Ars Poetica
Salvador Dali, Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia and poetry, her ally in the good. As late as yesterday, Nature celebrated their birth, the news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo. Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit. Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.
— Czeslaw Milosz
There is no rest for the search engine. The unquiet dead play games with the subject/object interface. It appears that our operating system is not a friend to Jesus. Logos flash through the sky of the Sinkiang Autonomous Region. Our wet dreams run through fiberoptic cables. Tectonic plates throb and ring. Each of the eight and one half billion—and still climbing—lives on Earth can now be mined for data by Operation Big Gulp, then simultaneously tested for adherence to the Mean. Pay no attention to that second voice. If a wave of 95 gigahertz reformats the deep structures of your brain, rest assured that this is purely a coincidence.
Gaps open, nonetheless. There are conflicts among the forces that govern the microcosm and the macrocosm. Scientists now compete to develop a Unified Field Theory—or a Theory of Everything, as it is sometimes called—that will unify the principles of relativity with those of quantum mechanics. No one knows what the new universe will look like, only that the Federal Reserve will be in charge. Please note: Before committing suicide by jumping in the ocean, the poet Hart Crane, heir to the Life Saver fortune, stopped to meticulously fold his raincoat on a deck chair. Voila! No more neuroses. Please note: Your interpretation of a Rorschach blot has disturbed the CIA.
Q: What has happened to the settlers in the Neutral Zone? A: There are no settlers in the Neutral Zone. Their technological distinctiveness has been added to the Eschaton. Our access codes will protect you from your bio, from all subsequent anxieties, from the shadow of the tower. Please note: There are no black helicopters, and therefore there is not one hovering above you. Please note: No record of your deletion will exist. No details will upset the innocent, and someone with your name will send a message to your friends, informing them that you have gone on a vacation to Belize.
