18 November, 2008

Crypticism is...

Crypticism is new. Although, I didn't invent it. The form embraces the full-on usage of images and rejects stories. It enjoys the portrayal of scenes and neglects chronology or logic. It describes the simplest concepts with larger ideas-always relating the micro to the macro, or visa-versa. It is not saying the idea. It is the idea before the word of the idea is processed. It is the mind's first image or vision of common thoughts, but disguised because the phase of contemplation is bypassed. Instead, the practice of writing Crypticism relies on the pen to follow the pace of the mind and act before the mind can make order and sense. Crypticism should be as whimsical as the mind of a person in absolute quiet; when senses receive stimuli and the mind automatically functions on associations, memories, previous knowledge, muses and beauties. Crypticism is the recreation of, and the, living dream. You may never see this word/concept again. And that's O.K.

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