The living story of RVS
This founding Storygardenz, is a labyrinth of tales, recounted in The Three Languages and made up of (1) Fairy Tale, language of morning or childhood, (Three Languages by brothers Grimm), to be witnessed at the fairy tale house; (2) Epic/Legend, the language of noon, or adulthood, (The Etruscan Song of Linear Time) to be witnessed at the Etruscan monoliths and at the vanishing point; (3) Myth, language of dusk, but also of gloaming, first spark, (Fall of the House of Hypnos), also witnessed at the Ezedra manhole to the underworld (3954 miles deep). Myth is the mother of all languages - itself, being made up of 2 languages - dusk and gloaming - and so Three Languages turn out to be Four.
The Three Languages, is in itself contained in "The Bedside Storygardenz Book", given to each visitor to lead him into the goodnight. For stories in storygardenz are living voices to be metabolized, by sleep, dreams and then by people walking together, in the garden and surrounding country. "The Bedside Storygardenz Book" also leads to the other RVS tales, ultimately to Carmen Via, Journey in the songlines of Italy, (Semar Press 2005). "The Bedside Storygardenz Book" is also a lunatic compendium and conversation piece between spirit of place and the visitor: about reality and non-sense, and the nature of fact, the value of empty time, about the art of achieving more by doing less, about the functions and applications of stories and storytelling in survival and adaptation, and in good communication, about the ages of travel and the only two ways to travel. "The Bedside Storygardenz Book" also contains a glossary of words from the liminal mind and finally leads out into the Exloration Guide in the Map of Imagination of the surrounding region.
All texts are written by Bernard Anson Silj, unless stated.
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EXTRACT FROM THE THREE LANGUAGES (Fall of the House of Hypnos)
- also to be experienced at the manhole, access to the underworld.
In the age of Kaos, darkness and night reigned over empty time, emerging through ten billion years until the earth was formed. Then in the Pre-Cambrian Super-Aeon, they laid down two sons, Hypnos-sleep and Thanatos-death.
First it was a hellish time, then a quiet time, then, when the air began to clear, Hypnos inherited the throne which was an ebony bed. Then, by the law of primogeniture, Thanatos had to go and seek fortune abroad.