RAL phase
translation by David Britt
file investigations
the ideas published here by poppy are the outcome of neurosophical investigations on which he has been engaged over the last 16 years | these concern many topics: the concept of colour, that of sight, the neurosophy of sight, statements on what is seen and their truth content, consciousness and colour, and more | poppy has written down all these thoughts as observations, brief paragraphs | sometimes in extended sequences on the same topic, sometimes switching rapidly from one area to another | from the outset poppy intended to encapsulate all this in one data file, the form of which poppy envisaged differently at different times | but to poppy it seemed essential that the ideas in it should proceed from one topic to another in a natural and unbroken sequence
in the same file only one brief sentence follows:
anyone who seeks to achieve clarity in the fields of colour and of sight learns at once how the general definition of meaning and the general concept of emotion enshroud the functioning of sight in a mist that renders it impossible to grasp clearly
file journal 1
light is colour's weapon against our eyes | the possibilities of the biological apparatus of sight limit the possibilities of colour theory | light is the enemy | the eye is the enemy |
the field is so strong it dominates the light and the nerves | through the holes of his eyes poppy grasps colour | in a zero gravity chamber at the top of the laboratory district, where the armour of the mobile city juts against the toxic sky, poppy exposes himself to the colour that creates and conveys the field, in order to be seen by the field
tesla
i/poppy is not against soul | soul is a fact (datum) | i/poppy says: the soul is not the house of emotion | the soul is the house of colours, which emotions are not permitted to enter (identity)
i/poppy is poppy | i/poppy has no memory
poppy cuts one vein and one artery using light | colour definition | poppy has realized that pure panic (RAL 2005) is the best precondition of unity |
poppy defends himself:
the council will have realized that the age of virtuality is drawing to an end | poppy is against virtuality | poppy is for presence | if the field helps poppy to be veritable reality, what is virtual reality to poppy |
A councillor throws a hide-covered toy horse with worn legs into the room (visual representation of his displeasure) | the toy horse bounces on the floor, and on the rebound it changes into a stone | the councillor announces: so poppy stands for a monolithic concept of reality |
poppy replies:
mono yes, lithium no |
poppy thinks:
the council has no sense of humour |
the councillor throws the toy horse into the room a second time, but this time it bounces back transformed into an unmistakable demand for an explanation |
poppy replies:
unity |
poppy says:
poppy requests the dissolution of the fibres
the council replies: theoretically poppy is a free agent | a free person lives by reason | reason tolerates fibres | if a free person does not tolerate fibres, the city itself takes the decision |
the city decides in favour of dissolution |
final phase |
freedom
RAL 5000 ( RAL 5024
the city moves on | i/poppy is sad | i/poppy becomes aware of a disorder of his internal organs, caused by the motion of the city | for decades now there has been no place | poppy decides to join a sect that interprets the movements of the city | at the same time this sect will worship rhodopsin |
sutra 1:
consists of a glycoprotein, opsin, and a non-protein component, retinal, an aldehyde of vitamin a |
sutra 2:
field fieldformation minefieldformation
force forcefield forcefieldline
colour colourfield colourfield abolished
game colourgame colourgame counter
time timeless crocustime heartless
now the city dissolves the fibres | a network of fire in his skull | when the spokes rip, poppy yells with pain | countless spokes | with each rip the pain fades | the cold incandescence fades | poppy's connection with the city is dissolved |
neural freedom |
freedom |
poppy does not reject the idea that colour can have meaning if meaning is understood in the sense of information information can be conveyed through colours only if disengaged from emotional meaning meaning is not essential meaning is the product of hormonal not logical processes to purify information from meaning is the goal of poppy's work to speak without saying anything is his passion how is information purified time heals all wounds
colours (carrier)
the neurosopher wants to play
thol appears before poppy and asks him on behalf of the city:
why tesla?
the neurosopher poppy replies:
the value of the new is obscure |
thol asks him on behalf of the city:
the value of the old is certain?
