2. Antipodal activity
Points. The delegation from Taiwan is here. China will invade Taiwan. Taiwan makes microchips. Chips go inside people. Thanks to chips, people are alive. People are nothing. Nothing is alive. The territory is alive. China wants the territory. Putin wants a territory. Putin wants to read your emails. Watch out. The head chopped off by the passing train. Suggestions : use French vocabulary. Don’t say emails. Saycourriels. Suggestion : update Windows. Warning : Update Windows. Please. Warning : you are about to become obsolete. Warning : your version of Windows is about to become obsolete. Obsolescence will end the depression. Watch out for signs of depression. William Turner strapped himself to the side of a train. Suggestion : strap yourself to the side of a train. Depression : watch yourself become a giant wound. William Turner strapped himself to the mast of a ship. Suggestion : Update Windows. Tambora exploded in 1815. Napoleon abdicated in 1815. Abdication vs Deposition : Update Windows. Tambora exploded and killed a lot of people. Tambora is in Indonesia. Napoleon had not reached Indonesia when he abdicated. The explosion of Tambora was heard from Australia. Australia was a penal colony in 1815. Australia is where you send people who are worse than nothing. We send people who are worse than nothing to places that are worse than nowhere. Australia is pretty red. Also, there are red people living in Australia. Update : there is nobody living in Australia.Terra nullius. Australia is empty. Nobody is living in Australia. Nobody is living in the Louvre. In Australia, the explosion of the volcano Tambora was heard, even though it is very far. Sound travels slower over water. Australia is very far. If we send people who are worse than nothing to Australia, they may never return. To return. Nostos, Anabasis, Odyssey. History is written by people who have only read beginnings. To read a book is good, to finish it is better. The ends justify the means; history is written by people who haven’t read the ends. People who are worse than nothing were sent to Australia, which is red and where people who are nothing and who are red already live, but don’t own anything. The people who are red do not own the land on which they live. We can take the land. Australia is now Britain. We can take things. Napoleon took a lot of things before he abdicated in 1815. He didn’t want to abdicate, of course. He had to. Why ? Suggestion : Update Windows. Napoleon was forced to abdicate in 1815, Tambora the Indonesian volcano exploded in 1815. History is unavailable to guest users. Says Google. History is written by people who are not nothing, and who do not think about the ends. History is written by people who think that the ends justify the means. History is written by people who think about the means. History is written by the victors. Napoleon was forced to abdicate in 1815. You win some, you lose some. Clinkers. Slang. A product of inferior quality. You are a product of inferior quality. Marjorie was a product of inferior quality. Update : Marjorie still has no legacy. Napoleon has a legacy. Napoleon is not nothing in the world. That’s gonna leave a mark. The vocano Tambora, in Indonesia, exploded in 1815, killing a lot of people who were nothing. Killing nobody. Heard by people in Australia who were either red, and nothing in the world, or by people who were worse than nothing in the world, who had been brought to Australia by the people who are not nothing, who think a lot about the means. These means need to be brought to Australia : they are mean. In Australia, we will put all the mean people, who are worse than nothing in the world. When Tambora exploded in 1815, that was a big explosion that killed a lot of people. It released a lot of ashes into the atmosphere. Don’t worry about the atmosphere. Before, people used to not even know there had been dinosaurs around. When dinosaurs were around, the world was different, so the story goes. Dinosaurs were thought to have been put there by God. Dinosaur fossils, that is. To make the world look like it was old. The simplest solution is often the best. Dinosaur fossils were put into the ground by God to be discovered by humans who would understand that the world had been created so as to seem like it was much older than it really was. God is tricky. The world was created some 6000 years ago. The world was created a few seconds ago. The world was created 13.7 billion years ago. Says Google. The dinosaurs are all dead. All. All ? No. A few dinosaurs remain. We call them birds. Also some crocodiles. Most dinosaurs died 66 million years ago. At the time, the world was different. The sea was higher. But the continents looked similar to the way they did in 1815 when Tambora the volcano exploded. The reason the dinosaurs all died, or most of them, is a meteor. It crashed into Mexico. The meteor crashed into Mexico. That’s gonna leave a mark. The dinosaurs are nothing in the world ; when in times of need, nobody will look up to the dinosaurs for guidance. The dinosaurs all died because they were subpar performers. The dinosaurs became a giant wound. When the giant meteor (10km across) crashed into the Yucatán, many dinosaurs died. Many things that were nothing in the world realized their full potential and became giant wounds. They say the explosion of that meteor was like a billion times Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The explosions. Atom