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THE OWL ARCHIMEDES
February 19, 2021 10:00pm

 

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THE OWL ARCHIMEDES
IN THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY of Kennaquhair, whose latitude is 91 degrees north and longitude 181 degrees west, Archimedes the owl, familiar spirit of Merlin, brings the future King Arthur, a boy also transformed into an owl, to the presence of the goddess Athene. There, in the luminous hollow of a tree stump blasted by lightning and whittled clean by the winds of knowledge, the birds alight on the outstretched hands of the invisible goddess. They are shown, through accelerated Time, first the lives of the trees at a rate of thirty years in a minute, then the lives of the rocks at two million years a second. We also feature the poetry of Clark Ashton Smith and W.S. Merwin. Puzzling Evidence appears; it is at this point we watch and narrate a singular film, to wit, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER. And that's the way it is, or was, back awhile ago... It was in the Impact Arts Hub, where glitches and computer failures-- to say nothing of the pestilential Kisi App, which often made gaining entrance a chancy thing-- caused endless, obstructive difficulties. The building alarm would go off on its own; sometimes, with drawn guns, the police would show up. But, you know, at least then we had more than re-runs. We had a show! Alas, sluggardly Radio Valencia! Thou didst once move and breathe, thou didst live! Now thou sittest at home in thine underdrawers, downloading Dubstep from the Cloud, and calleth that a Radio Station!


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