Seq 3: Nokhoi khorioroi > Maxixe

There may be no accounting for taste, but somewhere an axiologist (concerned with matters noetic [and note also pneumatologists, students of "spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and G*d"; be glad: it keeps them off the streets]; and note arete [excellence or virtue] and aretaism [living up to one's full potential, being the worthiest human objective]) begs to differ, busily concocting (in a vast company of peerage) and loading the language with a brew of arcane terms of art (argot with less letters), incomprehensible to all but the initiate, thereby validating eris existence within eris tribe (morality only applies [indeed is so defined] within one's group [note the important Normativism, key conformist concept, and Jim Hightower's observation:

The opposite of courage is not cowardice: it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

] - grasp this and gasp). And this is true everywhere and in every field, leading to the cynical ([cynophobic, but at least not cynophagic {> dog eat dog and e*sequitur 45 ("Your Majesty")}] so unfair to dogs, this) conclusion that vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas (est) - and that's just the Vulgate version. These, after all, are the nimble chimps (picture them with me) who gave us the

e*sequitur 22: Churching of Women
(riders of the crimson wave [cf. Kinnell's ichor in e*sequitur 26 below]; beings being inherently unclean - when then will this end?; and so not to go out after confinement [such a choice word] until churched because they are "regarded as attractive to the fairies, and so in danger of being kidnapped by them" [why Japanese women like androgyne manga?] [recall Connla, e*sequitur 2] [your respondent a mere documentarist, and witness to the rite writ in a churchbook in England]) and the barbaric (take your choice:) breast ironing, hymenoplasty or mutilation (an estimated 100000000 - 400000000 worldwide) (Ave Lena Nyman, the Curious Fri, and other breakers of the spell). One is immediately led to the venerated (keep this word in mind)

e*sequitur 23: Girolamo "Crybaby" (he a Piagnone) Savonarola
(1452-1498), not the first but certainly a fine example in the taxonomy of homo cremare (and pyroduliast?), the Apocalyptic cacozealot (memo to geneticists: find this effing gene now while there's still time) who poetically (patience: poets will be conjured) met his denouement in flames, following his own fine (musical notation pun) example burning (in Falò delle vanità [Bonfires of the Vanities], actual events) the works of ancient (virtuous pagan), recent and contemporary authors and artists (the nudes below would've had to go) including Dante, Boccaccio, Botticelli and Michelangelo (please understand in the most pellucid terms what is being stated here: artworks by Michelangelo and Botticelli were destroyed - lost to us forever [forgiveness... one thinks not; compare the Afghan Buddhas in Anapology, Mao's Tibetannihilation, Spanish humanicide and Mayan Codicide, the Mongols in Persia - and a certain Holocaust] - under the auspices of this chaw-turd [merci beaucoup, Rabelais, for le mot juste]); (followed half a millennium later by another clunker who ordered drapes to cover the exposed right breast of the "Spirit of Justice" statuary in the Justice Department building in Washington, D.C. [compare the*sequitrist's voluptuary muse] [reders of the future: this actually happened in Ga 4.570002002]). While Fr S. deserves substantial e-ink (black, to match his charnel heart), the novelty of the concave anticuppage of human female breasts in

e*sequitur 24: [adult content] nude skydiving
(mammary cavitation, dedicated affectionately to the lobbying firm of Savonarola & Arsecleft, LLC - this pair rules!) proves yet again that life is so rich as to be pictorially beyond words. (Male) artists' innumerable protopornographic depictions of women's bodies include Man Ray's Kiki in [adult content] "Ingres' Violin," inspired by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and his Louvrian [adult content] "Une Odalisque." This commercially smooth tour de force of human eye-hand coordination and historical indifference (perhaps that others aren't eating cake isn't forgivably forgettable) is of course nothing compared to the excesses of pre-revolutionary France, where the misrepresented Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade's [adult content] Justine ("or the Misfortunes of Virtue" [ou les Malheurs de la Vertu]: see axiology) - O, you must rede it to the end, Therese (Sparknote: Despite moralist fairy tales, the evil can and do triumph and needn't and don't suffer any consequences [this philosophie d'vivre might be called the "bully mantra," favoured by brain-dead, morally adbicative biological geneticists]) (by a miracle, Sade's extreme 120 Days of Sodom, which was to be détruit in 1955, was preserved); and pre-pre-revolutionary France, where, after all, le roi Charles was said to been seen at the windows of the Louvre, shooting fellow citizen Huguenots in the grand tradition of Western Religious Conflict. Sade, too, deserves e-ink, especially as his thinking rebuts the notion of progress (crushing Richardson's Pamela - Sparknote: Skip, but do not burn this book) and the just world phenomenon

Now comes the final era of the Sibyl's song;
the great order of the ages is born afresh.
and now justice returns, honored rules return;
now a new lineage is sent down from high heaven.