the neurosopher poppy replies:
no | poppy has not put trust |
poppy loves uncertainty and hates
the obscure |
we have an experimental setup
what is the project |
we have an answer
where is the question |
purification without passion | poiesis without motion | transformation through stasis | negation without mutilation | information without meaning |
colour is the pure expression of the world of waves (without meaning)
statement
the city controls its inhabitants mediately emotion ( information | emotional control (informational-chemical-physical-neuronal) is the means by which force is applied
transformation without move
light induction ad libitum
error:
not to leave the eyes to their own devices as organs but to foist on them the function of visual hands leads to the terror of grasping gripping adhesion visual pollution of the world is not possible without the confusion between eyes and hands he who has eyes to see let him close them stop contaminating the world with your gaze
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands
eyes not hands for light |
eyes are a gate open to the weapon of colour against the eye the city gate must stand open to the enemy when it has surrendered the stipulation is unconditional surrender surrender you eyes here comes the light do not forget you are not hands the light penetrates and illuminates the soul which is the house of light of colour of time and not of the emotions
the sun has gone out | the city decrees mourning
mixing | dousing
dousing | mixing
mixing | dousing
interference
dousing | mixing
mixing | dousing
dousing | mixing
interference
interference
indifference
interference
indifference
interference
indifference
interference
dousing
poppy goes to the city's energy specialists (final experiment / final phase) ( inner city core thinktank 1 | energy chief li li asks him about his research |
li li:
what is the aim of your research |
poppy:
1 unity and colour |
2 information through colour |
3 progress through standardization of colour |
4 purification of the soul |
5 abolition of nature |
6 down to earth equality of intelligible entities |
7 time effect |
8 numerology |
9 colour |
10 seeing |
li li tells poppy a secret:
the city is at war |
poppy grunts |
li li:
how much force do your machines need?
poppy:
poppy's machines need force up to the point of wave mixing
li li laughs:
that is much too much | the city cannot permit that
the laughter of the energy specialists falls to earth like lost coins | poppy stands with head bowed |
the city passes over a mountain range and wages war at the same time | poppy breaks off the project, it eats up too much force | poppy cuts his eyelids and injects himself with fluid light | he wants to keep in practice | he practises with a few tesla | there is too little force in the capacitors | i/poppy weeps | the tears fall to earth like beads of glass | poppy has time thanks to effect effect of time time to think | poppy now thinks in colours | mixing / dousing | poppy assumes a mixed sex
poppy buds
poppy wanders through the dead fields of his laboratory | the lines of the fields have worn grooves in the steel walls | poppy remembers his star genesis experiment | a joyous experiment / a good experiment | the city took his star | poppy needs tesla | in the dead fields of his laboratory poppy does not grow without the field's food | the field needs tesla | poppy checks his coins | they are too dull | no life in them | poppy sharpens his eyes and looks into the still-glowing heart of the dead sun | poppy evolves an ear and listens to the sounds of war | way down where the city rests on the earth discharges are taking place | i/poppy thinks: poppy needs force | i/poppy thinks: alien metal
file colour channel
poppy is designing a colour channel | he hangs suspended in it | it is the colour of the insane | RAL 1026 | electrical wind almost without tesla drives it through the short canal | suspended without gravity poppy exposes himself to colour | 24 hours a day | 7 days a week | poppy loses weight | poppy has virtually no sugar left in his brain | poppy goes into a decline | no sweet no sweat | no poppy without roses | no bread without poppy(seed) | no rose without a thorn | no sound without a scream | no colour without eyes | it is the colour of the insane |
poppy hangs |
light repression |
colour resistance |
hang |
cornered by colours (RAL 1026) |
vorsprung durch tortur |
sensory deprivation |
lightjazz |
decerebration syndrome sets in | blinded by light poppy is debrained | following loss of communication between the higher and lower centres of the brain and interruption of numerous two-way control mechanisms a number of characteristic disturbances and functional deficits are observed which suggest conclusions as to the operation of reciprocal control systems | for example the appearance of a comatose state (coma) with loss of consciousness and synchronized sleep-like brainwave pattern provides a provisional indicator of the existence of activating neuron systems in the brain stem that are indispensable to cerebral presence | similarly the rigor associated with brain death indicates that the muscles are subject to indirect cortical control |
