Mouthpiece

This book belongs with my other autobiographical story, The Imperative. Both books "remember" the preparation required to shape a suitable mouthpiece for the unknown future. The "destructive" energies that were evoked, along with the wisdom carried by those energies, constitute the inner meaning of a nuclear blast, i.e., from the objective psyche's point of view. If these enormous energies are held "within," i.e., consciously, then the psyche can begin to reveal its deeper telos. This intentionality is explored in depth in The Imperative (see my essay, The Bomb as World Destroyer) while, in this book, I focus on the continuing story of "David" (my literary name), and show how "nuclear radiation" is a way living, autonomous language "speaks" its release from its internment in our fossilized culture of reified abstractions. This powerful and inceptive language inaugurates a new way of being, as expressed in the unfolding life of David.