# Poems, Texts & Social Posts Not every Hall of Mirrors artifact is a diagram or an emblem. Some of them are just words. These are the text pieces: poems, diary fragments, a full narrative myth, a couple of doodles with captions, and the handful of real social posts Roy cared about enough to mint into the maze. They are the closest the archive comes to hearing him think out loud, in his own handwriting or his own timeline, before an idea grew up into a song. ## What this section collects This page gathers artifacts that are made of language: a scanned journal page, a typed poem, an Apple Notes draft, a screenshotted tweet, a text-message bubble. The medium is the point. Where the concept images show the mythology drawing on the walls, these show it writing in the margins. A few of them are self-labeling, meaning the artifact spells out its own unlock code in plain sight: the poem titled after its own first line, the tweet whose last line is the key. That is not sloppiness. It is a small joke the Hall likes to play, where the clue and the prize turn out to be the same object. ## A note on the codes Several of these entries carry a code that looks like license-plate gibberish: `J403`, `X672`, `Q763`, `F876`. These are not unsolved mysteries or random strings. They are cell coordinates, column-plus-row addresses, on Roy's spreadsheet-style *"I'm 33"* board (see [[Hall of Mirrors/The I'm 33 Board]]), where the whole cosmology is laid out on a grid. So a code like `J763` is less a riddle and more a map reference: it tells you where on the board the idea lives. The phrase-codes (`WE FALL DOWN AS SEEDS ON THE GROUND`, `EVERY HUMAN BEING IS A STAR`) work the other way, quoting a lyric or an aphorism straight. ## How to read them Read the words first, the mythology second. A diary line is a diary line before it is a prophecy. The most useful readings on this page start from what the text actually says and only then ask what it connects to, rather than treating every scrap of handwriting as a coded transmission from the beyond. The links under each entry are deliberately few. A poem can gesture at a dozen ideas; the guide only points you to the connections that actually help you understand what you are reading. --- ## The artifacts ### #15 · DEAD LETTER DIARIES · `DEAD LETTER DIARIES` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xdb2916dfb388353085a0551d381c2565d478197df1332c0e4aff59c7b7d901de..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xdb2916dfb388353085a0551d381c2565d478197df1332c0e4aff59c7b7d901de..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A short looping scan of an old CD glued flat onto weathered gray fence-planks, rotating in a black void: the white disc reads *"Dead Letter Diaries,"* and the insert is a black-and-white photo of a teenage boy in a cap, arms crossed, with faded band-credit lines beside him. This is a relic of Roy's very first band, Dead Letter Diaries, from his high-school years (roughly the mid-2000s, before Eye Alaska), and the code is just the artifact's own name, the object introducing itself. It sits in the gallery's ghost realm and earns the placement: a *"dead letter"* is mail that can never be delivered, so the band name already framed a teenager's diaries as messages sent to no one, now preserved here as an undeliverable object. One small uncanny touch: the scan's texture is mirror-flipped, so every word reads backward as the disc turns, which is either an accident of the capture or the Hall being the Hall. **Connects to →** [[Loser]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] · [[Roy]] ### #23 · ROY DIARY 2014 · `J403` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd14909d1145a6a8baf6db46d9a5efee8677c90898ae1dabf470ba720bb340e1e..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd14909d1145a6a8baf6db46d9a5efee8677c90898ae1dabf470ba720bb340e1e..jpg" width="300"></a> A dim bedside photo, casual as a late-night phone snap: an open journal beside a pen, a dripping beeswax candle in a blue dish, a hair tie, a glass globe lamp, and a small brass deity oil lamp (a little altar, in keeping with Roy's Eastern-spiritual leanings). The journal carries two handwritten lines: *"Does ANY one understand ME?"* and *"Standing at the top the the tower of ~~[scribbled out]~~ ?"*, the destination deliberately blacked out, leaving only a question mark. The obliterated word teases a tower-of-Babel reading, though since it is genuinely illegible, that stays a guess. Dated 2014, this is Roy English in the struggling pre-Jagwar years, and its filing among the *"past selves"* frames it as a ghost of the younger, unheard version of him. The code `J403` is a cell coordinate on the *"I'm 33"* board, a map reference rather than a phrase. **Connects to →** [[Ballerina Boy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Roy]] ### #51 · ROY STORY "SIR RABBIT · `Q763` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2356561424a07a805749ee41a7ad1efe3b2cf7de7056cb2657eac17b04ab8d72..