{"id":3258,"date":"2008-12-21T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/21\/reading-material-during-hell-storm-08\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T16:29:51","slug":"reading-material-during-hell-storm-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/21\/reading-material-during-hell-storm-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading material during Hell-Storm ’08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever wonder, my poor young friend, what the human brian looks like? . . . The mechanism that makes you think?\u00c2\u00a0 Did you?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course not.\u00c2\u00a0 That doesn’t interest you one bit . . . You’d rather look at girls.\u00c2\u00a0 So of course you don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the first honest glance would convince you that disorder, yes, my boy, disorder, is the quintessence of your very life!\u00c2\u00a0 of your whole physical and metaphysical being!\u00c2\u00a0 Why, it’s your very soul, Ferdinand!\u00c2\u00a0 millions, trillions of intricate folds . . . plunging deep down into the grey matter, complex, subjacent, evasive . . . limitless!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s Harmony, Ferdinand.\u00c2\u00a0 All nature!\u00c2\u00a0 A flight into the imponderable!\u00c2\u00a0 And nothing else!\u00c2\u00a0 Put your wretched thoughts in order, Ferdinand!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s where to begin.\u00c2\u00a0 Not with grotesque, material, negative, obscene substitutions, but with the essential, that’s what I’m getting at.\u00c2\u00a0 Are you going to assault the brain, correct it, scrape it, mutilate it, force it to comply with an assortment of stupid rules?\u00c2\u00a0 carve it up geometrically?\u00c2\u00a0 recompose it according to the rules of your excruciating idiocy? . . . Arrange it in slices?\u00c2\u00a0 like an Epiphany cake? . . . With a prize in the middle.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell me that.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m asking you.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly?\u00c2\u00a0 Would that be any good?\u00c2\u00a0 Would it make any sense?\u00c2\u00a0 Heaven help us!\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no doubt about it, Ferdinand, your soul is overwhelmed by errors.\u00c2\u00a0 It make you, like so many others, a unanimous nonentity.\u00c2\u00a0 Great instinctive disorder is the father of fertile thought!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the beginning of everything . . . Once the propitious moment has passed, there’s no hope . . . You, I’m afraid, will spend your whole life in the garbage pail of reason . . . So much the worse for you!\u00c2\u00a0 You’re a numbskull, Ferdinand, a nearsighted, blind, preposterous, deaf, one-armed dolt!\u00c2\u00a0 . . . befouling my magnificent disorder with your vicious reflections . . . In Harmony, Ferdinand, resides the world’s only joy!\u00c2\u00a0 The only deliverance!\u00c2\u00a0 The only truth! . . . Harmony!\u00c2\u00a0 Find Harmony!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the ticket!\u00c2\u00a0. . . This shop is in Harmon-y . . . Do you hear me, Ferdinand?\u00c2\u00a0 Like a brain, mother nature nor less!\u00c2\u00a0 Order!\u00c2\u00a0 Rid me of that word, that thing!\u00c2\u00a0 Accustom yourself to Harmony and Harmony will reward you.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll find everything you’ve been looking for so long on the highways of the world . . . And far more!\u00c2\u00a0 Many other things, Ferdinand!\u00c2\u00a0 A brain, Ferdinand, that’s what the whole lot of you will find!\u00c2\u00a0 Yes!\u00c2\u00a0 This Genitron<\/em> is a brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Have I made myself clear?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s not what you’re after?\u00c2\u00a0 You and your kind?\u00c2\u00a0 An inane ambush of pigeonholes!\u00c2\u00a0 A barricade of brochures!\u00c2\u00a0 A house of the dead!\u00c2\u00a0 A Chartist necropolis!\u00c2\u00a0 No, never!\u00c2\u00a0 Here everything is in\u00c2\u00a0movement!\u00c2\u00a0 Swarming with life!\u00c2\u00a0 You’re not satisfied?\u00c2\u00a0 It stirs, it quivers!\u00c2\u00a0 Just touch it!\u00c2\u00a0 Put out your little finger.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything comes to life.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything trembles instantly.\u00c2\u00a0 Asking only to surge up!\u00c2\u00a0 to blossom!\u00c2\u00a0 to shine!\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t live by destroying.\u00c2\u00a0 I take life as it comes!\u00c2\u00a0 Do you take me for a cannibal, Ferdinand?\u00c2\u00a0 Never! . . . Bent on reducing it to my chickenshit concepts?\u00c2\u00a0 Pah!\u00c2\u00a0 Everything shakes?\u00c2\u00a0 Everything topples?\u00c2\u00a0 Splendid!\u00c2\u00a0 I have no desire to count stars 1!\u00c2\u00a0 2!\u00c2\u00a0 3!\u00c2\u00a0 4!\u00c2\u00a0 and 5!\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not the kind that thinks he’s entitled to do anything he pleases.\u00c2\u00a0 The right to shrink!\u00c2\u00a0 rectify!\u00c2\u00a0 corrupt!\u00c2\u00a0 prune!\u00c2\u00a0 transplant!\u00c2\u00a0. . . No!\u00c2\u00a0 where would I get it? . . . From the Infinite? . . . From life itself?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not natural, my boy!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not natural!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s infamous meddling!\u00c2\u00a0. . . I prefer to keep on good terms with the Universe!\u00c2\u00a0 I take it as I find it! . . . I’ll never rectify it!\u00c2\u00a0 No!\u00c2\u00a0 The Universe is master of its own house!\u00c2\u00a0 I understand it!\u00c2\u00a0 It understands me!\u00c2\u00a0 It gives me a hand when I ask it!\u00c2\u00a0 When I’m through with it, I drop it!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the long and the short of it . . . It’s a cosmogonic question!\u00c2\u00a0 I have no orders to give!\u00c2\u00a0 You have no orders!\u00c2\u00a0 He has no orders!\u00c2\u00a0. . . Blah!\u00c2\u00a0 Blah!\u00c2\u00a0 Blah! . . .”<\/p>\n

He got sore as hell, like somebody who’s definitely in the wrong . . .<\/p>\n

Louis – Ferdinand Celine, Death of the Installment Plan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever wonder, my poor young friend, what the human brian looks like? . . . The mechanism that makes you think?\u00c2\u00a0 Did you?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course not.\u00c2\u00a0 That doesn’t interest you one bit . . . You’d rather look at girls.\u00c2\u00a0 So of course you don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the first honest glance would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}