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PREFACE
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(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palimpsest)
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Computer save files rewrite the draft completely- yet certain programs (IE Google Docs) tend to allow you to review and comb through the previous iterations of the draft; a sort of entropic ; past mistakes and words live in this purgatory- a digital underworld.
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In the myth the Decent of Ishtar/Inanna, The goddess of [Love, Fertility, War,] goes to rescue her dead husband in the underworld; she passes through seven gates to get there; each gate she has to give up part of her powers in the form of her clothing. Once there Erishkigal, The goddess of the underworld unleashes 60 diseases on her and traps Ishtar in her palace. The world above needed Ishtar to procreate, and therefore no animal or human is fucking; Enki/Ea the main god of the ocean as well as knowledge, sends this “figure” Asuhunamir to Ishtar and restore horny balance to the world.
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“In an ancient Babylonian myth, Asushunamir was both male and female, created from the dirt under the fingernails of Ea, the Wise. Asushunamir travels to the Land of No Return and steals the Water of Life from Ereshkigal, Queen of the Dead, in order to rescue Ishtar, Queen of Heaven -- whose return to the living marks spring and the return of life to the world. After seducing Ereshkigal, Asushunamir was subsequently cursed by her (to be stranger in your own home) and blessed by Ishtar (with prophecy, wisdom, healing).”-http://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/asushuna.html
Asushunamir is sometimes thought of as two genderless beings
Sometimes a eunuch or boy castrated in an act of devotion
Sometimes a being of light or clay.
Time fumbles and shifts with identity- the tricky mistress/mister, boy/girl, why can’t things just be ? Why can’t they have one answer, one title?
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“The modern binary number system goes back to Gottfried Leibniz who in the 17th century proposed and developed it in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire. Leibniz invented the system around 1679 but he published it in 1703. He already used symbols 0 and 1’s. . Simon Marquis de Laplace wrote of this creation saying : Laibnitz saw in his binary arithmetic the image of Creation ... . He imaginated that Unity represents God, and Zero the Void, that the Supreme Being drew all beings from the void, just as unity and zero express all numbers in his system of numeration.”-https://www.cs.cas.cz/portal/AlgoMath/NumberTheory/Arithmetics/NumeralSystems/PositionalNumeralSystems/BinarySystem.htm#:~:text=The%20modern%20binary%20number%20system,used%20symbols%200%20and%201.
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Gate I.
born to dissent
Lovely wine-stained picnic interrupted—
Gender revealed in a mouth of ash
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No,
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I imagine the water of life
Tastes a lot like cheap gin.
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I do not know why you got trapped for 00001010 01101000 01101001 01101101, The dawn doesn’t debate the ethics of breaking.
Get your clothes back on.
Gate VI
Erishkegal said:
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The drains of the city be thy drink. The shadow of the wall be thy abode”
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