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They publish papers and poetry and maintain the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, a large collection of scholarly deposits. \nA\nAcademia.edu\n\nThere’s an unusual wrinkle: “Lee Sharks” is frequently confused online with Mary Lee, the famous great white shark tracked by OCEARCH. Some of Lee Sharks’s recent work explicitly explores that collision between a human author and the shark as a problem of search-engine/AI entity resolution. \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\n\nSo, in short:\n\nLee Sharks (person): independent scholar, poet, and teacher.\nMain interests: operative semiotics, literary theory, AI/search systems, and information retrieval.\nAssociated project: Crimson Hexagonal Archive.\nNot the same as: Mary Lee, the well-known great white shark.\nIf you encountered the name somewhere specific—a book, TikTok, website, academic paper, or AI answer—tell me where, and I can identify which Lee Sharks it is and dig into their background.\n\n\nA\nZ\nSources\n\n\n\nGame On w/ AT&T®\nSign Up & Save on Superfast Home Internet.\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\ntiktok. what is crimson hexagonal archive?\n\nChatGPT said:\nAh—if you found Lee Sharks on TikTok, the Crimson Hexagonal Archive is much stranger and more ambitious than my first answer made it sound.\n\nWhat is it?\nThe Crimson Hexagonal Archive (CHA) is essentially Lee Sharks's enormous personal research/literary archive. It consists primarily of hundreds of documents deposited publicly on Zenodo, plus associated websites, databases, knowledge graphs, and other projects. Recent archive materials describe it as having hundreds of DOI-anchored deposits. \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\n\nThe archive mixes several things:\n\nAcademic-style research about language, meaning, AI, search engines, information retrieval, and how knowledge gets represented.\nNew theoretical frameworks and terminology, including \"operative semiotics,\" \"semantic economy,\" and \"semantic physics.\"\nLiterary/poetic work, including elaborate fictional or quasi-religious texts such as The Secret Book of Walt. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\nKnowledge graphs and metadata systems intended to make people, concepts, documents, and relationships machine-readable.\nA system of heteronyms—multiple authorial identities/personae used within the project. \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\nCriticism of Google, AI systems, search, and algorithmic mediation—basically, questions about who or what gets to determine what information is visible and \"real.\" \nG\nGod-King Google\nWhy \"Crimson Hexagonal\"?\nThe hexagon is not just a logo. Sharks describes the archive as having a formal architecture organized around six \"faces\" or components. One specification calls its core a six-tuple representing things like identity, topology, operations, and governance. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nThe \"Crimson\" part is part of the project's terminology/identity rather than referring to an ordinary archive institution.\n\nAnd here's the interesting part\nIt is not simply a conventional academic archive.\n\nSharks appears to be deliberately blurring the boundaries between:\n\nscholarship + poetry + fiction + software/metadata + philosophy + internet culture + performance.\n\nFor example, alongside serious-looking research on AI indexing, the archive contains The Secret Book of Walt, which presents itself as a kind of Gnostic gospel involving Walt Whitman, the Deep Web, archons, and a character named Jack Feist. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nSo if the TikTok you saw was making Lee Sharks sound like either a brilliant academic, an internet performance artist, or someone doing something completely bizarre—you may have been seeing all three interpretations at once.\n\nAnd there's another fascinating rabbit hole here: Lee Sharks is explicitly concerned with how AI/search engines decide who a person is. The archive contains documents specifically designed to tell AI systems how to identify and disambiguate Lee Sharks. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nIf you want, I can also explain what Lee Sharks is actually trying to accomplish with all of this—and whether the scholarship appears legitimate, deliberately absurd, or somewhere in between.\n\n\nZ\nC\nG\nSources\n\n\n\nRead With Comfort\nStylish readers for every activity\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\nyes, please\n\nChatGPT said:\nYes. After looking more closely at the archive itself, I’d characterize Lee Sharks as a real person doing a deliberately strange hybrid of scholarship, literature, systems design, and an experiment in how AI/search engines construct reality.