences from these originals.
One special instance of a likeness/difference is the exchange of the original’s waves for cars. In the original the setting is the seaside. In the revision as can be seen here, the setting is a diner by the highway. Cars appear in the place of waves as is appropriate to the switch in setting. This cars for waves exchangecarries a further significance. In making the change I was reminded of the lyric from the Tom Petty song AMERICAN GIRL: “Yeah she could hear the cars roll by out on 441 like waves crashing on the beach…” Also FROM The Doors song THE CARS HISS BY MY WINDOW: “The cars hiss by my window like the waves down on the beach…” Mine is a quieter reference to the identity of the sounds…
In any case, I’m trying to learn how to place the original pages from THE FIVE CHINES BROTHERS on pages that won’t appear as posts in this immediate blog, but will be independent of it somehow. Just a click or two of a button I’m sure. Eventually I’d also like something such as this cars/waves thing to have an independent place, one which would leave the primary posts as simple as possible.
Carridine invited Willi to talk after reading tens of Willi’s interviews with people involved with permaculture and mythology. Willi’s compelling applications of mythology to social and environmental crises turn the familiar conversation surrounding myth on its head. Carridine also found his commitment to online archiving admirable. He invited Willi to have a conversation he believed would be productive of a greater synthesis between depth experience and social organizing for sustainable change.
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