hi Jordan! welcome! feel free to begin posting anywhere you like. :) a fellow Santa Barbaran? if you see me around, stop me & say hi.
also, thanks for the link to the magazine article. i'll read it when i have time.

Hi Jordan
The article from The Believer you placed the link for was spot on I especially noticed this part below which prompted me to check Wikipedia regarding the book mentioned, the section ive included made me think of another page in the Codex, I believe you all will know which one when you read the section below this seems a very strong link, it also goes with Pats link regarding the "Proust book : "A la Recherche du Temps perdu (XIII) - Albertine disparue" there seems to be a theme here with Literature.

from The Believer
"You can go through the book page by page, as I have, but the sensation of discovery never entirely goes away. Also, as with any artistic or literary work, the viewer/reader’s mood and mind-set have a substantial—if not constitutive—effect on the reading and interpretation. Isn’t every piece of art a kind of inkblot? Flipping through the book one day, I was struck by a depiction of what appeared to be a burial custom. A motionless, nondescript man in a black suit is lying on a table. In the next illustration, the table is gone and the man is inside a rectangular block of what looks like glass. The bottom half of the page is taken up by an almost pastoral scene. It looks like a public park, but with low walls and squat buildings constructed of the glasslike blocks, each of which contains a person. On a mall of kempt green grass, neat rows of freestanding blocks look like sculptures in a garden. There are trees. People walk alone or in small groups through a large, simple arch (constructed likewise of the transparent, occupied blocks) into what is apparently an outdoor mausoleum of some sort. It made me think of Richard Brautigan’s book In Watermelon Sugar (1968), where the dead are buried in glass coffins lined with fox fire, so that they will shine forever".

In Watermelon Sugar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The narrator remains un-named throughout the book, and through his first person account we hear the story of the people and the events of iDEATH. The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and inBOIL, a rebellious man who has left iDEATH to live near a forbidden area called the Forgotten Works. It is a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles. Margaret, a collector of such 'forgotten' things, is friendly with inBOIL and later suspected of 'conspiring' with him, although the exact nature of the conspiracy is never revealed. In the violent climax of the novel, inBOIL returns to the community along with a handful of followers, claiming to show the residents what real iDEATH is."