Hemisphere Eleven

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A discontinuous continuation of fallen,

unfollowable imperatives, numbering one
thousand three hundred and sixty-one.
When they came back from the tomb, they told
all these things to the Eleven (Luke 24:9).
1361 is the 218th prime number. 1 + 3 + 6 + 1 = 11
= 2 +1 + 8.

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Talk in bubbles on the verge of spheres.

Perish with every breath in
overwhelming astonishment.
Be so far gone that you never arrived.
Have no idea.
Be so clueless that every clue is itself
eternally stunned by its own inexistence.
Obliterate multiverses by means of
bewilderment.
Lose yourself so far in disbelief that
everything is absolutely, unintelligibly
true.
Wonder so horribly why anything is
happening at all that it never did.
Mercilessly send all your questions back
to the omnipresent front lines.
Fail to meet me for fear of being
swallowed alive by an enormous
question.
Fall into the gaping abyss under your
feet until you shoot up out of the
ground.
Writhe in unknowing.
Live in the midst of continual wellcoordinated all-out attacks upon
everything you ever felt or thought was
true.
Be always already pierced inexplicably
by yet another incommunicable arrow.
Watch the world vanish like mist before
the glorious sun of secret maximal
confusion.

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Leave me behind so fast that you bump

into me in infinite regress.
Give everyone a look that shows what
they are in for.
Lay your life aside in favor of becoming
a cosmically autophagous query.
See human knowledge for what it is: a
messy mass of poorly formulated search
terms.
Drink wine of bewilderment until the
tears wash away your face.
Erase every trace of yourself with a free
lifetime supply of the Ointment of
Mystification.
Think about something by evaporating
the thought.
Act in way that effectively accuses all
entities of insufficient astonishment.
Follow yourself off the cliff of supreme
bafflement.
Leap like a child for joy into the arms of
spontaneous senseless distress.
Indulge profoundly in the pleasure of
forgetting everything people say.
Offer everything as a reward to anyone
who successfully steals all your answers.
Infinitely reverse the ontological order
of answer and question.
Immediately become incapable of
following any directions other than the
irrepressible hunch that you are
absolutely and hopelessly lost.

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Dive into delightful epistemological

hopelessness past the point of actually
needing to do away with yourself.
Abandon inner connection to all persons
who think they know what they are
talking about.
Exploit your friends to bust all of you
out of the prison of knowledge.
Deliberately refuse to know, no matter
what the world offers you.
Develop courage for greater and greater
bewilderment by remembering all who
have died in the depths of ignorance.
Wonder why one ever bothered to.
Fail to believe how you ever fell for it.
Make no difference between small and
great matters that do not make sense.
Know not what to do, think, feel, or say.
Place no secret hope in your fatal
astonishment.
Figure out a way off the island of being
that does not involve figuring anything
out.
Suspect everything.
Renounce your bewilderment for
nothing except greater and greater
bewilderment.
Know so little that the whole universe
flocks to you for meaningless questions.
Let no light ever escape the black hole of
your non-knowledge.
Offer no explanation, give nothing away.
Die of unknowing.

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Remain unintelligible, especially to

omniscience.
Thrive by robbing yourself in the
apophatic alleys of radically immanent
auto-blindness.
Eclipse all knowing in the perfect pitch
blackness of your pupil.
Wonder why until why itself never made
any sense in the first place or ever will.
Expose your whole system to the plague
of inexplicability.
Hypothetically blame everything on
everything in order to be even more
astonished by all that remains
unaccounted for.
Crack open your skull like lightning on
the stone of total astonishment.
Bask in the glory of bewilderment.
Enjoy only the intolerable.
Drift al di l in gravitationAL
DIstraction.
See that every line is the horizon.
Expand by inhaling the universe
through your navel.
Observe yourself looking up at the stars
like a blind and dumb beast.
Alternate seamlessly between
hypersensitive dullness and adamantine
interoception.
Become numb enough to feel everything
everywhere.
Come down with a hopeless case of
yourself.

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Shamelessly endure the shame.

