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"Coincidance,"1 a clusterfuck of meaning,
Jung and Freudened symbols and synchronicities.
The joke based religion game,2
on the Husserl, a game of chance and necessity,
citywide chaos, weird connections.
The I-Ching's song,3
the genetic code's serpent complexity,
the Joyce family doodles,4
all interwoven in a grand piano fugue,
whyweb.
"The কালি (Kali) is come,
the যুগ (yuga) is turning,"
"the center cannot hold."5 - Yeats
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Is it random noise, or order here, does it cohere?
a negentropoly of Bob.
deeper geometry logic at play? rewind
The answer6 escape blockchain,
using a distributed ledger of second hand accounts.
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EXT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT
Two figures, silhouetted against the city skyline, are playing a game with dice and a strange, multi-faceted board covered in equations, currencies, and ideograms.
FIGURE 1
"If a dancer dances, which is the dance?"7
FIGURE 2
"The one we make, or the one we see?"
^1 "Coincidance": A term used by Robert Anton Wilson to describe meaningful coincidences. Robert Anton Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462913.Coincidance
^2 "The city as joke religion factory": A possible reference to the city as a producer of ideologies and belief systems.
^3 I-Ching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
^4 "Joyce family doodles": Refers to the doodles and drawings made by James Joyce and his family.
^5 "The Kali is come...the center cannot hold": A reference to Yeats's poem "The Second Coming," with "Kali" (a Hindu goddess of destruction and transformation) replacing the original "falcon." The Second Coming: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
^6 "The answer": A possible reference to the number 42 in Douglas Adams's *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
^7 "If a dancer dances, which is the dance?": A paraphrased quote, attributed to both W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot, highlighting the inseparability of the creator from the creation.