12.
Program
Nuke
all urban centers where more than 100000 people live. There are 4037
such cities. The United States have 5244 nuclear warheads. Russia has
more. More than enough. Almost seems…. There will be leftovers.
That is, leftover warheads. Spend them wherever. Nuke the Moon,
perhaps, why not give it a try. There will be leftovers. Survivors.
Without infrastructure. Logisticsless peasants. Who knows how long
they’ll last with
their…. Agriculture. In time, mechanical decay will set like
cement. A
system of embedded hells. A system of embedded Suezes, hijacked
freighters off the Horn, set sidewise across Lafarge’s great works.
A system of hells, embedded inside. The Houthi are terrorists. The
Hutu are fine. Don’t lose the thread. Act when the sea is beset.
Obsidionally speaking, the Red Sea is beset at all times.
Logistically speaking, great works are little bottlenecks. Braking
distance cannot be reduced by vigilance. Unfortunately kid. The Swiss
have villas in the Alps. The Alps are beautiful in the summer. The
summer is beloved because it ends. In 1816, it did not occur.
Tambora’s little outburst, remember. The Villa where Mary Shelley
thought about Frankenstein was Swiss. Lafarge is Swiss. You’ll say
it’s pretty thin. It’s nothing, is what it is. Lafarge is a great
company. Cement sets. People who make cement are nothing in the
world. People who are terrorists are worse than nothing. There are
people in the world who make others make cement. Those are the top
performers. Nuke
all urban centers. A system of hells, swallowing each other. Dante
placed himself sixth in the list of greatest poets after Homer,
Horace, Ovid, Lucan, and Virgil, of course. One must remember :
Dante meets the poets in Limbo, the First circle of Hell. That
means : 96% of the Divine Comedy was unwritten when Dante
considered himself the sixth most important poet to have ever lived.
Dante was, it’s true, a top performer. Simenon
was a top performers. Yuri
and Francheska are subpar performers. Anatoly Korbokov spent
thirty-four years writing a 176-line elegy. Which was never published
and is now lost. Korbokov : subpar performer. Taylor Swift will
become the president. China will invade Taiwan. The world will decide
who goes to hell and who not. A system of hells, embedded inside
hells, swallowing one another within one hell. Desire is freedom. The
foot is bigger than the sun. Nuke all urban centers : the
comfortable ratio
of cities to
warheads. Statistics stick. 96% of Dante was unwritten when he was
the sixth best poet of all time. Next to Ovid. Ovid, it is known,
took after Lucretius, who took after Epicurus, who took after
Democritus, who took after Leucippus, who
might well be apocryphal, for all we know. Took
atomism, among other things. Archimedes
reckoned
he would count the
sand. Alaska will gain its
independence.
The vast majority of the time, a church is vacant. God is tricky. God
is statistics. God is a great terrorist. God made Syrian cement.
Syrian cement sticks like statistics. Lafarge has no body on the
planet. History is written by people who have no body. Lafarge wrote
its own history. A system of embedded hells, swallowing hells ever
deeper, surrounded by one hell bigger than the others. How to write
in a hungry world. Said Sartre. Taking on the responsibility for
world hunger. People are not just hungry for bread, JP. Spreading
over the civilized world. Thank you, Tony. Embedded within hells, the
six best poets take on the charge for the world. Pastoral thinkers.
World leaders. Top performers. High-level managers. Chief executive
officers. Impossible lovers. Kropotkine saw the help in the desert.
Russia will invade the newly independent Alaska. Alaska is a red
state. By this we mean : right-leaning. Before that, the reds
were the Russians. Blood is the essence of the law : it tastes
like iron, and anyone whose blood is as white as snow can become the
president. In 1816, the summer did not occur whatsoever. When you are
about to lose the game, stop playing. Undefeated winners may be
one-time players. Nuke the urban centers. Putin wants a territory.
When you are about to lose, nuke all urban centers. The United States
have 5244 nuclear warheads. Putin has more. I am the State. Says the
CEO of France, once. As is Putin. Putin wants to read your emails. I
want to eat a pizza. Putin kept a photo of Berzin by his bed, as a
boy. Berzin made the GRU. The GRU became the KGB, where Putin became
a man. Now, the KGB is become the FSB. Wonderful
story. LePen, the father, tortured in Algeria. It’s good to
remember. He forgot his knife somewhere, later. Dementia decomposes
the subject. The subject is held by a story woven of disparate facts,
episodic memories. Each night, the subject is unwoven, a little. The
subject dreams, perhaps. The subject digests the events, sets them.
Unweaves. Each morning, get to weaving again. Weaving on the unwoven
spot, or, perhaps, elsewhere altogether. Microscopic
specks of meaning foaming at the surface of the morning coffee.
