Our Historys Back & A Tale of the Tribe.
Hope you enjoy my new summary of my TTOTT project, I found it a challenge to write a short description of my work, based on some of RAW's work, and invariably much of your work too, no doubt. I hope to include some feedback from you guys on the cover of the book. --fly.
Dr. Robert Anton Wilson graduated life in 11/1/07, and he shared with the world a tantalizing glimpse into an epic project in progress he liked to call ‘the tale of the tribe’ or (TTOTT): the blueprint for a new synthesis between some of the greatest minds of the 21st century, uniting quantum mechanics, neuro-semantics, design-science principles, Ideogramic method and juxtaposition, historicism and anthropology together into that unmistakable RAW montage' of forces and values, to help other careful readers to distinguish useful information from all the bullshit of history. The tribe of evolutionary agents gathered in RAW's TTOTT krewe were individuals that helped to speed up the ability of humanity to condense ideas and then share them as information, these processes have directed humanity into the information age of internet and the sharing mass-age of knowledge, best exemplified by Wikipedia, I think.
In this book, Our Historys Back' fly has designed creative environments, divided into three main parts, focused around the events during 1936 & 2012 where some of these TTOTT characters blend their creative contributions to humanity, and fall into orbit with one another to integrate their complexity of connection; poets, linguists, logicians, design-scientists and artists meet to share their wisdom, pulling all-humanity into the 21st century. This new creative research-based approach to ‘the tale of the tribe’ aims to explore interpretations from the fragments left us by Dr. Wilson, and this adaptation of Dr. Wilson's 'tale of the tribe' is the first such project, to my knowledge, to tackle the TTOTT lineage head on, and dare to place some characters into a newly imagined Novel architecture. I hope that this project will at the least encourage some of you who are on a similar road of discovery and investigation to create your own TTOTT synthesis, or maybe contact me about other space-time intersection points where the wisdom of these characters can be shown to influence history?
Our Historys Back’ features remixed and renamed 'TTOTT' characters, rounded off into an historical tale (Part 3) within a future tale (Part 1) told by our protagonists Max, Percy and Plush. The tale within a tale, presented as a screenply (Part 3) follows a band of bards whom journey to the 1936 Olympic Games, deep into the sick-heart of the intelligence games, to boldly state their deeper perfected word and communicate their sporting interpretation of fairness, justice, equality and peace for all nations, all around the world humanity. Standing in their way are a sordid alliance of spies and company men from a host of the richest nations, including English, American, German, Canadian and Soviet agents; who have secretly arranged to meet in Berlin, to finalize their annual guns, dope and intelligence 'trade off' and discuss the next world war project.
Max, Percy and Plush are three friends living in Amsterdam, 2012 brought together by their synchronistic interest in Robert Anton Wilson's unfurnished - ‘tale of the tribe’ and producing their own story idea that includes a cultural hierarchy of values and histories distributed throughout a character index and library of source works (Part 2). Their discussion makes up (Part 1) of this book. Plush has perfected his turntable-altable method of mixing and cutting special LP’s that contain pre-recorded samples from the tribal tales, and after the juxtaposition ritual together with Max and Percy, they splice the recordings into dialogue and dramatic sequences for deployment in the VJ DJ format. The MPHDJ Method (Part 2) translates roughly as ‘mixing special kinds of sampled literature using the approach of a musical DJ’ roughly operating within the Magikal realm.
The 1936 tale (Part 3) spans 48 hours and three different centralized locations. Taking place in theatres in New York and Rapallo’ simultaneously? on July 31st' and then switching to Berlin and the opening of the infamous IXth Olympic Games on August 1st. The recurring theme of the story is the precept of ‘ language versus the equation’ translated through the characters sharing their different fields of experience and wisdom, creating a communication network to help others bring a new peace to Europe through a species of linguistic relativism, multiple perspectivism, a new language including history to help facilitate peace and communication between all nations and all around the world humanity, and beyond.
--Steven "fly" Pratt.
31st December 2009. Amsterdam.
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HI adaptogenie, sorry I missed your reply here. I estimate that simply running the names of the tott characters through info-searches will turn up plenty of study material. I have build a large collection of tott texts over at my google books page, and often use the fantastic search capability to source out various dates, places, people and themes, keeping the big picture of 'internet' and 'the global village' as guide like principles.
With so much information, I then find that the techniques of expression developed by Joyce and Pound, in Finnegans Wake and The Cantos provide an awesome example and exhibit of perfected information processing and shared values. Plus poetry, poetry and history etc. So for me, next, I find myself designing 'environments' or historical probability clouds of fiction, where people and ideas from TOTT can meet, interact and bind their powers. I'll be making an example post of my recent explorations with this, best wishes, steve fly.
want to catch up on the TOTT stuff. Gonna start reading The Cantos soon.
There's a whole bunch of recording of him speaking here:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Pound.html
Some related bits I saw in Illuminatus! recently:
"I was mulling this over when I happened to notice the shipwreck in Pound's Canto 23.
That's the only shipwreck mentioned in the whole 800-page poem, in spite of all the
nautical voyages described. Canto 23 also contains the line, "with the sun in a golden
cup," which Yeats says inspired his own lines, "the golden apples of the sun, the silver
apples of the moon.""
and
"He wondered, idly, if Ezra Pound's poetry might have been influenced by habits of speech his father acquired from the Indians—Homer Pound had been the first white man born in Idaho. It certainly went beyond the Chinese. And it came, not from books on rhetoric, but from listening to the heart— the Indian metaphor he had himself used a minute ago."
There's a new book about Orson Welles by his daughter that looks good too:
"In my father's shadow: a daughter remembers Orson Welles" by Chris Welles Feder.
Thanks Fuzz, great reminders....ding dong, Golden Apples of the sun.
I have been working upon adapting a Japanese inpsired Noh Play called 'At The Hawks Well' by W.B Yeats, and have been reading him again over these last few months. Reminding myself that Pound and Yeats shared a room together, and were both involved with the Ernest Fenollosa manuscripts, that highly influenced wetsern culture, art, literature and possibly internet? I want to direct a play here in Amsterdam as a way to introduce some TTOTT themes with a surprising twist. --Fly.
It's serious but one stands out from the corporate, legalistic, euphemistic, and thoroughly aboveboard feel of all the others. So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it's fair to say that as a worker, a debenhams voucher code jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+. Stan, for example, a twenty -something fellow with wildly misaligned teeth, is so eager to talk that he fairly pounces on the seat next to mine on a bench in the smoking area.
This sounds like an AWESOME idea fly! I'd love to say that I'd help. But I feel like I haven't yet reached the ability to condense ideas and share as information! Seriously, I'm glad you did the summary because I've been behind on all the TOTT talk. So now, after reading this summary, what should I look into next to be able to catch up on RAW's TOTT?