No coins last their value beyond the empire under which they serve,

but we've traded in ours for their paper currency, below—

cheap though it is, but accessible, that others—everyone, we hope—might one day deem its potential weight, in metal.

—so, presenting, in the official vernacular of our 21st-century!

 

 

"Leveling"-Up the Artist

—remember, the color is in your eyes—

 

Level 01. Those who make religion their art, should make art their religion.

 

Level 02. Science is an art.

 

Level 03. There is no non-fiction. There is only fiction.

 

Level 04. All arts are relative; there are no fundamentals.

"Even all of physics is built on deep and fortunate analogy." —Albert Einstein.

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LEVEL 05. But there is "Form."

05 a. ...action/reaction, conservation of energy, dynamic equilibrium, etc.

05 b. Music, some argue, is "pure substance of form."

 

Level 06. All arts strive toward "Art," —social, timeless, universal.

06.*  ...whereas "art" is individual, shallow, ephemeral.

 

Level 07. All arts, including language, are grounded in material facts;

All material facts are grounded in spiritual truths.  

 

      "straight," "fair," "heat," "solid," "...shear the wolf."

 

Level 08. It follows: the most accessible and enduring symbols, are stories—

"We begin and end with myths," says alike the philosopher, historian, and linguist.

08.* Mathematics, nature's own language, can sometimes be more precise. ("Ughrr.." —Einstein, probably.)

 

Level 9. Character is a line; comedies are a departure; tragedy reflects matter;

 

Level 10. —"Man," is Art.

 

Level 11. Poetry: the obscenity of the individual, exposing the all.

("Irony" is its sad cousin, for there is truth in every natural fact.)

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"Cold and wet the morning dewdrops form."

 

Level 12. "Work" is not the salary you pull, nor the title you hold—

Work is the depth of self-realization to the whole;

Work is Art; —Work is, "Freedom."

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—freedom to do what one desires, to refrain from what one desires not, and, mostly importantly,

freedom from the wheel, —a zen analogy, "What happens when you remove the hub?"

 

Level 13. "Life," is Art.

 

"Every man is a poet-in-becoming, in building relations to all things, and from all things, nothing."

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Level 16. "Any quote, out of context, can be used to fit any argument." —Einstein.

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Level 48. All written truths are covered in lies.

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Level  379: To organize is to destroy. Thoughts know only themselves.

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Level 01. At some level, all prior "levels" are irrelevant.

Level 00. Form is not definite: all work is art is nature is Art.  

Level ??. fiction/non-fiction, who decides?