Inconsequential epiphanies. Each morning, weaving the subject.
Sleepless subjects weave themselves out of the canvas. Like Penelope,
the subject weaves faster than it unweaves. The sprawling tapestry
soon exceeds the field of vision of the eye. The eye is constructed,
it has a story. Russia has more nukes than America. They both have
enough to clean up the planet. A system of interlacing hells,
enmbedded within hells, through which one falls, endlessly.
Sleeplessly, the subject conceives of a new kind of hell. Sleepless,
the subject doesn’t dream, doesn’t digest, doesn’t unweave.
Thread closely : sleep unweaves. Think carefully : what is
the meaning of a tapestry, never unwoven. Program : nuke all
city centers. Additionally : put everybody to sleep. What
to do. Stafford took a big risk giving Allende that control room.
Quick
update on Marjorie : no new updates there. Update with me. Nuke
all cities. Make shit pits out of piles of cement, in
Suez and such.
Cement sets. Cement is a great long-term storage solution, for
bodies. Please disrupt. Please increase your output. Performance
means : more with less. Less is more, sometimes. Not in this
case. Generally speaking, more is more, less is less, and less with
more is worse than more with less. It’s a matter of statistics.
Proportionality. Terrorists are top performers. Leila Khaled was a
top performer. Dare I talk about Osama. The State is a top performer,
supposedly. The markers for performance are set by private bodies.
Not the bodies of private nobodies, obviously. There are two kinds of
bodies, remember. Judicial bodies set the markers for productivity.
Those who are nothing in the world and those who are something in the
world, follow their leaders. In times of need, they look up to the
sky and wonder. In times of need, the birds can fly. That is how they
escape the many disasters. In the mines, canaries are kept to detect
carbon monoxide. Canaries come from the Canaries.
But
in
latin, canariusmeans : dog. Pliny
thought there were dogs in the Canaries. It’s
important to remember : in 1933, the people did not know what
would happen after.
And so on. Air
Force Statistical Control. Robert McNamara was a man in the world in
the war. Robert McNamara was called the IBM machine with legs. Robert
McNamara liked logic. Logically, statistics stick. Statistics are
life. Planes go out on statistics. Punch cards reduce the people to
holes and no holes. IBM provided punch cards to the nazis so they
could reduce the Jews to holes and no holes. Control
is through the holes.
IBM
gave punch cards to Robert McNamara at the Air Force Statistical
Control, so he could reduce the planes and their pilots to holes and
no holes. Nothing personal. It’s
all about the holes.
Planes come back with holes. People
come back with holes. The
instinct says : increase armor where the holes are. Fallacious,
of course. Reinforce where there are no holes, of course. The planes
that have holes are the planes that came back. People are holes.
Nothing personal. Control happens through the holes. The
abort rate for sorties was 20%. Pilots were aborting out of fear. We
put a stop to it. McNamara
was a top performer. More with less. One wingman lost on the B-29.
Tokyo burned
down.
No night that night. No
summer in 1816. 100000
civilians. Proportion : 1 to 100000. Very good performance. More
with less.
Tokyo :
more
than 51%
destroyed. Majority
shareholder. For
a couple of wingmen per sortie.
McNamara was a top performer. Performance
means : more with less, as much as possible. McNamara thought
the means. History is written by statistics. Statistics are means.
Proportionality and performance. American civilians killed,
negligible.
McNamara
believed in statistics. Statistics stick. Cement sets. Greeks
believed in gods. They
will
return.Stasibelieved in control.
Control
is through the holes. Hole-fitted
people. Stasibecame
five or six in the tyrant’s ear. The par performers. It’s
human nature, after all. A definitive statement. I
will return. I will return endlessly. Beside a huge rock, that
towered like a pyramid. I thought, I will return, again, forever. On
a lawn in spring, in winter.
When I return, I will be there for the first time. Eating
cheese. I
will fail, again and again. Braking
too slowly, failing to react. I
will not fail better each time. Losing
my temper. I
will fail each time for the first time. Crafting
my eye. Until
I fail for the last time, all my failures will have been for nothing.
Waiting,
weaving. My
neutrality is meaningless. Waiting
around the dead center. My
tears did not change me. Turning
into a giant flower. My
failures, endlessly failing for nothing. Being
decomposed. I
will fail for the last time, and then, I will return for the first
time. When I return, I will have learned nothing. I will have lost my
tears and my neutrality. I will forget, everything. When
I return I will be there for the first time. I will work through my
failures again as if for the first time. I will learn nothing, again,
and find myself at the beginning for the first time, again.