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A Letter From Former LondonIt started with the scanners.

Everything. The fear, the loathing; the attacks, and the reprisals. The rise of the Shadows, and the city-states. The Pathways Crisis, and Black June: it all traces back to 2011 and the UK's National Identification Programme.

The concept was simple. Give identification to all, and all can be identified: 65 million slivers of subcutaneous plastic, silicone and DNA to keep the country safe. The price? tens of billions of our sterling, but what is material cost compared to total homeland security?

Security, Safety, Protection, Peace. In this paranoaic world post-WTC, those are the four magic words.

Of course, no

Eden FallsFloor it.

A toxic
mind will find
no respite in the rush
of city-street-lights:
blurred beyond
Perdition
by wind and the rain,
and the fractured path
of synaptic flares
behind sightless
sanguine eyes
that blink vacant
from thirty -

To fifty
To eighty

- and together
they met in perfection,
a picture-perfect encounter
of an angel
amid cars and sparks
and the dead-night stars.

It was poetry in motion,
an efflorescent dance
through the town
for two: bodies entwined
with the wreckage,
thrown like spent cans
against glass and
through bone
and steel.

Hell
and Heaven
lie low as lovers,
broken in the break-up

To zero.

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Mathematikoiby ^arctoa

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^{Updated 21/01/2008 @ 23:05

This particular shot was taken inside the foyer of Bradford's National Media Museum during a college trip down there in December 2008. There was an installation hanging from the ceiling that caught my eye and this is the resulting depiction of my initial impressions.

Title inspiration this time comes from the name of one of the two schools of thought within the Pythagorean sect, where they were known as the learners. The other school called themselves the Akousmatikoi, the listeners. Pythagoras, of course, was the ancient Greek philosopher partly responsible for the formation of the theorem that bears his name.

Comments are perpetually appreciated.}

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Given 2009-01-23

Mathematikoi by =arctoa. The suggester wrote, "This abstract composition is really outstanding, because every shadow, every break is visible." ( Suggested by ~EternalFallacy and Featured by `opioid )