Such “information is the prosthesis that props up the obsolete body” … “gathering it satisfies the body’s outmoded Pleistocene program.” The immolated animal is never a wild animal. The soiled asses of “angels” touch my lips. “You love, I love, he love, she love. What does all this loving make?” A, B, C. 11 ounces, 13 ounces, 11 ounces. All well under the bell curve of 20 weeks. At the same moment as what, workers in yellow jumpsuits with badges on their shoulders trot among yellow buildings as yellow cars hum along pine-lined roads. Yellow “promotes clear thinking.” Inside the compound’s windowless factories, an army of (yes, yellow) robots works 24/7. “On a factory floor as big as a football field you might see four people. It's basically just robots reproducing themselves.” Boys: a little green arrow pointing at their balls. This is where nomads fall into the play
that’s one paragraph / the performance is something else and this is where huge pine a quarter-mile off floats. So that’s a uterus! Protesters have entered Lewisham Town Hall. We know only through our bodies, but we don’t know how our bodies know. This is where they have concentrated you. Light coming into sky above black plane / of ridge, silver of planet next to leaf / in foreground, wave sounding in channel: light coming … sounding in channel. So why don’t we get going – we have a well-financed lack
of our own self-importance. Psychic powers look for a cardiopuscular elective compulsion. To paint a sheet of cardboard blue. To join thousands of others. To hold it overhead. To turn a dry gulch into a raging river. Species means guilt. They blindfold you and toys come out. Unquote comma, a giant painted Buddha / / his hands that look / like feet / / his feet / gargantuan. A, B, or C? SMELLS LIKE BACK OF
OLD HOT RADIO. “Relax, stand at attention, and. Purple snake stands out on Porcelain tiles.” “How many of these bicycles could J. Paul Getty buy?” “I stepped into the Hybrid Zone and drew the Ace of Diamonds.” Who wants to live in a place where transdimensional spaceworms can appear in the sky and blast superheated steam straight down onto innocent earthlings? Henceforth, a “state of emergency” … inexplicable … we went to the laundromat down the street and dried about 10 garbage bags of laundry … any really you want go to mixed on me. These pictures appeared on the websites of the most important daily papers. It goes without saying that, whatever will happen, we’re proud of what our novel is doing in the streets. Omnia sunt communia! Give him a minute with a road map and he will solve the mystery of bloodshot eyes. It all boils down to praxis, people.
To take the elements of music and “use them all with equal importance,” rather than subordinating some to others, was nothing less than “a spiritual and democratic attitude toward the
world.” Stockhausen would no more subordinate musical parts to the whole than he would sacrifice individual lives to an abstract cause, or expropriate one person’s labor for the benefit of another. For Stockhausen,
the emancipation of musical dissonance is, at a formal level, a kind of parallel to the emancipation of the oppressed in the world. It doesn't actually free anyone, of course, but love’s a terror, in town and out of town too.
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