The Book of Ether - Chapter 5a

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 3, 2011 at 6:34pm

You're branching out from cherries! Now we need a plum-mer?

Comment by Marie Wintzer on September 3, 2011 at 8:28am

Thanks for your comments everyone!

Here is the cherry blossom (actually plum blossom) picture I think you are referring to, Cheryl (thanks for fabbing it!):

I think it was a sewing pattern, I liked it because it clearly resembles roads and paths, with crossroads, interconnections, and choices to make. Turn left? Turn right? Who are you going to meet around next corner? It looks simple at the start because you seem to have a limitless number of lives at the start of the game, but you soon realize that this is not true.

Anyway, I enjoyed doing that chapter, the paper inspired me, I wish I could find more of a similar kind. Have to go back to booktown one of these days :-))

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2011 at 8:13am

Amazing road! Beautiful Marie!

Comment by cheryl penn on September 3, 2011 at 7:57am

I have one of these :-) - Marie mentions "you have 7 lives on your account" and after tracing a sad encounter ends the chapter with "you have 1 life left on your account".  Its made on some sort of pattern paper - and thats what she's speaking about - bad patterns - its a FAB Marie - sorry I have not blogged it - and the cherry blossom photo? - Beautiful - please put it back here if you get a moment - its a beauty! Life - its a winding road :-) XX

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 3, 2011 at 6:37am

This reminds me. A poet named George Oppen, don't bother tracking it down because it would take forever to explain what he has to do with all this, used a structure called the "discrete series." As I remember, it involved all the stops on the New York City subway (although he lived most of his life in San Francico). If you you knew the subway schedule (the maps they give you), those particular poems made perfect sense. If you didn't, you were forever looking for a way to crack a code that made absolutely no sense. I'm remembering this, could have gotten some of the facts wrong, but this work made me think of that.