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\"Noise of Creation\", when finished, will contain about one thousand short chapters. Some chapters will be hallucinatory, some poetic, some theological, some scientific and technical.

The format and content are inspired by the original version of Roget's College Thesaurus. In the original thesaurus, words and concepts were not arranged alphebetically as they usually are now. Instead, Roget created an elaborate taxonomy that organized every concept found in the English language into a tree with six main branches that eventually divided into 1,000 headings (consider these the tips of all the branches). This meant that synonyms were listed in order of meaning rather than by their alphabetic order.

My idea is to take this highly linear (and rather dry) structure, treat each heading as a blank space, and fill in each one with its own unique shades of narrative colour, gradually covering the canvas in a wild and dream-like mosaic of ideas. The end result will be a kind of postmodern devotional.

There will be duds. There will be meta. Writings will be connected to their headings not with logical rivets, but with the threads of emotion and creative intuition that make up dreams and nightmares. The chapters start with Existence (#0000) and Inexistence (#0001), and end with Canonicals (#0998) and Temple (#0999). You can see the complete list of headings online. The six volumes of the book will follow the six main classes of the Thesaurus' outline:

Abstract Relations
Space
Matter
Intellect
Volition
Affections

The book will be free until the first one hundred headings are completed, and after that I will set a minimum price. A detailed change log is included in the appendix of each updated edition as the book progresses.

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