Battle all demons everywhere all at once
all the time.
Infinitely resign to being more and more
lost.
Follow the wind forever the moment
before it arrives.
Demand nothing from the future.
Think like a pebble in a glass of water.
Die one birth at a time.
Be no longer able to think what you will
never stop thinking about.
Drop it into the well beneath your feet
without making a wish.
Know why and say nothing.
Replace your head with the moon.
Sense the occult inclination of ones
skeleton.
Only take NO for an answer.
Lose face entirely facing the fact that
nothing will suffice.
No longer know what you want.
Nullify.
Dont fall for another intellectual
thinking intelligently about (the)
nothing.
Wonder what will never become of us.
Confuse fear of flying with desire to fall.
Confound need to climb with capacity to
sink.
Substitute walking for sleeping and vice
versa.

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Replace taking-steps with going-to-theend-and-coming-out-the-other-side.

Look at the world and think, and I
wanted to add to that?
Somehow overcome the monster you
become by fighting it.
Stare down the abyss not big enough for
the both of us.
Think what you would be like without
the world in it.
Throw me back like a fish into what has
no foundation.
Perish fast enough.
Blithely go about your business in secret
trembling.
Bang your head on the stone of
astonishment until you either go mad or
become something else.
Operate by means of mere presence.
Fail to know whether you are dying or
waking up.
Entirely forget to call for help.
Do it by having no idea what to do.
Make it harder by thinking that it could
not be any harder.
Discover one day what it is like to be as
miserable as you actually are.
Be trapped in a nightmare of your own
unmaking.
Listen to the call, obey the imperative,
unend the infinitive.
Hear it all boil down to the ability to
remain silent and walk away.

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Conspire with everything.

Feverishly pace the universe in
melodramatic paleness.
Birth the conjoined miracle of death-inlife and life-in-death.
Listen to the music that prevails over
words when we speak.
Find you where I uncover me.
Take careless care of the amorphous
matter running through you.
Dissipate the unshaped germ of soul
into a breaths mystical air.
Hunt every blossom-seed upon the
hearts hyper-wild wind.
Peel me away from myself and take
everything away.
Draw yourself into the noose of
uncircumscribable honesty.
Drink sweetest dreams in the tomb-kiss
of eternal moonlight.
Drink soul-storm waves of everythingnothing from the dark sea flooding
through me.
Die to slurp-drink the infinite wine-drop
surplus.
Inexhale the outinward breath-spring
wafting me back out into your nothingbeing.
Constantly stir the cauldron-turbulence
to maintain perfect burning.
Drag me down to the very top.
Spend another day dying as usual.

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Fight continually the fantastic conceit

that you know what you are doing here.
Help (me).
Unanchor your ship from the clouds.
Sail through the closed open twin doors
of the horizon.
Crawl happily off to die battling desire
all day long because everything is your
fault and you are not you.
Respire in air pockets among rocks deep
in the heart-sea.
Fool yourself with honesty.
Find a way to the wayless.
Go inwardly a million miles farther than
you ever have.
Stop asking the wrong question.
See the contradiction in you.
Plunge into pure difference from
everything.
Contribute to nothing.
Plead to no one.
Stop hugging yourself.
Have nowhere to go, ever.
Keep your eyes peeled for/by the
horizon.
Return the world through a word into
liquid crystal fire.
Regard yourself to be no more than a
dung worm.
Add nothing to nothing for the sake of
everything.
Inhibit your face from helping everyone
make the wrong decision.

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Come to the end of yourself in seconds

flatno time at all.
Dont miss the opportunity to no longer
have time for yourself.
Get out of my way by making me trip
over myself.
Nix the next.
Solve the world.
Observe yourself committing a crime
outrageously perpetrated and
perpetually unsolved by means of its
own overwhelming evidence.
Halve the time of your unlife.
Be torn open by oneness.
Know that no one knows it and just isnt
saying.
Let it hit you over and over again.
Cherish the fact of being more lost now
than ever.
Know that no one knows and that no
one wants to.
Lick the cleanness of the sword that cuts
everything in half.
Effortlessly annihilate all things in the
infinite heat of the criterion of absolute
certainty.
Walk at the speed at which time stops.
Live on the other side of language.
Be omnipotently unable.
Pluck the diadem from your own skull
and cast it into the sea.
Perish indifferently.
Wonder never again about nothing.

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Wander happily among the never-were.