bombs. Cruel bombs. When the volcano Tambora exploded in Indonesia, many people who were nothing in the world died, the sound was heard on the Australian coast, because sound travels slower and further over water, and a giant pile of ashes was released into the atmosphere. Don’t worry about the atmosphere. When the meteor crashed into the Yucatán, in Mexico, many dinosaurs that were nothing in the world died, and the sound was heard around the world. Around the world. The sound of the impact was heard around the world. On the other side of the world of the Yucatán, where the asteroid that killed most of the subpar performing dinosaurs crashed, there is Indonesia, where in 1815 the volcano Tambora exploded, killing a lot of subpar performing Indonesians. The dinosaurs whose performance was par lived, and became birds. When people are in times of need, they look up to the birds, which are above them because they can fly. When the birds are flying in times of need, they look up to the clouds. They watch out for signs of asteroids falling. Watch out. Strap yourself to a train. Watch out. China will invade Taiwan for the territory. Napoleon wanted to increase his territory, but it became difficult to manage. Manage is from the hand. Suggestion : don’t say manage. Say gérer. Suggestion : don’t betray your language, which is French. This document is written in French. Napoleon was French. Napoleon was forced to abdicate. The French are subpar performers. There are people in the world who are nothing. Says the CEO of France. The CEO of France is part of the creme de la pool, up to which everybody looks in times of need. In times of need, I look up to the ceiling for guidance. The ceiling is an elite. Even above my ceiling is my neighbor. Be kind to your neighbor. The life you might save might be yours. My neighbor is part of the elitetoo. My neighbor plays his music so loud I can hear it through the ceiling. The asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago was so loud you could hear it through the planet. My neighbor is playing the songs of Avicii. Avicii killed himself in 2016. Avicii will leave a legacy. The legacy of Avicii is the songs that he made. Avicii liked to make songs. Avicii was a creator. A content creator. Nevertheless, Avicii must have been a subpar performer, because he became a giant wound in 2016, of his own accord. Marjorie became a giant wound. The songs of Avicii will be heard through time, through ceilings. The past echoes through the cracks. The sound is the past, sound travels slower over water. Sound travels further over water. The sound of the asteroid hitting the earth when it killed most of the subpar performing dinosaurs travelled across the earth. It spread out from the dead center. The dead center is in Yucatán. The epicenter. The asteroid that hit the earth and killed most of the dinosaurs, which were nothing in the world, emitted from its epicenter a sound that travelled across the earth and was heard in Indonesia. This chapter is about sound. Listen : the sound was heard in Indonesia. The sound of the asteroid was so loud it might have shattered car windows, had there been car windows back then. The dinosaurs had no need for car windows. This is how we measure sounds nowadays. I will also remind you that Marjorie became a giant wound when she was splattered against her car windows. Suggestion : if your car windows are shattered by the sound of an asteroid hitting the earth on the other side of the planet, do not worry about replacing them. Do not worry about the atmosphere. The asteroid that hit the planet released a lot of stuff into the atmosphere. While I was looking up what that stuff was, I was interrupted by my mother, I knocked down a glass of water, I cleaned up the water. My mother’s shoulder hurts her. Sound travels slower over water. I remembered that once upon a time, James Joyce was interrupted by a friend while he was dictating Finnegan’s Wake. He said : Come in. The phrase is in there. Somewhere. Lawrence Sterne realized that he had forgotten to write a preface when he was a third of the way through Tristram Shandy, so he just wrote one right there. Like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, the volcano Tambora, which exploded in Tambora in 1815 released a lot of stuff into the atmosphere. Don’t worry about the atmosphere. In 1816, there was no summer because of Tambora’s little outburst. Tambora ruined everybody’s summer. Tambora ruined summer for everybody. Tambora rudely interrupted the summer. Sumer is the earliest known civilization. Summer is when it’s hot and everybody likes it. Bodies are built for scarcity. Marjorie likes the summer. Liked. In the desert, there is scarcity. Deserts are often hot, even when it’s not summer. When it’s always hot, people don’t like it. People like the summer because it will end. History is written by people who never read the ends of books. History is written by people who think a lot about the means. The ends justify the means. People like the summer because of winter. People like the summer because it ends. Bodies are built for scarcity. People who are nothing in the world like the summer because it ends. If the summer didn’t end, people who are nothing in the world would not like it anymore. It would be bad. It would be a time of need. As we know, in times of need, people who are nothing in the world look up to the elitesfor guidance. The elites like the summer. The elites are