Skull House Bound

It rises from the deep
Opening its eyes
After twenty centuries of stony sleep...

"When the truth gets buried deep
Beneath the thousand years asleep
Time demands a turnaround
And once again the truth is found"

hurdy gurdy kraki-boo

that twisted serpent of old they call the Leviathan

by the picking of the name, something crooked this way came...

'There is no power on earth to be compared to HIM'

"His heart is as firm as a stone..." Job 41:24

The most popular of texts to bear the title Leviathan, by the most famous of persons named Hobbes

...an "artificial person" and as a body politic that mimics the human body

Sea monster? Why yes, I do.

There are two types of persons, natural and artificial. A "natural person" is one whose words are his or her own. An "artificial person" is one whose words are those of someone else. Thus, a natural person is analogous to an "author," who is the originator of words. All the natural men in the state of nature are natural persons; their words are their own when they make a contract to escape the state of nature, and so they are authors of the contract. The contract becomes a representative of the natural people, encompassing and joining their identities; the multitude of natural persons, all authors, condense their wills into the single representation and, in so doing, the multitude becomes unified. Because the contract is a representative, or an actor, impersonating the words of natural persons, it fits the definition of an artificial person. The contract, symbolizing social unity, is an artificial person, and with this equation Hobbes launches the powerful iconography of the Leviathan.

the gaze of the multitude is fastened exclusively upon their Prince, while he himself, ignoring them, fixes his gaze upon some audience beyond them, an audience not revealed to the viewer

Hobbes's philosophical method in Leviathan is modeled after a geometric proof, founded upon first principles and established definitions, and in which each step of argument makes conclusions based upon the previous step. Hobbes decided to create a philosophical method similar to the geometric proof after meeting Galileo on his extended travels in Europe during the 1630s. Observing that the conclusions derived by geometry are indisputable because each of the constituent steps is indisputable in itself. Hobbes attempted to work out a similarly irrefutable philosophy in his writing Leviathan.

the beast with a million eyes, for Charlie Seconds only

(by an hook or) by A. Crooke

"By hook or by crook" is an English phrase meaning "by any means necessary", suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplish a goal. The phrase is very old, first recorded in the Middle English Controversial Tracts of John Wyclif in 1380.

The origin of the phrase is obscure, with multiple different explanations and no evidence to support any particular one over the others. For example, a commonly repeated suggestion is that it comes from Hook Head in Wexford, Ireland and the nearby village of Crooke, in Waterford, Ireland. As such, the phrase would derive from a vow by Oliver Cromwell to take Waterford by Hook (on the Wexford side of Waterford Estuary) or by Crook (a village on the Waterford side); although the Wyclif tract was published at least 260 years before Cromwell. Another is that it comes from the customs regulating which firewood local people could take from common land; they were allowed to take any branches that they could reach with a billhook or a shepherd's crook (used to hook sheep).

The phrase was featured in the opening credits to the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. It appears prominently (as "by hook and by crook") in the short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.

In Modern English, the meaning of the phrase is often misunderstood as to refer more specifically to a willingness to accomplish objectives using unethical and/or illegal (as in "crooked") means, or having patience as with a fishing hook, or by using force as done in a robbery by a 'crook'. The phrase has become increasingly common for the outcome of boxing matches - with a 'hook' being a victory by KO or stoppage, and 'crook' being a victory by way of judges, given the sometimes controversial outcome decisions in matches.

Extracts from 'Extracts'

Frequency of main words used in the prelude to Moby-Dick

Peter Benchley's (crooked) JAWS (of death)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of only two films where Spielberg has solo screenplay credit, along with A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Interesting the plot came from Kubrick, as Pinocchio is a Spielberg touchstone

first edition of JAWS

that crooked serpent they call the space slug

The species was dubbed "exogorth," and artist Brian Ching designed a visual look for the creatures that, along with the name, was inspired by the works of author H.P. Lovecraft.

