Footnotes
 

1.  Originally I used the terms belief, disbeleif, Belief to define my phases - paralelling Blake rather bluntly, but I was compelled to change them to dysBelief , Disbelief, DysBelief - it feels more appropriate that disbelief rather than belief be my focus, but of course I am playing with the fact that belief is the root of disbelief. . .the whole post-modern thing again. . .I started with Blake and ended up with Derrida (you know the whole word play thing he did with "differance" - phonetically difference and differance are the same - at least "en francais" (pardon my French) - but by playing with spelling he created his own word, just as Blake created his own definition for innocence through capitalization. . you can see here the synthesis of the romantic and post-modern models - I've played with spelling and capitalization but phonetically all my phases are the same. . .)just as in my personal journey I began as a romantic and have evolved into a post-modernist.  I also like that I first capitalize Belief, then Dis, Then both - thus incorporating the notion of synthesis into the structure of the word itself. .
 

 
2. I lost my last fragment of space after going through my own personal Haliax.  It is definitely significant in some way that my spiritual descent hit rock bottom in a place called Halifax (ie Hell/ifax).
 
3. My redefining of the states of  dysBelief/Disbelief/DisBelief also connects to this  - all this defining is playing with that whole post-modern notion that we are defined by our language.  Because we use certain words to relate to our "reality" words ultimately define our reality for us, in a sense then words make reality and if we wish to alter reality we must make/remake/redifine words.  By altering text, we alter context. . .(text is at the root of context after all!)
 
 4.  Is it just me or is there an etymological connection between deride and Derrida?
 
 
 5.  In Samurai Pizza Cats terms, instead of Bad Bird turning into Good Bird, we have Good Bird turning into Better Bird! (perhaps Ambivolent Bird?)
 
 
 6.  Callisto is a recurring villain on Herc and Xena - she's a psychotic, homicidal, self-destructive warrior bitch from hell who was transformed into a goddess by eating ambrosia - she has an affinity with fire as the root of her psychoses is the fact that Xena, before she "turned into good bird", and when Callisto was only a child, torched her village and barbecued her family. - hmmm  perhaps Callisto may be a more appropriate name for Sylvia, I was thinking of Sylvia Plath of course but the whole thing with Callisto becoming a "monster goddess" who can't die despite her self-destructive impulses (though she did appear to die at the end of last season. ..)  and thus takes it out on everything and everyone around her is a pretty good parallel to my demon I think. .
 
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