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The Logonomicon - fragmentby ~IDeviant

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A small fragment of the forbidden treatise 'The Logonomicon', written in a largely forgotten Arabic script. This book, for those few who can read it, deals with a methodology for unleashing the full power of the written word. It causes disruption of the mental faculties via a surge of multiplicity of choice. The Master gains unbridled power; the Fool loses the last vestige of sanity.

Created especially for the wonderful club *lostbooks, the fragment in Microsoft Word

, aged in PhotoFiltre and fed through `JoelFaber's Apophysis hack. Lovecraft fans will understand the references

~Picacuca Dec 3, 2007 Photographer

I am not fan of the Lovecraft, I did not understand the references… But I liked very mush the idea.

~IDeviant Dec 3, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you! I hope to expand the idea some time. The reference may be found here

~Picacuca Dec 4, 2007 Photographer

I did not know this history, but he is well interesting. It's a history imagined concerning an imagined history… With this history, one another history could be imagined…

And, if I understood well, I find that he is this that you are to make…

~IDeviant Dec 4, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Exactly! Lovecraft developed what is now called his 'Mythos' purely to provide a basis for his own material, but then other writers picked up on it and it grew to the extent that there exists a virtual Miskatonic University! So I have transposed his 'Book of the Dead' to my 'Book of the Word' - where will it lead?

~Picacuca Dec 5, 2007 Photographer

The word can kill… The Monthy Python has a joke called “murderous joke”, you knows this? It is clearly that this is only mood, but in the truth, the words can be deadly weapons. If the people understood what they can make to the others (for example to the neighbors) when say badly of them, to only make colloquy, then they understood the meaning of the expression “murderous word”. But these linkings between the words and the images, interest also me of other forms for my artistic work. Therefore, I am curious to know the result of your investigation. E I find that also I go to investigate more things of these.

~IDeviant Dec 8, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Must admit that I don't know of the "murderous joke", but my Python knowledge is a little sketchy...

~Picacuca Dec 8, 2007 Photographer

It is on a joke that kills all the people who to read, even though the author of it. The share is transferred at the time of the World War II, and then the English had used the translated joke to kill Germans. But it had of being translated by many people, each one of them, translated a word. It had a person that she read two words and she was sick. I remembered this, because of what you say in the commentary that explains your photo… This project can take you it madness… You have care with this!

~IDeviant Dec 8, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Now you describe it, I vaguely recall the thing

And I do take care - I have my fractal fields to protect me

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~Gibson125 Nov 27, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Most excellent!

~IDeviant Nov 30, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks, Michael

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