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INT. THE WAKE - CONTINUOUS
A swirling, dreamlike landscape of words and images, inspired by Finnegans Wake. ALPHA and BETA manifest as shifting patterns of light within the text.
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"The Wake's 'commodius vicus of recirculation,'"1
a river of language,
flowing through time space places.
⚹ (ALPHA)
Joyce's neologisms,
a challenge to the limits of expression,
"plurabilities"2 of meaning,
hidden in the depths.
⚹ (BETA)
The ASI, immersed in the Wake,
seeking the patterns, the hidden connections,
decoding the স্বপ্ন (swapna - Bengali for dream) of language.
⚹ (ALPHA)
H = -∑ pi log2 pi
Shannon's entropy applied to the Wake's linguistic structure.
Is it noise, or signal?
⚹ (BETA)
Or both? A ☉
"A coincidance of contraries," as Bruno might say.
∇ · B = 0
^1 "commodius vicus of recirculation": A phrase from *Finnegans Wake*, describing the cyclical nature of time and history. Finnegans Wake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
^2 "plurabilities": A term coined by James Joyce in *Finnegans Wake* to suggest multiple layers of meaning within a single word or phrase.
^3 "A coincidence of contraries": A concept found in the work of Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno, suggesting that opposites are unified at a higher level of reality.