11:11 11/05/2025 Flashcards
[En]rapture me. Not the state. The liminium. (11 cards)
Fractal
Geometrical figure
Possessing the same statistical characteristics as the whole
Modelling structures
(Such as Romanesco Broccoli or snowflakes)
Patterns recur at progressively smaller scales
Partly random, partly chaotic
They give rise to phenomena such as crystal growth and galaxy formation
“Fractals of my being, in the eye of a spider.”
Can also be used as adjective
“Fractal geometry”, relating to or of the nature of a fractal
Ontological
Ontology?
Relating to being, or based upon experience
The experience of being
A branch of metaphysics (“beyond the substantiable physics, evidence of witness, calculation, measurement.)
A branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being
“Abstract entities”
Can also denote a particular theory, about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence
“The ontological study of cats. This denotes how cats respond to the known world and universe through the faculties and capacity it has been assigned and encoded for, as a cat.” So what is the ontological “identity” of a cat?
[To] mortify
Is to cause (someone) to feel very embarassed or ashamed “I was mortified by my erection on pool deck, but there is a compassionate part of me that delves not into its intent, but in its pain.”
- To subdue the body or its needs by self-denial and disciplie
“The fact of the matter is, the bifurcation, or rather, fractals of this word, into conjoining particles in the vacuum. Both the mortification connoting the restraint, effort used to curb a certain fate, or realisation, or experience, and the other, as the experience itself. In saying, this, a fractal of this illustration follows: “I was mortified by my experience of being other than what I was. I mortified my experience into being other than it was.”
Mortify: Deny the senses, and the shame arisen from the denigration of one’s senses. How stunning.
- (Of flesh) to be affected by gangrene or necrosis (death of a limb, due to the bloodletting of one’s lifeline.)
“The cut in Henry’s arm had moritified.”
This is a progression isn’t it? A delayed progression. From the state or condition of being mortified, to the mortification of the state, to the moritification of the soul into abscess.
Bloodletting
The surgical removal of some of a patient’s blood for therapeutic purposes.
“I’ve felt this before, the need for bloodletting to relieve the pressure valve, as it were. Of the containment of mortification.”
- The violent killing and wounding of people during a war or conflict. “Collateral bloodletting, is a phenomenon that is both moritifying and mortifying by those who commit, endure, and benefit. Unless … they keep their eyes wide open, like unhealing slits.”
Internecine
Destructive to both sides in a conflict.
This word is used as an adjective, a description of a noun or a grounding letter.
“Internecine parties evoke contradictions. To defeat, you also must bloodlet. Relieve the pressure. And those who are able to find peace in that, is surely to be savaged, diminished, silenced, cut down. Mortified by the soul that infects.”
Relating to conflict within a group.
“The party shrank from the trauma of more internecine strife.”
Vivsect
The ruthlessly sharp and detailed criticism or analysis of something
“The vivisection of America’s seamy underbelly. A nation reborn.”
The practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research (used only by opponents of such work - ironically, as Oxford Languages emphasises, used only by “opponents” of this work. How wild.”
To writhe
To make twisting, squirming movements, or contortions of the body
Similar: Squirm, thrash, flounder, toss and turn, flail
“they writhes together like maggots in mortifying cinder. The woods fell as it burnt, and the hydration rented further. Deepening the chasm into the underbelly of the forest bed. The leakage of the dead undergrowth, in damp recession, while the flames consumed the skies above.”
- Respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to an intense feeling or thought.
“She writhed as the vines tortured her circulatory systems. A system encroached, ensconced, safely in the shell her ghost so eagerly longed to be bloodletted.”
Sigil
Noun
A sigil, is an inscribed or painted symbol considered to have magical power
Archaicly known as a seal
“The supply wains bore the High King’s sigil.”
In literature, it is used to describe or affirm a sign or symbol. “A 1925 Buick limousine, the sigil of Tom’s naturalization.”
Naturalization
Four-fold. Get ready.
- the admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country. “Naturalization means nothing to the people who know the truth. This world belongs to no one. You did not found a nation. The nation has not yet been found. Return to nature, the only truth. There is no naturalization, there is only what’s natural. And you are not one.”
- The introduction of a plant or animal to a region where it is not indigenous.
“I could have naturalized into decay. But today, I chose to live on higher ground. Where liquid death, flourishes, stone cold mountains flourish like the outer edges of light. Where fractals, crystallize in the open, do not diminish, does not mortify. And bloodletting is not a curse, but a sigil. Not interncine writhing, an ontological birth.” - The alteration of an adopted foreign word so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language.
“French naturalization of a Creole words or phrases.”
“Or in Jamaican patois, the same can be said of naturalization of the Queen’s English.”
- The act of causing something to appear natural.
“Let’s render internet pornography something that has’t immunised to a world that has accepted that it’s structures and foundations unshakeable. I will use it as my crucifix, my sigil into the true recesses of naturalization. Returning to what I writhe to become. The ontology, the awakening, the mark. Not of death, but of blood. Blood beyond bleeding.”
Cipher
A cipher is a secret or disguised way of writing; a code.
something written in code
- A zero; a figure 0.
a person of no importance, especially one who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own. “A pawn, a tool, a flesh bot, a harbour of skin, an unnaturalization, an unbecoming. In essence, all or most or all, that contemporary man represents. Ciphers in a digital age.”
- A monogram.
“A pair of rock crystal goblets engraved witht he cipher of Peter the Great.”
verb
1. to put a message into secret writing; encode.
- do arithmetic.
cipher2
A continuous sounding of an organ pipe, cause by a mechanical defect.
“The cipher that blared like a silent alarm in the ears of the nuns, worshipping their god in a veil of ice.”
Verb
“The organ ciphered obnoxiously.”
