20210831 - Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

Hitch a ride through space,/ defy causality's odds./ Attract together.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time. One of these (the one Arthur now came across)...

Finally got around to reading (the first book of) "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". I had fun with Douglas Adams's enjoyment of his own literary elements, such as the obvious magic in having a "book in a book". Hitchhiker's is well known through its adaptations in film, radio and stage performances, but they fail to do the book justice in its whole because this story is about that literary magic, an alchemical process of which those adaptations are merely by-products of. 

“Hey,” he cooed to himself, “you’re a real cool boy you.” But his nerves sang a song shriller than a dog whistle.

The real heart of Hitchhiker's lies in the writer's intimate knowledge of their craft, of words and of wisdom. As cliche as it may sound, Douglas Adams is a real lover of the basic humanity and the ideas innate in everything and everyone (or, is a true Brit, according to April).

Zaphod loved effect: it was what he was best at.

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20210830 - A Sign Above the Crowd

The poverty and\ pollution were veiled by the\ cold neon light's haze.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - A Sign Above the Crowd

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20210823 - Ignorant Innocence

 

Reminiscent of/ closed eyes with open lids. See,/ hear, speak no evil.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Ignorant Innocence

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20210822 - Review: "Edge of Spider-Verse"

The idea of webs,/ woven through the multiverse./ Inheritors feast.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: "Edge of Spider-Verse"

"Edge of Spider-verse" is a tie-in to one of Dan Slott's big Spider-Man events. These are five cool stories which unfortunately end too soon because of the event. Some acted as launches for more appearances, but most were just one-shots. My power-ranking of the five stories are as follows:

. "SP//dr" by Gerard Way

. "Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman" by Jason Latour

. "Spider-Man Noir" by David Hine

. "I Walked With a Spider!" by Clay McLeod Chapman

. "Aaron Aikman The Spider-Man" by Dustin Weaver

This book was a gift, and all five were fine stories, but Way's SP//dr stood out to me the most, with Gwen and Noir following close behind; "Walked" was fun, too, and saved itself from last place with its lack of exposition, unlike Aikman.

Source: Edge of Spider-Verse #5

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20210819 - "MEGA Corp."

Major fines, minor/ inconvenience. Set back, a/ typical Tuesday

#HAIKUPRAJNA - MEGA Corp.

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20210816 - Out of Season

 

Perennial, in/ a Wasteland. A flower blooms/ in the dead tundra.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Out of Season

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20210812 - Surrounding Defeat

It never mattered,\ disbelieve the claim,\ leave; retrieve elsewhere

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Surrounding Defeat

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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Allen W. McLean

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20210809 - Supply Demanded

 

Flustered wave of hand,\ out of stock on cigarettes,\ regain composure.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Supply Demanded

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20210806 - Review: Dune

Master of the spice\ power over destruction\ ancestral spirit

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Dune

Frank Herbert's "Dune" is a great example of what science-fantasy fiction can achieve as literature. "Dune" explores the metaphysics of mind through characters like the human-computer mentats and Bene Gesserit witches. With the plot device of time-become-space, every being is represented as an idea of their totality, which the various factions manipulate through cultural eugenics in order to influence (or produce mortal incarnations of) their ancestral spirits. These ideas are the best part of the book; the story and narrative are fine, too, where politics and religion are central. This science-fantasy's lack of focus on technology allows Dune's grounded philosophy to withstand the test of time. 

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489740162

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20210804 - Doublethink (Review: 1984 Annual)

Control of the past/ memory-only-ideas/ the means-and-the-ends 

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Doublethink (Review: 1984 Annual)

Last year's HaikuPrajna review for George Orwell's "1984" focused on the interchangeability of the Party and the Brotherhood,  while this time I wanted to write about how the police states, dystopian politics, totalitarianism and secret revolutions are all means to an end, which is power through the weaponization of love.

What I think Orwell means by love is the memories one holds of an idea, form or object that they cherish where one's memories are located in the past. Big Brother has convinced the population that the party controls the past with how they make any such form accessible only through memory by literal ritual sacrifice such as via the memory-holes. The party rightly acknowledges how a shared belief in the same memories creates the construct of what is believed to be “the past”, and how this “transcendence” of forms into memory-only-ideas is achieved through things like love, books and malleable logic, which is why the party changes people’s memories and any information being destroyed--so that only their idea is being turned into memories. 

When one loves something, love can be both cause and effect for anything, and, according to O’Brien, the party's means and ends is power, which they gain through shutting off others’ options of coping, thus restricting their freedom and making unorthodoxy apparent through uncontrollable habits; the cause and the effect, by being Big Brother, makes the thought-police an inevitability. 

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449830201

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20210802 - Concentration Waiver

Bounded by response,\ wavered toward dilemma.\ Pry their attention.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Concentration Waiver 

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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