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- From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.non.sequitur
- Subject: The Thixotropic Mind
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.213256.19989@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:32:56 GMT
- Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
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- The Thixotropic Mind
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- A good word is a joy forever.
-
- Pain is pressure. Anxiety is pain. Shame is pain. Self-hate is pain.
- Pain is pressure.
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- Rigidity; inflexibility. There is no other way to do it. There has
- never been another way to feel.
-
- You! What are you doing?! And what the fuck are you looking at, man!
- You think you're better than me? You think you're so hot?
-
- To kill even an animal, one must see them as different from oneself. If
- one wants to have an enemy, one must believe there is something other
- than oneself. Different. Yeah, I'll say you're fucking different.
-
- Where are we? It's dark and I'm scared.
- I think we're lost again. It's hard to be sure of anything at the
- moment.
-
- Inflexibility begets further pressure.
-
- When the pressure is abruptly removed, the thixotropic substance returns
- to its liquid state.
-
- He hasn't moved in the last two days. At first I thought he was just
- depressed. Then I thought he was dead, but I checked his pulse and
- breathing. I rolled him over on his back and he just stayed that way.
- That was about 18 hours ago. Then I called you. He still hasn't moved.
-
- Could take a month, could take ten years, could never happen. Any idea
- what triggered it?
-
- No. No.
-
- Actually dying of shame is an accomplishment peculiar to Americans,
- or so claims William S. Burroughs.
-
- -- Clifton
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