A Trance Bepopulate With Chimeras

ANGELS GATE AND WOTANS THRONE FROM HORSESHOE MESA
ENTERING TURQUOISE CANYON FROM THE WEST
SERPENTINE CANYON SIDEWALL
INNER GORGE OUTSIDE LONETREE CANYON
UPRIVER FROM BELOW GRAND SCENIC DIVIDE
OUTSIDE AGATE CANYON
COLORADO RIVER (SO FINE)

Grateful Dead: 8/21/72

10/16/74

3/18/77

The truth about the world,
he said, is that
anything is possible.
Had you not
seen it all from birth
and thereby bled it
of its strangeness
it would appear to you
for what it is,
a hat trick
in a medicine show,
a fevered dream,
a trance
bepopulate with chimeras
having neither analogue
nor precedent,
an itinerant carnival,
a migratory tentshow
whose ultimate destination
after many a pitch
in many a mudded field
is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is
no narrow thing
and the order within it
is not constrained
by any latitude
in its conception
to repeat what exists
in one part in any other part.
Even in this world
more things exist
without our knowledge
than with it
and the order in creation
which you see is
that which you have put there,
like a string in a maze,
so that you shall not
lose your way.
For existence
has its own order
and that no man's mind
can compass,
that mind itself being but a fact among others.

--Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

THIS NIGHT IS NO EXCEPTION
CLOUD INVERSION TIMELAPSE