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    Commentary to "Serayite"
    Commentary to "Serayite"
    Commentary to "Serayite"
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    Commentary to "Serayite"

    By Ghazy Loon

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    This is the commentary to "Serayite", Ghazy Loon's maiden composition, where an adolescent spends his final teenage days preparing to set upon the mystic path, marked by surreal encounters and contemplation of his various muses.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGhazy Loon
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781311369000
    Commentary to "Serayite"
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    Ghazy Loon

    Born 1995, graduated from high school, wandering ever since... Few friends, attached by a promise to an uncertain life... Prospective gnostic, lover of any sylvan study... But most of all, searching for a muse and how one might inspire me.

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      Commentary to "Serayite" - Ghazy Loon

      Commentary to Serayite

      Ghazy Loon

      Published by Ghazy Loon at Smashwords (ghazyloon@gmail.com)

      Serayite may be acquired at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/531481

      © 2015

      א-Aleph, the first Hebrew letter, number one, the rending of the waters

      DISSEMINATE.- the most basic action of the primal Monad, the following stanza being its elaboration

      Stanza 1- this stanza serves as an apology for the poem’s ultimate insufficiency, for the tip of the pen which composes this work cannot possibly embody the beauty of the Monad that it depicts, nor can the rending of this work’s different characters possibly represent its unitary beauty; angstrom= a unit of measurement concerning the atom’s diameter; charms (quarks)= subatomic elementary particles; in this context, returning to the fundamental state of being; ox goad= the original meaning of the Semetic character Lamed, which represents authority and discipline in learning, and which is also the tallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet; in this context, being

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