final exam essay portion

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final exam

essay portion

choose between the following one situation to respond to. write precisely 298,935,000 words, using no glyphs other than what are contained in whatever your alphabet or logogram system is. write in black india ink or blood on handcrafted tessellated polyptychs composed from pencil crayons, cardboard, paperclips, fuzzy yellow spheres measuring no more than 0.81cm in diameter at their greatest point including fuzz, and pencils

in the beginning olafa believed. which meant accepted. then she disbelieved but it didn’t matter too much because she was young and wasn’t taken seriously. then olafa was able to suspend disbelief to an extent of functioning in your land. which meant she worked and was respected sufficiently and had friends or simulations of friends. then olafa was only able to suspend as a thought experiment but not as any sort of reality that propelled her body into action. then the experts in your land proclaimed her depressed or mad or schizoid or borderline or mentally ill or some or all of the above or more and prodded her with pills and talk but olafa instead of playing your games pitched the tent of herself more fully in her suspensions and she did not work according to your measures and she was not respected in your lands and she was alone. did olafa now believe, believe differently, believe in her suspensions, disbelieve? would she soon disbelieve in her suspensions and where would this leave her? what do you know about olafa’s believing, disbelieving, suspending, pitching, your land, her land? how do you know this?

prophets of nada

sesame street should teach the alphabet  –

Larsen A

Larsen B

Larsen C

   …

liarzen x

losing why?

lozenge zzzzzzzzzzz

            DON’T MAKE IT TO Z julia screams

in a rare intelligent street conversation about everything i mention that osman spare calls freud and jung fraud and junk

            a stranger replies but spare got them mixed up – freud was about the junk

an obsession is a meditation

to confuse an obsession with any particularity

is like eating a potato but not its skin

if the plumb pudding was in danger in 1805 where is it now?

vice cofounder sham snit eh? says are my politics democrat or republican? i think both are horrific. and it doesn’t matter anyway. money runs amerika, money runs everything

            sadoos perform their anarchist function

by not being run

snit eh? also says i came to amerika from canada because canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical

i used to try to please the normals. now i realize they can only be pleased through normalcy … or by turning abnormalcy into a commodity – for commodities are a keystone of the arch of normalcy (aren't those familiar retail chains of thought comforting)

every new batch of fluffballs drove him

to a dither of vicarious maternity

infrequently watching newscasts gives the overwhelming impression that the entire human species is imbecilic – not just the newscasters but everyone watching. topics are dealt with as if the audience's a kindergarten class. (no. the average kindergarten student is brighter)

getting better at costumes. before they were unidentifiable (meritorious – as most costumes are, even when wonderfully done, tediously identifiable) and incoherent (meritorious – like a street babbler, which has more merit than the average street talker but less than that craved captivating repartee)

now they’re becoming unidentifiable and coherent –

this nexus of sensible irrationality in sartorial form

doctor of internal medicine explaining what she does – i specialize in everything you can’t see

sadoo diaper – so do i

why am i not read?

            is it not because i am too realistic

            i’m guilty of excessive realism

            realism so real it cuts out all the shit you think is real but isn’t (then projecting your insanities on me)

            i am textual flesh – translating the sensation of movement in the city to words

psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. they open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong

this was a very nice neighbourhood

until the monkeys got out of control

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