The Octogon

The Octogon

John Bjarne Grover

The article discusses the idea that the 'octogon stories' 1977-82 could have been contructed for lending much global weight to the concept of 'entertainment' that could be associated with it.

The Octogon was 8-9 stories of triangular character in the period 1977-1982. It is possible that these had been prepared via the official parents throughout my life - and I have fancied that the real principle could be a swap function from e.g. the 'secret intelligences' (or something like that) with me - so that 8 hypothetical transgressions in the form of child abuse in the critical phases of my development (bodily, psychologically, socially) in the years up to own authority at 18 would swap around on these 8 cases of triangular character wherein I would be in the role of the third part who intruded in an improper manner into the institution of marriage or established sexual relations (mates). The principle would be defined by 'penis-inside-vagina' as significant of the overstep - it would correspond to the theory that cortical fissures in the brain are bridged when the electricity-carried information impulse ferries across it by paradoxical convention or institution rather than going around the fjord from cell to cell - then the stability of knowledge in the society is held intact by the marital institution and if an alien third intrudes it can lead to chaos of knowledge. (This understanding of marriage looks perhaps a little outdated today but was probably planned to be a part of the 'cognitive revolution' from the 1950's - with the ideas of 'recursion' in language etc). For the secret intelligences (or whoever were involved) these 8-9 stories could have been planned to be a tool for manipulating opinion and creating power.

'He pulled the drawer' could be the story of me pulling the bedside table of Grøver/'Mengele' in the late 60's: Why did I pull it? It is well possible that they had made some intrigue for making me do it - and hence the force in my right hand that pulled the drawer was conducted by the intrigue from the 'services'. Writing with a 'blyant' = 'pencil' could be to 'pull the drawer'.

If e.g. John F.Kennedy masturbated on my brain in july 1957, there exists the mythos that his ejaculation went too high and above my exposed brain - 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' and things like that - and there was not enough time to repeat it. They could have used a teaspoon to collect it from the floor and pour it onto my brain. If this were the story, the mistake could have been felt as quite disastrous for the planned global power project. One can construct the theory that Kennedy before he exited in 1963 planned 6 brave expeditions to the 'moon' - only one of these failed, the other five hopped around up there with much admiration and glory from the global attention. This could even have been constructed for repairing the failure when it went across - one went across but 5 succeeded. If this should be the story, then the global attention to the 'entertainment' would have been quite extensive.

In 1970-71 the family lived in 'Kongensgate 8' in Fredrikstad - 'kongen ska te 8' = 'the king must to 8'.

The year 1975 started with a disease 'mononucleosis' that can be seen to be the name of my first girlfriend 'Mona Arnesen', while the second disease some weeks later was 'throat abscess' which could be the name of the second girlfriend 'Mai Kosberg' in the sense of the self-sucking ('gape-nes') which I probably had been lured into in the autumn 1971. It could correspond to the woman in the window of the 'wigwam'. (How they made this I have not yet had confirmed - one theory is that my elder sister could have been replaced with a copy in the spring 1971 while my best friend was called Roy Andersen - but this is likely to be just modern mythology - another theory could suggest that they used much 'g-words' for making the 'gape-nes' - see below). 'Mona Amesen' would then mean also the leftsided gynaecomastia. A throat abscess is easy to take with antibiotics, but maybe they did not have any antibiotics or whatever was the reason, they could not get the throat abscess down - and therefore Grøver/'Mengele' drove me in to Oslo to a specialist in a private suburban basement - he tried to open the abscess with his tools but did not succeed - this torture lasted for some time before he had to give up. The name of the third or fourth girlfriend was 'Mette Krøtøe' which could have meant this story - in the interpretation 'satiated through with tortoise'. A fourth or rather third girlfriend 'Erna Hauge' always kept her underpants on, could be she had planned to marry - I dont remember if this was before or after Mette - probably before. (I did not get my doctorate degree in 1998 so I was left with my MA).

By the Eisenhower doctrine, which even could have been published for leaking the names of the project as early as 1957 before I was born, it can be guessed that the octogon was a program of global extension. If the females of the octogon generally were a generation or so older than me, a certain 'cougar' role could be included - possibly the idea of hanging the young man upside down from the ceiling for a tapping (how?) of collected 'sperm' (as from a PTRSIM PIK since the times of Jesus) - and this posture or tapping act could perhaps be another variant of 'enter-tain-ment'. I do not suspect any of them of having done that with me - but the idea could attach to a generation gap. I here list the relevant names and discuss their possible relation to the concept of 'entertainment':

