Saturday, March 20, 2010

Men of Arms

So two adventurers no doubt, dr Metalchromegetsyouhome (4130), and professor inthebasementthereislifting. Both extrapolate on the favorite reification of today's adventure: the woman possesses the secret of who these heroes are, but they want none of it. It is a conflict for which they are prepared to die but a war not worth winning, yet a war that they return to in spare moments. They dig trenches and hang photos. Years pass. Comrades are gassed in the fields and lay hung, opened by large caliber wounds, on the razor wire fences which welcome each night's recovery from absorbing this other. They wish to be identified by the other's freedom, but do they want a part of letting that freedom fall where it lands and hope that the secret, soon to be revealed, is a good one? Or is the apprehension of her freedom a big scam, do they condition the animal to roll over on command but know at the periphery of each thought that the beast will tear the neck apart for fun and for amusement? There is a war on how they make us and we make them. Pack it up and you know you've lost. Get in formation, start the aerial raid, let loose your 20mm anti tank munitions, and you know it's an invisible target, a charade. It's a hell, a fucking blast, and what's this, oh shit, a green commodity based currency. The fucking arms trade infects everything, even my kitchen drawer.

2 comments:

  1. Because you ain't going to get rid of instinct, then deal with it. You wanna fuck 'em. Who doesn't? So you fuck 'em. But give them nothing and do nothing for them--no concessions. If they want to watch movies in your lair, tell them "No movies." If they want to listen to the radio tell them "No radio". If they say they think the bed is uncomfortable tell them "Bed comfortable."

    The moment you begin thinking of how you will build a lair to please them, you are fucked. It's game over and you're trapped. Just do your thing, your thing your way. All you want is a couple hours from them anyway, right? Why make concessions? Why buy shit you don't want or need and which will just make them want to stay? Why buy shit that will disturb you and your projects?

    The lair is about doing good work. That work could be writing work, or it could be laying pipe. You don't need anything other than pencil and paper to write. Thinking requires even less. Fucking, as I understand, only requires man and a woman.

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  2. The lair is freedom to not buy shit you do need and buy shit you do not need.

    I recommend having a coffee machine. But otherwise, I don't think woman needs much.

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