The Swan of Tounela
For Kris
After K identified my Psychological make-up, she concluded that my persona contained a Cute Personality Inorder1, preceded by a Bifocal
For Kris
After K identified my Psychological make-up, she concluded that my persona contained a Cute Personality Inorder1, preceded by a Bifocal
Personality without order. There were of course massive amounts of Argentinean Egotropic Fixations
and Sado-Macho-Exquisite tendencies.
Being a Latino, I had no choice in the matter.
Quantifying, mapping and classifying my scant grey matter was not an easy task,
Quantifying, mapping and classifying my scant grey matter was not an easy task,
but the real challenge came when she yielded to the all too (aHem!!) gender specific temptation, of altering the balance of my Psycho-engines.
Armed with the latest tool sets by the notorious Klapacius5 of Lem's fame, she proceeded to tweak the stochastic algorithms of my decidability engines...
Attempting to lower the amplitude of the egotism modulator to a mere ten KiloGauchos6 was mission impossible from the beginning.
My parents were of the kind which reproduces by a rather gooey procedure
involving a liberal amount of wrestling and
rhythmic grunts -locking into place phylogenetically
determined information patterns
that can be rather annoying, and difficult to modulate.
No amount of sensitivity training, team-building and cooperation dynamics could bring the egotism level below the 600KG which were already genetically ingrained …
So much for nurture over nature.
The initial frustration notwithstanding, she moved onto the virtual magic reality knob which she was able to set at 5 Giga Garcia-MarqHertz7.
No amount of sensitivity training, team-building and cooperation dynamics could bring the egotism level below the 600KG which were already genetically ingrained …
So much for nurture over nature.
The initial frustration notwithstanding, she moved onto the virtual magic reality knob which she was able to set at 5 Giga Garcia-MarqHertz7.
In order to test the new setting, she looked into my eyes with all her Scandinavian cool as I produced from my mouth a veritable storm of yellow
butterflies every
time she batted her eyelashes...Encouraged by this modest success, she decided to modulate the Eromantic arbitrators8 by
using a clock rate set by a Milonga
for two LiterattiAnthropus Erectus9 to be played cachondo ma non tropo10
with a beat of decidedly Thanatic overtones.
Again,
things did not go as planned. The FemmeFatalatron11 emulator used to calibrate the Tantalizer12
overheated when a car passed by spewing 400 decibels of unadulterated Celia Cruz Salsa
music
from its ghetto blaster.
The sudden pheromonal confusion rendered all efforts useless, except
for unexpected and delightful side effects.
for unexpected and delightful side effects.
But I digress...
The experiment almost came to an abrupt end as she began
using the Oniroscope13 to feedback archetypical imagery to "properly"
inform my phenotype about the differences between Aztec
The experiment almost came to an abrupt end as she began
using the Oniroscope13 to feedback archetypical imagery to "properly"
inform my phenotype about the differences between Aztec
and
Finnish Mandalas...
Finnish Mandalas...
All was going well. The Oniroscope was unfolding beautiful 3D images
of ancient Tenochtitlan
of ancient Tenochtitlan
Kris-crossed by canals, teeming
with all kind of fowl led by the Swan of Tounela
with all kind of fowl led by the Swan of Tounela
who perched on her back had an Eagle eating a Snake
Notes
- Traditional psychology speaks of disorders of different kinds. The definition of disorder implies chaotic manifestations flowing from within in a disorderly, discombobulated or otherwise “abnormal” manner.
Our definition of “inorder”, is dynamically inverse to that of the disorder inasmuch as it flows from the outside into the individual.
By all outward appearances, an inorder may seem qualitatively more desirable than a disorder; after all, it seems to enhance the appearance of the subject as opposed to a disorder, which has for the most part deforming results. An inorder is the condition resulting from the careful assimilation of environmental stimuli in order to coalesce with one’s social group. On closer look, an inorder may be as bad for the subject as a disorder may be a positive part of a creative process…
2. When we hear of split personalities, we have visions of “Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” behavior.
In actuality, split personalities are more complex. They cannot be reduced to schizophrenia-like behaviors which are explainable as sudden fluctuations in a region of hysteresis between two meta-stable behavioral regimes.
There can be split personalities which are bi-focal or multi-focal and have a different psychodynamic interpretation.
3. Even as it may sound politically incorrect, there are certain psychological traits which are explained as a function of an ethnic group, a culture or even an historical figure.
3. Even as it may sound politically incorrect, there are certain psychological traits which are explained as a function of an ethnic group, a culture or even an historical figure.
