CYCLE TWENTY-FOUR

1. Now follows a theory, necessarily general, correlating the most popular electronic media with a given elemental axis: the space-time continuum, in falling fire, of television to video-players/recorders, the former effectively idealist and the latter quasi-fundamentalist; the time-space continuum, in rising air, of radio to audio-players/recorders, the former effectively naturalist and the latter quasi-transcendentalist; the volume-mass continuum, in falling water, of personal computer wordprocessors (PCWs) to personal computers (with or without CD-ROM), the former effectively materialist and the latter quasi-humanist; the mass-volume continuum, in rising vegetation, of record-players to compact disc-players, the former realist and the latter quasi-nonconformist.

2. Thus to descend, in falling fire, from television (TV) to video, as from the eyes to (relatively speaking) the heart, but to ascend, in rising air, from radio to audio, as from the ears to (relatively speaking) the lungs. Likewise to descend, in falling water, from personal computer wordprocessors (PCWs) to personal computers (PCs), as from the tongue to (relatively speaking) the womb, but to ascend, in rising vegetation, from long players (LPs) to compact discs (CDs), as from the phallus to (relatively speaking) the brain.

3. All such descents/ascents can thus be regarded as constituting a kind of progression from sensuality to sensibility or, at any rate, to something which, though rooted in outer sense, is closer to sensibility, given the factors of interiorization which characterize video-players, audio-players, personal computers, and compact disc-players in relation to their respective software.

4. Hence to contrast the hellish standings of televisions/videos on the space-time axis of falling fire with the heavenly standings of radios/audios on the time-space axis of rising air, the former axis having particular reference to the eyes and the latter to the ears.

5. Hence to contrast the worldly standings of personal computer wordprocessors/personal computers on the volume-mass axis of falling water with the purgatorial standings of record-players/compact disc-players on the mass-volume axis of rising vegetation. Whereas televisions/videos and radios/audios have reference to the diabolic and to the divine respectively, personal computer wordprocessors/personal computers and long players/compact discs have reference to the feminine and to the masculine respectively.