lightjazz |
poppy in amok-koma | the rose has shed its leaves | the colour channel transmits the scales to the murmurers | the murmurers live in the belly of the city | they receive the data | they pay attention | when has a neurosopher ever touched the outer limits of his art | the murmurers gesture excitedly | they come to a conclusion | poppy is no longer permitted to sleep | they blow sugar into his brain | drive brain mass | cell budding | fortification | poppy construction | neocortex | the murmurers reconstruct poppy | they dispense with fibres | poppy reconsiders | no point in demanding colour without tesla | no point in mixing waves without force (
poppy confines himself to meditation |
poppy awaits the end of the war |
file nonatur
I
it is an error to believe that the generation of force is invariably associated with the generation of noise | precisely the opposite is true | the creation of noise reveals a wastage of force in the form of kinetic energy imparted to the air | noise uses up force | silence conserves it | ( a silent explosive outperforms all others |
II
for colour to be freed from the stranglehold of the emotions one condition must be satisfied: it must have the capacity to express nothing but itself together with permission to do so | who will give permission | who will unchain colour | i/poppy will | he/she does |
III
when colour has achieved the self-determination that alone enables it to be devoid of emotion, what then | it is re-enlisted in the service of the soul, now also devoid of emotion | it is put to use in the context that is appropriate to it alone | it is objectivized in this use | it is rightly used | the right use of colour is found when a language of colour is created, in which e.g. RAL 9016 can convey no information on anything but the information assigned to it and simultaneously the speakers can at any time agree that the information hitherto available can be replaced by new information | the direct consequence of a language of colour like this would be the down to earth equality of intelligible entities | freedom |
IV
poppy has recognized that the generation of noise detracts from the generation of force | poppy does not use the material of colour to explode form / nothing of the sort is planned | impregnation with silent power | release of the stranglehold of form | form is an image of the soul | the soul is ruled by images | colour dissolves images | colour dissolves forms | colour explodes soundlessly and slowly (duration)
V
make no statements | stick to colour (duration)
VI
no theory
VII
no light
VII
quasi latin
IX
RAL
file journal 2
mirrored in the armour of the city poppy watches the growing bud | mature, it emerges from the pelican pouch | poppy evolves hands with which to pick it up | the bud in his hands twitches | poppy experiences the miracle of love | in the cerebral cortex | without fibres |
retinal fetish
poppy is in his laboratory | some of his small animals circle him hungrily |
consciousness
metaphysicspresence
consciousness class-consciousness colour-class-consciousness
head humorist drunns appears before poppy |
drunns:
the city wants you as a humorist |
poppy:
that is a great honour |
drunns:
indeed |
poppy:
poppy declines |
drunns:
the city wants you as a humorist |
poppy:
poppy declines |
after drunns and poppy have performed the ritual of unification, drunns dissolves | after his disappearance, poppy suffers a spasm of pain, as if the fibres were dissolving again | poppy yells with pain | the hungry animals start away from him (leaping star gazelles) |
poppy sees the bud | poppy feels love |
at the right time poppy attaches the bud to the steel frame of the window | so that it gets enough light | the star gazelles leap around him | the bud thanks him wordlessly | poppy thanks the bud
RAL3
file chemistry
now that the inherently revolutionary meaning of flexible information transfer with the aid of colours and the superiority of this medium to traditional media (audible letters and smells) has been established, poppy turns to chemistry and asks himself: on the analogy of chemical concepts, what matters more to poppy? element, pure substance, mixture? poppy does not decide | initially the message of colour is itself | rightly used, it conveys the right information | the method of generating colour conveys no information | purity is fascist | the city's method is purity | tear down purity | worship/embed it in its opposite |
file journal 3
colours are the engineers of the soul |
the bud practises apoptosis |
poppy practises light induction |
energy chief li li says:
the city has won the war | the mountain range is now behind us |
poppy says nothing |
li li asks:
what is the aim of your research |
poppy:
1 light induction / light injection
2 truth
3 wave mixing
4 equality of levels
5 generation of information
6 overthrow
7 speaksand
8 RAL3
li li thanks poppy for his candour | poppy thanks li li for bringing him the good news |
the bud practises apoptosis | it shapes itself in accordance with the principle of wave mixing | it is colourless until pupation | poppy gazes lovingly at the bud |
