Seq 4: Ab ovo usque ad mala (From eggs to apples)

Message from the oxygenated (O2) noösphere: Riffing the double o's is surprisingly easy to do. From oölogy (a "branch of knowledge" concerned with a study of [the] appearances of birds' eggs [and here that we encounter the virescent oospheres {see Seuss in e*sequitur 72} of the Chilean Araucana] [and, stating the obvious, that e*sequiturs is "eggy" {and bezoomny oomny (Nadsat)}; also noting big-endian etymology] - the satisfying, recurring moment whenever [see "whatever" below] one finds a robin's eggshell in summer, with its celestial connection to the Origin of Everything [OoE; for dullards, cf. ToE and ToM {Theory of Mind}] the artistry of the Zuni and Hopi [see*sequitur 76; and note the Cherokee shaman Ookah {Uku} and the Ookah dance]: turquoise [viz., Aztec masks], with pale yellow and gray and clay and tawn and falling rain, seed, sun daggers and poetry in pottery, and petroglyphs [see*sequitur 96 and compare, for a moment, the totalitarian cosmology below] - what, one asks, are we creating for posterity? Alan Wiseman, in The World Without Us [unavailable online], reports a gyre of floating plastic garbage the size of Africa in the South Pacific [the North Pacific gyre merely twice the size of Texas {a landmass that theoretically can house the entire human population at 1,000 sq. ft. per}], and

e*sequitur 29: Chris Jordan's
[compare his "Cans Seurat" with the original in the Interlude below] heartbreaking visual tragedies documenting the results of our [yes your, and this is personal] insane [see below] consumerism [the proven threat to human existence {warning: occasionally, e*sequiturs may contain truth (the taboo topic)}] [noting Veblen's conspicuous consumption and Marx's commodity fetishism]

[Aside] Dear reder: It is more than remarkable to note that while so many have been morally and intellectually comatose, mindlessly slurping and wallowing in soon-to-be-piled-in- [euphemistic] landfill dreck, that these critical civilisational concepts have been under constant consideration by the Academic Engaged [note that until the passage of the Representation of the People Act 1948 in England, which eliminated plural voting, certain property owners and university graduates had multiple votes]. And that these Removed Unmovers (see Seq C), by and large (the Americans [including Adams, Addams, Anthony, Chavez, Franklin, Jefferson, Keller, King, Nader, Sojourner Truth and Washington], the French, Lenin, the anti-fascist Spanish, Gandhi and Castro [numerous omissions regretted] excepted), have been content not to ACT on the obvious conclusions. One might modestly propose that they (and the equanimous divinitarians) might-ought-to be held accountable. One thing you can count on here (and note the seminal Last Poets).

and callousness) to ornithology (the noble 'O'o [hunted successfully to extinction {see Seq F} by Hawaiians for its plumage, used in "royal robes and capes" {see fashion in Seq 7}], as was the passenger pigeon [called amimi by the Dutch-swindled Lenape {see Seq D}: American hunters redoubled their efforts as its numbers dwindled and then collapsed, effectively exterminating it by 1896 {although Martha (the last captive) lived until 1914}; [profound negativity warning] for example,

In 1896, the final flock of 250,000 were killed by American sportsmen knowing that it was the last flock of that size.

]) to chess (noting the false theist/atheist debate proof stalemate, which should rather trigger the question of how we should conduct ourselves in the here and now [to which theity is immaterial] [see*sequitur 78]) (o-o [for e*sequiturs' purposes, o-o-o doesn't count]; for the chessbook rede Carroll's Through the Looking Glass) to oonts (and oont wallahs - Oh Camel, My Camel), oonchooks (transvestites of the Northern Lights, or what do on Mummer's Day in Newfoundland [a well-traveled reder may have encountered the Outer Mongolian Ovoo, "mounds consisting of rocks, animal skulls, vodka bottles and blue silk"] [and this from Mummer's Plays {"not to be confused with Mystery Plays (aka the mysterium [more Western gibberish], and which rapidly descends to the Harrowing of Hell [q.v. Just do it: You want to find out what happened to Adam and Eve, don't you? {poet warning and partial spoiler: David, a poet-king no less, was posthumously consigned to Sheol (by whom, you ask?) - and didn't come back (blah blah blah), but that would beat the, you know, hell out of Gehenna, the Eternal Lake of Fire (for insights into the origin of the fiery pit, note Tophet, locale of the Canaanites' child sacrifice [lively burned; admit, savage reder, that you'd be disappointed if e*sequiturs neglected human sacrifice]; "[A]fter the practice of child sacrifice was outlawed... the valley became a refuse site where animal carcasses, waste and the bodies of criminals were dumped, with fires permanently burning....") (and see*sequitur 46) (a no doubt effectively terrifying visual and panoramic metaphor), this, especially when one pauses to consider the logistics of how one's presumably necrotic and decomposing flesh (and certes, failure to study history shortchanges one from the delights of

e*sequitur 30: The Histories of Herodotus
["and the Egyptians {Nilotes} were the people who lived below Elephantine, and drank the waters of that river"] on such subjects as Egyptian embalmers:

"The wives of men of rank are not given to be embalmed immediately after death, nor indeed are any of the more beautiful and valued women. It is not till they have been dead three or four days that they are carried to the embalmers. This is done to prevent indignities from being offered them."