Know what it means to not.
Contemplate that which meaning never
means.
Leap into the hole from which
everything has already returned.
Have no idea ever what is happening to
you.
Fearlessly live the secret, unutterable
life that no one possesses.
Step through me at the moment I step
through you.
Sink upward inside an immeasurable
weight of feeling far beyond the human
scale.
Never again confuse the there with the
real.
Let every fact experience itself.
Crank up the scream of unknowing until
no one can hear themselves think.
Follow everything beyond everything.
Renounce everything not running away
but through it, by running it through
everything with the point of
renunciation.
Make black one with black . . . make
love/gold.
Mate love with itself.
Capture the Mother in the net of your
own puppet strings and no more be a
machine.
Use your beak energy not to blab but to
poke through the eggshell.

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Tear open into oneness.

Cook everything in the salt of your tears.
See that I am naked overneath my body.
Ride the chariot of cyclones straight into
the jungle.
Seek self-replacement, not selfimprovement.
Abandon the urge to bother other
people.
Stop paying attention to anything at all.
Stop hiding out in yourself, you little
weirdo.
Meet in the mo( )rning where we are
not.
Blame no one for anything, blame
everyone for everything.
Recapture the jaguar of your mind in the
jungle of completeness.
Pave a way from within.
Observe maximum astonishment at
minimum distance.
Eat yourself through the face hole of allconsuming homesickness.
Be my deadline.
Peel back sky and face in one movement.
Keep your eye on the autodeadline
between everything and itself.
Weep yourself under the rug.
Be squeezed through your skin by the
weight of everything.
Be sent into a spin by the sheer fun.
Grow hungrier for nothing.

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Make a clear choice between: a)

ignorance; b) hypocrisy; c) absolute
mental annihilation.
Know the pain of being trapped like a
reflection in a teardrop.
Stand still hitting the wall of yourself at
faster than light speed.
Wake once again into the vastness of the
uni-worse.
Overdo and overthink everything in
hopeless pursuit of perpetual
overastonishment.
Stay at home and doom doom all day
long until you die.
Be filled with the Whole by feeding on
Nothing.
Bask in the absence of priority between
form and formlessness.
Find a playmate with infinite attributes
who has none.
Discriminate between dreaming and
not-dreaming by seeing whether there is
a world out there or not.
Remain in a state of final evaporation.
Outgrow the incurable disease of
oneself.
Let my body rise from me.
Resurrect your body before death.
Die before it is too late.
See in the mirror that the reality of your
problem is the unreality of you.
Do everything all at once forever.
Only make plans as if you do not exist.

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Drift on the pure plane of planlessness.

Seek only the peace of peak-desperation.
Write yourselves away, auto-fishing
backwards with hook-words spewed by a
double-mouth.
Go swimming where the water is the
shark and the shark is the water.
Get it bad.
Embrace the disappearing skin of
distance.
Speak my ear.
Understand that this darkness is itself
the highest elevation of your mind.
Apply as normal then return to idiotsavant status once accepted.
Flow like an infinite blob.
Abort thyself.
Hang me by the heels until your pail is
filled with my tears.
Epiphanize the obvious.
Sail the seven seas in a scholarship of
fools.
Fall into the absence of fall-back
positions.
Cut through the cloak of complacency
calling itself contentment.
Feel like (a) sap from a very very old
tree.
Realize hand-holding as the idea of
ideas.
Speak in preemptive quotations, avant le
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Begin with a simple yes, writing a humid

could with the body.
Enjoy the flavor of the fluidity of the
half-born in its authentic state.
Planlessly unroll the floor-horizon into a
sky-ceiling.
Know that whatever you think you are
accomplishing with your life, you are
not.
Cut the fastest cut, the one that cuts
nothing without a knife.
Drink forever from the so-intoxicating
abyss of inexistent wine.
Bow uneasily to the almighty X.
Indulge the sheer pleasure of doing what
you have to refrain from.
Fly through walking through your fear.
Fail to cope with the insurmountable
sorrow of existing.
Want to break out of wanting through
an outbreak of total breakout.
Implode by exhaling individuation.
Drive your drives, take them for a ride.
Nail your eyes to X.
Bring me the head of the horizon.
Burn the horizon for spheresy.
See in the light of submarine caverns.
Run from the horizon until it chases
you.
Solve your brain into a puzzle that
comes together only as a blind image of
itself.

