The Death of the Homunculus

by Dave O'Meara

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1.	The Project 05:00	info
2.	Pessoa on Dreams 05:00	info
3.	The Job 05:00	info
4.	Poincaré on Two Alternate Principles 05:00	info
5.	The Article 05:00	info
6.	Pessoa on Clouds 05:00	info
7.	The Three AM Apartment Hunter 05:00	info
8.	Poincaré on Amazing Coincidences 05:00	lyrics
Includes readings from: The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa Science and Hypothesis, by Henri Poincaré, included in The Value of Science
9.	The Problem 05:00	info
10.	Pessoa Shrugs His Shoulders 05:00	info
11.	The Bottom Line 05:00	info
12.	At the Oriental 05:00	info
13.	Poincaré on Inertia 05:00	info
14.	Pessoa's Optional Holiday 05:00	info
15.	The Finale 05:00	lyrics
...the homunculus: the little person up there watching through the cameras of the eyes and listening through the stereo system of the ears, the ghost in the organic machine, the pilot of the ship...

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Here's my definition of homunculus, transcribed from the fifteenth and final track of The Death of the Homunculus:

...the homunculus: the little person up there watching through the cameras of the eyes and listening through the stereo system of the ears, the ghost in the organic machine, the pilot of the ship...

The Death of the Homunculus is the story of my encounters with two crazy people (one of whom I met in person, the other in a magazine article) and the problem it caused me when I noticed that each of them had moments of self-interested lucidity in the midst of their crazy talk.

Did that mean they were faking it? But they were so obviously seriously ill...

Read more here: www.daveomeara.com/home/about-tdoth/

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released July 6, 2017

Includes readings from:

The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa

Science and Hypothesis, by Henri Poincaré, included in The Value of Science

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Dave O'Meara Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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