Virgil, Eclogue IV ([Novus] ordo seclorum [moolahmancery and fantasy fiction])

, self-evident linchpins of social stability and progressive philosophy (before you smile, dear reder, reflect well and deeply that this is no small point). Nevertheless, even if one doesn't believe in the inevitability (or even the possibility) of progress (or even progress itself, or Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or your own immor... rede on), shouldn't one conduct one's life as if one does (Progress, not Pascal [in re G*d])?

What, alternatively, is Plan B (see*sequitur 82)? Mayhem? Forest fires, with wolves? Idism (fine, concise neologism, yes?)? A life of communal recusal or as a mad Ophelian nun (or the Patristic-era Desert Harlots [biker chicks on chariots]), reconfiguring one's cortical corridors to derive stimulation from poverty, chastity and submission to an imagined Omnipotent? Ask your bookie for odds and rede

e*sequitur 25: "Club Midnight" (at 7:40)
(at the pinnacle of human achievement) by Charles Simic, American Poet Laureate, who answers the question of chance (see Indeterminism), and also the question of how many good poems a poet must write to achieve the godhead, and also the question of need for sustenance (see Li Bai [701- 762] in "Question and Answer on the Mountain" (note polysemy and e*sequitur 47), and also the question of whether one should write for the present or swing for the immortal fences (as did Matsuo "Bananaman" Basho [nom]) in

furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizo no oto

the old pond
a frog jumps in
the sound of water

(and bear in mind that e*sequiturs have, in the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse, renga [collaborative linked poetry: q.v. - this is not a lazy person's e*sequitrism] aspirations). The above haiku touching on another contentious (nevertheless again - please do follow the bouncing ball) Key Concept: The Supreme Individual (substitute Being and you'll get the drift) (this subject too large for a mere*sequitur; consolation offered as e*sequitur 26 next) (and compare the Freemasons' demiurge [peopleworker, Kosmokrator{!}, he-of-many-names-whose-name-must-not-be-named [see tapu/tabu/kapu and the big pond Gitche Gumee] [and for BIG trouble, compare any putative deity with the following creatives: el fordyce {"the bald one"}, el hezzaz {"the rummager"}, el mokcheuf {"the discoverer"} and the complementary el feurdj, el mokàour and el harr {lucky to dream of them as open, and to see oneself busy}; ASCIIconically rendered in the equation in Seq 2], noting that our "evil {more later} universe" could only have been created by an inferior creator deity{! nmtu (not making this up)} {and the devilish dieu trompeur}] [expressed in the unpronounceable acronym] GAOTU [Grand Architect aka Grand Geometrician of the Universe {prompting the academic and already asked anyway question, "What if the universe is a mere mote in a much larger ultraverse {"... and so ad infinitum"}?") = GGOTU], and compare henotheism, [the succinct] monolatry [hint: idolatry] and [ya gotta luv the throwaway] kathenotheism). So let's get straight to it: Ego and Id (continuity) -

e*sequitur 26: Henosis,
or Emanation by the One, from Plotinus ([a feeble light compared to Photinus! {see Image, Anapology}] > theurgy, mystical ritual with the objective of same necessarily preceded Buddhaic-ly by kenosis [you were warned: behold the mental masturbation {do not doubt the irony of self-awareness in this assertion} of the jargonauts] [divine work {such as the creation of poetry (as you see, oh Sedentary One, in e*sequiturs the mountain comes to you) (cf. [Imperative: Seek each out and you will find sustenance in] Simic, Basho, Edna St. Vincent Millay ["Recuerdo" merely perfect] Galway Kinnell [whose [adult content] "Last Gods" may be gone but will never be forgotten as long as humans can remember, rede, recite or hear {or love eroticism} {axiological example: his poetry $1.03; shipping $3.48}]; we will omit for now discussion of the question of the value {pesky lingering axiology} of the oral tradition {technically, phonocentrism}], Derek Walcott ["Omeros," e*sequitur 50], and so many, many others unintentionally uncredited within these parentheses), musicforms, danceforms, theaterforms, videoforms, sculptureforms, artforms κτλ [kai ta loipa {and the rest} = etc., in Greek]), who apparently asked, in the "Nines" (Enneads; numerology alert [also note the Enneatype system of human personality analysis]) "Whether the Stars are Causes" (see Seq 1, and note glial astrocytes) to which we may well answer with

