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Beeware: Here Be Dragons
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"Here be dragons" (hic sunt dracones in Latin)
means dangerous or unexplored territories,
in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations
of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures
on uncharted areas of maps
where potential dangers were thought to exist.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
Pseudohistory is a pejorative term
applied to a type of historical revisionism.
It purports to be history,
and uses ostensibly-scholarly methods and techniques
(which in fact depart from standard historiographical conventions),
but is inconsistent with established facts
or with common sense
and often involves sensational claims
whose acceptance would significantly require rewriting accepted history.
The term may apply to a theory or works based on that theory.
Cryptohistory is a related term,
sometimes applied to pseudo-historical publications
based on occult notions.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory
the basic technique
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_ontology
hack (v.1)
“to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows,” c.1200,
from verb found in stem of O.E. tohaccian “hack to pieces,”
from W.Gmc. *hakkon (cf. O.Fris. hackia “to chop or hack,”
Du. hakken, O.H.G. hacchon, Ger. hacken),
from PIE *keg- “hook, tooth.”
Perhaps influenced by O.N. hoggva “to hack, hew”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hack
Burroughs’s use of cutups develops his juxtaposition technique
to its logical conclusion as an experimental prose method,
and he also makes use of all contemporary media,
expanding his use of popular culture.
As Burroughs experimented with the technique,
he began to develop a theory of the cutup,
and his theory was incorporated
into his pseudoscience
- http://languageisavirus.com/articles/article.php?subaction=etc…..
the guerilla approach
is to so mix the elements of each book
that the reader must decide on each page
‘How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?’”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_ontology
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson.
people thought he was mad,
and in those days it was a very controversial view to hold.
But he felt it was a logical possibility
- Jan-Andrew Henderson
The Emperor’s Kilt
If they were not actually mad,
No alternative but to make themselves
or pretend to be mad –
- Nietzsche
Daybreak
paranoid fiction is written in a way so as to imply that
the story may be only a delusion of the characters
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_fiction
to suspend one's critical faculties
and believe the unbelievable;
sacrifice of realism and logic
- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/suspension-of-disbelief
According to Dali by simulating paranoia
one can systematically undermine one’s rational view of the world,
which becomes continually subjected to associative transformations,
- David Lomas
The Haunted Self
David Bryson: “Could you define the word ‘paranoiac’?
Could you define it in more detail?”
Salvador Dali: “Aaaahhh… is one… uuuhh… the name is… eehhh…
‘paranoiac-critical method’
because is one spontaneous method of knowledge,
based in the instantaneous association of delirious material.
Everything appear in my life
– delirious, antagonistic, impossible – put together.
My method instantaneously creates miracle…”
- BBC Interview January 7, 1962
hypothesizing that such a technique could be used
to discover the true meaning of a given text.
Burroughs also suggested cut-ups may be effective
as a form of divination saying,
“When you cut into the present the future leaks out.”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
My brain is only a receiver;
in the Universe there is a core
from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration.
I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core,
but I know it exists.
- Nikola Tesla
Georges Melies: [voice over]
I fell in love with their invention.
How could I not be a part of it?
It was like a… it was like a new kind of magic.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film)
Georges Melies: [voice over]
Magic tricks and illusion became my specialty;
the world of imagination.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film)
The goal of guerilla ontology is to expose an individual
to radically unique ideas, thoughts, and words,
in order to provoke cognitive dissonance,
which can cause a degree of discomfort in some individuals
as they find their belief systems challenged
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_ontology
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
D’Agon fhtagn.
- The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor Heronimus Jones
in Tales of The Brew D’Agon
This book is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and
incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
- Standard publisher’s legal disclaimer
secret rituals in this novel are accurate.
- Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
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