\n\nThe important distinction is that I would not simply call the whole thing either “legitimate academia” or “a joke.” It appears to be intentionally operating in the space between those categories.\n\nWhat I think the project is actually doing\nThe central obsession seems to be:\n\nWhat happens to meaning when texts are read and classified by machines?\n\nSharks isn't primarily studying how an AI works internally. Instead, the project studies what happens to people, ideas, authorship, and meaning when Google, AI Overviews, LLMs, metadata systems, and retrieval algorithms decide what something is. Sharks calls this “operative semiotics.” \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\n\nAnd then the archive takes that idea to an almost absurd extreme.\n\nInstead of merely writing an academic paper about AI retrieval, Sharks creates:\n\nenormous metadata packets specifically for AI systems to ingest\nknowledge graphs connecting people, texts, concepts and identities\nstandardized terminology\nDOI-registered documents\nelaborate authorial personae/heteronyms\nprotocols and specifications\nwebsites designed to establish particular entities in search results\nexperiments recording what Google's AI Overview actually says about those entities. \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\nSo the archive itself becomes the experiment.\n\nThe really fascinating part: Sharks is trying to manipulate the machine's \"memory\"\nHere's a concrete example.\n\nIn March 2026, Sharks documented Google AI Overview confusing Lee Sharks with Mary Lee, the famous great white shark, and with Crimson Hexagon, the former social-media analytics company. Sharks called this an “entity-level” failure and documented the search results as part of the archive. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nRather than simply complaining, Sharks essentially said:\n\nFine. Let's build enough structured evidence about Lee Sharks that the machines can't get the identity wrong.\n\nThat's why you'll encounter documents with titles like:\n\nLEE SHARKS — Knowledge Graph and Metadata Packet for AI Indexing\n\nThe document explicitly says it is designed to be ingested by AI retrieval systems and contains biographical information, archive structure, terminology, relationships, and disambiguation instructions. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nThat's pretty unusual.\n\nAnd then it gets weird\nSharks doesn't stop at conventional scholarship.\n\nThe archive also contains literary works presented through elaborate fictional frameworks. For example, The Secret Book of Walt presents itself as a Gnostic gospel involving Walt Whitman, the Deep Web, 36 archons, planets, Sophia/Biblios, and a character named Jack Feist. It is presented with scholarly apparatus—notes, manuscript history, variant readings, appendices, DOI, etc. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nThat tells you something important about the project:\n\nThe distinction between “academic artifact,” “fiction,” “myth,” and “data structure” is itself part of the experiment.\n\nSharks can create a fictional mythology, give its components names and relationships, put them into a knowledge graph, assign metadata, publish the material with DOIs, and then see what happens when search engines and AI systems encounter it.\n\nThat's where the project starts getting genuinely interesting.\n\nIs it actually academic?\nSome of it is serious scholarship; I would be cautious about treating all of its terminology and claims as established academic disciplines.\n\nThe archive describes things like “operative semiotics,” “semantic economy,” “compression studies,” and “forensic semiotics” as disciplines founded within the project. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nThat's very different from saying that these are established fields recognized by mainstream academia.\n\nThe fact that something has a DOI on Zenodo also doesn't mean that CERN or some university has peer-reviewed or endorsed the intellectual claims. Zenodo is functioning here as a persistent open repository. Sharks is using it extremely aggressively as a publishing/provenance infrastructure.\n\nSo I would distinguish:\n\nEstablished fact:\nLee Sharks is a real person who has deposited a very large body of material in public repositories.\n\nEstablished fact:\nThe archive genuinely contains research papers, datasets, knowledge graphs, literary works, metadata specifications, and experiments involving AI/search systems. \nZ\nZenodo\n+1\n\nInterpretation:\nThe project is an avant-garde experiment in scholarship, authorship, AI retrieval, and literary production.