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2356561424a07a805749ee41a7ad1efe3b2cf7de7056cb2657eac17b04ab8d72..png" width="300"></a> Four typed pages of the complete *"Sir Rabbit"* narrative poem, laid out around a photograph of a leaping verdigris-bronze hare; a stray selection handle and an X-ed design frame reveal this as a layout caught mid-edit rather than a finished print. The poem is Roy's fullest self-authored initiation myth: Sir Rabbit rides a Cat to the machine Violet Moon, is boxed in by the Fox, escapes by listening for *"a heartbeat he forgot"* (*"the key is hidden in yourself"*), meets the lamp-bearing Dove, is guided by a golden-caped Spider to the Great Divide, and finally leaps *"straight through the Mourning Sun"* back to where he began. Heart over mind, wake from the dream, the Circle's return, all named years before the later cast arrived. Roy captioned it *"sir rabbit pre-lucius"* himself: this is the seeker-self before the Lucius armor forms, and it quietly seeds the whole future ensemble (the Fox, the Spider-guide, the mind/heart split). The code `Q763` is another board cell coordinate, sitting in the same numbered grid as the other rabbit rooms. The image also settles two long-standing transcription questions: *"Mourning Sun"* and *"a little dot"* are both confirmed as written. **Connects to →** [[Sir Rabbit]] · [[Sir Lucius]] · [[The Circle]] · [[Good Time (1-08)]] · [[Lucius Lullaby]] · [[Roy]] ### #52 · ATTENTION TWEET · `X672` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2e527d507f693170efa5263a09886b1f9c835e74c59be669ace885c087c4f2e9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2e527d507f693170efa5263a09886b1f9c835e74c59be669ace885c087c4f2e9..jpg" width="300"></a> A screenshot of a real @JagwarTwin tweet (1/29/21, the avatar already the dissolving-figure *33*-era artwork): *"Attention is like color, or love, or beauty. You don't create it. It's something you discover."* Posted more than a year before *33* arrived, this is Roy planting the album's central thesis in public, out loud, on his own timeline: Attention as a force that already exists in the world, found rather than manufactured, which *Pay Attention* then dramatizes by personifying it as an ancient, trans-historical power. Its placement in a monologue realm fits, since Attention speaks in the first person in the song. The code `X672` is a cell coordinate on the board, an internal address, not a phrase to decode. **Connects to →** [[Pay Attention (feat. little luna)]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Roy]] ### #64 · SEEDS ON THE GROUND · `WE FALL DOWN AS SEEDS ON THE GROUND` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd3377c7198f96892fd6255e46a18aacc9b534b55576c039ab4545e75fdb7f8bd..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd3377c7198f96892fd6255e46a18aacc9b534b55576c039ab4545e75fdb7f8bd..png" width="300"></a> A single scanned notebook page of loose pencil doodles carrying three little scenes: a fish labeled *"OSCAR"* with a heart; two grinning anthropomorphic carrots dripping *"carrot juice"* onto a lump of ground where a tiny figure lies, tagged *"Me, sleeping,"* under the caption *"I was sleeping on Carrot Juice"*; and a crowned stick figure drawn as a five-pointed star reading *"Every human being is A Star, Basically and Potentially."* This one page is clearly the shared source sheet for a small cluster of neighboring rooms. The unlock code is the bridge of *Soul Is A Star* word for word, and the sketch makes it literal: Roy asleep on the ground like a dormant seed being watered, the comic picture of incubation before growth. The star-man with his little crown restates the album's whole thesis in miniature, echoing the old hermetic line that every person is a star, here gently softened to *"basically and potentially."* A nap-doodle that smuggles in a cosmology. **Connects to →** [[Soul Is A Star]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Roy]] ### #65 · BASICALLY & POTENTIALLY · `EVERY HUMAN BEING IS A STAR` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x84c56ca2073a6cace80a1c6d0a3d0474ae2440ca8345332d95da28141e4fcc2e..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x84c56ca2073a6cace80a1c6d0a3d0474ae2440ca8345332d95da28141e4fcc2e..png" width="300"></a> A hand-drawn stick figure whose body *is* a five-pointed star: a smiley face in a small crown for a head, hands and feet at the star's points, ringed by the words *"Every human being is A Star"* and, beneath, *"Basically and Potentially"* (the artifact's title). The code is the sentence itself, documented as a Roy tweet, paraphrasing the old Thelemic line *"every man and every woman is a star."