The Hospital/Temple 1970. Part: Prelude. Introduction: Transplantation & Transmigration.

The Chthonic Family Swamp Tree

Abstract

“Men will get drunk on wine and forget heaven in favour of earth. The stars will turn away. Crops will wither and water will disappear from the earth. Roots will turn into branches and branches will turn into roots. Soon everything will cease to accomplish its function. The sun rays shock will lift up the seas and the dust from ancient times will rise up again” — Merlin

BIRTH AND DEATH IN THE ABSTRACT

The organic immortal or Chthonic deathless parasite as —

‘The Family Tree’.

People think of a family as a kind of tree that can be climbed, and it’s branches grafted… or a hedge of trees, where the branch of one meets the branch of another and then is spliced from the top down, a perfect melding, whereby some great-great-grandfather Smith, marries a grandmother Jones, they have four children, of whom two survive, possibly a boy and a girl, whom in turn marry, and the young Mr Jones Jr pairs off with a Mrs Thomson, who then becomes herself a Jones. The daughter marries a Baker and another branch is created. The young Jones’s and Bakers do likewise, and so on until down the bottom of the tree is you — young Mr Boner — product of a Baker girl’s marriage to a Boner boy.