When you are writing fiction (especially deep mythic fiction, channeled from somewhere else) your characters sometimes give you instruction, voicing the wisdom that you didn’t know that you knew.
In this case Carlos Lasenex (senex: wise old man) gave me this very tight description of the style that I now call Hyp Prose: “prose with various features of poetry, the stark metre and strange run-on rhythms of poetic and scriptural speech”.
Here is the whole of the quote, with a bit of context:
In Jesse’s borrowed voice Carlos began to recite a long poem, or rather prose with various features of poetry, the stark metre and strange run-on rhythms of poetic and scriptural speech. Words that spoke of the light of the mind, the only light that can prevail against the darkness, and the illumination in the presence of fear that is called the courage of men.
My honest hope (and sometime belief) is that these books may provide instruction and consolation to a wide range of readers, and over time they may prove themselves in this way. However if that never happens I would have few regrets, because these works have already provided so much instruction and consolation to me, and I know in a deep place that they will continue to do so for the rest of my life.
P. Julian
14 January 2018
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