Intro - 'Laila'. She was the girlfriend of my friend and classmate 'Trygve Tveterås' - her origin was a little mysterious - I think she came from another town - there was a party in the home of 'Junne', another classmate, in the Old Town in late 1973 (if not early 1974), and Laila pulled me by the arm to go for a walk with her in the winter moonlight. We went down on 'vollane', the mounds surrounding the old town, and she opened my fly and try to get my penis up but it was not willing. After some minutes Tveterås appeared on the mound above us - as if drawn to the place by some inner magic. She had manipulated my organ but it was quite unsuccessfully. I have guessed that this could have counted as a test - if I were willing to enter into such a triangular story they could run the program, otherwise the year 1975 would be used to soften me enough for the collaboration anyhow. The manipulation had been at the waterside on the mounds just on the other side of the house to Inger Johanne Apenes (the old mother of MP Georg Apenes - cp. 'g-or[d] gape-nes') who was murdered by a knife in the night to 6 may 1978 - when I was to a party in the house next door and Aldo Moro was found dead in the back of a car in Rome I think 3 days later. A bad sense of the word 'enter-tainment' is this story of the old mother. (Tveterås not long after we had become acquainted in school in the autumn 1973 sent me a folded paper - from hand to hand through the class - wherein he called himself 'Heartbreaker'. I think it had text outside 'This side up', 'Use no hooks').

I - 'Karen Anne Axelsen' (later changed to 'Tulla Elieson' - could be the first form was 'Anne Karen' which is more natural for a name). She and her mate (could be they later married?) Terje Resell later built a house at Vaterland on the lower side of the Old Town, just down from the mounds where Laila had taken me, or rather from where the high school party had been. Their house was next to 'Movig-Gården' of Terje Westfoss - could be this is why I associated Westfoss with Karen Abdul Qassem, once state chief of Iraq: That was probably a farfetched association but the names are suggestive. 'Tulla Elieson' suggests 'joked/jested [about] a liaison'. I have not been able to guess a related identity to hers. 'Axelsen Anne Karen' could perhaps mean 'enter-t-ain-men-t'.

II - 'Tordis Skjærven Søderlind' (she had been married to Ragnar Søderlind) - the name seems to be the undertext of many if not all of the poetic lines which Anne Sexton wrote. She was from Boston, like Sylvia Plath. The S derlinds were separated when I spent a night with her.

III - 'Jette Råboe [or 'Raabo'?] Larsen' (married to a 'Reinvang') - she was a danish librarian and the first of the 8 stories (after 'Laila'). I had returned from Haugsvik in the summer 1977 and looked for a job in the Fredrikstad district and got a temp job as library assistant in the music department at the library where she was the librarian. She had been married to a brain surgeon called Reinvang at Sunaas hospital at Oslo (where later FM Johan Jørgen Holst was treated after he had been shot by an intruder) - they were separated and she claimed that another woman had already moved into her once bed. The divorce papers would come any day, she later told me. If there were some pushing I dont remember, but the relation did not start before my official mother had entered the music department before opening time in the morning for some errand - knocking on the door, being let in by me. I then lived in the old house of Rekustad next to Simon Walther Hauge - it was an old wooden farmhouse with a kitchen tap with cold water and little insulation. In the winter 1977-78 I had moved over to her but had to take a look at the house now and then - once I came there the kitchen floor had been soaked with water that had frozen to ice and the kitchen tap and sink was full of ice. (In those days the winters were long and cold - nowadays there is not much left of that). This was after the Modern Language Review of october 1977 had its first title "A new Reynold - Milnes letter: Were there two meetings between Keats and Coleridge? By Donald Lange". Raino Malnes had been in another class at Frydenberg High School - and the 'kitchen coldrinse' looks very relevant to the leak in the old house of Rekustad. A house flooded with water - that sounds like the program on the chinese emperor - as if by 'recursion' = 'Rekustad'. Could Jette be associated with Janis Joplin - or would it at most have been about a 'danish doubling'? (See 2nd - Jacobson - and 2nd last - Reid - article titles of MLR july 1977). There are not much reason to believe that it was the same person but clearly the element of 'entertainment' could be present in some story elements. The house that had been flooded for some days or even weeks later needed to have its bottom carrying wooden beam (at least at the kitchen side) replaced (or maybe the new owner chose to renew the whole house) - that beam would have been about the 'entertainment' of the house. I dont remember if it were me - my right arm and hand - that 'pulled the drawer' or rather turned the kitchen tap when the pipes were frozen - then there would have come no water but I suppose I would have closed it again - or if somebody else could have done it. If the termperature rose the water could then have started running untill it froze again. I suppose that if this element had high priority in the construction, if I had not opened it somebody else could have done it. I dont suspect Raino Malnes, though. If the house in Szolnok is supposed to collapse because of water in the adobe, the question will be if the water came from pipes hidden inside the walls or if it could have come into the wall from a badly maintained roof gutter at the eaves: Such 'rain water' at the 'wall' = 'vang' could be suggestive of the name of her husband.

IV - 'Ayo Jardar' (a dane married to a 'Jardar') - there are arguably traces of this name in some of the lyrics of Jimi Hendrix ('axis of the heart' and things like that). (For a little more extensive discussion, see the end of this file). That is entertainment. Her husband worked at the school called 'Åttekanten' = 'the Octogon' on the archipelago Hvaler outside Fredrikstad. She had left him - I think they were separated - when we met in the Old Town.

