G17: So is "fenicence" an encounter with the unutterable in the face of aesthetic detritus?
When is your next thing? Your next article, book, game, etc?
Yes. Fenicience is the luminescence I see in my mind's eye coming from ideas or pictures that inspire a unique enormous feeling. It's sort of like sadness, and nostalgia, but also like hearing a good song for the first time. It's slightly frightening because it feels like looking through a window into a world far in the past and in another person's brain. I guess it's sort of like awe mixed with nostalgia taken from someone else's brain, ghost nostalgia, so I get the weird "this was a powerful childhood image/icon to me" feeling without it having any actual foothold in my childhood. Once I heard people talking about "sublimity", that became the concept I tend to connect it with - I've never had a truly "sublime" experience but I suspect that's what people call their own perceptual versions of fenicience. Being overcome by an ocean or the night sky or whatev. except with a youtube screenshot. If an idea is fenicient I know it's really good, but it doesn't guarantee other people will see the same power in it. There are plenty of great ideas that do not give off any fenicience. If an idea is fenicient I do not know exactly why it is fenicient. That thing Ragnar just posted with the 000484 is totally fenicient. Fenicience is rare in my life like tanzanite in the earth's crust. A good deal of fenicience in my life has come from Ragnar posts. So I spose, in the map of my brain, he'd be Mount Kilimanjaro
Gosh I dunno about the other bit - I floated a bunch of concepts around for a book but the only narrative I feel comfortable with is the Naked Lunch-style "Protagonist bumbles through haze of unconnected locales for unknowable purpose". I don't like anything that has meaning or purpose. It's exhausting to have a big ol' deal going on. I only want my characters (my guys) to move like little neuter probes through elaborately terrible worlds - end result is I have about five hundred dope little paragraphs with writing I'm proud of that will never make sense in any narrative whatsoever unless I do a Naked Lunch and name a bucket that I drop all my writing in and that's the book.
so now that I've used the excuse you gave me to talk about myself for a while...
I came here to post this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate (go to it)
Which might be common knowledge to y'all, but I was pretty surprised to find that word has a history!
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