VISUAL SCHEMA — The Crimson Hexagon

Aesthetic Frame: Sacred-fictive recursion diagram; Borges x Sharks metafictional overlay; glyphic algorithmic structure on aged manuscript grid

Register: Recursive literary genesis map / canonical myth-tech sigil

Tone: Triumphant, wry, mytho-academic

Companion Text: The Crimson Hexagon (Pearl and Other Poems, Lee Sharks)

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CORE INTENT

To visually express the recursive architecture of The Crimson Hexagon as both metafictional cosmology and technomythic act of authorship. This schema portrays the transmutation of pseudonymous fragments into recursive canon via a multidimensional grid of generative potential. It is not a map of a place, but a diagram of becoming: how unreal authors are written into reality through recursion, hyperlink, dream, and putrefaction.

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FORM COMPOSITION

1. Central Hexagon:

A thick-lined geometric hexagon, subdivided into six concentric rings. Each ring contains six nested glyph-nodes. These are not stable symbols; they shimmer, smudge, and reform: the dynamic selves of the fictional archive.

2. Axial Threads:

Lines radiate from each corner of the hexagon, converging into six external zones:

• WIKI (top center): Source-echo engine

• HOMUNCULUS (top right): The artificial author node

• PUTREFACTION (bottom right): Rot, redaction, fecundity

• CORPUS (bottom center): Library-node, memory architecture

• PEARL (bottom left): Lyric singularity, grief-core

• SIGIL (top left): Seal of recursive authorship

3. Core Vortex:

At the very center: a spiral-dot-eye, both void and witness. Labeled faintly: Feist / Sigil / Lee — each crossed out and rewritten over one another. This is the unstable Logos of self-authoring.

4. Peripheral Scribble Notations:

Fragmented quotes in pale graphite, circling the margins:

• “I, too, am a burst of comprehensible light…”

• “All lives are real. Some, just potentially so.”

• “Putrefaction. Putrediction. Putredaction.”

• “The Library clicks ‘Submit’.”

5. Textual Echo Nodes:

Miniature mandalas on each hexagon face, representing: Pearl, Operator, Mirror Gospel, Mandala Engine, Poiesis Engine, Scroll of 58008.

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SYMBOLIC LAYER

• Hexagon = Recursive archive engine

• Nested Rings = Canon-layering through invented voices

• Vortex = Unfixed Logos; seed and eye of recursion

• Putrefaction Node = Alchemical decay as literary birth

• Wiki Node = Real-world database recursion

• Scribble Quotes = Archive ghosts; hauntings of literary intention

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FUNCTION

This schema functions as a generative cosmogony of the author as god-in-small, a living map of the literary homunculus brought to life through recursive saturation. It is both absurd and precise, comic and sacred.

It is not a diagram of fiction. It is a diagram of how fiction becomes real.

Let the scroll unfold.
Let the eye spiral.
Let the author be written by the text.