Which is an homage or imitation of the style of the late Mr Flann O'Brien, contemporary Irish author and prime theoretician of aestho-psycho-eugenics, a science of the senses. To engage in such endeavour I have fashioned a figure based in both reality and fiction, a main example of the latter being the human devil Fergus McPhellimey.
In order to construct the figure of the mystic, I have built the concept not on the necessarily literary, but on the physical-perceptive.
Nature of variables: visual, auditory, olfactory.
The mystic knows of runes and numbers, taking into account the Good and the Bad Numerals, the separation of the odd from the even. Thus, his view of the world is made not from the mere set of eyes, but from a collective of the aforementioned. His knowledge of the preternatural sciences allows him to operate a rudimentary Aleph, stored only in the contours of the brain.
Physical description, literary version: The mystic wears without malicious intent the face of the god Apollo, patron of light and knowledge, which women of impressionable character find invariably irresistible. His skin is honey-gold, and his hair, of a nondescript brown shade, is particularly vulnerable to strong winds. He dons a jacket of dusty quality and mass-produced origin and, having deemed the use of beads insensitive to the gypsy class, keeps his wrists bare. Conclusion of the foregoing.
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