... and Sesostris, the conquering king who posted a pudendal graphic [search "an emblem to mark" = Ψ] {this psi ≠ psychic or psychokinetic, although anatomically adjacent to the rumpolog's (see rumpology) area (sorry) of expert interest}] to mock those who failed to adequately resist his army) could feel eternal pain (blah blah blah [although repetition is against your correspondent's principles, it seems apt in this case]); perhaps one needs either a better imagination or

e*sequitur 31: Amanita muscaria
(Mario's mushrooms) drunk in urine (should an educated person know [Biblically, the entheogens, 0r] the word urolagnia? [Or, when traveling in the Western Desert, the location of Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill? Give the leaky Devil his due; the black rain in e*sequitur 37 is of human origin.] Or is the vernacular "golden showers" enough to document the recurring decadence of civilisation? [As you contemplate this and how you will spend your remaining limited and valuable time alive, contrast Sagan's Voyager's Golden Record of human achievement {see Anapology}.]) to countenance these infernal fabrications. Let's turn this Eternity concept over, shall we? (And then move on.) The cosmos spins and posthumous (why not skip the speculative part and go with humous?) punishment is meted out on selected deceased (cf. Monty Python's parrot [and Australia's spectacular Galahs]) mammals. What-ever (at last, an appropriate use of this name- and timeless interjection).] - mumming, guising, the rhymers, "pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, galoshins and so on" [from the Mummers Play]), the Oort Cloud ("a comet reservoir well beyond the orbit of Pluto" [OED; What more could a poet ask than this found poetry {these words in this order}?]), Aphra Behn's (one of the first English novelists) Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. A True History. of Ga 4.570001688, and Japan's Oomoto (spirit dreams, automatic writing, Esperanto, and martial and creative arts, including Aikido, calligraphy, tea and Noh) and oon 'n' oon... (stay tuned for nooúmenon anon). (Aside, spellcheck flags leet's w00t, not technically a double oh [w noot noot{!} t]; nitto for Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 00 in F minor [Study Symphony {Studiensimphonie}]; nor for the 00 configured roulette wheel [a bet two poets say you might make]). And also the bonus double double o's - rootwoork hoodoo, the soul summoning woowoo of e*sequitur 56, Trinidadian Tamboo-Bamboo bands, the likewise musical Oopoochawa, and Thurber's nation of Ooroo, in the lipogrammatical The Wonderful O (alas, Bök's cited chapter from the univocalic [pentavocalic, in sum] eunoia oh-less, noting predecessory "cool monsoons..." and "rooks do not roost on spoons..." in Temple's "Incontrovertible Facts"). This is not to mention the flashing bonus triple double o's: "I am the Walrus"' "goo goo g'joob," "Mrs. Robinson"'s "koo koo ka choo," [and a kangaroo zoo, too] and James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake's "googoo goosth," or Jim Nutt's (of "I Don't Hear Anything" ["Words Escape Me"] fame [Nutt is underpresented online; a sample {warning: male frontal nudity} here]; and see H.C. Westermann) lurid shrieking jackpot quadruple double o, "Toot, toot, whoo, whoo." Dr. Seuss (see*sequitur 72) obligingly contributes a single pair with Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Ooh, and let's not oomit the artistic language (artlang > [constructed language = conlang,] specifically, jokelang Oou, "The Insane Language" [ ==[] : !*(f ** ] of Sonja Elen Kisa.

