TALE OF THE TRIBETABLE (ttott spin)

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THE TALE OF THE TRIBETABLE.


December 14th 2012. Amsterdam NL

(Percy Max and Plush sit together, editing the turntribal 'Tabula' data into terse sequence of events)

SOUND: A kettle whistles while a leaf taps' gently on a Tibetan paper calendar, hanging next to an open window.

CUT TO: Robert Anton Wilson announces: "Cyberspace, an indefinite but growing network, has no absolute centre."

CUT TO: Giordano Bruno enter's an egg shaped capsule with a sack of phonograph disks.

CUT TO: Narrator: "Eh, the perfect model of cyberspace?"

CUT TO: Inside the capsule, the surface is mapped with design's of Bruno's, images within wheels within wheels, planetary images, houses of horoscopes, human figures, cypher symbols, all turning together.

CUT TO: Giambattista Vico is taking a grandfather clock to pieces in his study with surgical skill.

CUT TO: Friederich Nietzsche walking two roads while looking out over the bay at Rapallo and writing the beginning of ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'

CUT TO: James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, Stefan George, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Anton Wilson, all walk past Nietzsche on these roads, but whom is too busy to notice, chuckling to himself while writing on the move.

CUT TO: William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound both bite into an egg sandwich, some of which drips onto a copy of "The Chinese written Character as a medium for Poetry" by Ernest Fenollosa. Next to this paper lies a work in progress by Yeats titled "At the Hawks Well" still damp with the date 1915.

CUT TO: Mary McNeil Fenollosa handing her late husbands dossier to Ezra Pound in the British Museaum.

CUT TO: A Japanese Zen Garden, 1899, Ernest Fenollosa pours tea for visiting Historian Henry Adams, they discuss rates of accelerating change in east/west cultures and the symbol systems that mediate such rapid changes thereof.

CUT TO: San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden, Terence Mckenna and Rupert Sheldrake are smoking reefer as Michio Kaku walks by them, they exchange smiles and a wave.

CUT TO: Marshal McLuhan passes a reprinted copy of the Fenollosa book to Ezra Pound through the bars in his cell at Saint Elizabeth's hospital.

CUT TO: Claude Shannon sitting on the toilet at M.I.T reading Joyce's Finnegans Wake, showing a facial expression reflecting a sense of Eureka!

SOUND: Giant Steps by John Coltrane.

CUT TO: Norbert Weiner sitting on the toilet somewhere in Hong Kong, with a similar expression on his face, but he is reading 'De l'infinito universo e mondi' by Giordano Bruno.

CUT TO: John Von Neumann standing at a urinal in Princeton with a look of shock and on his face as we see what he is reading in fresh red Graffiti on the wall.

CUT TO: Close up of Toilet wall and the words "I am noman" in huge red letters arcing over the mirror and sink, we see the figure of Von Neumann in the mirrors reflection, but with Nietzsche's head and iconic moustache.

CUT TO: A black book falls from the pocket of an old James Joyce as he walks in a wooded area.

CUT TO: Ezra Pound's old grey eyebrows raise in astonishment shortly after Allen Ginsberg begins to play 'Japanese Folk Song' by Thelonious Monk to him. His foot starts tapping and soon a large smile creeps across his face.

SOUND: 'Japanese Folk Song' by Thelonious Monk.

CUT TO: Ezra Pound shadow fencing in a hanging cage at Pisa, the leaning tower sways in the background and we see birds tweeting on a telegraph wire.

CUT TO: Marshal McLuhan pours tea for Ezra Pound, who smiles at Marshal and states emphatically "most of your questions are answered in the 80 cantos,"

CUT TO: Allen Ginsberg hands Ezra Pound a letter while Bob Dylan sings 'World War III blues' on the phonograph.

CUT TO: Close up shot of the letter that reads: To: Buckminster Fuller/friend of the universe/bringer of happiness /liberator./with affectionate admiration/ Ezra Pound/Spoleto/June 29th 1971.

CUT TO: Pan into an oil painting of Giordano Bruno and his 'De umbris idearum' 1582'

CUT TO: Slow pan shot out of Bruno's 'memory wheels' to reveal them hanging on the walls of a writers chamber along with thousands of other symbols, tables, charts and pictures.

CUT TO: James Joyce and William Butler Yeats at the Martello Tower, Sandymount, 1904, reading Homer's Odyssey aloud.

SOUND: Voices chatting in a lunch cafe somewhere in downtown Chicago.

CUT TO: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Anton Wilson discussing and reading Pound's 80 Cantos.

CUT TO: Giordano Bruno's image at the center of a dart board surrounded by the names: Spinoza, Reich, Korzybski, Leary, Besant, McLuhan, Yeats, Wilson, Crowley, Levinson, Pound, Jung.

CUT TO:  Close up shot of two figures, James Joyce and Ezra Pound, throwing sets of three darts into the dart board, each thereby building a wheel on a blackboard using chalk to tabulate their scores.

CUT TO: James Joyce shouting: "BULLSEYE! GAME!

CUT TO: Sports commentator in stadium box: "How Copenhagen ended.

CUT TO: James Joyce takes off his hat, and bow's while saying: "This way to the Museyroom"

CUT TO: Johny Depp dressed as the Mad Hatter hands a small vial to Alice that has 'interacting processing" written on the label.

CUT TO: Twelve figures sitting at a large table in the round reading room of London's Natural History museaum on December 21st, 1936.

SOUND: John Barry strings.

CUT TO: A slow 360 sweep around the table reveals the names of our conspirators: Claude Shannon, Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Korzybski, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Orson Welles, John Von Neumann, Aleister Crowley, G.I Gurdjieff and Mary McNeil Fenollosa.

