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You are invited to partake in the creation of _The_Last_Book_
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How do you participate? Merely by changing, writing, mangling,
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morphing,transmorging,violating,the text below and sending
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your efforts back to mediak@well.sf.ca.us.
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The entire collection of changes and detours will be printed in
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a beautiful "Artlaw" edition by MediaKaos.
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All contributors will recieve a copy of the collection, as well
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as recieving credit for their work. If you wish to contribute,
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but don't want your email address included, please leave a note
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to that effect, and directions as to how you wish to be credited.
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This will be an edition sold "at cost" ( just to cover the nice
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offset work ) and therefore we cannot pay anyone for their
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contributions.
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Pass this along to anyone you think may be interested in playing
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our infinte game, email or print out to those who have no email
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access.
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Non-email contributions may be snail mailed to:
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MediaKaos
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409 Laguna #4D
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San Francisco, CA 94102
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As an example we have included the first contribution by Rob
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Breszny.
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Mutatis Mutundis!
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Joseph Matheny
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Cultural Provocateur
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MediaKaos
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The Last Book : A MediaKaos Work in Progress
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Anti-Copyright/ Plagarite 1993, Mediakaos
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Chapter 1
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An Invitation to Dance
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This is an open invitation to partake in an infinite game.Over
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the course of an undefined span of time an experiment will be
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conduted by the authors of this book in an immersion
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experience, an interaction between book and recipient.The true
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authors of this book are the ones who partake of the moments
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of it's experience, myself as I write and assemble the
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words,images,sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you
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rewrite and discover thier potential to create an enviroment.
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In the past the spoken word was viewed as holding some kind of
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power or resonance while the written word was viewed as dead
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and only imbued with potential life (ie. when recited or
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intoned). it is in this spirit that this work was created.The
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recipient of this tome is encouraged to partake in it's
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conception and to nurse it along so that it may become
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a living intelligence system. What will be born will vary with
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the input of the user.Remember the old programing adage "
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G.I.G.O. or garbage in garbage out" to which we add "B.I.B.O. or
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beauty in beauty out" or "random in random out" or "intent in
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new form out", ad infinitum.
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Many forms will be born, from shuddering monsters to a
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shining philosophers stone. Let a thousand flowers bloom!
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Since there is no goal to this experiment other than the goal of
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perpetually discovering new forms and new ways of perceiving,
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it is an infinite game. An infinite game is played for the
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purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite game which is
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played for the purpose of winning or defining winners. It is an
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act of free will. No one can "play" who is forced to play.
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This work endeavours to escape the constancy of numerical
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boundaries.Whenever persons may walk on or off the field of
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play as they wish,there is such a flux of participants that none
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can emerge as a clear victor.
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The traditional format of the book is one that dictates a
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posture of passive reception on the part of the reader.The
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author is delivering a monologue ( much like the one delivered
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here) and the reader is the reciever or passive audience.Even
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bold experiments like the cut -up can become an exercise in
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monologue. To be effective or to have real relevance to the
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reader cut-up must be an act on the part of the reader.To
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discover new ways of percieving is the responsibility
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of the individual.To make it truly experiential cut it up
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yourself! This is not to say that the cut-up discoveries of
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others cannot be a valuable source of information, but why stop
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there. This act could move the reader into a position of
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becoming a co-author or co-conspirator in the
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process of creation. To conspire literally means "to breath
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together".
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The preceding statement was written by a cat.
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The day on which you recieve this book is the begining of a new
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cycle,it represents a new calender.
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The etymology of the word cycle, from the Greek, indicates
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circularity.
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The week is a non celestial time cycle, indicative of another
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moon with a shorter orbit.
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The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the domain
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of work.As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern
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workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that is
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essentially artificial, not dictated by daily variations between
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the quality of vision between night and day, seasonal
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variations in tempature or amount of rain, and so on. The
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artificiality of the modern "work /rest" beat results from the
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fact that it is dissociated from most natural rythyms, being
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largely derived from a mechanical periodicity.
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The dominant motif for the weekday is production(work), while
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that of the weekend is consumption( shopping and
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entertainment).
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Schedules and calenders are intimately linked to group
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formation,and a temporal pattern that is unique to a group
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often contributes to the establishment of social boundaries
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that distinguish as well as actually seperate group members
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from "outsiders".
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A deck of cards has 52 cards.
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There are 52 weeks in a year.
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The numerical value of the 52 cards add up to 364, plus the
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joker or floating card to make 365.
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Each year has 364 definite days with a floating day to make
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365.
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There are 4 suits in a deck of cards.
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There are 4 seasons in a year.
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Entropic Apocalyptic
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Physical Metaphysical
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Scientific law Random principle
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Slow but irreversible decay Destruction and regeneration
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No hope Hope
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At the end of every apocalypse is the apperance of a new heaven
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and earth.Before something new can be built the ground must
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first be cleared of the old monolithic structures that cover the
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soil.
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Is humanities purpose merely to make fractals into straight
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lines?
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This is your card.
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This space intentionally left blank.
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This space mistakenly left blank.
