Hypnerotomachia II

Hypnerotomachia II follows two travellers through mire and cloister, across ruins, crypts, and gardens where rooms answer rooms and vows take warmth. Time loosens from line into spiral as the present deepens. In these pages, what lies low is washed, what is scattered gathers, and will is tried like ore, tempered, then given durable shape in charter and chant. The book moves between contemplative travel writing and symbolic meditation. Monastic history, ritual architecture, and the disciplines of attention become a vessel for quiet metamorphosis. The narrative lets a veiled witness speak about thresholds where law touches love and does not burn, where a house for souls rises against the empires of noise. Read as a traveller; keep what is given. The dream returns us to the beginning, and none returns the same. Hypnerotomachia II can be read on its own or as a companion in an unfolding cycle.