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There seems to be countless interpretations of it's 'Meaning'.....if there ever was some 'Meaning'..

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          DESTINED TO BECOME ANOTHER OF MY TAROT CARDS,  MODERNIZED FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.....

SLEEPING LESSONS FROM THE SYMPHONIC LARGHETTO WITH ANDANTE INTENTIONS

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Somewhere in a dorm room, some 20 year old philosophy major  is busy  composing  a 'paper' about Metaphysical Realism' s differentiation from  Conceptualist Anti-Realism  in a self-serious academic study of Richard  Strauss'  Death And Transfiguration , having slept through a performance of it  at Symphony, the night before......rather than looking around the Hall, noting the nodding/snoring Audience.......with heartbeats at 60  per minute..

"THE RESTLESS YEARS" What's embedded in the image on a 1956 Movie Lobby Card?

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Partially cropped, (hmm..wasn't the film done in CINEMASCOPE? ) "THE RECUMBANT PEDESTRIAN"  [ ?]    The 'pedestrian', seen here, is Sandra Dee, who 'plays' Melinda....a young girl, who was an illegitimate child (i.e. born 'out of wedlock') in a small, conservative, piously self-righteous conformist town; thus, potential subject to abuse.  The vehicle, obviously a two-toned 'chick magnet', has a passenger door that is painted, in pink, with an image of an antique, status carriage vehicle that features a single, large access door that could accomodate entry by women, wearing wide/long skirts and ruffled blouses..   Six young men, pumped with testosterone, crowd the large vehicle....all of whom are cruising 'Melinda',  who is carrying an armful of cut flowers as she 'looks straight ahead', seemingly ignoring the 'in' boys' mutually reinforced taunts and cajoling.. as the boys, fueled by  a couple of Schlitz's  ...

Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt create a Pulitzer Prize-winning Psychoanalytical/pharmacological Musical from the shredded screenplay of 'David & Lisa'.....and some routine Broadway Music, played behind curtained rooms, pilfered from an old 1933 Busby Berkeley Movie

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  A modern American opera about Diana Goodman, a delusional bi-polar depressive,  and her neurotic, "Modern" family... her long-suffering husband, Dan; her 'died in the wool daughter', Natalie; her hallucinatory son, Gabe, dead since early childhood.......Natalie's neurotically sensitive woulda-coulda-been potential boyfriend, Henry...... and 'The Shrinks', Dr. Fine, a quick-release pill-pusher and Dr Madden, a narcissistic Analyst..... https://www.pbs.org/video/next-to-normal-biazsx/ . AND, NOTICING THE 'BAUHAUS' POSTER ON THE LEFT WALL......I DON'T THINK 'IT' WAS A COINCIDENTAL PROP........       Wipe that blood up, Dan..... "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and is no longer around to lick it up, you know!   

MAKE 'IT' WHAT YOU WILL.....WHAT 'IS' "WHAT IS"?

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                                       OBJECTIVE SENSIBILITY OR INTEROCEPTUALITY?    further into abstraction....the further away the ' object ' , the less identifiable it becomes....Formulaic extrapolations and mathematical observations serve to reconstitute some semblance from discordance as our minds function to make 'sense' of Data, gathered by our senses and stored within electro-bio-chemical matrixes.......Reality is a Construct of Extrapolation....Everyone seems to 'look' for Familiarity and Congruent Validations, perceived and 'stored' as consensually-defined puzzles that are the algorithms that 'create' what we believe that we 'see'......               M emory is stored in bits and pieces that we re-assemble, then believe to be 'real'......having value as Art and Sentiment or Concordance and Agreement.....but none, as factual obse...

A NEW RORSCHACH CARD.....WITH TWO IMAGES

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                                WHAT IS YOUR INTERPRETATION OF THIS DUALITY?                     YOUR INTERPOLATION?  YOUR EMOTIONAL RESPONSE?    

THE NOT-VERY-SUBTLE INNUENDO IN PICTORIAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS... BEFORE THE BLATANTCY OF TODAY'S MEDIA.......

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                        THIS 'GUY' IS 'TAKING A GANDER', THAT...ALTHOUGH IT IS REFRESHING, HE IS DENIED 'THE FILLING'....REMINDED,  THAT THERE MAY BE SOME 'TIME   BEHIND BARS', SHOULD HE ATTEMPT TO ADVANCE HIS POSITION, THUS SUBCONSIOUSLY SUGGESTING THAT HE ' DRINK A PEPSI, RATHER THAN INDULGE HIS DESIRE....EVEN IF THAT 'TEASER' REMINDS HIM OF MARILYN MONROE~    NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINE AD WILL FEATURE A COUPLE, CHOMPING ON 'HOT DOGS' WHILE GUZZLING PEPSI COLAS VIA STRAWS.....   

DELICATE BALANCE.....Or THE 'PARKER WOODS' CHALLENGE, 'PEANUT BUTTER FOR SHIA AND JON' ?

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Now, sit up, eyes front, but don't drop the burden until you are well above your knees, then relax . It may have disappeared.....                       when one assumes an uncomfortable position, denying oneself  ' straightforward sight '   into situational reality,  he may find himself gazing at the floor rather than the sights, ahead,  from his fear of toppling the applecart , so to speak..........      Resulting only in an intimate view of his own butthole......and a vanishing awareness of the environment in which this condition persists.....viewing himself as but a subject of the machinations of Others.....

DUNCAN MUDGE'S CHICKEN'S VENGEANCE...."What's good for the goose is good for the gander", isn't it?

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    awaken before the still-sleeping humans who might, later, have your heads lopped off, pluck your feathers, then butcher you and your barnyard companions, after stealing the eggs that contain your potential baby chicks,  for  fried flesh lunches..... Beat them to the punch/lunch with massive, collaborative pecks,  as they slumber, dreaming in hungry anticipation....outside their human coops.......before they awaken and voraciously consume every part of you, from comb to feet.....

Emotions, caught at the back of the throat, as the third wing destabilizes the presumptively 'true & only' Path to wherever the projected destination may be imagined to be a Place....always distant from wherever the Faithful gather in cohesive clusters, like sand as it is pummelled by raindrops.....

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a Millennium past......As yet, to vibrate upon the lips of Modernity.....issuing from the reddened lips of assumptively hermetic Paganism, drunk on the Philosophies from which Science supplants Religion and becomes the thing it replaces.....kissing these lips to my own paleness, with pleasures...

SLEEP STUDY

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"Sleep Study" ....not that I have much time for that .....How is Dreamscape influenced by the wearing of clothing or jewelry? Since I awaken, often....a 'light' sleeper....even with the dimming or brightening of a LED on an electronic device.....I was wondering.....does wearing particular jewelry affect where I 'Go' during lucid dreaming.......How does this affect my waking expression in my Art? Do 'regular' people even think of such 'stuff'?