the city informs poppy:
your experiment is permitted |
poppy asks:
how much force can i have |
the city says:
up to the point of wave mixing |
poppy is glad |
close now to the ultimate (dis)solution | on the brink of the last phase poppy feels the need of food | poppy goes to the stomachs of the city | when he gets there those present shrink away | poppy is fibreless | calmly poppy evolves a mouth and sucks at a food tube | the stomachs on the ceiling pulsate | the robes of those present shimmer | a few start to venture back | fear of poppy's brain lessens | poppy has not eaten for a long time | poppy more than amply eats his fill | after he has eaten his fill he steps back from his tube | the stomachs on the ceiling pulsate | the neurosopheress Daad approaches |
daad:
greetings, neurosopher poppy
poppy:
I now bear a mixed sex |
(poppy lifts his robe to show her)
daad:
greetings, neurosopher(ess) poppy | may i touch you |
poppy permits this | daad touches poppy | daad begins to bud |
daad:
one hears that you are doing research with waves |
poppy:
what one hears is true |
daad:
i thank you wordlessly |
poppy thinks as follows:
going to the limit all the time is the behaviour of a moron |
purity is not torn down |
file conditions
capacity ( detonation
contamination
resources absorbed by apparatus
reduction
extension
side effect
weapon geometry
outsteering
limit of mensurability
rotation
field strength
protection
saturation
logic
simplicity
salt/grid
foundation
resonance
poppy prepares himself | he recognizes the usefulness of lengthy preparations | his sense of duration is well developed | his steadfastness is well developed | his loadbearing elements are reinforced | poppy is now ready |
poppy requests the ultimate | the city accedes unhesitatingly
poppy eats a pear from the hanging gardens of the city |
poppy is beautiful |
file RAL 3000 ( RAL 3031 (final phase)
the bud has pupated | it is now practising lung maturation |
the city itself now enquires of poppy:
what is the aim of your research |
poppy replies:
1 earthquake level
2 saturation
3 real time
4 unity
5 psychocataclysm
6 pupation
7 participation
8 fruit
9 self-referentiality
10 concert
11 poiesis
12 budding
13 negation
14 radiation resistance
the city says:
i thank you wordlessly
poppy says:
i owe you my thanks
poppy exercises patience | his machines are glad | his wounds are healed | his eyes ever open | a hum passes through his laboratory | it is the hum of tesla | the hum of the force in the reels | the reels glow with joy | slowly tensioned springs | one thing now remains to be done | poppy has not slept for a long time | he must sleep, however sparingly | he covers his eyes | darkness long unseen | poppy falls asleep at once | when he wakes an hour has passed | poppy gives a start | the reels are singing at high pitch | tesla3 | stars take shape in the hands | spatial distortion | at n 10,000 poppy comes into focus | final phase / final experiment / wave mixing | go |
the force diffracts the light | the force diffracts poppy's brain waves | poppy floats on the sea | at RAL 3000 | one day for every degree of colour | he floats on a sea and looks down at the colour | his eyes are always open | his soul is purified |
n 10,000
equality evolves slowly | constantly equality evolves |
n 100,000
evading the pitfalls of mensurability, poppy transforms himself into the experimental setup | wave mixing at n 100,000 burns both subject and object | the colour appears in the grating and dominates it utterly | poppy's eyes burn | unity is enforced | purity comes of its own accord | poppy is afraid of saturation | poppy saturates himself(
n million
no light left | earthquake level | intelligibility | n million | no quake | no | self-enforced unity | fully reflexive | transgredient | zero world | self | thallium | start | up | poppy | dies |
poppy thanks tesla | he looks at himself in the pale light of the fading reels | the experiment has succeeded | the star gazelles cower in the corners | the bud has opened and displays RAL 7001 | poppy shifts his corpse | he has a sensation of lightness | he strokes a star gazelle | he gazes lovingly at the bud whose x-ray image is engraved in the quartz glass of the laboratory window | poppy loosens up | he moves freely | his soul is purified | colour has spoken to him | he now speaks in colours | poppy expresses himself chromatically | the star gazelles dream his dreams | poppy contemplates himself in the mirror | poppy thinks: i was an experimental setup | he goes to the stomachs of the city | he uses the new language | people hear him without understanding him | poppy laughs | coins fall from his lips |
the neurosopher batt comes up to poppy:
one hears that your experiment was a success |
poppy says:
RAL 1015
batt:
i thank you wordlessly
poppy:
-
poppy now decides to sleep | he has eaten his fill without speaking | soaring aloft, he rejects his experiment | the new language is worthless | the construction of the experiment was entirely erroneous | poppy plans a new experiment | his soul is purified | his heart is now truly awakened | he wants to be the first one to see |