In This Issue. I Am a Believer β Shalo P. No More Masterpieces β Karen Eliot. Top of page. It's divided into 51 chapters but the division is often blurred by having continuity across ends to beginnings. It's also suggested that as a DVD it be gone thru frame-by-frame as if each frame were a page in a book. As such, much of this Story might be a praecisio - to use a word I learned from Geof Huth's column of the same name in PhotoStatic magazine.
Praecisio being defined in some places as "stopping before finishing a sentence" perhaps overcome by emotion or as a silence perhaps indicative of an unwillingness to even begin speaking at all. Huth has given the black page of Laurence Sterne's " Tristram Shandy " as a literary example.
Finally, the perceiver is encouraged to just listen to the soundtrack separately. However, there is actually a story running throughout as the skeleton that the rest of the meat adheres to.
This basic story, at one level, is almost as simple as a tale for children. How to begin to explain? My German collaborator, The Forked One, proposed re creating The Fructiferous Society in EV as a context within which we might conduct various language experiments. We each chose our names in connection with this society as an attempt to be somewhat in the spirit of the original Gessellschaft.
Hence, in April, EV, the "Story.. Once upon a time there was a Fructiferous Society. Simple, eh? The purpose of this obfuscation is not only to engage the mind at more complex levels than the basic material wd be likely to do but also to attempt to generate an artificially induced epiphany - to almost subliminally hammer in puzzle pieces that eventually coalesce into an AHA!
