Illustration by Greg Lawhun, 2025.

Limonene Cigarette

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Limestone Ziggurat, by any other name, would taste as sweet. A psychoactive terpene derived from the LSZ plant, grown on the shores of Lake Erie. In both the ashes and the smoke, new truths can be found.
The lungs fill with a lucid vapor, and the color of the air tints a pale green. Ours is an age of automation and information oversaturation, the details buried in finely printed contracts, the authors uninspired.
I reach across the blankness to you, a surrealistic spliff held in my open palm, rolled in pages torn from a holy book with poems scribbled in the margins. I ask for your patience while I take my time
to explain what you'll find. This place, it has been fashioned to be deliberately outdated, everything reduced to simpler components - from the fonts to the color palette, and of course
the soundwaves that form like pointillistic phosphenes in the head-swimming air. Every visual element has been penned by the hand of the Great Cephalopodian Greg Lawhun.
Every line of prose has been etched into the white void, one stoned syllable at a time, by your humble fabulist. Every moment of sound has been shaped from the Prima
Materia of pure controlled voltage, blue Lynchian electricity running through the veins of the Audioholistics modular system to build these Danielewskian walls.
Even the code that this virtual location consists of, typed one inkless digit at a time in a WYSIWYG text editor, uploaded from inside a house built in 1937.
Here, you will find no streaming audio or video, none of the conveniences of instant gratification that you are no doubt well-accustomed to.
You will find only that most basic of combinatorial sensory experiences - something to read, and something to listen to beside it.
Freely downloadable FLAC files, each a minimum of several hours long, that will change monthly across a two-year
timespan. Published with the caveat that the burden of availability will no longer remain mine alone -
"Keep circulating the tapes" and "The Dude abides" et al. Durational and excessively quiet
sound-material, dwelling in the shadows of Chartier and Lopez, a wry consideration
of "less is more" that continues to suggest that more may in fact be less.
This Limonene Cigarette is passed to you, free of LLMs, social media
metatags, EULAs and subscription fees. The real sound of the
underground as only Thaemlitz would have predicted it.
All work is never finished. The statue
remains inside the stone.
-BCG, 16th June 2026