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Splash through puddles of positive selfforgetfulness.

Gag me with a thinking button.
Walk in circles with chronos looking for
aion.
Turn your worry inside out.
Think anothers thought without having
to think it.
Be only the agent of what needs infinite
preparationbe worthlessly worthwhile.
Be THAT you are.
Approach everything as huge trick
making you lose by thinking you can
win.
Be careful, lest near madness get too
close to itself.
Start with the finished sculpture and
hollow it out from the inside.
Do not wait for me to be disappointed.
Dive into the zerOcean.
Comprehend the double illusion of
knowledge and ignorance.
Bathe like a child in the mirror of the
black horizon.
Follow the sigh to ghazal street, where
the gazelles sigh.
Emancipate the horizon by caging it into
chasing you.
End me to mend.
Die on pilgrimage to the origin of that
one sigh.

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Distill all words, feelings, thoughts, and

dreams down into one impossibly sweet
teardrop.
Return to silence in the present light of
absence, the absent light of presence.
Take the abyss-elevator to here.
Succumb to saying nothing in full body
stutter.
Think yourself to sleep in a horizondeprivation tank.
Let it get too serious.
Build a skyscraper to escape the sky.
Interrupt the interruption into an
accelerated eruption.
Commune autophagously after an alpine
plane crash.
Survive by imagining the worst.
Self-liquify inside the threshold of
sorrow-petrification and full-body
stutter.
Allow time to mourn eternity.
Hesitantly accept the mortal happiness
of horrorlove0plean humiliation.
Become a clean mess.
Take yourself out with the garbage.
Tight rope walk on the tension of your
own bow.
Find the way out of a loop in the loop
itself.
Surf a moebius soliton wave into its
missing side.
Become an angel to the Outside.
Be jolted by the Bolt of Joy.

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Plant your throat-lump in Paradise.

Find no search results for the universe
is a tomb.
Involute into a four-dimensional
ectomorph.
Wear tesseract jeans.
Die by looking forward to seeing NOW
eternallythis moment of looking
forward to seeing it.
Successfully pronounce the sevenfold
tongue-twister of sexlessness.
Take the detour to the detour.
Come with instructions how to operate
yourself.
Consume my future.
Please take it away.
Embody the event-cube.
Profit from selling your junkself to no
one for free.
No longer wander between many
possible objects of similar experience.
See, namely, that the hole in your heart
is the universe.
Be this body, the one that cannot be
decapitated.
Shine brightly in the sun, like a dead
dogs white teeth.
Discard relative values in favor of the
intrinsic worth of everything.
Live constantly in a state of fortifying
collapse.
Sell everything into the mouth of
infinity.

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Buy me out of self-slavery.

Sell your freedom to the highest bidding
cell.
Disown your self, own your corpse.
Shed your soul.
Slough off your inside.
Eviscerate your exterior.
Respond to what I havent said.
Make notes in the invisible margin.
Discretely continue the infinite
conversation.
Fiddle with time.
Play the flute of space.
Step into your lack of future.
Reinvent the past of never having been.
Be alone with everything.
Let your heart circumscribe the lonely
universe.
Adopt the garb of an unknown kind of
entity.
Talk to me in abundant ellipses.
See that what you dont see is keeping
you company.
Populate black.
Look at the horizon as into the
bottomless wound of the universe.
Heal the universe-wound from the
inside.
Nurse everything into extinction.
Let the abyss plunge in on you.
Observe the aura of your solar plexus in
the eclipse of my pupil.
Say the stupidity of thought.

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Proceed no further than the cusp of

yourself.
Stop right here pretending to know
where you are.
Circumambulate the universal mountain
by neither moving nor being moved in
spiral spheres.
Wind space-time into a ball around the
pole of your most perfect swerve.
Do the nothing there is to do.
Soul-rise straight from the bed of
dreams like a shaft of golden wheat
ready for reaping.
Become the punchline of a joke no one
will ever understand.
Think everything is normal again only to
find out that it is even more upside
down in a worse better way.
See all things from the other side of the
abyss.
Know that there is no this.
Suffer from strange outbursts of joy that
rob you of the strength to express or
even feel them.
Stay open, staring in blank
astonishment that.
Swim the horizon far beyond the sea of
feeling.
Drop the umbrella of time.
Scream the (spiritual) scream.
Hack through the hallucination of
relevance.
Notice that everything works perfectly.

