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Becoming a hermetic baker

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All laid bare 

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Ménage-a-Deux 

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Chamber of Flavour 

A Freudian Experiment and Experience 

In the first chamber, the work of an alchemist ist done, a hermetic baker. It is one of contemplation and not a work of hands, a work that leads you to be candid and honest, acknowledging no other guide but Truth. You may easily discover yourself, your preferences and your deepest hidden secrets about yourself. 

Made from (your) recipes unending, Opposing substances agree (Goethe. Faust).

It is about Individuality (as an) awareness of one's existence as a unit in sharp distinction from others. (Zizek - Less Than Nothing) 

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Chamber of Taste

In the second chamber, eating bread and drinking wine are interminglings of bodies (Deleuze/Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus) 

The food served is symbolism in edible form. What you eat forces you to speak of it, you have to overcome boundaries laid by society. Like Crime and insanity are extremes which the human mind in general has to overcome in the course of its development. Although not a factual necessity, madness is a formal possibility constitutive of human mind: it is something whose threat has to be overcome if we are to emerge as "normal" subjects, which means that "normality" can only arise as the overcoming of this threat. (Zizek - Less Than Nothing) And the same is true for our own sexual, emotional and instrumental relationships. The immorality we see in them as a couple, as humans, as a society in them, prevents us to look at them objectively. In a way, by taking a piece of cake and the memories rolling over you via taste, cast you out of your own judgment and that of others. 

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Chamber of Pas De Deux

Mirrors in rich gils occupy the panels between the pilaster, which, by reflecting the many beauties of the room, almost produce and effect of fairy enchantment. (The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction - John Timbs) 

- The last magic perfomed that night

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violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of shade which we are now attempting to recover, as far as we can, in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought. (Foucault - The Order of Things) 

The Poisoner and the Poisened dance their last dance, before the potion of truth taints their relations as spoiled. The taste turned from bitter to sweet, from sweet to bitter and back again. A careful rebalancing, a try to reinstate the hierarchies. 

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The Three Dispositions of Pain, Power and Enthrallment 

Every experience, object and thing is filtered through the personality of each person experiencing it and is thus unique and different even for two people essentially experiencing the same thing

i. sexual disposition: bread

‘Anstatt all die infinitesimalen Gewaltsamkeiten gegen den Sex, alle wirren Blicke auf ihn und alle Hüllen, hinter denen man ihn unkenntlich macht, «der» einen großen Macht zuzuschreiben, soll die krebsartig wuchernde Produktion von Diskursen über den Sex in das Feld vielfältiger und beweglicher Machtbeziehungen getaucht werden.’ (Foucault - Der Wille zum Wissen) 

violence and pleasure 

submission and domination 

identity (subject) and object 

ii. emotional disposition: bitter sweet patisserie 

pursuit and withdrawal 

hostility and proximity 

iii. instrumental disposition: poisoned wedding cake

isolation and caring 

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The alchemical quest begins with a search for Primal Matter, that chaotic base material from which gold can be produced. While its identity eludes many intimates, this mysterious substance contains all that is needed to complete thr work. It is composed of two essential properties, Philosophic Sulfur and Philosophic Mercury, polarized masculine and feminine aspects of matter often pictured as King and Queen, or as the sun and the moon. In the laboratory, these two properties are seperated, refined and purified. (...) Their story unfolds as a romance, culminatinh with their secual union and the birth of their child, the Philosophers Stone. (Warlick - Max Ernst and Alchemy)

Opposing Forces - The Chamber of  Flavour as the seperate Forces collecting

The baker as an alchemyst

mercury - sulfur

moon - sun

feminine - masculine

eagle - lion

eve - adam

volatile - fixed

bones - blood

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