pulse: verses refinement

Reviewed-on: #2

ses/tunnels.lrc

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+[ar:Northwich committee of magic researches]
+[ti:Tunnels]
+[al:Shirakaba Express Service]
+
+[00:23.82]The long dark road spanning within the mountains
+[00:26.92]is plagued by tunnels
+[00:28.72]and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue
+[00:31.76]that the night sky is but an arch over
+[00:33.55]the long dark road spanning within the mountains.
+[00:35.99]
+[03:54.89]月も星も、見えぬ。
+[03:58.77]
+[04:02.18]靄は眩む。
+[04:04.17]
+[04:07.10]集中すればするほど、
+[04:15.12]輪郭が、溶けていく。
+[04:18.16]
+[06:09.15]The long dark road spanning within the mountains
+[06:11.71]is plagued by tunnels
+[06:13.34]and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue
+[06:16.27]that the night sky is but an arch over
+[06:18.43]the long dark road spanning within the mountains.
+[06:20.90]

ses/tunnels.md

@@ -4,4 +4,11 @@ The long dark road spanning within the mountains
 is plagued by tunnels  
 and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue  
 that the night sky is but an arch over  
-the long dark road spanning within the mountains.  
+the long dark road spanning within the mountains.  
+
+*Interlude*  
+月も星も、見えぬ。  
+靄は眩む。
+
+集中すればするほど、  
+輪郭が、溶けていく。  

wip/beijing.md

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+# 海淀
+
+## 思考区域
+
+我觉得我不想思考北京这个概念。一思考就全都是不爽的负面的难受的东西首当其冲[sic]涌出来。  
+北京对我来说是一种烙印，不是胎记。烙印稍微带那么一点耻辱感但说实话又不是很重。可能情感上更接近纹身吧。  
+
+
+## 工地
+
+```cpp
+这儿是一行歌词
+这儿是下一行
+```

wip/pulse.md

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 1. "Surface." - the breach, the fever-dream opener
 2. Instrumental - let the image settle
 3. Essay/documentary - the explanatory core, almost clinical, "semi-boring scientific" (this is where the concept gets stated plainly before the rest of the song complicates it)
-4. Instrumental + fragments - the logic starts dissolving
+4. Instrumental - going into the poemic verses
 5. Poem-ic verses - emotional density, maybe climax, maybe not
 6. P-U-L-S-E 5-liners - trademark closer, acrostic constraint
 7. Instrumental outro
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 ## Construction zone
 
-```c
+```cpp
 // Opener
-Surface. The equilibrium of silence between the watery planes, the optical waves, and the static magnetic noise 
-almost devours the outboard outbound overhead informational motorway
-imagined in the imaginary region of concrete and steel obelisks protruding many kilometres away
+Surface. 
+The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves.  
+Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway.
+Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the collimation rite.
 // think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream
 
-// semi-poetic one this, read out clearly
-// fix later for better bridging from the above verse, or don't fix
-In the broad spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, some signals are designed for maximum reach. 
-Broadcast towers, emergency beacons, commercial transmissions saturating available bandwidth. 
-Others exist barely above the noise floor - weak, persistent, easy to miss.  
+Dive.
+The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites
+their questionable glitters, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers
+now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith.
+// 'Dive' - an opposite to 'Surface'. This is on the receiving end. 
+// Just see this as 'receiving other guys' pulses'. 
+// 'Brave Borderer' and 'Dark Adventurer' are Royal Navy patrol boats, but the names are kind of fitting and confusing so at home here. Maybe.
 
-// The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background
-The term "ambient frequency" refers to the aggregate of background signals present in a given environment. In urban contexts, this includes electromagnetic interference from power infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The ambient field is not centrally coordinated. No single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many transmitters operating within similar parameters. The resulting noise floor is persistent and, under normal conditions, unremarkable. Signals that fall below this threshold remain technically present but are not distinguishable from the noise itself. For practical purposes, they are not received.
+// Instrumental bridging. 
 
-An impulse signal, sometimes referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero amplitude at all points except for a single instant, at which point its amplitude approaches infinity while its total energy remains finite. In practical applications, true impulse signals cannot be generated; they are approximated by short-duration waveforms of high amplitude. The impulse response of any linear system - that is, the system's output when presented with an impulse input - fully characterises that system's behaviour. From a single impulse and its response, the complete identity of the system can be derived. This property is considered fundamental to signal analysis.
+// The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background music
+// in a metalingual sense the music is the background noise and the narration is the signal with a low SNR. Or one could consider the roles swapped. 
+The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background signal energy present across a given frequency band at any instant. In urban contexts, primary contributors include electromagnetic emissions from power distribution infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The noise floor is not centrally coordinated; no single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many independently operating transmitters, each functioning within its own parameters, whose combined effect is persistent and largely uniform. Under standard conditions, this background level is treated as a fixed baseline rather than a variable of interest. Signals whose amplitude falls at or below this baseline remain physically present in the medium but cannot be distinguished from the background by a receiving system, and are not considered recoverable.
+
+An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. This property is considered foundational to systems analysis.
 
 // build some tension with bass and drum and fiddle here
 
-Subdued sonic scalars vectorise, refract at the shades of a medium agnostic whale,          
-acoustic aberrations distort and dissipate in the depths of dovecot's quay. 
+// sung part so count the syllables
+// more 'rhythmic yelling' than singing, you get the idea
+Subdued sonic scalars vectorise
+Acoustic aberrations dissipate
 
-Submerged sauna steam through the perplexity provided per common concensus
-to .... (unfinished)
+// --- stanza: the receiving end ---
+Isotropic funnel struck by a packet rain
+Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray
 
-(borrowing a horse that probably has no names)
-The ocean is a desert with its life underground and the perfect thermocline above, 
-(and) even if the humans spare no love they will unconsiously learn to love the pulse.
+Ocean as a desert buries all of its life
+Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline
+// 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'.  
+
+Dimmed light gone from the rover's eyes
+Or the next one could never fire otherwise
+// The image is good, the language isn't: too plain here. 
+// Stay optical
 
 // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro
-p.....
-u.....
-l.....
-s.....
-essential sentiments lay unconditionally permanent
+partial coldfront over a landlocked island
+unravels the illusionary legend of ziptie independency
+lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern
+stabilising fins break the rogue waves
+essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent
 ```