Whether this is bad or not, is irrelevant to the fact that those traits can effectively be traced
The fact that the ego related studies have made more progress when conducted on Argentinean subjects, does not mean that all Argentineans are prone to those conditions anymore than other groups. In fact, the character in this story is not Argentinean…
4. Just like the psychodynamics of a bifocal personality can not be explained in terms of a simple split personality, the sado-macho-exquisite tendencies, have very little or no resemblance with the bipolar sadomasochistic behaviors.
4. Just like the psychodynamics of a bifocal personality can not be explained in terms of a simple split personality, the sado-macho-exquisite tendencies, have very little or no resemblance with the bipolar sadomasochistic behaviors.
While the former is a complex form of behavior which evolves over time and moves along an axis of macho behavior -shaded by subtle and exquisite tropisms-, the later is a rather simple behavior which can settle in at a very early age…
5. Klapacius and Trurl were two constructors at universal scale created by Stanislav Lem in his book Cyberiad. Their skill set has been the envy of every nerd on earth. They were highly intelligent robots who looked down upon the mere albuminoidal forms of life which in their opinion, evolved too slow to be truly interesting and were messy, gooey and fragile (most of them would die after a 30 feet fall).
5. Klapacius and Trurl were two constructors at universal scale created by Stanislav Lem in his book Cyberiad. Their skill set has been the envy of every nerd on earth. They were highly intelligent robots who looked down upon the mere albuminoidal forms of life which in their opinion, evolved too slow to be truly interesting and were messy, gooey and fragile (most of them would die after a 30 feet fall).
6. KiloGaucho is a unit of egotism equivalent to that of one thousand Gauchos. The Gaucho was chosen over the Porteño as the distribution of their ego traits is more uniform even if not necessarily more concentrated.
7. A gigaGarcíaMarqHertz is equivalent to a clock rate needed by a standard oniroscope to elicit the firing of a million neurons when the brain of an innocent bystander is presented by magic imagery extracted from the realm of reality. For more details, see “Protocol for the measurement of the immanent brain activity of innocent bystanders” by Professor Buen Día et al. Macondo University Press, 2023
8. The eromantic arbitrators are at the center of a complex subsystem controlling the various aspects associated with both, recreational and reproductive activities which have been collectively referred to as “sex” by the general population.
The complexity of the aforementioned subsystem results from the need to arbitrate activities as subtle and elusive as the ontogenesis of the vicarious experiences, all the way to the organoleptic properties of all interfaces and their juices flowing through miscellaneous pipes and their relationship to the quality of life.
For a more extensive discussion on the subject, we refer the reader to the work “Grundlagenstudien aus Geisteswissenschaft und Fleischwissenschaft” (“Foundations for the sciences of the spirit and the sciences of the flesh”), by Abe Strauss. Saint Anthony Press, 2045
9. The LiterattiAnthropus Erectus a subspecies of the Homo sapiens has been recently moved to the list of endangered species
For a more extensive discussion on the subject, we refer the reader to the work “Grundlagenstudien aus Geisteswissenschaft und Fleischwissenschaft” (“Foundations for the sciences of the spirit and the sciences of the flesh”), by Abe Strauss. Saint Anthony Press, 2045
9. The LiterattiAnthropus Erectus a subspecies of the Homo sapiens has been recently moved to the list of endangered species
The factors threatening their existence are too numerous to discuss here; we will limit ourselves to mention only a few:
a) Pressure from other subspecies. i.e. Homo Harleyensis, (native to California, it has reproduced by mysterious means in uncontrolled numbers)
a) Pressure from other subspecies. i.e. Homo Harleyensis, (native to California, it has reproduced by mysterious means in uncontrolled numbers)
b) Interbreeding with AstrologycoPithecus (unknown origin. Experienced a revival in the late 1960´s after they came from the underground into mainstream America. Their popularity soared in the 1980's when it was known that a certain first lady relied on their advice for matters of public policy)
c) Lobotomization by TV and Hollywood movies.
10. This expression mark appeared for the first time in the score of “Misa para ocasiones privadas” composed by Monsignor Gregorio de la Lascivia circa 2055. It appears after the fourth measure of the melismatic phrases of the introito, and reappears at the end of the in excelsis between the mezzo forte and fortissimo sections.
11. The first FemmeFatalatron was successfully completed by Trurl in 2066 using the abandoned work done by humans in prior years.The exact date when humans began the project, still is a state secret along with all of the work done.
From the rumor mill, we know that a relatively obscure scientist convinced a government organization to fork out the billions needed along with personnel and facilities.
Being a government project, it had a politically correct balance of male and female workers
11. The first FemmeFatalatron was successfully completed by Trurl in 2066 using the abandoned work done by humans in prior years.The exact date when humans began the project, still is a state secret along with all of the work done.
From the rumor mill, we know that a relatively obscure scientist convinced a government organization to fork out the billions needed along with personnel and facilities.