CUT TO: Aerial shot of the round table revealing four stacks of books, pamphlets and scrolls upon the table.

SOUND: All along the watchtower by Bob Dylan.

CUT TO: Zoom into the four stacks to read the names Giordano Bruno, Giambattista Vico, Freiderich Nietzsche and Ernest Fenollosa.

CUT TO: Claude Shannon: "Translation equals treason?"

CUT TO: Japan, Ernest Fenollosa pours tea for his teacher Okakura Kakuzo, while surrounded by Japanese paintings and ideograms.

SOUND: Yuseff Lateef playing flute.

CUT TO: Allen Ginsberg pours more tea for Ezra Pound, and turn's over the Fugs album to hear Ed Sanders once more time at Ez's request.

CUT TO: Aleister Crowley and Albert Hoffman walk together in Basel, Switzerland, or figures, that seem to look like them.

SOUND: Miles Runs Down the Voodoo by Miles Davis.

CUT TO: G.K Chesterton introduces Marshall McLuhan to his friend Aleister Crowley, briefly, at a cafe' in Cambridge, London.

CUT TO: Claude Shannon announces to Gurdjieff across the round table, in London: "Boolean algebra to electrical switching circuits, and logic circuits".

SOUND: Crowd cheers, whistles, horns, trumpets and screaming.

CUT TO: Two basketball teams enter a court with thousands of photography flashes, trumpets, shouts and applause.

CUT TO: Both teams send out their starting five players, for the 'New York Taylors' we have Joyce, Bruno, Korzybski, Shannon and Nietzsche and The 'Rappallo Tribesman' send out Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Marshall McLuhan, Norbert Weiner and Buckminster Fuller.

CUT TO: Two baseball teams emerge from the tunnel, the 'Taylors and the Tribesman' each having nine players.

CUT TO: Two football teams enter the stadium featuring eleven players per side.

CUT TO: A large screen superimposes statistics and previous plays and possible plays onto the live game play.

CUT TO: The 2012 Olympics in London. The team's eneter the stadium.

SOUND: Jimi Hendrix play's the American National Anthem at Woodstock.

CUT TO: The Taylors and the Tribesman are now in the BBC sports commentary box, each team covering a different Olympic sport.

CUT TO: The Taylors and Tribeman teams playing darts with an unconventional dart-board. It features twelve political Icons with Hitler as the Bullseye! They are Winston Churchill, Mussolini, Rooservelt, Francisco Franco, Harry Truman, Seishirō Itagaki, George Bush, Joseph Stalin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Prince Bernard, Tony Blair, Osama Bin Laden.

CUT TO: Ezra Pound in Rapallo, placing medicine bottles in a long row on a wall and making poems from their names.

CUT TO: Ezra Pound writes on a notepad: Are the Faben works still intact?

CUT TO: Nietzsche in Rapallo writing on a notepad.

CUT TO: Pound saying "AGFA Hoechst AG Bayer Sanofi-Aventis BASF" as he shoots a shotgun at his array of medicine bottles, magnetic tape, drugs and logos, blown from the wall into a thousand fragments.

CUT TO: W.B Yeats and Ezra Pound toasting the publication of the Ernest Fenollosa on the Japanese Noh plays.

CUT TO: Marshall McLuhan and Orson Welles sit with one another at a private showing of 'F For Fake' in 1974.

CUT TO: 1587, Aprill 20th, Sir Edward Kelly goes down stairs to his study where he meets Giordano Bruno.

CUT TO: Narrator: "Who's the author?"

SOUND: So What' Miles Davis.

CUT TO: Max: "have in common? what do these things have in common? in common, c-c-c-come-on"

CUT TO: Plush at the tribetable: "Communication is only possible between equals"

CUT TO: Hagbard Celine: "The master class never abstracts enough information from the servile class to know what is actually going on in the world where the actual productivity of society occurs. Furthermore, the logogram of any authoritarian society remains fairly inflexible as time passes, but, everything else in the Universe constantly changes. The result can only be progressive disorientation among the rulers. The end is debacle."

CUT TO: Percy shouting: "Aha, language vs. The equation"

CUT TO: Giambattista Vico working on the grandfather clock, sweating buckets.

CUT TO: Buckminster Fuller checking his wrist watches on a aircraft flight.

SOUND: 2001 Space Odyssey by Deodato.

CUT TO: Giordano Bruno on fire, burning in 1600.

CUT TO: Marshall McLuhan writing a reply to Harold Innis while smoking a large pipe.

CUT TO: James Joyce, Ezra Pound and W.B Yeats gathered around Lucia Joyce lying in a hospital bed, singing sweet lullabys.

SOUND: Sarah Vaughn sings In a Sentimental Mood.

CUT TO: News announcer: "Today at CERN, scientists shared details of what they believe to be a new elementary particle, dubbed the 'Coltrano'.

CUT TO: James Joyce shouting to Nora as he's walking out the front door in Paris: "Don't forget the LPs, keys, to"

CUT TO: James Joyce placing a transparent grid over a page of Finnegans Wake, making fine hair adjustments to the margin area.

SOUND: Hiroshima by Sun Ra

CUT TO: Ezra Pound turning to Joyce in Rapallo, saying: "No poem can have such force as the simplest narration of the events themselves"

CUT TO: The narrator: "The narcissistic ego, unable to accept its own temporality"

SOUND: Perry Como sings Magic Moments.

CUT TO: Robert Anton Wilson: "Consider the Tale of the Tribe as an alternative form of scripture. Which form’s of alternative scripture seem appropriate for the 20th Century? And which for the 21st?"

CUT TO: Max, Percy and Plush look at each other making an 'O' shape with their mouths, step, turn and breath deeply.

FADE OUT.