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This page was the first idea that I had for this webcomic issue; Cowboy Bill from the previous parts having a more David Bowie-like affect and becoming something of an outsider artist.

The depiction of Oscar Francois de Jaryeyes from Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles as the Eliphas Levi Baphomet was an idea which came much later.

The Baphomet, of course, symbolizes the convergence of all things; human, beast, dark, light, sun, moon, man, woman, earth, sky, sea, and itself. I had a thought to myself that Oscar Francois de Jaryeyes had a similar position in the Rose of Versailles, being able to embody every single intensity and identity at once, constantly alternating and being pulled between all of them at once, with this total lack of set identity being a large mover of Berubara's plot. The figures to the sides of Oscar, Hans Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette (how Ikeda would draw them), are non-aeonic persons, still confined within their set social identities, thus being unable to move into the new aeon of Liberalism and Individuality which the French Revolution furtively began. I would explain Absolute Freedom and Terror here if I had the time or energy.

The portrait on the wall in the room where Bill read Berubara at 16 is of Thomas Jefferson. I'm thinking of, in the future, using the Founding Fathers as symbols of the largest internal contradiction within American society, this being that our once-esteemed democratic institutions were originally founded on the landed gentry of the 18th century system of Caribbean Slavery. "Democracy today is as it was in Ancient Greece; democracy for the slaveholders" to quote Lenin, here being used to mean that where the general structure of our society is far more democratic than the stagnant Feudal regimes preceding it, our way of life, production methods, sexual dynamics, racial views, and politics are still stuck in the mindsets and systems of 18th century slavers and the racists of the 19th and 20th centuries who followed them. The superstructure of our society pulls towards freedom, but the production base prevents that from being realized at every point. Even liberals talk about "American Freedom" less as something which exists today, so much as being something like the position of the Messiah in Judaism (can only come about when the World has already been redeemed).
Here's the weblink: sites.google.com/view/23cdelta…

Description

This page was the first idea that I had for this webcomic issue; Cowboy Bill from the previous parts having a more David Bowie-like affect and becoming something of an outsider artist.

The depiction of Oscar Francois de Jaryeyes from Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles as the Eliphas Levi Baphomet was an idea which came much later.

The Baphomet, of course, symbolizes the convergence of all things; human, beast, dark, light, sun, moon, man, woman, earth, sky, sea, and itself. I had a thought to myself that Oscar Francois de Jaryeyes had a similar position in the Rose of Versailles, being able to embody every single intensity and identity at once, constantly alternating and being pulled between all of them at once, with this total lack of set identity being a large mover of Berubara's plot. The figures to the sides of Oscar, Hans Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette (how Ikeda would draw them), are non-aeonic persons, still confined within their set social identities, thus being unable to move into the new aeon of Liberalism and Individuality which the French Revolution furtively began. I would explain Absolute Freedom and Terror here if I had the time or energy.

The portrait on the wall in the room where Bill read Berubara at 16 is of Thomas Jefferson. I'm thinking of, in the future, using the Founding Fathers as symbols of the largest internal contradiction within American society, this being that our once-esteemed democratic institutions were originally founded on the landed gentry of the 18th century system of Caribbean Slavery. "Democracy today is as it was in Ancient Greece; democracy for the slaveholders" to quote Lenin, here being used to mean that where the general structure of our society is far more democratic than the stagnant Feudal regimes preceding it, our way of life, production methods, sexual dynamics, racial views, and politics are still stuck in the mindsets and systems of 18th century slavers and the racists of the 19th and 20th centuries who followed them. The superstructure of our society pulls towards freedom, but the production base prevents that from being realized at every point. Even liberals talk about "American Freedom" less as something which exists today, so much as being something like the position of the Messiah in Judaism (can only come about when the World has already been redeemed).
Here's the weblink: sites.google.com/view/23cdelta…