by
Jaye B.
One of my favorite French writers is Raymond Roussel who has had much influence on my own writing. (Especially my Excarnation Destination series which is a picaresque, chthonic exploration of a death wish that has been with me most of my life, an attempt to create imaginal dimensions in which the death wish can express itself.)
Roussel was the author of Impressions of Africa and Locus Solus. A wealthy eccentric and recluse who never left his hotel room no matter what exotic places he traveled to, choosing to create his surreal worlds with words instead. ( I loved him even more after I first learned this about him.)
Here’s wiki:
Locus Solus: "A prominent scientist and inventor, Martial Canterel, has invited a group of colleagues to visit the park of his country estate, Locus Solus. As the group tours the estate, Canterel shows them inventions of ever-increasing complexity and strangeness. Again, exposition is invariably followed by explanation, the cold hysteria of the former giving way to the innumerable ramifications of the latter. After an aerial pile driver which is constructing a mosaic of teeth and a huge glass diamond filled with water in which float a dancing girl, a hairless cat, and the preserved head of Danton, we come to the central and longest passage: a description of eight curious tableaux vivants taking place inside an enormous glass cage. We learn that the actors are actually dead people whom Canterel has revived with 'resurrectine,' a fluid of his invention which if injected into a fresh corpse causes it continually to act out the most important incident of its life.”
Exactly what is happening now with the resurrectine zombie jab! So Roussel was indeed a visionary and a cryptographer too:
New Impressions of Africa is a 1,274-line poem, consisting of four long cantos in rhymed alexandrines, each a single sentence with parenthetical asides that run up to five levels deep. From time to time, a footnote refers to a further poem containing its own depths of brackets. This impressive nest of brackets carries an assertion — or a recommendation ? — buried by Roussel within a 644 line alexandrine poem. In A study on Raymond Roussel,[1] Jean Ferry suggested the notion of a hidden message and transcribed the succession of brackets of Cantos II into the alphabet invented by the painter Samuel Morse : considering each bracket as a dot and the included text as a dash. But due to the missing spaces which separate letters the ensemble of dots and dashes as well as a concealed message remained an hypothesis... until it was deciphered by Jean-Max Albert (another painter), revealing (at least partially) the rousselienne formula, which can't be fortuitous : « RELIVE YOUR DREAMS AWAKE » ( Revis tes rêves en éveil).[2][3]
Truly it is time to RELIVE OUR DREAMS AWAKE as everything else goes dead, using the rousselienne formula. I plan on revealing the formula used in my own writing soon.
Best,
Jaye B.
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Jaye B. is a writer, musician and artist. His art criticism has appeared in Art Paper, New North Artscape, Art Muscle, Northfield Magazine and elsewhere. His articles have also appeared in City Pages, Twin Cities Reader, Mysteries Magazine, Fahrenheit San Diego, High Plains Reader, New Dawn and Rain Taxi. He has appeared on BBC Radio, WGN Chicago, WLW Cincinnati and elsewhere in the mediasphere to discuss his work. Please help support Reset News @ Paypal, Cash App , Ko-fi or contact the author for other options @ jayeb444@protonmail.com
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