* The drawing literalizes the microcosm idea, the human body inscribed as a pentagram, the Vitruvian figure with a crown, and that crown at the top of the head points quietly at Kether, the Crown of the Tree of Life: an inherent sovereignty and divinity in every ordinary person. It belongs to the run of *33*-era cosmology sketches that keep insisting the soul is stellar by nature. **Connects to →** [[Soul Is A Star]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/The Sacred Truths/Hermeticism - As Above So Below]] · [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Roy]] ### #67 · SLEEPING ON CARROT JUICE · `I WAS SLEEPING ON CARROT JUICE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x011a058ff340496332804b33c8999b56f60c054b0d08185866d82977112dc309..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x011a058ff340496332804b33c8999b56f60c054b0d08185866d82977112dc309..png" width="300"></a> A deliberately childlike pencil sketch captioned *"I was Sleeping on Carrot Juice":* two grinning, spiky-topped carrots squeeze juice down into a puddle where a tiny stick figure floats, arrow reading *"Me, sleeping."* The code is the caption verbatim, so the artifact keys itself (the same trick a few other rooms play, where the artwork simply states its own code). It reads as a dream report in the child register, absurd first-person dream logic drawn without a trace of irony, sitting alongside the archive's other preserved child-self pieces (Sir Rabbit, Grandma VI's Cow). Whether this is an actual childhood drawing or grown Roy channeling that hand is not recorded, and it does not much matter: either way the Hall is doing its signature move, treating a throwaway dream doodle as a museum-grade relic of the pre-performance self. There is no carrot or carrot-juice reference anywhere in the released music, so this one stays pure biographical whimsy. **Connects to →** [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Roy]] ### #115 · EVERYBODY'S GOING TO SPACE NOW · `IN MY FATHERS SHOES` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xdb550140abb22b9a60137552fcc372fb17cde2c54909bd0729a3da78b6c85121..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xdb550140abb22b9a60137552fcc372fb17cde2c54909bd0729a3da78b6c85121..jpg" width="300"></a> A self-referential piece: a screenshot of Roy's own tweet (11/28/21), a three-line haiku, *"Midnight crows above 🐓 / One mask hanging on a tree 🌲 / In my fathers shoes 🧬,"* whose third line *is* the room's unlock code, so once again the clue and the prize are the same object. The date is quietly telling, showing Roy dropping a future room code into a casual tweet well over a year before the gallery opened. Thematically the line carries the father-and-lineage thread, the DNA emoji making *"in my fathers shoes"* into literal inheritance, stepping into the father's role, set against the recurring mask motif and a midnight-crow omen. The room title *"Everybody's Going to Space Now"* is not a released song; it is the artifact's own name. **Connects to →** [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[The Mask]] · [[Roy]] ### #130 · INCOMING TEXT (JB) · `F876` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x34a355ff8ae82b2500b8837fd908336edc9f7a13d2d52edefa906504bbce0a8d..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x34a355ff8ae82b2500b8837fd908336edc9f7a13d2d52edefa906504bbce0a8d..jpeg" width="300"></a> A screenshot of two dark iOS message bubbles reading *"Here"* and *"At the gate"*, an *"incoming text"* captured (or staged) and framed as a piece of correspondence rather than a drawing. The code `F876` is a board cell coordinate, and the piece works by the Hall's favorite reversal: an utterly mundane *"on my way, I'm at the gate"* text becomes a threshold image. The gate is one of the project's most load-bearing motifs, the boundary the self eventually has to step through rather than merely stand before, so a plain two-word message lands as a moment of arrival at the edge of one state and the start of another. An intimate, real-world scrap lifted into the mythology of crossing over. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Dweller on the Threshold]] · [[LOOP]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] · [[Roy]] --- ## Read next - [[Artifacts]] — the hub, and the rest of the artifact groups. - [[Hall of Mirrors]] — the ARG these objects were unlocked from. - [[Hall of Mirrors/The I'm 33 Board]] — the cosmology board so many of these texts are pieces of.