the people who do not think about the ends. The elites do not like to think that the summer is ending. For the elites, summer never ends. Mary Shelley was the wife of Percy Shelley. Before she was the wife of Percy Shelley, her name was Mary Godwin. God is tricky. God buried the fossils so people would find them and think that the world was created so as to seem older than it really is. Mary Shelley was part of the elite. Don’t lose the thread : listen. People are born determined. Mary Shelley was an elite, like Grace Kelly. Grace Kelly was the wife of the prince of Monaco. She was a princess. Grace Kelly will leave a legacy. On her Wikipedia page, there is a section called ”Legacy”. Mary Shelley will leave a legacy. Left. That legacy is called “Frankenstein”. Marjorie will not leave a legacy. The legacy of Grace Kelly is grace. Try to be graceful at all times. Explosions. The volcano Tambora exploded in 1815, releasing a lot of stuff into the atmosphere, the next year there was no summer, summer is beloved because it ends, in the summer of 1816, the year without a summer, Mary Shelley joined her husband Percy Shelley in a Swiss villa called Villa Diodati. Don’t lose the thread, try to be graceful at all times. Explosions. The asteroid that killed most of the subpar performing dinosaurs created an explosion a billion times more powerful than than of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Before we learned about the asteroid, we used to think that dinosaurs all died because they were subpar performers. The man who thought there might have been an asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs was Walter Alvarez. With his dad, Luis Alvarez, they found the place where the asteroid hit and demonstrated that it was an asteroid that killed the dinosaur, not just their subpar performance. Luis Alvarez won a Nobel Prize. Not for the asteroid. A man named Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for developping the Haber-Bosch process. With another man, Bosch, of course, who was not awarded the Nobel Prize. The Haber-Bosch process is very useful for making explosives. Fritz Haber also suggested using chlorine gas in the trenches of World War I. Fritz Haber was Jewish. He converted to Christianity. In 1933, he had to leave Germany, because even though he had converted, he was of Jewish blood, and the blood is all that mattered to the nazis. The blood is the essence of the law. The law is a fluid. The jews need to write down the law because their blood is troubled by miscegenation, and so is their innate sense of law. The true German needs not the written law : the law is his blood, and he will do what is right and lawful. What the German does, by virtue of his blood, is right and lawful. Fritz Haber died in 1934. Later, the nazis used his methods to invent zyklon-B, with which they killed over a million Jews in gas chambers. By that point, Fritz Haber was nothing in the world. Luis Alvarez was not nothing in the world. He helped his son find the traces of the impact that struck Yucatán. Luis Alvarez won a Nobel Prize. Luis Alvarez worked on the Manhattan Project, inventing the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Luis Alvarez was on a plane called The Great Artiste that flew over Hiroshima when the city was bombed by the Enola Gay. Luis Alvarez worked on the atom bomb. Gay means happy. The bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima. People who were nothing in the world were killed. Sound travels slower over water. Killed almost instantly, but not quite. When the asteroid that killed the subpar performing dinosaurs hit the planet, the sound produced travelled around the planet, and was heard in Indonesia. Sound travels in waves, propagating radially the epicenter. When it travels across the earth, it travels radially from the epicenter in Yucatán, but also across a globe : the sound meets itself. To the dinosaur living in Indonesia, the sound of the asteroid hitting the earth in Yucatán came several times from the same source, but from different directions. To the dinosaur standing at the antipode of the epicenter, on the exact point that is the other side of the planet, the sound would have appeared to be coming from all directions at once. Except that sound travels slower over water. Some directions are stronger than others. Dinosaurs who are nothing in the world now died from the shockwave, from the wildfires, from the falling debris. Then, the ashes that were released into the atmosphere formed a thick layer and blocked out the sun. Clouds block out the sun. No smoke without fire. McNamara suggested firebombs over Tokyo. Lowered the B-29s. Smoke is a kind of a cloud, to the extent that it blocks out the sun. The sun seems to be the size of a human foot. Starry night, no. Moonlit night, none of that. No light. For years after a certain asteroid came over, there was no light : blind earth. Ash is a kind of a cloud, the same way that smoke is as well. Surviving dinosaurs saw the ash falling from the sky, the acid rain. They saw the clouds laden with black. They saw the sun disappear. Phytoplanktons stopped synthesizing. All the subpar performers on the planet, wiped out in a matter of years, in the total dark, after a total bang. Out the door, out the window, the subpar performers will be transformed into a forest of flowering wounds. All these creatures may seem anonymous to our eyes, but the smallest crumb can devour us. The world was