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As soon as thy eyes have closed shalt thou be woken, a thousand years shall be as if thou hadst slept but a little half hour. Just as at night we hear the clock strike and know not how long we have slept, so too, and how much more, are in death a thousand years [...]

Is this the way to the heavens? Sit itur ad astra?

It's irrelevant that no 'council communist organisations' exist today. People who brand themselves as council communists do exist, and won't disappear, even after the passing away of the last pre-1968 specimen. As long as wage labour survives, council communism, like all ouvriérismes, will linger on. It's another fossilised delusion in the 'revolutionary marketplace'. True, they are [...]

R. Nathan met Elijah and asked him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do in that hour? — He laughed [with joy], he replied, saying, ‘My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.’

R. Nathan met Elijah and asked him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do in that hour? — He laughed [with joy], he replied, saying, 'My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.'

Navel gazing is good. It is a good opportunity to think about your intestines. It is a good opportunity to say, What was G-d thinking when he dug these tunnels inside our bodies! They are so marvelous and strange! It is a good opportunity to say, This world is really awful! But I have intestines!

And With History Doleful virtue sung measured breasts Unadorned with armor Lengthened as lengthened The fasting and acrid Pile as piled by boulders As stones pushing men There is the soldier Who is not a child soldier The whistled livid Filled as such and sewn.

Q. You seem to be saying that social managers should not think pro-revolutionary thoughts because by their nature such thoughts are counterrevolutionary. A. I am not saying they should not think such thoughts but rather that they are the only sector of the capitalist community that is conditioned to produce pro-revolutionary consciousness. And that in [...]

While we wait for the messiah, your eyes will suffice to give tired men hope.

Suicide is not a choice. If we must live as warrior monks, this is primarily expressed in longevity and endurance, as these are set within the circumstances of our difficulties. Our purpose is to resensitise ourselves and record experiences without recourse to any external justification or purpose but our recordings' own sake. Recordings are an [...]