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Disburden me of the fake idea-feeling

that I am my body.
Figure out nothing.
Bite and be bitten by your own steps.
Be the one one cannot think without
thinking of.
Scream as many silent screams as it
takes to get to the omnipresent center of
everything.
Grow al di l.
Fly your book-moth into the flame of
love-heresy.
Inhale your heart-smoke like an
inquisitor.
Burn your own heart for heresy.
Drink from the empty chalice that
overflows the moment it touches your
lips.
Draw wine from a bottle that fills you
without being opened.
Start feeling at home in a bottomless
shaft.
Give in to the giant gravity lifting you off
the ground.
Know nothing other than that you are
not here.
Get over yourself.
See dissolutions both ends.
Be fool.
Learn the stupidity which does not call
itself stupid.
Throw back the javelin of thrownness,
re-gift the gift of givenness.

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See eye to eye with that which perforates

you from the inside, peeping out
through all the holes.
Veer towards veering, come close to
closeness, depart departure.
Try to find a replacement for air.
Program the programmer to fail.
Bump into the dark.
Persist in a kind of volatile transparency.
Spook thought into looking.
Climb as mountain falling upward.
Trip the trap of thought so that it stops
you in your tracks.
Take aim at the convergence of all
arrows in the absence of any claim.
Rebuild the wall blown down by the
storm with a beautiful window.
Ground thyself in shockshock thyself
in ground.
Float in the tomb of a spiral abyss.
Orient thyself everywhere towards
something with no place to go.
Steal the fire by mimicking the gods.
Be no match for the one who holds you
upside down.
Enjoy the secret extent to which
madness of love is love of madness.
Look at what people say, listen to the
look on their faces.
Heed nothing that tells you what you
want.
Get drunk feeling sorry that you have no
self to feel sorry for.

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Fall just enough and in the right

direction, then step upward on falling.
Stare at that which is eclipsed behind
everything.
Know that, were things any more
absurd, they would exist.
Celebrate the bad news: it has nothing to
do with you.
As soon as it happens, think again.
Give in and plunge now into the plunge
to be taken anyway.
Hear the tear that trickles into your ear
whisper itself.
Be devoured by a four dimensional
panther with stars for teeth.
Die, and never stop dying, until you are
no longer dead.
Sculpt oneself at the threshold where
sound and body are one substance.
Stretch your mouth into a megaphone to
receive a scream from the other side.
Pierce through the hyper-illusion of
coming to your senses.
Fold your phantasms into origami.
Play hide and seek with nowhere to hide
and nothing to seek.
Swim from the shore of dreaming into
the middle of the very first stone.
Leap faster than light into the sermon of
your petrified self.
Take a stroll hanging by the hook of
THAT.

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N
409.
410.

411.

412.
413.
414.
415.
416.

417.
418.
419.
420.
421.
422.
423.
424.

Centrifugally hide seeking the center

everywhere and nowhere.
Touch the point upon which wanting
anything at all becomes absolutely
painful.
Peep through the bullet ( )hole with a
pupil whose gaze eXplicates the
assassination of the fourfold.
Steer by way of night the titanic of
thought into the iceberg.
Hang out with what is hyperchaotically
off the hook.
Translate every name as boo!
Distinguish no longer between form and
formlessness.
Gaze upon things like two mirrors
looking at each other and seeing nothing
but everything all the way down.
Remain distracted by the not yet.
Have it by wanting without wanting to
have what you want.
Foreshorten your attention span by the
height of the Beloveds stature.
Be infinitely more doomed than you will
ever know.
Use your body to disidentify with it,
identify with your body to disuse it.
Say everything as commentary on the
nothing one has to say.
Observe the absolute impossibilization
of the about.
Lonesomely hear the screech of the owl
who alone hears your lament.

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425.
426.
427.
428.
429.
430.
431.
432.
433.

434.
435.
436.
437.
438.
439.
440.

