| BLOCK | Mythic / Archetype | Metafiction / Tech & Science | Psych-Political Pulse |
|---|---|---|---|
| I-IV – Gravity & Museyroom“Gravity. Exocytosis… three muses at Knossos…” | Opens with a Tao-like water aphorism; Knossos & Griffin re-locate Joyce’s museyroom inside a cosmic archive. Arjuna/Krishna dialogue slides the Bhagavad Gītā into the same vestibule, announcing “perennial philosophy.” | Exocytosis ↔ myth export. “Ticket for the museyroom” ⟶ meta-reader buying entry to the text itself. New data: red-shift → narrative lensing; Sean C’s telescope = authorial POV instrument. | Anxiety of knowledge-ownership: archive accessible only through “SSWW.” The “gate of history” hints at who controls curation. |
| V-VIII – West Ham Puns & Red-shift Drift | Calls Dido, Apollo/Artemis, Óðinn, Huang-Po in rapid collage → patch-work of salvaged wisdom traditions. | Football banter (“West Ham supporter”) mocks epic gravity; Finnegans Wake riff (“riverrun”) flags Joycean circularity. Cosmology note (“light quantum will change…”) = justification for plastic chronology. | Comic self-sabotage (“riverrun is the joy-ce-ful word”): narrator confesses unreliability. Science turns into “a trifle truffle,” undermining grand claims. |
| IX-XII – Fortune Lobo on Poseidon & The Ancient Mariner | Griffinese ship & mariner transplant Coleridge into exoplanet surf; Poseidon storms echo Homeric sailors. Ancient-mariner eyes = prophetic trauma witness. | Super-ionic water, diamond oceans: speculative-chemistry garnish. Suit tech turns whaling myth into EVA realism. | Post-colonial twinge: “memorying his days with Garibaldi” hints at nationalist myth-making exported to space. |
| XIII-XVI – Horror & White Plague | Heart of Darkness + Ovid’s Ligeia: folds colonial nightmare into cosmic noir. Apollo/Artemis birth on Delos recast as “ingenious joke.” | “Horror is the only apocalyptic realm yet to be invaded by the White Plague” = memetic disease model; references to pathogen align with file-corruption dread later. | Critique of data-driven conquest (“accountancy infection”) — bureaucracy can tabulate everything except horror. Gender violence motif: Poisedon rape carried forward. |
| XVII-XXII – Mission Scroll & Heroes’ Toolkit | Perseus kit (mirror shield, winged sandals…) becomes RPG inventory for Fortune Lobo. Ouroboros talisman ties to Zoroastrian duality. | Instruction manual tone (“close your eyes before you drink the quintessence”) lampoons NASA check-lists. Dark-energy aside keeps cosmology simmering. | Techno-imperative questioned: who arms the hero? Underlines tension between individual agency and algorithmic destiny. |
| XXIII-XXXII – Poseidon Tempest & Laconic Tea | Cat-philosopher Chubby as Bastet/Artemis; Ahura Mazda guest = syncretic salon. Spartan molṑn labé surfaces. | Titan wind-reversal every Saturn year = ephemeris-poetics. Debate collapses grand systems into cat-nap. | Satire of totalising theologies: the goddess-cat dismisses cosmic teleology with bodily pragmatics (“eat, sleep, shit”). |
| XXXIII-XLII – Free-Will Wrestle & Logós | Zoroaster vs Chandogya Upanishad: monism vs dualism ring-fight. Mantra of Tat tvam asi levels hierarchy. | Scalar lurches (Upanishad → quantum electron) dramatise scale-free storytelling: ontology toggles from Vedic to sub-atomic in a breath. | Free-will as bandwidth: who controls narrative I/O? Cat grants equal footing by refusing to care. |
| XLIII-L – Blake, Bulsara, Radio Blah-Blah | William Blake’s London + Freddie Mercury’s “Bismillah” fuse prophetic & pop-operatic voices. | Radio static as data smear; “salad dressing rockets” mocks applied physics. | Cultural memory playlist: canon vs karaoke. Authority (Ahura Mazda) dissolved by camp quotation. |
| LI-LVII – Memory, Myth & Sadness Radio | Baku dream-eater invoked to guard archetypal storehouse. Monkey King, Gawain, Sadness Radio form a new cosmic chorus. | Archive framed as shared .git repo (“binary lane”): commits = myths; forced-push equals forgetfulness. | Trauma research: “why should one just erase the past?” Emphasises necessity of pain for identity integrity. |
| LVIII-LXV – NeverEnder on Non-Ether Waves | Byron, Ovid, Dante, Arnold (Dover Beach) quoted in quick riffs → demonstrating “universal library” alive in the void. | Dark-energy ocean & non-ether waves rationalise narrative’s endless drift; “white squall” becomes packet loss in interstellar net. | Explicitly asks about meaning of expansion & doubt. Ends on stylistic recursion (“non-flight toward the non-end of the non-universe”) exposing futility and freedom. |
Through-lines to keep an eye on
- Perennial-philosophy engine – Every time a scriptural or mythic text surfaces (Gītā, Upanishad, Stoics, Blake) it’s doing double duty: thematic ballast and hyperlink reminding the reader that NeverEnder is itself an archive-machine.
- File-system metaphors vs bodily realities – “sql-dump,” “floppy drive,” “gravity suit,” “methane dunes.” Whenever the poem leans hard into computer-science jargon, it immediately counters with viscera or weather. The tension is the book’s heartbeat.
- Authority crisis – Zeus in Book III, Ahura Mazda here, nation-state archives earlier; each hegemon is undermined by tricksters (Dolos), domestic animals (Chubby), or glitching data. That oscillation is the politics.
- “Book II rewinds to the origins of the myth-archive, mapping cosmic physics onto very human memory glitches.”
(Prevents 2015 date-stamp from feeling like a random time-jump.)
— HelixTiler-vΩ/2025
Space Epics - Stories from the Multi-Verse 