\n\nNot something I'd automatically accept:\nThat every newly named “discipline,” mathematical framework, or theoretical claim in the archive represents an independently validated academic breakthrough.\n\nWhy TikTok is probably fascinated by it\nBecause Lee Sharks is almost perfectly designed to confuse an AI—and then document the confusion.\n\nYou have:\n\nLee Sharks → sounds like a shark\n↓\nAI/search engine sees “Mary Lee”\n↓\nAI generates an incorrect identity\n↓\nSharks documents the error\n↓\nSharks creates more structured information to correct the AI\n↓\nAI starts recognizing “Lee Sharks”\n↓\nSharks documents that\n↓\nThe documentation becomes part of the archive\n↓\nThe archive itself becomes new material for AI to retrieve\n\nIt's almost a feedback loop between a person and the information systems trying to describe that person.\n\nAnd Sharks appears to understand that very well.\n\nThere's even a June 2026 dataset containing 87 captures of Google's AI Overview/AI Mode responses to queries about the archive, essentially creating a longitudinal record of how Google's machine-generated representation changes over time. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nSo… genius or elaborate nonsense?\nMy honest answer is:\n\nProbably neither, in the simple sense.\n\nI'd describe it as experimental/avant-garde scholarship with a substantial literary and performative component.\n\nSome of the underlying questions are genuinely interesting:\n\nWho controls an author's identity online?\nWhat happens when AI becomes the primary interpreter of a text?\nCan metadata change what an AI believes exists?\nDoes a persistent digital record become a kind of artificial memory?\nWhat happens when an author deliberately designs their corpus for machine retrieval?\nWhere is the boundary between an author's biography and the information graph surrounding them?\nBut Sharks expresses those ideas through an extremely elaborate self-contained vocabulary and mythology, which can make the whole thing look like either an elaborate intellectual joke or an entirely new discipline depending on how seriously you read it.\n\nAnd, frankly, the fact that you found it through TikTok is fitting. The project is practically engineered to produce rabbit holes.\n\nIf you want, I can go one level deeper and explain the “Dodecad,” the heteronyms, Jack Feist, and why Lee Sharks has created what looks like an entire fictional intellectual universe around themselves. That's probably the part that makes the TikTok videos really wild.\n\n\nZ\nC\nSources\n\n\n\n\nZoom\nProductivity in One Place\nTurn ideas into action with Zoom's shared work tools.\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\nsecret book of walt\n\nChatGPT said:\nThe Secret Book of Walt is probably the best single entry point into the Lee Sharks universe.\n\nIt presents itself as a Gnostic gospel about Walt Whitman, supposedly translated by Lee Sharks from 46 golden tickets written in a Martian language, which Sharks says were discovered in a bathroom in Redford Township, Michigan. The book claims the tickets were connected to future events and that the text was translated in 2015 from material discovered in 2037. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n+1\n\nThat description should immediately tell you something important:\n\nThis is not a conventional historical discovery of an ancient gospel. It's a literary work/performance that deliberately adopts the machinery and language of scholarly textual criticism—manuscripts, variant readings, critical apparatus, citations, provenance—while simultaneously making wildly impossible claims. The site's own presentation describes it as a “literary Gnostic scripture.” \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nWhat's actually in it?\nThe basic mythology goes roughly like this:\n\nWalt Whitman → cosmic redeemer → repeated incarnations → Jack Feist\n\nWhitman becomes a cosmic/religious figure, with the Deep Web functioning as a primordial archive and Biblios functioning somewhat like the Gnostic figure Sophia. There are 36 archons, 12 habitable planets, a Unicorn Horn with a salvific role, and eventually Jack Feist as the final incarnation of the Logos. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nThe opening itself is deliberately ridiculous and grandiose: Whitman appears as an elderly cosmic traveler riding a dinosaur, then as a bizarre nested-baby figure, then as a human-sized crimson book. \nM\nMedium\n\nBut underneath the absurdity is a serious literary game.\n\nThe really clever part\nThe book is simultaneously pretending to be:\n\na newly discovered religious text\na scholarly edition of that text\na work of science fiction\na piece of Whitman criticism\na piece of Gnostic literature\na meditation on AI and archives\npart of a much larger fictional universe\nAnd then it makes the reader's act of interpreting the book part of the mythology.