Notes - Merlyn's images of 'Reality' unaccompanied by a human sense of reality

        After twenty-one hundred hours. You finished your thirty minutes of aerobic-like exercises with barbells, modified for your arthritic lower back. You had a good day and a good trip from Cleveland home.

         I need to finish the scene with Merlyn and Vivien. I had theme but have lost it. Something –

         You wanted to put in the sense of a dream where Merlyn has a ‘flash’ of Reality from where he unconsciously ‘sees’ it. – Amorella

         Yes. I have to find the images, the formula. The point is that it is as a dream where one has a sense of the “All” of the Universe and Beyond but upon waking it is forgotten. A witness of a “Truth” that cannot be articulated into words.

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Merlyn has his eyes closed in a dream’s dream

 and a bubble floats in from the right above

 as a floater in the eye might

and it sets itself off center; stiller

than the memory of stars . . .

The red-lined bubble/floater materializes into

an engine appearing stalled -

unaccompanied by time and space
(click the image above to see the machine at work)

Merlyn’s FLASH image of REALITY AND BEYOND

(the Chess Board as it really exists

unaccompanied by human thought)

which reverts into the Machine

naked of time and space

that then fades into the red-lined bubble,

the floater in the dreamer’s eye -

the dreamed-in-a-dream bubble

drifts off to the left until only the memory

of stars remain in the mind of Merlyn.

TRUE OR FALSE

Merlyn thinksanfeels

“I have an vague understanding of

Reality

unaccompanied by humanity.

I envisioned – but I do not know what I saw.”

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         This captures a sense of Merlyn’s thinkanfeelanfeelanthink. You have something to work with that is rawly authentic in your mindanbrain; but not in mind alone. The point is that he has to discover a way to communicate this ‘vision’ (if you will) to Arthur and then to Vivien. In this communication the reader (you) will see how his friend influences his ‘reality’ and how his muse influences Merlyn’s sense of reality.

         I don’t think I can pull this off, Amorella, mostly because I have never thought this scene before. I am intrigued by the notion that ‘reality’ is distorted by each individual’s sense of it and further distorted by each individual’s deep friend relationships also. It makes me wonder if the books’ premise is correct, that the Dead need confirmation by other Dead that existence continues.

         Indeed, something to consider, boy. Post. - Amorella