Cycle I: Coming on Strong
The Hidden Voice
The Blacklight · Contents
THE HOUSE OF ZAN — Zan
Cycle I: Coming on Strong continues with The Blacklight, the second of four passages through The Hidden Voice.
Here, the encounters at the center of the cycle are examined for patterns, omissions, contradictions, and pressures that may not be visible in the moment.
Each analysis corresponds to the same-numbered piece in The Record. They can stand alone, and you can begin anywhere. The matching Record piece provides the experience being examined if you want the full pair.
Reading the analyses together builds an information advantage: not certainty about the person behind the voice, but better ways to distinguish what the evidence actually shows from what we are tempted to supply ourselves.
For a little more context before taking in the passage as a whole, Starting The Cycle introduces the method and perspective used to examine what follows.
Cycle I: The Blacklight — Table of Contents
- Starting Point… (1-1) — An Analysis
- Onward and Upward… (1-2) — An Analysis
- Great Expectations… (1-3) — An Analysis
- Sacrifice of Control… (1-4) — An Analysis
- Learning Through Experience… (1-5) — An Analysis
- Objects in Space… (1-6) — An Analysis
- Your Submission: The Gift of Giving Yourself Away… (1-7) — An Analysis
- What/ever… (1-8) — An Analysis
- Reality of Fantasy… (1-9) — An Analysis
- Broken Thing(s)… (1-10) — An Analysis
- Getting Ahead… (1-11) — An Analysis
- From Darkness… (1-12) — An Analysis
- For What It’s Worth… (1-13) — An Analysis
- Earthbound Backtrack… (1-14) — An Analysis
- Saturn Return… (1-15) — An Analysis
- Neptune Nowhere… (1-16) — An Analysis
- Jupiter Obsession… (1-17) — An Analysis
- Uranus Joy… (1-18) — An Analysis
- Pluto Reversal… (1-19) — An Analysis
- Mars Bars… (1-20) — An Analysis
- Venus Breakdown… (1-21) — An Analysis
- Mercury Memories… (1-22) — An Analysis
- Moon Shades… (1-23) — An Analysis
- Sun Stroke… (1-24) — An Analysis
- Universal Truth… (1-25) — An Analysis
- The Great Beyond… (1-26) — An Analysis
For a little more perspective after taking in the passage as a whole, Breaking The Cycle brings the examination to a close.
If one of these titles caught your attention, start there. If you want to see how the patterns build across the passage, begin with Starting Point… (1-1) — An Analysis and read forward.
If you want to approach The Hidden Voice from another direction, choose The Record, The Nerve, or The Hidden Girl.
For other rooms in The House of Zan, return to the House Map.
Elevator Music: “The Syncopated Clock” — Percy Faith