one calm morning

From the calm morning, the end will come
When of the dancing horse
the number of circles will be 9

um what?

«The command of language thus becomes the command itself. The
deterritorialization at the hands of language flows not from trainer
to pokémon, but from pokémon to trainer. As the trainer invokes the
deterritorialized subject, he or she, too, participates in the
linguistic community of the pokémon. The trainer does not so much have
to speak the language of the pokémon, for, "It is certainly not by
using a minor language as a dialect, by regionalizing or ghettoizing,
that one becomes revolutionary; rather by using a number of minority
elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific,
unforeseen, autonomous becoming" (D+G 106). The trainer only has to
employ the deterritorialized/deterritorializing refrain of the
pokémon's name to become something new. The invocation of the pokémon
brings about a combination of parts—the trainer's autonomy is
compromised through both the assemblage and the use of the alien
tongue. The logic of this deterritorialization is paralleled in the
way that the trainer uses the pokémon to achieve specific ends. The
trainer invokes one of several pokémon based on its particular
functions. A water pokémon is good against a fire pokémon, an insect
pokémon is good against a plant pokémon, a plant pokémon is good
against electric pokémon, etc.» --
http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/pikachu.html

proof of the doctrine

«He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly
the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as
He walked.» -- John 2:4-6

paul kemp & co.

«I found out then that writing is a kind of therapy. One of the few
ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting
down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about
it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to
grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very
intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.» -
Hunter Thompson

one man's preface

from CAPTIVE WORDS by MUSTAPHA KHAYATI
Preface to a Situationist Dictionary

«Our dictionary will be a sort of code book enabling one to decipher
the news and rend the ideological veils that cover reality. We will
give possible translations that will enable people to grasp the
different aspects of the society of the spectacle, and show how the
slightest signs and indications contribute to maintaining it. In a
sense it will be a bilingual dictionary, since each word has an
"ideological" meaning for power and a real meaning that we think
corresponds to real life in the present historical phase. Thus we will
be able at each step to determine the various positions of words in
the social war. If the problem of ideology is how to descend from the
heaven of ideas to the real world, our dictionary will be a
contribution to the elaboration of the new revolutionary theory where
the problem is how to effect the transition from language to life. The
real appropriation of the words that work cannot be realized outside
the appropriation of work itself. The inauguration of free creative
activity will at the same time be the inauguration of true
communication, freed at last. The transparency of human relations will
replace the poverty of words under the old regime of opacity. Words
will not cease to work until people do.»

lost art

"What's happening there?" he asked.

"It's a time in the future," I said, "when law and order breaks down."

He studied it for a while then turned to me with a concerned, knowing look.

" Frightening." he said.

-- http://www.lostartofahpook.com/books-observed-while-falling.html

early Sunday morning

«However one answers this question [of how individuals secede from
habit, making themselves and their worlds more explicit] one thing is
clear: it is only in this separation that the human in advanced
civilization discovers itself as the animal that is split, mirrored
and placed beside itself, that cannot remain as it was. Difference
within humans is now primed as difference between humans. It divides
'societies' into classes of which the theorists of class `society'
know nothing. The upper class comprises those who hear the imperative
that catapults them out of their old life, and the other classes all
those who have never heard or seen any trace of it -- normally people
who are quick to admire, and thus make it clear that higher efforts
can exclusively be a matter for the admired, but certainly not the
admirers.» --Peter Sloterdijk, "Cur Homo Artista: On the ease of the
improbable", page 191 of "You Must Change Your Life"

Fwd: a swampwater vision of månifest destiny

Or, a view of our great nation from right angles:

OFFGASSING

SCUM
STAGNATION OOZING
SEDIMENTATION