The Elliptical Grave — Logical Map

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EllipticalGraveLogic The Elliptical Grave — Logical Map (deep causal & metaphysical structure) cluster_axioms Axioms / World-Rules cluster_motifs Structural Motifs cluster_actors Primary Actors / Beings cluster_apparatus Apparatus / Media / Places cluster_process Narrative State-Machine A1 Eden Archetype / Fall: original ordered rationality & para-rationality (devolution from perfection) A2 Time as stratified sphere: earth + haunted air + mind-zone (time excavation) 'bones of the future' too A1->A2 desire to recover 'beginning' P1 Pioneer J. Reventlo: visionary lecturer receptive 'wishing-well' mind later: future resonance A1->P1 the Eden thesis S4 S4 Discoveries & pursuit: Eden traces chase sequences broadcast Stoicheio counter-moves A1->S4 Eden traces emerge M8 Expedition-as-Device: 'a machine to give valid answers' party itself as instrument A2->M8 needs an instrument S3 S3 Arrival & setup: 21 faces assemble excavate earth/air/mind A2->S3 excavate earth/air/mind A3 Stoicheio / Lemures: non-human jealous rivals 'Down With People!' confusion + traps + graves M2 One-in-seven infiltration: 7 on the board → 1 not human (12-121-212 / 1-212-1212) A3->M2 infiltration rule M5 Treasure / human inheritance: humans hold the deed Stoicheio divert + destroy A3->M5 diverts from Treasure S0 S0 Trigger: Reventlo's lecture 'In the Beginning' & the snake in the skull A3->S0 assassination / sabotage A3->S4 Stoicheio counter-moves S5 S5 The gate closes: Pavilion trap springs stasis begins outside disappears A3->S5 trap/grave prepared A4 Inhabited air & mediation: voices of dead/unborn bioscopic dreams + TV pickup reality via transmission I4 Haunted air / noosphere: voices, companionships corporations of living/dead/unborn A4->I4 voices of dead/unborn I5 Bioscopic chase sequences: dream-broadcast + TV spectatorship as pressure A4->I5 turns events into broadcast A5 Effect-before-cause law: resonance precedes note future leaks into past causality becomes elliptical A5->A2 permits time excavation S7 S7 Life in the grave: Reventlo revealed pregnancy + ghost rites illusory food / betting A5->S7 future in the past A6 Ellipse = transformation rule: To move: be two things at once (prison = vehicle) mutation by category-break I3 The Pavilion / Elliptical Grave: sealed pen stasis hull like Ark 'no outside' A6->I3 ellipse as sealed transformer S6 S6 Life inside the Ark: measurement fails projections intensify trap becomes vehicle A6->S6 be two things S8 S8 The White Billygoat throw: escape/mutation jump 'spirit moved' (direction unknown) A6->S8 mutation jump A7 Floating constant (375 days): Ark / Grave / Whale / Pavilion stasis duration + gestation A7->I3 stasis duration M1 Triptych of 21 'Shouting Faces': Left anomalous / Center core / Right young expedition as altarpiece-device M1->S3 triptych party forms S2 S2 Authorization: Prospectus to bursary board one member is a device M2->S2 one board member M3 White Goat / Scapegoat logic: 'Whose side are the goats on?' long-shot salvation throw M7 Game / wager structure: valleys named as games funding games betting as metaphysics M3->M7 long-shot wager P11 Vivian Oldshoe + Curtis Bald: chase-sequence scapegoats messages from the edge M3->P11 scapegoat function M3->S8 the throw M4 Ark–Coffin–Cocoon–Ship: trap that carries burial that travels M4->I3 Ark/coffin/cocoon/ship M4->S6 trap becomes vehicle S1 S1 Choosing the node: free association → Calabria White Goat Illusion / Games M5->S1 calls the expedition M5->S8 inheritance at stake M6 Ellipse / ellipsis pun: 'something missing' missing outside / missing category M6->A6 ellipsis ⇒ category-break M6->S1 ellipse/ellipsis clue P4 Arthur Ransom: coordinator bursary politicking approves the impossible M7->P4 funding game P8 Cecelia Calca: period ghost taxonomy of dead bets the money M7->P8 betting logic I2 Elliptical Valleys catalog: 'Game' names of time-processes Illusion / Mirage / Compulsion M7->I2 valleys named as games M8->S3 device built by going P1->S0 delivers lecture P1->S7 revealed as resonance P2 Joseph Abramswell: 'haunted air' methodologist semantic machine / priestly logic P2->S1 guides free association P3 Jeffery Wind: device identifier floating-constant theorist reads brains like books I7 Mummy cases + brain sections: ancient devices replace measurement reading mind as artifact P3->I7 dissects & reads P3->S2 identifies the device P4->S2 submits prospectus P5 Rosa Caprobianco: Calabrian philologist White Goat Valley in undermind refuses + foreknows P5->S1 Calabria in undermind P6 Dr. Fritz Otto: projectionist-cinema makes the fireplace a screen I6 Projection cinema: 'Buried Alive' / 'Fountains of the Deep' illusion as weapon & vehicle P6->I6 projects cinema P7 Dorothy Blue-Ice: inside-stasis navigator pregnant: child remembers way out P7->S7 child remembers way out P8->S3 ghost informant P8->S7 bets at 100-to-1 P9 Leon Yuri (1-212-1212): Stoicheio agent 'You are all in the pen now' P9->S3 embedded agent P10 Stoicheio collective: principalities & powers jealous custodians of traps P11->I5 produces chase sequences P12 Il Trol: invokes 'White Billygoat' commits to the long shot P12->S7 invokes White Billygoat I1 White Goat Valley (Calabria): node of the diagram appointment with the Treasure I1->S3 site/node I2->S1 catalog of process-names I3->S5 gate closes I3->S8 ark surfaces I4->S3 method: inhabited air I5->S4 chases watched I6->S6 darkness/coffin/ark films I7->S7 brain-book reading I8 Ghost priest & sacraments: Mass validity beyond death regularizes transcendence I8->S7 ghost rites S0->S1 S1->I1 choose valley S1->S2 S2->S3 S3->S4 S4->S5 S5->S6 S6->S7 S7->S8 S8->A1 return to 'beginning' question
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