Madarch-Adain
Madarch-Adain (2004—2005) is an unfinished pan-flash of pure-Perl idiosyncracy and jargon’s wit, implementing an over-complex, brain-addling Content Management System (CMS). It doesn’t work; and ne’er shall, given its author‘s processional, professional work on more communal, capably robust systems — e.g., Oddmuse.
That aside: Madarch-Adain is authored by Leyli Cecil; licensed under the GNU General Public License; and publicly, freely downloadable (such as it non-working is):
Madarch-Adain is, at present, unfinished; and, given its roiled code-welts and unhealed, sanity-chipping complexities, is likely to remain that way.
It remains an example of what can — but, generally, should not — be done “against the grain.” Dominant loneliness, liquid stretches of excess time, and fractal, flaying, self-reflectively infinite house of introvert’s mirrors, which are the introverts’ delight, were props its author used to cart this carping Science from.
Computer Science is a hall of glassy pageantry! Narcissus, in thrall, indwells there; Cassandra looks and, looking, lavishes us to look in there! But scions of wet, unmingled brightness — we, human and feebly heaven-lit — mustn’t linger there.
Computer Science is a hall of glassy pageantry: and Leyli Cecil, its author, succumbed.
The word madarch is Welsh for “mushroom”; the word adain is Welsh for “wing” or “pinion”. Thus, the composite Madarch-Adain could be (mis)construed as:
The winged mushroom.