beginning to flower into wounds. Crash. Plenty of crashes. Body built for scarcity. After the crash, scarcity. Hardly any. Don’t ask about the atmosphere : don’t worry. The crash makes a desert somewhere. There are people in the world who are nothing at all. William Turner painted skies. Don’t worry about the atmosphere. William Turner was worried about the atmosphere. In 1815, before Napoleon was forced to abdicate, mount Tambora exploded in Indonesia. In Australia, they thought a gun had been fired nearby. Penelope wove in the daytime. The people in Australia were worse than nothing, it would not have surprised them that a gun had been fired. I was fired by my boss. I nailed Jesus to the cross. Mount Tambora released ash into the atmosphere, don’t worry about it. Next year, there was no summer. Summer is beloved because of winter. People who are nothing in the world love the summer because it ends. Mary Shelley was nothing in the world in 1815. In 1816, she went to meet her husband Percy, along with some friends, in the Swiss villa called Villa Diodati. That year, there was no summer. It rained. In the rain, they took opium, and said : let’s have a contest of who can write the scariest story. Mary Shelley wroteFrankenstein. Mary Shelley will leave a legacy. Update : Marjorie still has no legacy. William Turner saw the sky of fire : high levels of volcanic ash were released into the atmosphere, don’t even ask, in 1815 by Tambora, which William Turner saw the next year. Ash travels slowly across the sky. Ash eats the sun. Sharks eat the children of irresponsible mothers. Like Marjorie. I will not forget her. Don’t lose the thread, the thread of order. Discern the thread of order from the tapestry of chaos. These anonymous creatures seem nothing to our eyes. Penelope awaits. Weaving. Unweaving. Weaving. Looping. Making, unmaking. Opposites attract. People love the summer because of the winter. Mary Shelley left a legacy. The legacy is called Frankenstein, the monster, the doctor. Prometheus was chained to a rock and an eagle ate his liver. Daily. In my liver, there is scar tissue called fibrosis, blocking out the blood. The blood is the essence of law. The blood flows through the portal vein into the liver. My portal vein is blocked by fibrosis. Fibrosis is caused by hepatitis or alcoholism. Alcoholism is caused by being nothing in the world, among other things. Marjorie was an alcoholic. Marjorie was an irresponsible mother. Marjorie became a giant wound when her car crashed into another. Wounds become scars. Marjorie will become a scar. Marjorie will leave no legacy, no part of her can be recognized, all of her was become a wound. Irresponsible mother, subpar performer, window shopper, feudal retainer, will be shown out one way or the other. Out the door or out the window. She tried to exit through the window, she splattered on the windshield, all of her become a giant wound. Princess Diana died in a car crash. Grace Kelly died in her car then crashed. Then died. People who are nothing in the world look up to the creme de la turdsfor guidance, in times of need ; one can only assume this was for Marjorie a time of need. She looked up to one princess or another. Always act gracefully, is the legacy of Grace Kelly. Marjorie could not act gracefully. She exploded inside her car, splattered on the windshield. Flowered into a wound. The world was beginning to flower into wounds when all the dinosaurs were killed. Extinction event. Marjorie became extinct in an event that will not be remembered. Leave no legacy. Barking dogs never bite. Marjorie was an alcoholic and an irresponsible mother, whose son was devoured by the sun. [Playful video game music] Marjorie was devoured by the ether. The sun is the size of a human foot. The smallest crumb could devour her. Grace Kelly, Lady Di. Either. Marjorie tried to act gracefully, like Grace Kelly, but she did not have the decency to clean up after her. She exploded. Explosions. Always act gracefully. Always talk gracefully. Words are acts. Don’t say : she exploded inside her car and her bowels were spilled on the dashboard. [Graceful piano music, accompanied by a synthesized drumline] Say : She flowered into a giant wound. Grace. Flowers are graceful. Flowers don’t explode : they flower. [The piano music becomes repetitive, as if played by a broken tape machine] Marjorie realized her full potential. All individuals can realize their full potential. All the people who are nothing in the world can realize their full potential. Avicii realized his full potential. He deleted himself, leaving the legacy. The legacy remains. The suicide becomes the story, they say. False. The legacy remains. Blood is the legacy. Blood is the essence of the law. Go forth and have many children. Don’t let them breed with people of a different color. Mixed blood makes mixed law. Blood is the story. The legacy is the story. Australia is where you send people who are worse than nothing. I was interrupted again. I remembered during this new interruption who James Joyce was dictating Finnegan’s Wake to when he was rudely interrupted, said “Come in” and the person he was dictating to wrote that in. You’ll never guess who that person was, never. You are nothing in the world, do us all a service and rid us of yourself. Delete yourself. At the very least, do not bother us with your questions. Be alone, be to your own devices. Dan was so passionnate about 401(k) investing that he decided to