3 is the Number. (Patreon)

Today, while I was in bed trying to recover, I decided to print The Thunder, Perfect, Mind and read it with a pen in my hand.

As I moved through the text, I noticed something that I hadn’t seen before. Nearly every passage seemed to fall into recurring groups of three lines. Out of curiosity, I began colour-coding them as three alternating voices rather than a single continuous monologue.

Surprisingly, the rhythm often feels remarkably natural. I don’t know whether this reflects the author’s original intention or simply reveals another possible architecture hidden within the text, but the experiment has completely changed the way I hear it.

I’m now reconstructing the whole work as a kind of choral score to see where this intuition leads.

What do you think? Do you hear three voices as well, or something entirely different?