Tell your body to abandon the idea that

there is an abyss to hold it.
Intensify the abyssic twinness of the
impossible and the actual.
Discover that the text was all along only
a commentary on its margin.
Constantly succeed at failing to not feel
hopeless.
Feel continually on the verge of flying
wherever whenever you want.
Leap suddenly over everything all at
once.
Minimize absolutely the aim to please a
maximum of others.
See that a lost happiness was no
happiness at all.
Subtract the total percentage of talk and
discussion secretly aimed towards
avoidance of direct understanding.
Encourage the world to do the nothing it
can do for or against you.
Demolish the false foundation of all fear.
Pay closest attention to what does not
concern you.
See the true horror by watching your
face.
Defriend that which says the world is
yours to change.
Listen to criticisms primary
communication: the habit of criticism.
Live the miraculous transition from
never existing to no longer existing.

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N
441.
442.
443.
444.
445.
446.
447.

448.
449.
450.

451.
452.
453.
454.

455.
456.
457.

Pay no attention to the rumors you are

spreading about yourself.
Swim in the air of stupefaction.
Cross eyes to the point that vision sees
itself.
Accomplish what you cannot by seeing
that you cannot.
Let life come and go into your life as it
wishes.
Admit to infinite embarrassment over
being what you are.
See what no one wants to: that the whole
show is itself only spectatorship, that the
speculation is only a spectacle.
Never again collaborate with yourself.
Leave behind the way of being which is
overtaken by being in the way.
Stare at what all day watches itself,
never seeing where it actually is,
wanting incessantly to not know.
Watch carefully who talks about who.
Be eternal now, like the sound of light
on snow.
Spin in the dizziness that gravity feels.
Discern the desire behind every
syllogism, s(p)lice the will across the
decision of its own cut.
Tunnel through the tunnel you are
inside, inside the tunnel you are.
Rise by no longer thinking you are
awake.
Evade not the problem by looking for
solutions.

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458.

459.

460.
461.
462.
463.
464.
465.
466.

467.

468.
469.
470.
471.
472.

Hear the sound of the entity who laughs

out loud every time it makes sense when
you think something but not when you
say it.
Accept that which is always making sure
you will never be cured of seeing
something as divine.
Curse the thought that thinks it is in the
world.
Perceive clearly that all systems are
creations of confusion.
Stick with what has no opposite.
Never listen to the pitch.
Knock off everything you are doing
because you are afraid to stop doing it.
Be eaten alive by the words coming out
of your mouth.
Learn to handle the fact that the whole
universe is created to keep everything
from you because you cannot handle
anything.
Fall through the floor of your tomb to
find yourself suddenly floating through a
higher sub-horizon.
Learn every moment how to live with an
invisible lance in your side.
Know that it is not a good idea to hang
onto ideas.
Defeat thyself into victory.
Watch yourself thinking thoughts which
lead nowhere until an explosion occurs.
Stop making everything worse by talking
about yourself.

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N
473.
474.
475.

476.
477.
478.
479.

480.

481.
482.
483.
484.
485.
486.
487.
488.

No longer be impressed by impressive

things.
Try to have fun swimming in the outer
reaches of Realitys distance from itself.
Taste the part of you hungry enough to
consume the horizon, tired enough to
swallow time.
Be filled by what crushes you.
Hear the tone of silence that stops
eternity.
Rurn the world through a word into
liquid crystal fire.
Swallow a teaspoon of sighs every
morning to help unravel your throat
lump into a spiral sphere.
Set warp drive to the black hole formed
from the supernova of your stardom in a
13.8-billion-year-long mental movie.
Look forward to what has already
destroyed you.
Never say anything ever again.
Perish inside a silent love-scream from
beyond al di l.
Exchange the parachute of hypothesis
for wings of bewilderment.
Hold hands with your head and lead it
who knows where.
Escape in the bubble-trap of a highersinking underwater sigh.
Speak near to something so naturally
mad and madly natural.
Die trapped inside a beauty you cannot
see.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

489.
490.

491.
492.
493.
494.
495.

496.
497.
498.
499.
500.

501.

502.

