sources notes from sunday (marc's)

My reactions/interests from Sunday source sharing:

Many Waters --> mythical transformation as dense narrative of imagery, juxtaposition of myth/fable/religious history with time-travel.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet--->epic language. conjuring. spell casting. proclamations

Smell---> possible to express the experience of a smell or touch, but using other senses. could we, limited to what we can present on stage, find exciting ways to tap into other senses. (helen keller) I like the idea of smelling rituals, perhaps very strange atrificial rituals. Also like the pheromone chapter, idea of powerful pheromones being manipulated in the future part of a narrative... is SMELL the fourth dimension?

Husband Salting ----> again, I like the idea of performing strange rituals on stage, not necessarily ones that have actually happened, but weird variations and reworkings of them, trying to maintain their absurd essence. More quirky historical ritual research?

Calvino - Castle/Tarot-----> Like the idea of some sort of complex code through which narrative is revealed. Also, the tarot images have such strange potency on their own, then add the layer of distinct meaning, then the layer or the meaning driving action--an interesting way of driving events forward

The Mirror---->moments were most dreamlike/notable when 1) reactions to stimuli are distant or not in line with how you'd expect the character to respond and 2) world starts to deteriorate in uncanny ways hinting at a fiction, but not quite a full dissociation

Solaris----> similar to the mirror, disconnects between stimuli and response seems to build strangeness. also, visual variations (b&w, distortion, contrast) can pull you into a very different world

Future Primitive----> "complexity inter-penetrative in ways not previously imagined", return to the old ways not in conflict with the march of technology. Technology as context and tool of knowledge, but does not contain the knowledge itself, only signs of the knowledge.

Vermillion Sands---->could we envision a mundane future?

Source.html + text----->staging dreamscapes. all the photos appear to be vast worlds, devoid of certain identifying details, and always extreme- color, haze, shadow, silhouette

Hericletus----> repetition of same wisdom over the ages. harping on same themes. summation of knowledge into short imperatives of wisdom

Visit to Lost World--->cultural fetishizing in a distant other world? A feigned reality out of context, an mimesis of the mythos.

Another Bystander--->will we vanish from memory completely? can we theatricalize that?

Remembrance of Times Past------> last four stanzas. ability to use isolated personal/small experience in great detail as analogous illustration of larger philosophical point.