PREFACE vii
As lateral means to a dramatic end, my early solo initiatives of What Happens When Your Mind Goes Blank? and the Privattheater trilogy came to define a singular and strangely coherent project, providing material and direction for all subsequent collaboration. Primarily, this meant leading Psychological Art Circus to create a body of theatrical work guided by the three seers Anna O., Olive Pixley, and in Illusions of Reference, the Oracle, Pythia; after which, I began to discern the structure presented herein, a framework for the creation of one final act, a conceptual three-ring circus inspired by a sustained exploration into the troubadour turned Trinitarian Ramon Llull and alchemic pseudo-Ramon.
W. L.
Shanghai,
April, 2025.