Hana-ogi
Ah, Hana-ogi must have gained access to the Imperial Household library and read their copy of THE SECRETS OF THE JADE BEDROOM. . . Sounds like Rustico's message to Alibech, thought Derek."Think about what I have said!" Hana-ogi, the Woman Profound, insisted.
Sette, the Woman Plain, stared directly into his eyes, fixing his gaze, and put her thumbs in his ears; while Qiana, the Woman Selective, plugged his nose, and held his lips together.
Were they trying to suffocate him? was the first question that came to mind. Shutting something in? Keeping something out? Did they wish to deprive him of his senses? Can the perceptual modes remain radically separated in absence of existential separatism? Can identity transparency be at all in absence of synaesthetic perception? He began to hear a bizarre hum. Three of them manipulating his sensitivities. Light coronas around his fixed pupils, like water droplets prism-ing a rainbow. That tone... seems to pulse with the rhythm of the ripples in Sette's unstable interval. What mode is she playing in? Ach! My God! Three of them. Tritonus! an unstable interval. Depriving him of his tonus, his tonic, his anchor on the world. A three-whole-tone space! Far from equilibrium. Diabolus in musica: the alchemical tritone. Were the three offering him an organum treatise on polyphonic skew-parallel lines? Was that Gregorian chant he heard? Were they offering him a trope? a turn of phrase? a series of interpolations? God! he must breathe, simply must breathe. Is this the Lydian or Hypolydian mode? Organum is cosmological essay. Stacked sheets! Organum (a cut) : organism : : orgasm (a cut) : hyperorgasm.
Finally, Qiana let him have a short breath.
Many kinds of brain discharges, he thought, not just epileptiform and simple-orgasmic. How many kinds of orgasm there were, he had come to suspect! Orgasm is a brain discharge no less that a hormonal one. How did that group from Budapest say it in their abstract on practicing AT? Practicing on different levels of the epileptic discharge, wasn't it? A transfinite set of brain discharge levels between simple-orgasm and status orgasmus? Corresponding to the set of m-valued identity states in the interval [A, not-A]? Many distinct wave-forms and superpositions, he'd bet! Many 'collective occasions of experience' represented here -- quantum biochemically in the brain, and between brains. Wouldn't that appeal to Sette! Linking right and left temporal foci: no hemispheric dominance during these states - the wave-forms form commissures wherever they are temporarily needed. That's the ultimate effect of persistent states and long-range coherence in the brain. God! how can anyone find life acceptable without having experienced hyperorgasm -- in one or another of its forms? It's like not even having been alive at all. It's like ... all of life lived as nothing but a stress-related illness, given that the life long there is no adequate unloading. Not strange at all that sex should have so much to do with the temporal lobe -- given that temporal operations and sex have so much to do with each other.