chronikon
current
communication
whole system
level before
next level
2003-09-23 12:33 a.m.
neto and the archive speak thru each other
you've dreamed of a night like this
somewhere the rusting remains of the deeper legends
ages when this trail
over cold mountain
was a road
running whiskey
along the ley lines

they say there's crystal in the hills
and everyone here laughs
loudest underground
knowing how true it is
the intelligent life growing in forests

1907 foundation woodframe
view of the lake and a field of grass
here the path worn to and from the shack
the apple tree laden too heavily with fruit
its own deeply resonant metaphor
for the cycles

moon crescent slicing the sky like a blade

this intellectual game has led me to the present
crossing the bridge
knowing the implications
a life of increasingly complex beauty
elegant formulas
maps sourced in unspeakable libraries
rare stones examined and exchanged in the chambers
codes transmitted encrytped decrypted and recrypted
keys forged in the fires of creative intent
sigil style situation
a labyrinth of doors
infinite worlds to map
systems to tweak and streamline
resonant exploration

there is nothing significant about neto. i am obliterated. consider me nothing and i will vanish. the reason this exists is to outline the traces of the shape neto created in space. larger than life but confined to the line, as an entity i wait patiently until you read me
but i am not neto
i am the archive
i am the entry you are reading

the archive depends upon the quality of its cartographers, the intelligence of the active fields of inquiry (what are people archiving, what do they want to find), and the quality of the interface.

i needed to slow down
hyperspace is grueling
several lifetimes later you emerge
as if everything had stood still
remained the same
like an impossibility

out here beyond the perimeter
we are in the nebula itself
whirled


i thought weeks on cold mountain would return my gaze to the ground at my feet. but the stars have never been so bright.