V - 'Kirsten Ribu' - her mother was TV news presenter in the one and only channel that existed in those days and her uncle was prime minister Trygve Bratteli. No sooner had we met, he published his memoirs 'Prisoner in night and fog'. Her cousin, daughter of the PM, was Marianne Bratteli, a wellknown artist represented in the national gallery and things like that. Marianne was a catholic and had decided to leave it all behind and go for a life in a french monastery - I was to her goodbye party - but she returned some weeks or months later, having been forced to give up the project. 'Dream Orison' it could be called - it was butte dream. If so, then the mother news presenter could have been in a role of a 'J morsom'? It is perhaps possible to see traces of the name of Jim Morrison (of the music group 'The Doors') in this story. 'Dås[e]' means 'box', sometimes it means 'vagina'. Kirsten had been married to a bulgarian illustrator whose married status was essential for his residence permit, if I got it right - they had been married for a while in her flat when she wanted to leave him but he did not want to move away from her flat, I think this was the situation when we met.

VI - It is possible that this #6 is supposed to be me, the '666'. I had been with Wenche Stray in late 1981 and early 1982 when it occurred to me that a story with Herdis Eggen (see VIII below) could not be avoided. After the story with Eggen was over I contacted Stray again - the reason should have been that I had not really intended to break off the relation - when I arrived to her flat there were two cups on the table and I got the chance to understand that there could be a third person - who turned out to be an american dancer called 'Lee'. I later contacted him for presenting my apologies and he said he had been in the same situation. Could be the story is that element VI is 'me' - 'a marry can dancer'? I had met Stray on 'Club 7' when she said 'Skal vi danse?' = 'shall we dance', 'would you like to dance'? ('Skall[e]-vi[d]' = 'broad skull'). She was educated carpenter but later took an education in psychology - I once met her in an Oslo street when she was on her way to an educational skull opening - to see the brain they otherwise studied academically.

VII - 'Tonje Kolle' (married to Per Aanonsen - I think they were married - I was in fact not totally certain of her family name but if they were married it could have been 'Aanonsen', I thought, but later got it updated to 'Kolle') - this name could mean the 'Ton' and the 'J onanism' for the water at Rekustad - or hypothetically in the adobe walls of a house. She does or did in fact resemble Sylvia Plath somewhat - Plath's poetry seems to encode this name in its poetic lines. If the whole octogon were about Ted Hughes as the queen's entertainer in the role of poet laureate, then it could be the most important name. There was a very brief sexual intercourse with her - I was not really interested but she waved my pocket knife (how did she get hold of it?) which she would not give back to me unless I agreed to a sexual intercourse. This was probably not so long after the murder of Inger Johanne Apenes.

VIII - 'Herdis Eggen' (married to Torleif Grue) - is daughter of a wellknown norwegian poet Arnljot Eggen. The idea that Herdis was away for a while when Saul Bellow was rebuilt for a while and took her place as a copy for some months is of course somewhat farfetched - but the idea is of course possible. (See 2nd - Lawton - and 2nd last - White - article titles of MLR october 1981). I remember that she told me that she had a sister called Hjørdis. Bellow's 'Bellarosa connection' was published in 1989, one year before the second Gulf war broke out - there was a white spot on my 'penis-root of connection' which seems to have been the possible clue to the two Gulf wars. But he seemed to have intimate knowledge of things which other people had not - of course there could have been surveillance there. Once she refused to leave and I had to grab her by the arm and lead her to the door ('en dør tain-ment'?) - the next time she had blue marks on the arm and claimed that they came from pressure from me, which I doubt. 'He had a firm grip on the situation', writes Bellow. What sort of 'soul below'? An dirt ainment? There is also this idea of a body under an adobe house - an old emperor? But to believe that Bellow was off in rebuilt form to Oslo for some months while Eggen was away for some other errand is probably to take it a little far - the idea is rather something that could have been used for the marketing of Bellow's book, of course. There is more about this in the article 'Is there a new Mussolini in the making?'

IX - 'Ellen Berger' (married to Pål Danielsen) - the idea that she could have been a rebuilt Marianne Craig Moore in that single night when I knew her is possible from that point of view - see the same article 'Is there a new Mussolini in the making?' for some further details. (See 2nd last - Kalinke - and 2nd - Hunt - article titles of MLR october 1979). There was also a burglary in my house in Szolnok - a burglar entered and carried out some values and left with them.

Conclusion: It is not impossible that the entire 'octogon' story or 'project' (if organized) in the years 1977-82 was centered around the concept of 'entertainment', in which case it is not impossible that Ted Hughes (husband of Sylvia Plath - see VII) could be considered the peak of importance there - as the selected entertainer of the monarch of England in his later role as poet laureate. He was poet laureate when I sent my application with the poem 'La corona' to the norwegian research council - and princess Diana died.

The discussion is continued somewhat in this file.

(There is also some old material in this file - I dont think it is very interesting and I believed that I had deleted it but found it here again attached to this file on 13 may 2024)