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Saturday-Day of Saturn
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Sunday-Day of Sun
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Monday-Day of Moon
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Tuesday-Day of Mars
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Wedensday-Day of Mercury
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Thursday-Day of Jupiter
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Friday-Day of Venus
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S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virual Anomoly)
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The code to reproduce this language virus is as follows:
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Message 1:
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From 73077.2524@CompuServe.COM Mon Nov 8 10:37:20 1993
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Date: 08 Nov 93 13:31:56 EST
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From: "Rob Brezsny, Asshole of the Year"
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<73077.2524@CompuServe.COM>
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To: <mediak@well.sf.ca.us>
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Subject: Infinite Book Replacement
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This replaces the previous transmission, which cut
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off some of the co-authors' words in mid-breath. I
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guess the translation from the Televisionary Netweb
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to the Internet is not yet quite efficient.
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Excerpts from "The Last VideoBook" Anti-Copyright/Plagarite
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1993, Mediakaos and Copywrong 1993, Psychoactivist
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Chapter 2
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An Invitation to Dance
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This is an open invitation to be born too many times.
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Over the course of an undefined span of time, an
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experiment will be conducted by the authors of this
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book to create a story of the nuclear furnace that
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grows like a sweet choromosome in the tender loop
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of god talking to herself. This is in an immersion
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experience, an interaction between book and
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recipient. The true authors of this book are the ones
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who partake of the moments of its experience,
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myself as I write and assemble the words, images,
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sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you prove
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that you are living within the pleasure dome where
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the gods' trickiest games unfold, games whose rules
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demand you experience the pleasure of trying to trick
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the gods before they trick you.
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There is no goal to this experiment other than to tell
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ourselves glad stories of the jewel that festers north
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of our medulla oblongatas, a jewel that tempts our
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hairy unguided trembling pouting souls to find
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Asclepius of Epidaurus in Dreamtime or Cyberspace,
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whichever comes first. The story has no commercial
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appeal, for it has no basis in "fact," no use as a
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device for seduction, no value as a flattering mirror
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of samsara, and no resonance with the language of
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the dominator class. The story is an infinite game; it
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is a tidal wave of fantasy that has arrived here in
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this moment (and every moment) from four billion
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suns simultaneously. The game is played solely for
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the purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite
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game which is played for the purpose of winning or
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defining winners. It is an act of free will. No one can
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"play" who is forced to play.
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The traditional format of the book is one that
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dictates female body mutilation, practiced ritually
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by many different cultures. The author, or "terrorist,"
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is attempting to conjure an experience analogous to
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fucking his date after a trip to the rifle range for
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target practice. Even bold experiments like the
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anorexic beauty contest can become little more than
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an exercise in finding the proper proportions of milk,
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blood, sperm, gasoline and oil. To be effective or to
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have real relevance to the reader the author must
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refute the literary critic's claim that "most
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terrorists are very normal." Furthermore, to discover
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why the great white eagle has blood spattered on its
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head in the final stages of the Great Work is the
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responsibility not of the eagle but of the "terrorist."
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To make it truly experiential, in other words, become
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the eagle! This is not to say that when you're "stuffed
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with solidified light" you can't "sink to the bottom of
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the sea" in order to activate the "qaumanEq," or
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shamanlight of the brain. But why stop there? This
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act could move the reader, as well as the author, into
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a position of participating in the Iroquois dream-
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guessing rite, whose aim is to guess the dreamer's
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"ondinnonk," or the secret wish of the soul revealed
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in the dream. To dream together literally means
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"overcome the putrid patriarchal stench that William
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Gibson's aura has left in the Dreamtime."
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Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara labored for 100,000
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kalpas (one kalpa equals a thousand lifetimes) to be a
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good enough guy to cancel out the bad karma of
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everyone else in the world. It worked--for a while.
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All sentient beings fled joyfully from samsara like a
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day of free ice cream on the playground. But just
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before he was about to slip into the final
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strangulation, the absolute blissful extinction of
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nirvana, he peeked back and saw that everybody he
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had just saved was backsliding--bad. He cried two
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tears. One was White Tara and one Green Tara.
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The preceding statement was spit by a seahorse.
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The day on which you receive this book is the
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begining of Zen Pride Week, a calendar in which there
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are 20 months of 13 days each plus a five-day
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Saturnalia during which all may have sex with all
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without karmic consequences.
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The etymology of the word enceinte, from the French,
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indicates "ready to pop."
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The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the
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domain of work.
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As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern
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workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that
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is essentially artificial, not dictated by daily tantric
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asymptotal self-cannibalizations (one's own
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fingernails, hair, snot, menstrual blood, etc.)
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Funtropic Mediapocalyptic
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Oxymoronic Carbomoronic
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Morphogenetic field "Cult of Science" necessity
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Premature nihilism Premature orgasm
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No name Hope-ocalypse
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At the end of every Malkuth is the appearance of a
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new Kether. Before Tiphareth can be built the Fool
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must first jump off the cliff.
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This is your baseball-Tarot card.
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S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virtual Anomoly)
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The code to reproduce this language virus is as
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follows:
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I.H.V.H. (Interactive Homemade Viral Hologram)
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