Thursday, January 28, 2021

2021 - The Year of Gamaliel, The Purpocalypse

Several excellent examples, things of beauty and confusion, can be found on the quotes page. This trope does not cover works in a florid but not intrusive style — the sacrifice of Utility on the altar of Eloquence is an essential feature of Purple Prose. It should also be noted that Purple Prose usually pairs flamboyant vocabulary with fairly plain grammar (that can get outright primitive in extreme cases) which differentiates it from true Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Bear in mind that Tropes Are Tools. Some of the examples below are intentional: the Purple Prose is a stylistic choice, a comedic turn or in aid of characterisation.

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On 27th January monuments in the UK were lit up purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.  I wonder whether they are really ''marking'' the holocaust of yesteryear or the massacres that are being perpetuated today.  This highlights the idea of - ''if the world is your stage, why do you need the movies?'', and also speaks to the idea of an inversion between the movie realm and the realm of reality and how we may have been flipped between those ''worlds...'' e.g. if in 2018 Annihilation was on the screenis this part of the real world reflection of Annihilation in 2021...?  Is the Gamestop debacle the real world reflection of Ready Player One..???? This idea needs some work but maybe there is something here!









Although I am behind in my research, although I am making progress, my money is still on 2021 as a purple mood piece.  I think that it is fairly easy to make the argument that the Armie Hammer cannibalism fetish incident is a lurid example of ''Beautiful Man'' + ''Obscenity'' and I think you will be seeing examples of this all year. The Game Stop incident is probably an example of ''astral shenanigans'' assuming that, as surmised, cyberspace is a stand-in for the astral plane.  If it's truly a mood piece it will be a year-long bombardment of inverted Yesodian correspondences, or ''Purple Prose'', teehee!

 THE RAILROADS OF DAMNATION

Railroading is a term from the world of roleplaying games and it happens when a Narrator is driving players down a plot line and gives very little room for improvisation or random chance to get in the way - often by subtly controlling their choices.  One of the problems with the Unifying Colour Theory is that it produced this scary template below for ''the plan'' being driven by whoever (or whatever) the Unifying Colour Producers are and eventually, if this theory stands up, one way or another we are all going to have a take a long hard look at these railroads into our future.  




Compare contrastingly with the phenomenon given the appellation of Beige Prose. Seek furthermore the silicon entries known as: Walls of TextSesquipedalian Loquaciousness"Burly Detective" Syndrome, and Meaningless Meaningful WordsMills and Boon Prose is a Sub-Trope; furthermore, that affliction known as Said Bookism is a customary peculiarity of this mode of communication. The most rococo of Narrative Filigree may a'times shade into this. Some communications open on the traditional Dark and Stormy Night. When narrators characterise their visual appearance via a Description in the Mirror, the resultant prose oftentimes can be purple. See also Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom, for when this is applied to names.

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10 comments:

  1. If the whole material place it's being down this slide, would you still be wise using the "run to the hills" advice? I don't pretend to escape, just like being here for the way up.....

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    1. To quote from Pessoa (stating the obvious!):

      If the floodwaters rise we are safer in the hills. If God throws lightning instead we should remain in the valley.

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    2. ...And when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor down...

      Somewhere in the middle will do for me.

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  2. I'm still (stubbornly) holding dear to the idea that their "railroaded" plans can be *de-railed*. Something which some men have done *can* be un-done by other men.

    As Henry Kissinger said: "Our failure to establish a post-Covid-19 new world order would result in the world being set on fire."

    Btw, that upside-down Tree of Life (Death?) is eeriely similar to what I perceived during my death experience, the physical world at the top, falling into darkness all the way down to Chokmah (or a "dark mirror" Chokmah) at the bottom left.

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    1. Repeat after me the prayer of the "Lord of the Woods":

      "Come down the Onyx Steps, oh Great God Pan,

      Make our enemies PAN-ic without knowing why,

      As you did unto the Titans, in favor of the Olympians,

      As you did unto the Persians, in favor of the Greeks,

      As you did unto countless others, make the enemies of both nature and humanity PAN-ic without knowing why,

      Undoing their own insane tyrannical plans, so that peace and harmony may return among us,

      Let it be so, Protogonos (He who is first to generate all things)."

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    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBoWTW764Es&ab_channel=AidanPang

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    3. That clip again. Still don't get what it has to do with Pan or divine intervention.

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  3. When they were experimenting with weather manipulation they found that draining a swamp in one area caused it to rain in a connected area. Having everything done in ritual first then could purple rain be part of the ritual of cleansing the purple? Have you dug into when they assigned colors to the emotional tweets and lit up the London eye in corresponding colors? LARPING Dr. Who. Could the color scheme of that indicate an order of operations for a group or do you expect it to follow the inverted hermetic cross?

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  4. I read an article mentioning that people can bet on what color gatorade the winning Super Bowl coach will be splashed with, by his players after the game. Purple is a longshot but imagine the payout if it happens. Maybe this is the year.

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  5. It was blue, but honestly it being toward the color purple on the color wheel/spectrum, it doesn't surprise me. Not to mention that some of the blue Gatorade out there looks almost periwinkle with its milky opaqueness.

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