Queequg / Weequay

The space slug in The Empire Strikes Back was drawn from the mythological motif of Jonah and the Whale, an archetypal story of journeying into the belly of the beast.

Of the Antediluvian World, as seen on teLEVIsion

Leviticalities

LEVI, grandsire of Moses, third son of Jack (Israel)

(from Wendy? Carlos)

Als Jakob erwachte aus dem Schlaf, sah er, daß Gott dagewesen war. Er hat es aber nicht gemerkt

Jack (Jaws) was "crooked"

3x the Moby-Dick for Orson Welles

2x the Moby-Dick for Gregory Peck

2x the Moby-Dick for Patrick Stewart

The Pagemaster (1994) features more than a few actors who are part of the Star Trek universe: Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Lloyd, Frank Welker, George Hearn, Ed Begley Jr., Robert Picardo, B.J. Ward, and Leonard Nimoy

2x the Paradise Lost

No.

a young Shatner as the titular character in Billy Budd (1955)

James Joyce

“...And somewhere it is still 1932. It’s Brooklyn, sepia dust depression streets, neutrons discovered, Lovecraft is still alive. Fat Irish cops abandoning their beats and breaking into a spontaneous ballet with nightsticks twirling, dancing on the stoops as though through Joyce’s Dublin on one timeless day.” - Alan Moore (extract from the opening of his eulogy for Robert Anton Wilson)

Swamp Thing #46 written by Alan Moore, foreshadowing the end time event that happens in Watchmen (1987)

In the novels final act, Adrian Veitd, a vigilante/self-made multi-millionaire with a brilliant mind who renamed himself Ozymandias, decides to do the one thing his childhood hero could not: unify the entire world. His childhood hero was Alexander the Great, and in a monologue delivered to his fellow vigilantes, Veitd praises his hero for conquering “Turkey and Phoenicia… Egypt [and]… Persia” (Moore, Chapter XI, 8), knocking out his competition and replacing their leaders with one unified sovereign that brought peace a leadership that was “without barbarism” (8), but only whilst the populace of this conquered territories were under what Hobbes refers to as the “terrour of some power” (Hobbes, 223). With a nuclear Holocaust on the horizon, Veidt takes extreme measures to unite the world. His plan is “to frighten governments into co-operation [by convincing] them that Earth faced imminent attack by beings from another world” (Moore, Chapter XI, 24). To do this Veidt creates an artificial alien being that is several stories high and has it destroy half of New York, killing millions of people in the process (25-26). The destruction of New York puts an “immediate end to hostilities…. and [Russia agrees to] end the war in Afghanistan as a gesture” (Chapter 12, 19) of peace, showing how the Hobbesian assessments of human nature, in Moore’s world at least, are very true in that the “Passions that incline men to peace, are fears of death” (Hobbes, 188). This again reaffirming Hobbes claim that people are in a “perpetual and restless desire of Power” (161), and that once this sort of power is obtained, peace can be enjoyed. In this instance the fear of death is the fear of alien invasion which encourages the nations of the world to unite.

"Leviathian"?

One is hard pressed to find a few words go by in Revelation without some kind of allusion to a Bible passage. John, the author, is pulling references from left and right. With this in mind, it's not unthinkable to see the Leviathan of the Old Testament resurface, especially given the fact that Isaiah said God would deal with Leviathan in the end-times (Isaiah 27:1). And sure enough, we see him boldly and chaotically enter into the story.

This seven-headed dragon seems an obvious callback to many-headed Leviathan (Psalms 74:14), though this time he is identified as "the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world" (Revelation 12:9) He and his monster entourage have come to Earth and are wreaking chaos upon it. They are opposite of God and therefore, the opposite order. They want the violent and moral ruin of humanity. The creature that Isaiah prophesied God would slay now shows his many faces in Revelation 12, and no one can miss it.

Of course, Satan isn't the only seven-headed creature in Revelation; for one of Satan's minions, the fire beast, rises "up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." (Revelation 13:1). In fact,