Rapture Hat, Theirs (grant proposal).

We distributors of the Rapture Hat, to avoid recall, monetary penalty, and scoldings by our grantors*, think it necessary to provide a short appendix to the verbal and visual gestures found in the unified body.



APPENDIX. APPROACH THE RAPTURE HAT GESTURE

The strata of image as it engages the strata of text can gradually eliminate any reason for a reader or a viewer of The Rapture Hat.

Reader and viewer should be perfectly compliant with this occurrence.

Reader's and viewer's compliances will transform either or both. This is a predictable Rapture Effect.

Reader and viewer will share their former, respective positions to serve the Rapture Hat as Observer. Observed ritually, the Rapture Hat may thus work as a grid of gestures.

Distilled through ritual (use of a grease pencil to grid one's daily observations on the document itself will bear this out), these gestures yield four essential distillations from the Observer:

1. Good good
2. Good bad
3. Bad good
4. Bad bad

These gestures accordingly total out the register of "cleaned" versions of countless Observer experiences in those abundant fields available to us through the Humanities.

*Note that the printers of Cabinet took time out to write a sharp letter chastizing the magazine's editors for their lack of editing skills. The letter was pasted into, presumably, every copy of the magazine before hitting the shelves. We don't need that sort of ad-libbing from our grantors.

**Note that use of the word "merge" is intended to imply not a convergence but a cross-lacing text merging into but not with The Rapture Hat's exploited visual field. This may or may not later lead into some talk of "treating image like sentence," to quote one Brazilian enthusiast.

A further parallel to "merge" lies in the title itself:

–Rapture– an object mapped into a "traditional view" of the Greek "aion" (forever, a period with a beginning but no terminal point).

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–Hat– an object mapped into temporary use, as in the linguistic once-over given to "aion" (a singular age, a terminal period of time).


There is no doubt that even mention of the Rapture-event maps one into the use of threat, of something unstoppable.

But our position is this: we map this Rapture-threat into Hat-objects, objects of position and termination, because it is simply better for you to know, geologically, in and out of cuckholding, that your right hand knows exactly what your left hand is doing.

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