Vortex Appearing

VORTEX.

By EZRA POUND.

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          The vortex is the point of maximum energy.
         It represents, in mechanics, the greatest efficiency.
         We use the words “greatest efficiency” in the precise sense—as they would be used in a text book of MECHANICS.
         You may think of man as that toward which perception moves. You may think of him as the TOY of circumstance, as the plastic substance RECEIVING impressions.
         OR you may think of him as DIRECTING a certain fluid force against circumstance, as CONCEIVING instead of merely observing and reflecting.

THE PRIMARY PIGMENT.

         The vorticist relies on this alone; on the primary pigment of his art, nothing else.
         Every conception, every emotion presents itself to the vivid consciousness in some primary form.
         It is the picture that means a hundred poems, the music that means a hundred pictures, the most highly energized statement, the statement that has not yet SPENT itself it expression, but which is the most capable of expressing.

Free Energy and Free Thinking

Paper Illustrated Inspiration

Tunnel 

In the dream last night I was going about what seemed like my usual life. I have my green bag (such an appendage that I dream about it) and am looking into one of the small front pockets for something, and a tunnel appears there…that goes on and on….and fills the entirety of my vision and attention. It is fleshy looking and pretty creepy. It's quick paced and I am moving down through it and suddenly there is a head coming toward me faster and faster..which looks up and there is a face coming toward me faster and faster…the mouth on which begins to open…and open wider and wider and wider as it is coming at me and then…I am swallowed. Back to my usual life and scenarios…going about my business…and yet this tunnel keeps on appearing in random places all of a sudden. In a cup or a cabinet, maybe…in a box, on a screen…anywhere I suddenly glance for a moment looking for something else it may be there and suck me in. And it keeps happening…I am presented with this scenario. After a while I begin to hear this woman's voice in the back of my head (it really literally sounded like it was coming from the back on my head) saying something like "don't back down, keep moving forward, don't be afraid…you have to swallow them before they swallow you". And I am in the tunnel and see a face coming at me and so I open wider…and wider….and wider.