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Three Wherefores
(Theories of Causation)

Why do things turn out the way they do?
There may be several reasons
While scientists once claimed
that genes and habitat determine outcomes
they now concede that chance - perchance
influences our fates

Examples seen of dice in life
lend credence to this notion
intuited by animists and readers of the mind

So why do things turn out which way?
Because,
because
and for no cause
at all

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The objective of henosis being personal fusion with The One, or Monad. In this case we know exactly who is responsible: Plotinus. So remove him from your holiday card list. There's also Anamnesis (and other A minuses, including Aphasia [lacking ability to speak or understand language], Amusia [music, not humor], Apraxia [inability to perform movements, including ideomotor {motor}, ideational {motor based on thought}], Alexia [word-blindness], Amnesia Haze [prize pot]), Theosis, Phronesis (axiology again; SlothNote: Look these up!) and Eudaimonia (great names for kids!) (you may be possessed, but at least by joy [think St. Anthony Burgess' Stanley Kubrick's {A Clockwork Orange} Master Alex DeLarge's Ludwig van {who miraculously travels through time to contribute a groove-skipping wah-wah funk version of his socially redeeming "Ode An Die Freude" to the opening Eldorado boulevard cruisin' scene of Deep Throat (1:27)} {and don't forget Nadsat (cf. Verlan et al.) (Nadsat and a Nadsat-English dictionary) ptitsas and malchicks, possibly the two best arguments for multilingualism ever set forth}]). And what is the source of this embroidered con*sidera*tion (for the origin of this stellar word, compare the Pleiades [see*sequitur 91] and Plotinus' question of Causes)? (But first, let's not forget the moderation of the Stoics [the modomatic model worth turning over in the manner of Yorick's skull, or Hirst's nameless blingster {"For the Love of God"; in case you forgot the question: Enter Hamlet (search "to be, or")}, now an ironically hungry ghost {no doubt flipping dice with the heavily tattooed Basho-san in Monte-Carlo (picture them in shawl-collared tuxedos and patent leather shoes as an envious Bryan Ferry looks on from the living [it's always so hard to choose, so spin them all: "Remake/Remodel," "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You" - this last the best, with Brian Eno and Andy Mackay resplendent, synthesizing and bleating in black plumage and codpiece & phylacteries, respectively]) (Weepie S. [see*sequitur 22 above], disinvited as a killjoy, "Left Behind" in Inferno)}].) Does it spring forth

e*sequitur 27: ex nihilo?
(light redeing) (Re the "n" word: Been there / done that but will go back just for you in e*sequitur 37) Stephen Hawking (who lives in a multiverse [see ultraverse in Anapology] whose Big Concepts include supermassive black holes, black branes, the ekpyrotic hypothesis, the cosmological constant, phantom energy, increasing entropy [of course more later] and finally, the Big Rip) suggests an answer in his discussion of Imaginary Time, but the less elegant concept of the "unfolding of the cosmos purely as a consequence of one's existence" has that egospheric appeal that the Genital (1:2) Darkness, Formlessness and Void (less upbeat, if memorable, children's names [pierced Geatish Goths might dis-agree]) lack. Meanwhile,

e*sequitur 28: M-theory
string theorists delve into dualities (we'll likewise delve into this insufficient duelistic [cf. nondualism] and polarising narroworldview [our uncertain {see*sequitur 43} hope in polyguity] and its stultifying effect on human thought), using M-theory (select a random word that begins with M or use W if you like), leaving los ángeles to dance the lambada, when they could just as easily be doing the lundu or maxixe, (or perreo [dancing doggystyle {Respect, dogs}] or sexo con ropa, back to front aka cheek to crotch, featuring pelvic thrusts), accompanied by the thumb piano (karimba, kalimba, marimba, mbira or sansa [a long rede here]).

And really finely, from Jorge Ben (proving a língua portuguese é uma das línguas as mais bonitas): "Ponta de Lança Africano." Thank you for your continued consideration.

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Image: Plenilune (plenispheric) earthshadow
Lunar eclipse, Northern Hemisphere, 20 February Ga 4.570002008