Being a government project, it had a politically correct balance of male and female workers
against the strong objections of the designer who wanted to use castrati for reasons which became apparent later.
At the beginning of the project, genetic material and anecdotal knowledge was collected whenever possible, from the most famous Femme Fatals in history. From Pandora, Circe, Helen of Troy, … all the way to Mata Hari and beyond.
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Molecular Biologists in concert with Paleo-biologists worked with DNA recovered from ancient tombs and fresh samples from some contemporary divas in order to produce pheromones of the highest order.
Musicologists, reconstructed siren songs
while renowned courtesans along with psychologists, developed seduction algorithms with up to 99.27% success rate.
The early prototype was little more than a holographic projector with a sound synthesizer, a sprayer of pheromones and miscellaneous electrodes.
The first volunteer died of pleasure after 48 days unable to eat or sleep and was howling at the top of his lungs.
The first volunteer died of pleasure after 48 days unable to eat or sleep and was howling at the top of his lungs.
Succeeding volunteers had to be restrained forever and left on force feeding devices.
It was important to keep them alive in order to test the longevity of the effects.
All was going well until the female scientists saw the potential benefits of taping into the knowledge base of the database and stole some of the pheromone extracts…
It was only matter of weeks before all male scientists died under mysterious circumstances and the project got cancelled.
As the female scientists returned to the civilian world and passed their knowledge to their daughters; the male population steadily declined to alarmingly low levels.
It was important to keep them alive in order to test the longevity of the effects.
All was going well until the female scientists saw the potential benefits of taping into the knowledge base of the database and stole some of the pheromone extracts…
It was only matter of weeks before all male scientists died under mysterious circumstances and the project got cancelled.
As the female scientists returned to the civilian world and passed their knowledge to their daughters; the male population steadily declined to alarmingly low levels.
How the problem got solved still is a state secret which probably will never be declassified…
12. The Tantalizer is, technically, just a subsystem of the FemFatalatron. It is used for lighter work and it is calibrated using a FemFatalatron version 2.5.
Licensed professionals and law enforcement agencies can operate it for civilian use.
13. The Oniroscope, was originally designed to simply probe and analyze the dreams of humans. The most recent versions, included the ability to tweak the contents of the dreams in many ways under the control of qualified interrogators of different kinds…
Licensed professionals and law enforcement agencies can operate it for civilian use.
13. The Oniroscope, was originally designed to simply probe and analyze the dreams of humans. The most recent versions, included the ability to tweak the contents of the dreams in many ways under the control of qualified interrogators of different kinds…
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14. The Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan Joutsen) is an 1895 tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The story behind it is an excerpted legend from the Kalevala epic of Finnish mythology.The tone poem is scored for strings and harp, with a notable cor anglais solo, one of the most famous in the orchestral literature. The music paints a gossamer, transcendental image of a mystical swan swimming around Tuonela, the island of the dead. Lemminkäinen, the hero of the epic, has been tasked with killing the sacred swan, but on the way he is shot with a poisoned arrow, and dies himself. In the next part of the epic he is restored to life.
15. Mexican national symbol and in this context, a symbol of chauvinistic prowess as it is presented as copulational bliss on a moving target…
16. The Sauna/Temezcal is an impossible construction as one uses dry heat and the other steam, but dreams are made of impossible scenarios…
17. The Maiden of Finland (Finnish: Suomi-neito) is the national personification of Finland, much as Marianne in France, Britannia in the United Kingdom, Deutscher Michel in Germany and Uncle Sam for the United States. She is a young woman in her mid-twenties with often braided blonde hair, blue eyes, wearing a blue and white national costume or a white dress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Maiden
18. Allusion to a work of C.G. Jung
19. Allusion to “El jardin de los senderos que se bifurcan” (“The garden of the forking paths”) by J. L. Borges.
20. The term Aleph here is used in the context of Borge’s short story “El Aleph”.The Aleph is
“… el lugar donde están, sin confundirse, todos los lugares del orbe vistos desde todos los ángulos…(p623 Borges,Obras Completas v 1.).
“A place where all points of the universe are seen from every angle without mixing them-up” (p623 Borges,Obras Completas v 1.).¨
¨Lo que vieron mis ojos fue simultáneo: lo que transcribiré, sucesivo. Porque el lenguaje lo es….” “… What my eyes saw, was simultaneous, what I transcribe, is successive because such is language…” … “ El diámetro del Aleph, sería de dos o tres centímetros, pero el espacio cósmico estaba ahí, sin disminución de tamaño. Cada cosa (la luna del espejo, digamos) era infinitas cosas porque yo claramente la veía desde todos los puntos del universo“…the diameter of the Aleph was something like two or three centimeters, but the entire cosmic space was there without reduction in size. Each thing, (the mirror glass for example) was an infinite number of things because I was clearly seeing it from every point of the universe….”(p625 Borges,Obras Completas v 1.)
stochastic algorithms.
Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that operates on processes whose behavior has random elements. It allows a consistent theory of integration to be defined for integrals of stochastic processes with respect to stochastic processes. It is used to model systems that behave randomly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_calculus
phylogenetically determined information patterns
in biology, phylogenetics (Greek: phylon = tribe, race and genetikos = relative to birth, from genesis = birth) is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations). Also known as phylogenetic systematics, phylogenetics treats a species as a group of lineage-connected individuals over time. Phylogenetic taxonomy, which is an offshoot of, but not a logical consequence of, phylogenetic systematics, constitutes a means of classifying groups of organisms according to degree of evolutionary relatedness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogeny
Storm of yellow butterflies
In his book “Cien años de soledad” (A hundred years of solitude), A character throws yellow butterflies from her mouth every time she speaks…
Milonga
Milonga is an Argentinian and Uruguayan form of music, as dance, as the term for the place where tango is danced. The term milonga comes from a similar expression that means "lyrics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milonga
See also “Para las seis cuerdas” (for the six strings), a collection of Milonga poems written by Borges. (p329 Borges,Obras Completas v II).
Thanatic overtones.
In Greek mythology, Thanatos (θάνατος, "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: Mors), and a minor figure in Greek mythology.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos
Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa singer who spent most of her career living in New Jersey, working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Cruz was one of the most successful Cuban performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name and has earned the moniker of the "La guarachera de Cuba". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz
Ghetto blaster
The synonym ghetto blaster or ghetto-blaster is a term that can be considered insulting or complimentary depending on the context. The word ghetto blaster originated in the U.S., apparently reflecting the belief that such systems are popular in poor inner-city neighborhoods (ghettos), especially those populated by black Americans, whether as a sign of economic power or simply to play some music or throw a party. 'Ghettoblaster' rather than 'Boom-Box' became the common term in the UK and Australia for large portable stereos, perhaps because the pejorative connotations were not as present or apparent in those countries.
The term usually carries a connotation of power and disregard of social rules, shown in the ability to blast music to overwhelm those around you, as portrayed in the film Do the Right Thing by director Spike Lee. Dispute over a ghetto blaster was a central role in that movie's culminating riot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_blaster
phenotype
A phenotype is any detectable characteristic of an organism (i.e., structural, biochemical, physiological and behavioral) determined by an interaction between its genotype and environment (see genotype-phenotype distinction and phenotypic plasticity for a further elaboration of this distinction). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotype
Conch, Teponatztle, Kantele and Maracas
The conch was used by ancient Mexicans to produce musical sounds during various ceremonies. The Teponaztle, was a percussion instrument made entirely of wood using a hollowed tree trunk for its core.
A kantele ([ˈkɑntele], from Finnish) or kannel ([ˈkɑnːel], Finnish variant or from Estonian) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family. It is related to the Russian gusli, the Latvian kokle and the Lithuanian kanklės. Together these instruments make up the family known as Baltic Psalteries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele
Coyolxauhqui 's temple
The moon goddess, according the Aztec mythology. Her name means "Golden Bells." She was the daughter of the earth goddess, Coatlicue and the sister of the sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Coyolxauhqui encouraged her four hundred sisters and brothers to kill their dishonored mother. Coatlicue gave birth to Huitzilopochtli after a ball of feathers fell into the temple where she was sweeping and touched her. Huitzilopochtli sprang out of her mother as an adult fully armed and slew Coyolxauhqui and his other star sisters and brothers. Coatlicue regretted such violence. Thus, Huitzilopochtli cut off Coyolxauhqui's head and threw it into the sky to form the moon. aglow with the golden color of her bells. "Golden Bells". The earth and moon-goddess of the Aztecs. She is related to the four hundred star-deities Huitznauna, who is under her control. She possesses magical powers which with she can do great harm. Coyolxauhqui decapitated her own mother Coatlicue when she became pregnant in what her children deemed unseemly circumstances. Immediately the sun-god Huitzilopochtli sprang fully armed from Coatlicue's womb and slew Coyalxauhqui and many of her kin. According to one tradition, Huitzilopochtli tossed her head into the sky where it became the moon. >> (Encyclopedia Mythica online) http://inanna.virtualave.net/southamerican.html
Obsidian knife In ancient Mexico human sacrifices were carried out using knifes made of Obsidian. A black translucent quartz which was shaped as very sharp knives used with such dexterity that in a single movement, the priest would open the chest of the victim, cut the hearth from its arteries and present it still pulsating for the ceremonial partaking of its flesh…
Ruben Juarez,
Chula Vista, 2006.