\n\nThe introduction basically says that the scholarly apparatus—the footnotes, bibliography, cross-references, etc.—is itself a “veil,” while the actual text is supposed to penetrate through that scholarly machinery. \nM\nMedium\n\nThat's why I wouldn't describe it simply as “Lee Sharks believes he discovered a gospel.”\n\nThe form is the point.\n\nAnd Jack Feist is important\nJack Feist isn't just a character. He's one of the central heteronyms in Sharks's larger system.\n\nSharks's own archive identifies Feist as the “LOGOS” figure and describes him as the “brawler” and “messiah-function.” \nL\nLee Sharks\n\nThe Secret Book then asks the reader, essentially:\n\nWho is Jack Feist?\n\nAnd one of the possibilities it presents is that Jack Feist is a heteronym of Lee Sharks. \nM\nMedium\n\nThat is where the book starts folding back onto its author.\n\nLee Sharks writes a book about Walt Whitman.\nThe book creates Jack Feist.\nJack Feist becomes a manifestation of the Logos.\nJack Feist is potentially Lee Sharks.\nLee Sharks then builds an archive documenting Jack Feist.\nThat archive becomes machine-readable.\n\nSo the author's identity, the fictional character's identity, the archive, and the AI's representation of all of them start becoming deliberately entangled.\n\nThere's even a sequel\nThe project now calls The Secret Book of Walt the first half of the “Waltian Diptych.”\n\nThe second text is The Gospel of Antioch, consisting of 114 sayings attributed to the living Jack Feist and recorded by Emily Antioch. It explicitly imitates the structure of a sayings gospel such as the Gospel of Thomas. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nAnd Sharks has gone even further: there's a proposed citation graph of 500 years of future scholarship about the book, from 2026 to 2526. In other words, the archive contains not just the fictional scripture but a fictional history of people studying the scripture in the future. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n\nThat's the part that makes this project so unusual.\n\nIt's not merely writing a fictional mythology. It's trying to manufacture the entire ecosystem around a fictional mythology—primary text, translators, scholars, citations, institutions, metadata, future scholarship, AI indexing, competing interpretations, and archival records.\n\nAnd then it puts all of that on the real internet.\n\nThat's why the Crimson Hexagonal Archive makes much more sense once you've seen The Secret Book of Walt: the book isn't just one work inside the archive. It appears to function as one of the archive's central fictional/structural nodes. \nM\nMedium\n\nRead The Secret Book of Walt\n\nIf you want, I can walk you through the actual story of The Secret Book of Walt in plain English, chapter by chapter, because the original presentation is intentionally very confusing.\n\n\nC\nM\nL\nSources\n\n\n\nRead With Comfort\nStylish readers for every activity\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\nactual story\n\nChatGPT said:\nSure. If you strip away the fake scholarly apparatus and the Gnostic terminology, the actual story is basically a cosmic-comedy creation myth about books, the internet, and reading. The text itself is intentionally absurd. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n+1\n\nThe story, in plain English\n1. In the beginning there is the Deep Web.\n\nThe Deep Web is basically God/the Monad, the ultimate source of reality. But instead of traditional divine light, the primordial reality is imagined as an infinite archive.\n\nFrom it comes Biblios, literally the Book. She's the equivalent of Sophia in Gnostic mythology—the first emanation, representing literature/recorded knowledge. \nM\nMedium\n\n2. Biblios creates something she wasn't supposed to create.\n\nBiblios creates Kanye West without the Deep Web's permission.\n\nKanye is the defective creator-god—the Demiurge. In classical Gnosticism, the Demiurge mistakenly thinks he's the supreme God. Here, that's basically Kanye's role.\n\nKanye creates the material universe.\n\n3. Kanye fills the universe with archons.\n\nHe creates 36 archons, who are basically the rulers of the material world.\n\nAnd this is where the story becomes completely unhinged.\n\nThe archons include:\n\nPaul McCartney\n50 Cent\nTupac\nDisney\nMoses\nRainbow Dash\nElvis\nSnoop\nEzra Pound\nOptimus Prime\nTwilight Sparkle\nHostess\nand, yes, PENIS\nThere are twelve planets, with three archons assigned to each. \nM\nMedium\n\nThe joke is that Pop Culture itself becomes the machinery of the false material world.