SOMNIUM SEASON 1: WHAT CANNOT BE KNOWN available now!
Not necessarily based on but
coordinating with the book Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari by
Johannes Kepler. Written in Latin in 1608, it purports to present a detailed
imaginative description of how the Earth might look when viewed from the Moon.
That’s where any resemblance ends.
This Somnium presents a detailed
description of how the earth might look from sleep. How life might look from
other perspectives. a cosmogony of dreamed proofs through which the author gets
to occupy events of different perspectives from Borges and Kepler to film noir,
science fiction, and prosperity gospel.
Somnium is composed of 137 episodes of
137 words (think physics not psychics....) the significance being that in
physics 137 was once believed to be the exact value of the fine-structure
constant, a number which, according to Leon Lederman, "shows up naked all
over the place.”
If it reminds you of television, how TV seasons are ordered, then yes you are right, given that it is such a pervasive thing now, both in the persistence of live TV coverage, the disorienting "season clock" imposed on our existence (though at 137 episodes the actors in this series work harder and longer than the actors in most contemporary TV series!), and the appearance of such disorders as the Truman Show syndrome, of which those afflicted believe they are on a reality TV program.
Somnium explores these themes in an epic fashion if I can say epic, that is not in terms of scale and monumentality, but in literary terms.
Here, let my friend Jeph Jerman attest to the quality and nature of this book:
"SOMNIUM IS LOTS OF FUN!"
WHO EVER THUNK ANYONE WOULD EQUATE ERIC LUNDE WITH FUN, RIGHT?
EPISODE # 2
gimmicks and razors fudged
that quick out forgetttttting start with
delight end with revulsion blasé that Why do that to yourself
Impressions I got a worry
about them I was a groan I was a retort Now give me the song off key
Insect jack??? where have you
been? You don’t know the code simple pad spells out money
ADDRESS THE SAND Dreaming
awoke I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED it’s a
jest for one thing a feeling of naught control iced against the fissure and
raked for terminal inflection your voice says wry but your limbs break cleave And then at some point at some point there
is labor and inversion and things with reptilian flourishes settling onto the
floor ravaging the canvas panels with their skirts And then and then! theres a
droning sonorous tone coming from
order now. yeah, season 2 is already out but I'm not ready to talk about it yet....
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