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Dall-E 2 Prompt Book.
- The Graveyard: The current frontispiece. Roman and German
weapons scattered on a field, with busts, too. Something
suggesting chasing the Sun, like, Icarus, or something
else. The Sacred Clown from behind (don't want to show his
face, and definitely don't make it Murdoch). He and the
rider looking at said field. You could put the field in the
foreground, and the rider and Clown in the middle distance,
ready to leave it. I don't think we should see the clown's
face, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. Maybe an
age-progressed Bobby the Coniugator :). The Rider is allowed
to be shown, he could absolutely be a wojak, and one in a
German uniform - stolen right out of MYTHOS. That's the one
way I'd accept, to hearken back to the show.
- The Inconsistency of Man: /pol/-ish confusion over 'who is
white?' The rider and the Sacred Clown in a forest. Them,
fighting. The clown looking confused (although, I want to
never show his face, so that's out. Ah, maybe it doesn't
matter). A map of Europe with question marks on the
different regions (not so good to look at, though. Or those
'average faces'). A nice abstraction where a head is in a
confusing, rainbow space (continuity of 'white'). Two heads,
arguing. I get the idea that 'the rider' may be /pol/, or
the average /pol/ock (well duh I guess). The Clown's
resolution is Ebba - her face (heh - her face on the horizon
like in Neon Genesis Evangelion. In the background,
maybe. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, I hope Dall-E can do
this!). I do have Ebba's face, sideways - sort of small, and
thus low-quality (https://vimeo.com/ebbasminnesfond - 'Ebba
Spelar Pingis'). And am I abusing her? Should I limit
myself to her MM-version face? She is the answer
to
MM's the Sacred Clown's puzzle. If not
MM personally, at least artistically in here. Yeah, I should
definitely art it up a bit if I use her face. And I have no
idea how to inject my own images into the image generators'
material. Maybe it's just as well, but then what? Maybe just
the clown and the rider side by side. But I'll see what I
can see. Maybe a confusion of white-ish faces blurring into
each other, in a 'European continuum'. Sneakily sneak in
Keith Woods' PCA map that shows Europeans as a distinct
cluster? (I love the Ebba on the horizon idea - Ebba and an
anime reference, all at once. And it's a positive use -
maybe stick it in mid-chapter if nothing else.)
- The Old Pub: 'Freaks and saints, nationalists and
vagabonds, capitalists and communists' (should be within
Dall-E's ability). Flags? People with flags for faces
arguing? (But flags-for-faces isn't attractive.) The clown
introduces the complexity argument. I don't think I can
really get into trying to illustrate the argument(s) itself
/ themselves. The dominant argument is the universe
complexifying and knowing itself. Hard to show that,
without being noisy and confusing. These are going to be
small after all, something to bear in mind. But there's no
reason we can't have multiple images per chapter.
- Aphrodite and the Lagoon of Nymphs: Sexual healing + inspiration. That young
Christian smashing statues. The pornographer who likes to
defile and destroy. But, no, no - too ugly. Aphrodite
floats above, but, do I want two headers of her? I love the
'fourth punic war' image, 'her hair around her as though
floating in water', so maybe save her for that. So what do,
here? A crowd or cloud, of nymphs and fairies, of course. In
the courtyard of statues? No - too busy. The chapter
header will be small(!)
- Reckless Abandon and the Inner Mode of Being: Tame, vs wild animals: a tame, and wild
(beaver? eagle? obviously eagle - maybe American eagle,
since Murdoch brings America into it (wraps the American flag around
his wrist iirc)) looking at each other. Obviously, the pair
on the mountain, like is on the cover. A lightning bolt (on
black), as the memetic key (that's not bad. That is worthy
of thought even for a closing image). Germanic warrior on
the battlefield. Maybe, for the wild man, use a picture of a
Scythian,
or Goth.
Maybe the sacred clown jumping for his lightning bolt ("man
in swastika cape jumping for lightning bolt" 'swastika' is
probably a no-no word) (but that's more like a
screenshot). "My fangs are connected to my heart." Growth:
the longer we're out of the Semitic cage, the more our
potential will be unlocked. (Love that - that should be
emphasized more in the book.) You knoooooow, we could add
more than one image per chapter - no-one will care if we
relieve the text with more illustrations. Maybe a caged,
and a wild / free human looking at each other. A
wojak? Nah (why not?). A kid? A boyscout (a creature of
endeavor and advancement and growth - to me, anyway) vs a
nerdy gamer? A Hitler Youth? Brings too many other
associations, might be taken as making a point that Murdoch
is not. You have to be a political cartoonist for these
things. Maybe I could commission Ben Garrison for one?