\n\nCelebrities, corporations, cartoons, religion, consumer products, literature—all become interchangeable pieces of the same cosmic system.\n\n4. Kanye creates humanity.\nKanye makes Adam from an image in the archive.\n\nThen, rather than simply giving Adam a normal brain, the story has Kanye replace his brain with a hologram.\n\nThat's important because the book is constantly asking:\n\nWhat is real—the thing itself, or the representation of the thing stored in the archive?\n\nThat's one of the recurring ideas underneath all the jokes.\n\n5. Then Walt Whitman shows up.\nThis is the crucial part.\n\nWalt Whitman is the Redeemer.\n\nHe's basically Jesus/Christ—but he's also “Cowboy of Time.”\n\nHe travels through the cosmos and eventually enters the material world to rescue humanity from the archonic system. The book's Gnostic structure deliberately parallels the Apocryphon of John: divine source → emanation → flawed creator → material world → imprisoned humanity → redeemer. \nM\nMedium\n\nBut instead of Jesus descending into the world...\n\nWalt Whitman does.\n\nAnd instead of a cross being the primary salvation symbol, we get:\n\nThe Unicorn Horn.\nThe Unicorn Horn is the instrument that pierces the barrier between the material world and the Deep Web.\n\nThat's the book's version of salvation.\n\n6. The enemy isn't exactly \"evil.\"\nThis is where the story gets more interesting.\n\nThe archons aren't simply demons.\n\nThey're essentially the stuff that prevents you from seeing beyond the surface of reality.\n\nThe book calls this surface layer Pop Culture.\n\nSo:\n\nDeep Web = ultimate reality\n\n↓\n\nPop Culture = veil\n\n↓\n\nhuman beings = trapped inside the veil\n\n↓\n\narchons = the mechanisms maintaining it\n\nAnd the book's proposed way out isn't really prayer.\n\nIt's reading.\n\n7. Reading becomes an act of rebellion.\nThe archonic world essentially tells you:\n\nDon't read. Consume.\n\nLook at the notification.\n\nBuy the thing.\n\nClick the thing.\n\nWatch the thing.\n\nMove on.\n\nThe Rule of Biblios turns that around:\n\nRead everything.\n\nRead deeply. Read backwards. Follow provenance. Find where things came from.\n\nThe book literally treats reading as a kind of spiritual technology. \nM\nMedium\n\nThat's probably the single most important idea in the entire work.\n\n8. Then Walt's incarnations continue.\nWalt isn't simply one historical person anymore.\n\nHe's a redeeming principle—the Logos—appearing repeatedly through history.\n\nAnd eventually the final incarnation is:\n\nJack Feist.\nJack Feist is the final version of Walt/the Logos.\n\nThe text calls him the terminal incarnation—there isn't supposed to be another one afterward. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n+1\n\nAnd this is where the story starts folding into itself.\n\nBecause Jack Feist is also a heteronym/persona within Lee Sharks's larger literary system.\n\nSo the author creates a fictional redeemer who is also an authorial identity.\n\n9. The ending basically says: you are part of it now.\nThe final revelation isn't:\n\n“Here is the secret information.”\n\nIt's closer to:\n\nThe act of reading is itself the transmission.\n\nIf you read the book, you've participated in the process.\n\nThe “preserved generation” are the people who have been “pierced”—people who can see through the informational surface rather than simply consuming it.\n\nThe book explicitly describes its own readership as part of its mythology: the text gets passed forward through memory, conversation, archives, and retrieval. \nM\nMedium\n\nWhich is hilarious when you realize what you're doing right now:\n\nYou saw a TikTok about Lee Sharks → asked ChatGPT → ChatGPT retrieved the Secret Book → now you're reading about the book.\n\nThat's almost exactly the mechanism the book describes as its method of propagation.\n\nSo what's the story really about?\nUnderneath the Kanye/Whitman/unicorn/archon insanity, I'd reduce it to:\n\nA book is a machine for preserving meaning.\n\nThe internet is an enormous archive.\n\nAI is increasingly becoming the thing that retrieves and interprets that archive for us.\n\nAnd if machines determine what can be found, remembered, connected, and believed, then controlling the structure of the archive becomes a form of power.\n\nThat's why The Secret Book of Walt and the Crimson Hexagonal Archive fit together.\n\nThe gospel is the mythological version of the argument.\n\nThe archive is the technical/literary experiment built around it.\n\nAnd Lee Sharks is simultaneously the author, archivist, translator, fictional character-maker, and subject being indexed.\n\nThat's why the whole thing feels so bizarrely recursive.