Fall awake listening to a strange new

scent that lights the entire world.
Reach beyond everything by grabbing a
hold that can only be grasped by
thrusting your arm through a hole in
yourself.
Be totally shot through and through with
a secret need.
Speak only in mutually recursive autocitation.
Find the energy to finally fall asleep.
Fall through the ground from an excess
of wings.
Feed hells mouth to itself through a
three-headed dog which has more heads
than it needs.
Never stop perceiving the actual
steepness of all things.
Find the point as fast as possible where
crucifixion is the loveliest relief.
Allow yourself to be as astonished as you
want to be.
To watch your head spin off at the mere
thought of a name.
Quickly become the sound of the mallet
as it strikes the stake being driven into
your heart.
To be one who loses his mind, never
seeing anything ever again, except in
your dreams.
Sink to the seafloor under the weight of
inescaping sighs.

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N
503.
504.
505.
506.
507.
508.
509.
510.
511.
512.

513.
514.
515.
516.
517.
518.
519.
520.

521.
522.
523.

Lack the strength to fail, find the

weakness to win.
Dont know how to do it.
Afflict the remedy.
Learn nothing over and over again.
Have a life no longer.
Evaporate through a wrinkle in time.
Sit back, relax, and let your mind snap.
Unveil ever new sublevels of selflimitation.
Disentangle nothing from nothing.
Collapse fatally under the weight of
everything, then suddenly get up and go
for a jog like nothing ever happen.
Specialize in all kinds of nothing.
Look forward to where you are.
Stare all night long into the sunset of the
universe.
Want everything and do nothing about
itdo everything and want nothing of it.
Stand still in the flame between your
eyes.
Say the same nothing over and over
againalways new.
Dive all at once into the one direction.
Feel how it feels to have all your wishes
hopelessly fulfilledthe wish for
hopelessness.
Stop telling yourself anything.
Run out of yourself.
Cherishly cherish the moments and
hours when everything melts and all is

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

524.
525.
526.

527.
528.
529.
530.
531.
532.
533.
534.

535.
536.
537.
538.
539.
540.
541.
542.

revealed without anyone being there to

see it.
Trust no one, starting with you.
Wish that one could say, being almost
infinitely more happy that one cannot.
Taste the silent bite of the soul as it
bores like a drill through the deepest
ocean floor.
Quickly uncorrupt thyself.
Drown the spheres, unleash the tide of
sighs.
Consecrate thyself to Silence.
Involute the original Want.
Fail to arrive by being already there.
Accept what you have become: a
buffoon, a monster, a one-sided abyss.
Find happiness: the fact that nothing
can make you happy.
See the world for what it is: further
proof that you are not being honest with
yourself.
Spend no more than a week with
yourself.
Being left behind by everything, leave
everything behind being.
Have enough of words.
Polish all day the spear point of perfect
abandonment.
To thine own nausea be true.
Point yourself to the exit.
Change your name to Exit.
Observe yourself seeing that you are not
anything you see.

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N
543.
544.
545.
546.
547.
548.
549.
550.
551.
552.
553.
554.
555.
556.
557.

558.
559.
560.
561.

562.

Stop trying to con truth.

Unveil the multiverse where talking is
possible.
Accelerate to the speed at which nothing
ever happens.
Dont.
Stop life from thinking life away by
thinking it has a life.
Sterilize the infectee of feeling thwarted.
Become so clear you cant see it.
Take it ALL.
Want nothing from nobody.
Think and see like sand in the oyster of
omniscience.
Lose everyone.
Ask why they ask you your name.
Dont take your word for it.
Observe yourself as the blindspot of
everything.
Continue what never began, end what
never continues, begin what never will
end.
Erase the faintest idea of where you
really are.
Accuse everything of being itself.
Understand the failure of being
understood.
Imagine how deeply asleep you are in
order to be dreaming your life away in
this universe.
Embrace the infinity of hyper-significant
irrelevance.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

563.
564.
565.
566.
567.
568.

569.
570.
571.
572.
573.
574.
575.
576.
577.
578.
579.
580.
581.

Embrace three times the moment of

seeing that you own body is a ghost.
Exist for the first time again.
Be eternally what will never have been.
Let what whatever happens to have
never happened.
Actually no longer be.
Pinpoint the site where ones irides,
bleeding razor tears, cut a pupil on the
horizon.
Feel so everything.
Be afraid of how afraid you really are.
Reduce to tautology excitement and
despair.
Remind the question not to forget who is
asking it.
Leap into lifting the impossible veil
yourself.
Know every moment that you have
wasted your entire life.
Diagram the point at which overness is
over.
Cherish the degree of honesty that no
one wants.
Die fighting the eternal war between
THIS and THAT.
Pre-escape the trap of expectation.
Smile for the first time.
Say no to the person who is
masquerading as you.
Play back the recording of all your
nervous laughter for our listening
pleasure.

