From: "William Fairbrother" <wfairbrother@hotmail.com>
To: _arc.hive_@lm.va.com.au
Subject: Toward a Manifesto...
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:32:08 +0000
Toward a Manifesto::::Virtualism
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Reading as an ethereal pleasure(-not bound by lo/gic…
not]to deny its((substance((as entertainment:[:whether rhetorical or
dialectical-][-mention of the concrete inures us to
fragmentation-,,tech|tonic<fuilliton>-[invention is madness, yet those
unable>to<invent are the|most insane,,and every/where there is]a between[-as
in, for example||||”justice”||||Let us not be deceived>-<into believing the
oligarchic phraseology””)nor examine too closely the septum of
knowledge))Reading like this|is||||chaotic, though at times
uplifting,,\whereas->Reading like\this [is me[ll]ifluous
and,,en]chanting||||>But this must cha(i)nge-that must cha(i)nge””cha(i)nge
must chan(t)ge… There is continually a shift’-thus”Fragmentation[ ]But
note::::This fragmentatio[n itself must shift<-otherwise the stagnatio]n
foments[[[
True Literature does not write into the Age]in which
it is written|]M[and the notion of substantial release]is Hereditary,,IF one
were||to prophecize >that||must be empirical((?-[Otherwise wont((There is no
forgiveness in the Fabric of Being,,[Only breathability((((Is that
Forgiveness?]-[These are the questions which plaque the op/en\
m(in)D|//)and\\where,as//the I|dea|l min]d is a ducT-Taped BOX.
So you can]begin[t’-)(see the problem. The
conumdrum//\\the idea]oL((is to meet in the substance of
non-being||..||..||.||..||..||AND,]((to crawl up out of)it[[[[|There is no
such thing as Being Human||||being human is an invention((((…<not relegated
nor regulated//\by Some g-oD]-But|a mischief<.>Lonesome and Territorial,,and
of course]the creation of madness…
O(1)ne would I[mm]ediately a[ss]ert their di[ss]ent
as||||just S))))Urrealism>|<The writer of this (maybe)’I)(-‘I]nn[oc(c)ulaTed
against Small Pox only to Wake uP and DisCover we have AIDS[-)||||(-]and
spread it[Fur/ther-for]ever;,. We>are all innoculated with tainted
Monkey-BLOOD(,.the di(ss)ection of Knowledge brings Forth nothing but such
blood[[[[and it is in]E[f)FECT>ed… So much for Viruses/
The true meaning of Human Life]-[The
meaning\of/our\be/ing\in/the Universe],,must Fi(1)rst and Foremost be
celeb|rated[>it is not an equation<||it is not unknowable[||it occurs not/in
the name/of a Power/Greater\than us-)v[nor in the naming|of THAT
name…]Everything)I]-)Resides in this non-equation>.||||Beyond being the
resolution of ideas/of dreams->it is existence||||And [I]present it
softly::::
[[[[Happiness, Goodness and Truthfulness Governed by Love, is the Meaning of
Human Existence. The preservation of the Earth and of Humankind is our
greatest goal””[[[[
Hard Pill,,but not Rea[L[iT[L]lly. This is being
written for the common ((sen)se(I||||of the people]We await the
wrath(i)]o]]]tHE(s)[WaLL->ow/ing.>.<._
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We can only write structure>>>>
[at this point[ ]There[which/in>]There
is only||||’forms’-and)things””-G[
of)Poet|RY-of)gra[MM]a[Tol)ogy of…
and of course De]con|ST/ruct]…it----
oTHEr)wise,,]Blank-…]and Round-ion
simplicity>>>>tO invent a))for[GIVE
ness in Language]//which exist,a|s[A-,
FIELD/w/o\Name…rUTs fu[LL]of Snow
such as RE: ) mem[brance->Make yr O]
wn[STRU)c[ture…)of||||FFF>or
Give]ness-)M( )on]S[ter>e[FF]ect.sp
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Contradiction\hence>forth is wonder|[To DeCry the
human condition||||><||||is like to deC[K]ant a Fine
wine]…]]<Spoiled<||||>or…<but evenso(to arrange the positive||||in a
non-fictive pose-…(it’’s all Secrets… though underst[oo]d and pa[ss]ed
On,,]annOIN)k[teD…
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Between the]real[and the]not real[exists a
bridge/ca[LL]ed ‘surrealism’>>()<<Like Going door to door/knocking)and
asking the inhabitants if this [haPPens to be(the home of _______ [your
name]->we Perform within the sphere (of) this discovery||now||as if it is
as>common<as dreams/as games/as chance\/Yet for all of its splendor[-since
our introduction to the existence of this bridge)1924)/up to 2004->There
have been 1,401[Wars… Not Saying that[perhaps]there would have been||20,000
Wars]without this introduction><not saying|that it has[not deeply
enriched((((our lives||||Only,,that such a flux””could have been
used)Taken[to|change]further its password(for going over the
bridge]-]””Freedom.,[That now we know Other<<>This is Thus.
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What we have in]mind[here|is to[Con|sTrucT>a
para[LL]eL Bridge||||One which will Hopefu[ll]y[lead to a
non-warring>>humankind||-|Because the bridge we have\is w(a)oRn/and
creaky]|||and enveloped in mass-media))))And][to[ ]take in>for
example|[Abs(u)ORB-] the inventions nEw to our times,,Without
Apol]o[Gies[|||| To create/build\a Bridge||||between the real and the non
real(-)-which could not have been imagined a minute ago||||And whatever
rituals we]fall into[are immediately forgiven,,cannot bE imagined HENCE…[
This bridge we call ‘Virtualism’||||(())||||IT does
not exist]never will/and/we are[the[[Better for it,,A Language of transient
meaning-)(-or none)-(an art of collage>collapse>kineticism>and
epidrome<Challenges|-|and at the same time is WHOlly organic][so our
G[a]o)I)[a]L is clear||||There is no such thing as Freedom]except as a
Repository]//\\[and all the UNDERsigned admit they know nothing)-a
crime-[perhaps]-but More aTuned|)(|to the idea of MANslaughter
than((murder<-(and more]or less[accustomed to dissent…[ECT words-]or their
Absence]
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Virtualism does not create individual works]-))it
does]|But it can]not<<Virtualism only creates|the ‘oeuvre’[-a whole-[is a
collection))))of fragments)(and an ode to||||Fragmentation[(And is never
complete.and (in)this(in)completene[ss] s)ignifies[its,,rigorous
adherence-]to the system of||||being human|[Thus is|being
human||||begun]]-All else is denial...,]dross
Virtualism ca[nn]ot(be[pronounced but|is
everywhere[[“”spoken,, an already((it has always)existed]-[in that it is
new||||and the documen)TaT(ion,,through chronology]is[\/\/]th|o|rough\/Art
is everywhere[thanks|to the)masters])and,,[underneath||||Pollock dance[-]But
it must create/the\||[Positive[to exist>No More Wars]]
And]it(iS][Only]this//th(op-)-e[ou)GHT//which Protec>T,,s u...s.
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[Once again, William... once again, apologies for the length...]
William Fairbrother
wfairbrother@authorsden.com
VirtualItch:
http://www.geocities.com/worldezine
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