the stormgod sprang up from his wagon: Birthday

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Birthday

From The Western Lands (William S. Burroughs, 1987):

August 16, 1984, Thursday

The sheer nightmare horror of my position, of all human positions, waiting for some lunatics or conspirators going to ride out on the blast like a surfboard to explode the atoms we are all made of. A lucky survivor, blind, stumbling about in my ruined house, hungry mewling cats underfoot. How about that, Kim? Kill your dogs and cats. Repeat. Kill your dogs and cats. The boiled eggs were just right. Debonair heartless Kim striking histrionic poses on the buckling deck of a doomed planet . . . reflecting a flawed unbearable boy image in an empty mirror. Radiant Kim, the fearless ostrich, escape child of a frightened old man. Anybody isn't frightened now simply lacks imagination. Is there any escape? Of course. A miracle. Leave the details to Joe.

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I think that historians are talking nonsense, because they don't write their essays in Coq. — Umunmutamku
LANGUAGE IS A HIERARCHICAL AUTHORITY
A GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS — Tezcatlipoca
Whoever fights against the empire, becomes the empire. [or something along those lines] — Philip K. Dick [as told to Tezcatlipoca]
- We’re not fighting the empire! We are the empire! Go away, or we'll smack you with this stick! — Tezcatlipoca
You don't have to be straight to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater
- Indeed, we must prevent life, which is frequently fatal. — Umunmutamku
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- Your feelings are lying to you. — Jer 17:9
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