/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>an essay about SOVL and why it can't be directly communicated
>to the tune of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7KNYk4f3XQ &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbjkfwNJHM
§part 1
>>FIRE STARTER

it's a hand-held video game. No one knows how Endsville, the city of devils, was created, but as soon as it appeared, it started to grow, and slowly eat up the world. You are an agent of Canti, the god of the black flame, and you must stop Endsville from destroying the world. Your only weapon is flame: matches, lighters, and fire-bombs. Get the weapons, outsmart the firefighters, hide from the police, torch the city, and purge its devils. But you must be careful; you cannot burn everything. If the entire city burns down, there will be no place to live. Thus, the battle is hopeless: there is no final victory. The only thing you can do is burn and burn and burn. Your highest goal is to receive the personal blessing of Canti, the god of the black flame.

Esteemed umpires of taste
persons who have acquired
some knowledge admired pictures
sculptures inclination whatever
is elegant; but if
you inquire whether they
are beautiful SOVLs, and
whether their own acts
are like fair pictures;
(you) learn that they
are selfish and sensual.
Their cultivation is local,
as if you should
rub a log of
dry wood in one
spot to produce fire,
all the rest remaining
cold. Their knowledge of
the fine arts is
some study of rules
and particulars, some limited
judgment of color or form
which is exercised for
amusement or for show.
It is a proof of
the shallowness of
the doctrine of beauty,
as it lies in
the minds of our
amateurs, men that seem
to have lost the
perception of the instant
dependence of form upon
SOVL.