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Joseph Matheny
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in Chicago, IL, The United States
December 24
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William S. Burroughs, Hakim Bey, Brion Gysin, Jack Kerouac, Jorge Luis
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Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
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The Art of Memetics
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Ong's Hat: The Beginning: Authorized Version
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Ong's Hat: COMPLEAT
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Game Over?
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Exquisite Language
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Why Dvd?: A Meat and Potatoes Guide for the Uninitiated
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What Would Bill Hicks Say? by Ben Mack (Editor), Kristin Pulkkinen (Editor) (30-Mar-2007) Paperback
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“To see the universe as it truly is, is to see what we call chaos. That which we call order is merely our own apophenia at work.”
― Game Over?
― Game Over?
“Most people hammer your mind with Thesis>Antithesis>Synthesis or as my old friend, the late Robert Anton Wilson, said: "Here's what it is, here's what it isn't, now here's why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am." I can't tell you how much that tired old formula skeeves me. When I do see people brave enough to (god forbid!) put the onus of drawing a conclusion back on the reader (heresy!), I am not only relived (what, me have to think?), my faith in humanity has it's execution stayed another day.”
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“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
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“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
― Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971
― Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971
“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
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“I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?”
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