Artaud, Arnold, Black Sun, black arrow

Finding the links to include in yesterday's post "Black Hole Sun and six-seven," I searched this blog for "black hole sun", and the first result was "Turning suns into black holes" (March 2024), featuring The Peyote Dance by Antonin Artaud.

Today I finished Noah Hypnotik and, as is my habit, entered into the spreadsheet of books read that I've been keeping for, wow, 27 years now. It's alphabetized by author, and so I found myself entering "Arnold, David. The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik. 2026" right between "Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation. 2008" and "Artaud, Antonin. The Peyote Dance. 2024."

One of the typographical quirks of Noah Hypnotik is that each chapter begins with a bold, black right-pointing arrow. The page number at the bottom of each page also has a black arrow pointing at it (left or right, depending on which page it is). Yesterday's post, "Ambrose and the eight-spoked wheel," ends with an image of the Star of Chaos: a black circle with black arrows radiating out in eight directions.