WHITE BUFFALO: The Story of a Mayan Prince

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COMMENTARY:
: I remember now. The lunch with Red Ted occurred
before the trek up Monte Luna/Sol and the encounter
with the black bear. Ted offered asylum from the person
and event that I was evading [detail omitted]. What is
clear is abortion is clearly a factor, and cause + effect
a dynamic. Certainly psychological response is pertinent.
Theology cannot be excluded. On the timeline the moral
component is “forgiveness,” which admittedly is not
a philosophical concern, but more a spiritual matter.

QUESTION:
: Does the separation of theological and philosophical
schema directly coincide with emerging democratic mores?

> Followup: Separation of Church & State - does this apply
to states of being, especially duplicate states, which are
not identical to secondary states?

OBSERVATION [RE. “We exist and don’t exist all at once.”]:
BK - [OUTSIDE ASSERTION] I exist and I exist all at once.
Which makes me, what,
four times as existant as most people?

RESPONSE:
PJM - I think you underestimate here. In your case, each one
of your existing selves + other existing self, therefore
has another other existing self, which I suppose means
there are an infinite number of you, which I guess is true
of all double positives.

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VERSION 2.0

[THRUST STAGE]

NARRATION:
A classic chase scene. The setting - several square miles
of high desert terrain. The bear has been separated from her
cub. The man has been separated from his baby. Grief conjoins
the two players.

Director and cast: Sentience is the shared medium.

- Many unknowns apply as motivation. Do we know what causes
a young man to smoke a spleef with a guy who looks like
a band member of ZZ Top, drink a couple of beers, then
stroll out into the fringe area of a wilderness, with no
water or food?

- What about the bear? We know a cub was treed in Santa Fe
the next day. What’s the likelihood that these events are
unrelated?

- Would we characterize the arc in terms of crisis or
obstacle, seemingly insurmountable?

- It is a binary system [Sun & Moon]. What about the
feminine element?

- What about insanity? The whole scenario seems totally
implausible. What kind of vehicle transports Paul to the
embarkation point?

- It’s a mustard-colored Jeep Cherokee. Is this detail
somehow germane?

- I’m  just trying to develop a visual atmosphere. We
need tone, people.

- According to the author, the build-up is relaxed, one
of the reasons Paul is unprepared for the dramatic intensity
that follows. He had visited Ted once before, on the Blue
Moon, and felt confident he would have no difficulty re-
tracing his steps to rendezvous on the pinnacle of Monte Sol
at Red Ted’s hooch and dog camp. Obviously, this expectation
was unfounded.

- Don’t these people have jobs?

- I believe Paul was painting most of the time, and working
construction-type gigs to pay bills.

- The receipts show he was spending much of the day in local
pubs.

- The record is somewhat fuzzy. It doesn’t appear as though
he was sleeping at all.

- What role does sleep deprivation play in the description?

The trace program point of origination exists somewhere
east of Santa Fe, by Wilderness Gate on Wilderness Way,
a subdivision consisting ofluxury homes, and St. John’s College,
a liberal arts institution [See Map].

The primary landmarks are two mountains, which indigenous people
have over thousands of years of continuous habitation in the region
come to regard as possessing certain identifying qualities. Local
myth tells of a giant who guards the pass between the two mountains.
The elevation is between 6-9,000’.

The air quality is generally very high, as is visibility. It is
an arid ecology. Wildlife is plentiful, although the influx of a
considerable new human population has induced a variety of stresses
on the environment.

Hiking trails are fairly common, and mountain bikers and runners
and their pets are users of the recreational areas close by,
including some parks like Atalaya. Some tension exists between
home owners and advocates of community land use.

- Is now a good time to bring up the interplay among the Tres
Gentes? Each of the cultures views the setting through not-necessarily
complementary lenses. Which perspective should we as representers
choose for depicting the narrative trajectory? Indian, Spanish
Colonial or American POVs carry baggage and provide context.

- Keep in mind that Santa Fe was undergoing Aspenization when
the event occurred. The emergence of the Internet was still on
the collective horizon. There were no cell phones, no digital
cameras or vocal recorders. The means of documentation were
entirely analog.

- Could a bear chasing a man happen today the way it did then?

- I don’t think so. The quarry would be tweeting every chance
he could, or texting animal control. Paul certainly would have
brought bottled water with electrolytes with him, and granola
bars.

- I think they had granola bars then.

- When was this - ‘87 or -8? Ronald Reagan was President. The
stock market was crashing, right? The go-go 80s were blowing
up and the Berlin Wall was coming down. Ollie North in uniform
testifying in front of the Senate [and Al Gore] occupied the
national consciousness. The Berlin Wall was about to fall.
Unions had been busted. It was the New Wave era, when the likes
of the Talking Heads overtook mainstream mainstays from the
hippie age. The punks were mostly gone. In America, the Mall
was rising to prominence. The AIDS epidemic was on. The Human
Genome Project was funded. Prison populations, driven by the
rise in crack cocaine business and its effects, were expanding
at an alarming pace. It was the decade of Trump and Bernie
Goetz, when Wall Street and the American Terror problem in the
Middle East began to dominate the economy and political discourse.

- How did Paul land in Santa Fe, after graduating from Notre
Dame?

- He had a motorcycle wreck. Head trauma, studies have shown,
can cause behavioral deviation.

- New York City overwhelmed him.

- Van Gogh’s paintings were being auctioned for record prices,
with “Irises” garnering over $50 Million. Art palaces were springing
up in the oil baron cities and on the East Coast. The art stars
of POP replaced the Abstract Expressionists as the current Super Class/
neo-Robber Baron constellations formed in the first big Post-War
de-regulation boom.

- So, this is the context.

- Do you remember Jim Bakker? Rock Hudson? This is the day the
sexual revolution died.

- What a fucking mess.

TECH Description:
The bear’s pursuit of the author is depicted as
double POV. The two-camera configuration is staged as a symmetric
flip screen array. The rendering is accomplished onstage [not
in editing software [See “Swimmers” video]/ The moves are

1) Correct orientation
2) Flip horizontal/composite mode darken/lighten {throughout}
3) Flip vertical
4) Flip horizontal