build an app to help people do it better. Dan is an entrepreneur. Dan is nothing in the world, but he is a particular kind of nothing, a becoming-something. This kind of nothing is the crumb that devours us. The smallest crumb can devour us. Robert Crumb didn’t die in southern France : he lives there. Alexander Grothendieck did die in southern France. Dan is the nothing that devours us. Marjorie is still nothing in the world. Marjorie is a giant wound, a body-volume fibrosis, calcified tissue. Marjorie will never become something in the world now. Dan might. When Mary Shelley was nothing in the world, she had a daughter, named Clara, who died at three weeks. When Mary Shelley became something in the world, she was eighteen years old. Clara was nothing in the world, is nothing in the world. Before leaving for the summer to Switzerland, in 1816, the year with no summer on account of Mount Tambora’s eructations, Mary Shelley had had another child, named William. William died at three years. William was nothing in the world, is nothing in the world, but a giant wound. After returning from the summer without summer, Mary had a third child, another daughter named Clara. William is the name of Mary Shelley’s father. Clara is the name of Mary Shelley’s sister. Clara, Mary’s second daughter, died at one year. Clara was nothing in the world, is nothing in the world. Mary Shelley eloped with Percy Shelley, who was married, when she was sixteen. Irresponsible child. Irresponsible children are nothing in the world, they deserve their miseries. Mary’s miseries may have been the death of Clara at three weeks, the death of William at three years, or the death of her second Clara at one year. Irresponsible child. For defying decorum, your three children will be turned into flowering wounds. William is the name of Mary’s first son. William was born before Mary went to Switzerland in the year without a summer and wrote Frankenstein. Clara was pursuing the poet Byron, who had abandoned his own child, Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace translated an article about her friend Charles Babbage’s Analytic Engine. Ada Lovelace appended a series of Notes to her translation of the article. William is the name of Victor Frankenstein’s young brother, who is strangled to death by the reanimated Creature. There is no angle. It’s all part of the plan. Clara died of dysentery in Venice. William died of malaria in Rome. Clara was Mary’s stepsister. Clara pursued Lord Byron. Lord Byron was friends with Percy Shelley. When Mary Shelley became deeply depressed after the consecutive deaths of Clara and William, Percy wrote in his notebook :My dearest Mary, wherefore hast thou gone,
And left me in this dreary world alone?
Antipodal activity. Adapt, Arduously. Ada’s analytic ardor. Asteroid strikes in Mexico, volcanic eruptions in Indonesia…. No angle. Straight through the middle. I’m a straight shooter. Sound travels slower above water, travels further. Suggestion : in 66 million years, the shockwave of the asteroid that killed the subpar dinosaurs travelled through the cracks, through the dead center of the earth, emerged in Indonesia, spewing volumes of sunblocking ash into the atmosphere, don’t worry about the atmosphere, fashioning Turner’s blazing sunsets and various experimentations with extreme meteorological conditions, strapped outside a train, strapped to a mast, and giving birth, electrically inclined, to Frankenstein : a Creature, a doctor, a story, blood is the story, blood is the essence of the law, what then of a bloodless, reanimated corpse, what is this in the world ? Frankenstein’s creature is in the world. Update : Australia is where the people who are worse than nothing are sent, New Zealand is antipodal to Britain, Tasmania is where you send the devil, that which is worse than nothing, inverted : Suggestion : in Australia the world is upside down, topsy-turvy, changing rythms, people who have nothing in the world must look up to the turds in the poopthat float to the surface, the sunburnt cream, exposed to the benefits of the sun, enjoying permanent summer, the elites are above, as all know, the birds even look up at the stars for guidance. Suggestion : in Australia, down is up. Suggestion : sunscreen on yout foot. Quick tutorial : the earth is a sphere. Three D’s. Through thick crusts must the Australian convict, worse than nothing in the world, look for guidance, in order to direct the gaze to the British elite, civilization, always acting with Grace, turn their eyes through the planet’s core to look at Grace, crossing paths with other forces that bore the mantle, bore the core, other eyelines aimed so as to pierce the sphere clean through, straight line, polar inversion, a continuum of reverting magnetism, antipodal activity – Update : there is no planet, there is no tomorrow, history is written by those who never read the ends of books, if you’ve made it this far you might already be a loser, nothing in the world – in the world of tomorrow, antipodal activity will increase as the dinosaur’s demise returns, transfigured, clean through the other side – sound travels slower above water, ash travels slowly across the sky, history travels barely into the crusts, into the hardened tissues, fibrosed earth, earth flowered into a giant wound, Marjorie still unknown, antipodal activity increase in the global atmosphere, beware the meaning of the words : in the world of tomorrow, everything is nothing.