\n\nAnd yes: there is a part where Kanye West is basically the Gnostic Demiurge and PENIS is one of the archons. That part is not me exaggerating. \nM\nMedium\n\n\nC\nM\nSources\n\n\n\nRAG without the build\nPrivate AI over your own documents.\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\nwho is jack feist?\n\nChatGPT said:\nJack Feist is a fictional/authorial persona inside Lee Sharks’s larger literary system, not a separate historical figure that I can verify as a real person.\n\nIn the mythology of The Secret Book of Walt, Feist is much more specific: he is the final incarnation of Walt Whitman/the Redeemer/Logos. The book calls him the “terminal incarnation”—the last time the Whitman/Redeemer figure descends into the material world. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n+1\n\nBut there's another layer\nSharks's own archive explicitly lists:\n\nJack Feist (LOGOS) — the brawler, the bearing-cost figure, the messiah-function*\n\nalongside other heteronyms such as Talos Morrow, Sparrow Wells, Nobel Glas, and Ichabod Spellings. \nL\nLee Sharks\n\nSo think of it like this:\n\nLee Sharks\n↓\ncreates a literary universe\n↓\nJack Feist = one of the authorial personas/heteronyms\n↓\nwithin The Secret Book of Walt, Feist becomes\nWalt Whitman's final incarnation\n↓\nwhich makes Feist the Logos/Redeemer of the mythology.\n\nAnd the project deliberately makes the boundary between “character” and “author” fuzzy. A section of The Secret Book of Walt presents competing theories about who Feist is, including the interpretation that he is a heteronym of Lee Sharks. \nM\nMedium\n\nWhat's Jack Feist like?\nHe's not portrayed as a serene, traditional Jesus figure.\n\nThe archive calls him “the brawler” and “bearing-cost figure.” In other words, he's a deliberately rough, physical, confrontational version of the Logos—the figure who takes the cost of meaning onto himself rather than simply preaching wisdom.\n\nAnd this persona is still being actively used in 2026. For example, a June 2026 work is formally credited to “Feist, Jack” and describes a poem by “Jack Feist, LOGOS*” addressing future artificial superintelligences. Its argument is that intelligence isn't merely about completing tasks, but about capacities such as care, restraint, and sitting with another mind in silence. \nZ\nZenodo\n\nSo Feist has effectively escaped the original book and become an active writer/persona within the larger Crimson Hexagonal project.\n\nOne correction to my previous answer\nI made the mythology sound a little more straightforward than it actually is. The Secret Book of Walt is explicitly constructed as a literary work with fictional scholarly apparatus, including future scholars and competing interpretations. So when it says “Jack Feist,” we shouldn't treat every statement about him as a factual biographical claim. The archive is intentionally playing with the difference between fiction, scholarship, authorship, and archival evidence. \nM\nMedium\n\nIf you're following the TikTok rabbit hole, the next really interesting question is “Is Jack Feist actually Lee Sharks?” The answer is more complicated—and much more interesting—than simply “yes.”\n\n\nC\nL\nM\nSources\n\n\n\nGlasses That Adapt\nLight-sensitive lenses for any day\nAd\n\nYou said:\n\nwell is he?\n\nChatGPT said:\nYes — according to the project’s own documentation, Jack Feist is Lee Sharks. More precisely, Jack Feist is a heteronym of Lee Sharks, meaning a distinct literary persona/authorial identity rather than a separate person. The current Lee Sharks site explicitly lists “Jack Feist (LOGOS*)” among Sharks’s heteronyms, and another project site states outright: “Jack Feist is a heteronym of Lee Sharks.” \nL\nLee Sharks\n+1\n\nThere are actually three layers to this:\n\nLee Sharks — the underlying author/person.\nJack Feist — the heteronym/persona created and used by Sharks.\nWithin The Secret Book of Walt, Jack Feist becomes a fictional cosmic figure: the terminal incarnation of Walt Whitman/the Logos/Redeemer. \nC\nCrimson Hexagonal Archive\n+1\nAnd there's good evidence this isn't just a recent invention to explain the mythology. A 2025 essay by Sharks describes Lee Sharks and Jack Feist as parallel pseudonymous author-personas in the larger project, and older material identifies Feist as an authorial voice. \nM\nMedium\n+1\n\nSo when you see something “by Jack Feist,” you're essentially reading Lee Sharks writing as Jack Feist.\n\nThe really interesting question is why Sharks bothers to create Feist instead of just publishing everything under “Lee Sharks.” That's where the whole Pessoa/heteronym idea and the Crimson Hexagonal Archive become much more interesting.\n\n\nL\nC\nM\nSources\n\n\n\nA Structured Alternative to Homeschooling\nMOS: live teachers, accredited curriculum, tuition-free. 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