Speaking of the insane, there is a foundation (as there should be) dedicated to

e*sequitur 32: Adolf
("now I even I would celebrate in rhymes inept [so much better than unapt] the great immortal Syracusan [see*sequitur 83], rivaled nevermore who in his wondrous lore passed on before left men his judgment how to circles mensurate" = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399, etc. [If you care, making letters of numbers in this way is termed isopsephy (cf. psephocracy), which is damned hard to pronounce.] Q. Whatever is the relevance of π? A. Its spherical connection to these e*sequiturs [after all, everything connects in the toroid of Imaginary Time, which theo-retically requires no beginning - a magic trick of cosmic consequence] and to cosmic egg creation myths [there a trove], not to mention Brancusi's "the beginning of the world" [here the later "sculpture for the blind"] [ovoids a topic inadequately expanded in this series of e*sequiturs, so please pursue on your own]) Wölfli (recalled by Johann Fischer), who was indeed insane, and who produced a body of remarkable mandalastic grapho-la-la-lalia (e.g., "Saint-Mary-Castle-Giant-Grape," Ga 4.570001915, from "Geographic and Algebraic Books") that professional art historians have dutifully preserved and cataloged (as they should) - the symbolism deciphered (masks and mitres, evoking the Day of the Dead [see*sequitur 83], and the music of the spheres [see*sequitur 63]); the Busch Reisinger Museum (in a side room of which one might experience an organ recital [or at the Hammond Castle, home of another colourful genius]) showed his "work" in Ga 4.570001978 (as did the Des Moines Art Center [whose brilliant Eliel Saarinen flat limestone structure, a National Treasure, is worth a trip] in Ga 4.570001979). As it happens, Wölfli, psychic cousin to Joseph Cornell, whose

e*sequitur 33: "Taglioni's Jewel Casket" and "Beehive" ("Thimble Forest")
(one looks in from ~1 cm holes in the sides ) illustrate, once again, what humans can do when focused on constructive creativity rather than will to power (Key Concept alert) and when the alpha males (see OED: "A Pasha of Three Tails" [and do dig into the bullies' historical and global implementation of sumptuary laws {What will these creative sadists think of next?} {e.g., vicuña and involuntary logo patches}, haute couture, de facto]) are absent suggests a promising avenue for progress. For instructive and cautionary examples of bad behavior by both sexes, do ingest (cf. Amanita) "Ideas & Trends; In the Crowd's Frenzy, Echoes of the Wild Kingdom" (New York Times, July 9, Ga 4.570002000) and "Sexual Harassment: Why Even Bees Do it" (New York Times, October 10, Ga 4.570001995) both by the Pandoran (bells pealing) Natalie Angier (should you have such a sparkling mind and be able to write so sublimely), and note such hyena-laugh feminist fodder as thick-skinned females and andromorphy. Wölfli's cast of curiosities, euphemistically named "outsiders," includes the well-known

e*sequitur 34: Martin Ramirez,
the fem-ped-obsessed Henry Darger (see Xie in "St. George and the Dragon," Ga 4.570001875, by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Jephan DeVilliers, whose "Thirty-four Fragments of Memory," isn't half bad (recalling your correspondent's "You, as a trephinated autochthon in a snowstarscape [see Kenneth Libbrecht's taxonomy {anticipating your question, he obligingly answers: "Even with 10²⁴ crystals per year, the odds of (identical snowflakes) within the lifetime of the Universe is indistinguishable from zero" (cf. Sandburg's "Personality").} and stellar photos {and here}] hallucination" [Ga 4.570001978] [Henry David Thoreau:

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth... these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.

- Journals, January 5, Ga 4.570001856

]), Michael Nedjar, whose Gallerie L'Aracine, features l'art brut, etc., etc. Ramirez is probably no relation to Richard Ramirez (swabs to the Human Genome Project [this poorly designed site begging the question: Should science be a strategic priority of government {note also the Neanderthal Genome Project, according to whose preliminary sequences, "modern human and Neanderthal DNA appear to be 99.5% percent identical"} ?] database [Tutuolan Yorubans contributors], gentlemen), noise musician > noisecore >

e*sequitur 35: Japanoise and Noise rock
which include the seminal Les Rallizes Dénudés and contemporary Acid Mothers Temple ("Milky Way Star"); this a deep dive, so be sure your tanks are full and you have plenty of leisure time; regrettably (as Sei Shonagon might say), these innovators didn't get signed by the conglomerates; on the other hand, you can enjoy them now. And them's the apples.

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Interlude
(background music [kazoo, of course] here [2:37], dedicated to bitches in heat)
We wistfully leave the double o's, good eggs, with mention of noocracy (shared by noöspheric cosmist Vernadsky and Omega Pointillist [noting Garcia's advocacy for increasing creativity {not happiness} as an Ultimate Goal, and the leashed monkey in Georges Seurat's "Un dimanche après-midi à l'île de la Grande Jatte - 1884" {"A Sunday on the Grand Jatte - 1884"}] [and credulist: "He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed"] Teilhard de Chardin), or government by the wise (or government ruled by matters of the mind/science), which Plato envisioned (actually sophocracy [opposite that of the United States, an anti-intellectual mediocracy {cretin irony alert: the*sequitrist loves America - and humans everywhere} that turns this republican principle on its head]) as replacing misguided democracy (as Schumpeter and Lippmann applaud). Imagine that.

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Image: Birds of Paradise
Hawaiian 'O'o by John Gerrard Keulemans
Cyril Pahinui: Hi'ilawe