The Histories

A large tome sits in front of you, bound in worn leather and composed of hundreds of smaller pamphlets, pages, and collected manuscripts, collected together somewhat haphazardly and clearly bound by hand. A note sits tucked in the front cover:

On Organizing a History

This is one of the greatest questions of my project, isn't it: how to keep a thing so fragmentary organized? In what regard can one hold something like pure chronology when scales of time and measurement are different from harmonic to harmonic (see the sidebar here) and even the organization of harmonics themselves can organize themselves differently in different locations? If time is no different from place in the mar, if the mar is so ubiquitous in the world as to make the two inseperable...it makes the job of a historian rather difficult.

My greater quest, is, then, to find some connecting line, some methodology of connection to bring disparate points along the wheel of history together. To map the cycles and parallelisms, the patterns and trends...but there are as many ways to do this as there are to measure time. It's a rather tricky corundrum, isn't it?

At present, therefore, the histories are organized by their proximity to the mar, in descending order. Those histories at the top of the list are closer to the world of the 'real', the known and certain world, and the further you descend, the more you enter the mar's domain of untruths and mirrored water. Of course, all of this is to simplify ways to talk about both the mar and our relation to it to a nearly absurd degree, but we must make some sacrifices, I suppose, for the sake of legibility.

New entries will be posted at the top of the list for the first week after posting. On average, one history will be posted a week.

And - dear reader - I wouldn't think too much on it, but...enjoy your descent.