6/29/2023 0 Comments Jim woodring frank…a toy which is powerless against both Frank and Pupshaw who are childlike fools, but transformative when grasped by Manhog who becomes ensnared in a dry husk…. …is seen in an earlier adventure selling Frank a selectively efficacious top… In what may be a related episode, the pedlar that adopts Pupshaw and Pushpaw following Frank’s apparent death and entombment in Weathercraft… He is stripped bare of outward trappings and spun into the recognizable shapes which drift through the Unifactor, their only identifying marks being the band of eyes which crown their “foreheads”. In the episode above, the dancing shiva ( Nataraja) and then the author form the Sanskrit character for the syllable, Aum, breaking the illusion of all earthly existence. The architect of this realm, Jim Wooding, revealed their origin through his delirious journals where they have been strange visitors from the very first. … and at other times encountered as watchful guardians. These Jivas, the immortal essences found in all living beings, are sometimes espied in deaths forseen… We first catch sight of one of its substrates in the stained glass window of a mansion or temple Frank has been assigned to clean. An expanse which might just as well be called the Unimind, a pantheistic unshifting wonderland of the soul instinctive in its creation and consistent in its mythology. A world born of the intellect, hallucinations and waking dreams of its author.
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