Wonder how much he charges? That would be awesome.
- The Obfuscator: The city at a felt twilight. The soldier on
the wall. Marx (it's later revealed that the man in red is
Marx). The unfashionable painter. The police and
negroes. The degeneracy pride parade. 'That which does not
conform to his megalomania is ruthlessly stamped out and
forgotten.' Time spent describing communism, stamping out
Nature (that's really core). The natural dominance of the
Seeker. The source of the Obfuscator's ugly spirit. It
being all about the knowing. "You must rid yourself of
supremacy" (! The book is a bit Nietzschean except for that
line. In Ch 3 he has Aryan Man at the apex of Being). Then,
the Nothing. Murdoch's choice of image for the header was 'The Nothing'. You
could make it an ugly .. obfuscator. A weak, ugly
obfuscator down in a pit crying about equality. On his back.
How, crying? A sign? A t-shirt? Casting darkness around him,
in a cloud... Weak, spindly, with a sign - easier. Someone
who interferes. Hard to show an abstraction like
that. Pulling the wool over people's eyes. Throwing sand?
Pulling down a bigger, stronger man - maybe a statue. A
crowd of semi-transparent ones doing this. Hard to show the
Nothing. Could steal it straight from Neverending Story.
Ehn, I don't want ugliness as chapter headers. I like the
dominance of the Seeker, except that that's too much like,
maybe, a first chapter idea.
- The Republiphant at the End of the World: the one that's there isn't bad. Should be
easy to generate a 'warrior elephant', too. 'Israel awakes,
hungry' (hard to show, and not the main idea of the
chapter. But oh so *&%*% timely - more true now than when Murdoch wrote!).
- The Fourth Punic War: it's all Aphrodite explaining things to
the clown. Floating above, her hair floating around her head
as though in water (do not use Chan! :) ). There are many
sacred weapons (musical instruments, paint brushes,
computers, the sacred firearm, the rifle (dare I say sacred
Wojak?). distinguishes Jew (by
name) from Carthaginians. Introduction of the Sacred Sword,
which has the Algiz / Elhaz etched into the pelpate. Goes on
about it, the Gladius Hispaniensis. Needs to be here, even
to the exclusion of everywhere else. Rider tumbles down cliff.
"the
wars between the Semite and the Aryan have been going on
since the two forms converged. Long has it been held, that the
Roman won the Punic wars. That in the end the Semitic state,
Carthage, was lost forever. But in truth, it was the Semite who
was victorious - for buried in the success of the Roman
conquest of Carthage lay the seeds of its inevitable undoing."
"But all is not lost - for
the great awakening is now underway."
Floating Aphrodite
should be an easy one for Dall-E or the others.
- The Vampiric Bankers and their Great Anti-Semite: The undead forest. A castle is the easy
choice. Inside might be cool, though. The Great
Anti-Semite stage show. Jews' solution against the
commies (at the cost of big vats of blood). Inside the
vampires' office, marked-up maps. black curtains, bags of
gold, rotting grain. (evidence that these vampires /are/
the commies - right?) Peasants giving Jews pots of blood
(a very good image). Doable with some work I hope.
- The Red Dragon: A shaolin monk, maybe (even though that might
be against their spirit). Or a cyborg Chinese martial arts
guy - AI would do that just fine. (Liu Bei is not a
cyborg, but it's the same idea.) The goblin on the monk's
back in a basket (but it's not about the goblin). A shaolin
monk riding a red dragon - now we're talking! Nah,
seriously, though - just some cool looking martial arts
Chinaman. Plenty of images of them, that should be easy.
Him standing at the ready. Him bowing on a plain (giving
respect = being worthy of respect) - with mountains in the
distance.
- The Swamps of Sadness: first sight of Nihilism. Since the
last chapter will be the sword (most likely), do
Nihilism here. I don't want to show Ebba as Nihilism. The
Pessimist saying to go back? A silhouette of Ebba?
Black-and-white, distored outline maybe?
- The Return of the Aryan: Either the sword (Gladius
Hispaniensis in a log), if I haven't done it earlier - 4th
Punic war would be a natural place - OR, that chorus of
Europeans in the sky. Would love that. A mid-chapter
illustration, at least. It fits the title though, too.
Either that or the disappearing dust of Nihilism. OR ELSE, a
'chase the sun' image (not literal, something evoking
chasing the sun). Like that sonnenrad over the mountains.
Either as the header, or as a final picture. (I like that
idea better than the Hyperborean Sunrise picture.)