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N
582.
583.
584.
585.
586.
587.
588.
589.
590.
591.
592.
593.
594.
595.
596.
597.
598.
599.

600.
601.

Undrink the drop of every desire into

the ocean of . . .
See without you being there.
Accidentally lose your head on purpose.
Earn a degree of separation between art
and laziness.
Burst at the SEEMS.
Spot immediately how mixed up I really
am.
Reform the one who is trying to change
conditions.
Lose nothing by taking away everything
that never was in the first place.
Lean everything against everything until
all falls down.
Beware any language you want to hear.
Discover whether there is an alternative
to the nothingness you call something.
Explain why your vast knowledge means
nothing.
Fail everyone and everything.
Rise like a sun vanishing from the face
of life.
Wake up less than lost in the invisible
dark.
Find a way to exist without existing.
Have nothing to offer no one.
Consider the maximum seriousness with
which anything has ever been
considered.
Live an infinity of lives that never
happen.
Ask why you are human.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

602.
603.
604.
605.
606.
607.
608.
609.
610.
611.
612.
613.
614.
615.
616.
617.
618.
619.
620.

Live now in negative time.

Amass evidence of everything not being
there.
Take the path of no return.
Apologize on behalf of the universe.
Crush yourself to death with a simple
realization that no one understands.
Perform the stage with no one on it.
Be the dream that, beyond this world,
produces worldly dreams.
Be the world that, beyond this dream,
produces dreamy worlds.
Succumb to the incurable ecstasy of the
incurable.
Blindly obey the law of the conservation
of consciousness.
See that the mirror is insane.
Consider the smell of scorched wings as
the moths perfume.
Seize the impossibility of conscious
complaint.
Not to do without doing, but to not do
without not doing.
Eat the cockroach as it crawls across the
page of thought.
Face the fact that you have absolutely no
idea how to live.
Avoid the pandemic of phony
casualness.
Live in totally different worlds.
Amass overwhelming evidence that the
universe is not even the tip of the
iceberg.

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N
621.
622.
623.
624.

625.
626.
627.
628.
629.
630.
631.
632.
633.
634.
635.
636.
637.

Draw that which everything is a diagram

of.
Speak to the one before whom all words
say nothing.
Seek only that which has already taken
everything away.
Bury at least one of the many sources of
all lifes problems: the idea that you are
alive.
Know too well who the abandonment of
who will never abandon you is.
Never know what to think.
Leave yourself alone.
Want everything to have nothing, want
nothing to have everything.
Actually be what never exists, to actually
do what never happens.
Summarize the whole situation in seven
incomplete sentences.
Appall thyself ever more with the spiral
storm in your heart.
Have no choice but to actually become
the reality one is.
Be nearly certain from afar that a second
close encounter will be fatal.
Secretly do for the sake of . . . what no
one will ever understand.
Wake now, one by one, in the place
where all are sleeping.
Be crucified on the horizon.
Stop saying and start doing all that you
ever said.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

638.
639.
640.
641.
642.
643.
644.
645.
646.
647.
648.
649.
650.
651.
652.

653.
654.
655.
656.

Take all the garbage out in one piece, the

only piece of garbage.
Make it atop the spiral, with or without
yourself.
Sew your wounds up with the one true
lie.
Feel the time that time feels.
Embrace the misfortune of being that
which makes one want nothing.
Walk on the inside of the horizon.
Forever remain friends with the
unsurvivable.
Care only about one thing without
having any clue what it is.
Renounce the life-dream as not yours.
Unmask the dramatics of being in
trouble.
See that it is not happeningthis is.
Stand imperially alone in the presence of
sky.
Trace freedom to the void.
Stay in the game by remaining outside.
Be something that eternal omniscience
somehow failed to notice and will never
mention.
Do not die not knowing how shallow you
really are.
Drown before its too late.
Be unsure whether you did not wake up
or did not fall asleep.
Hang out with what is left when the
world leaves the world.

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N
657.
658.
659.
660.
661.
662.
663.
664.
665.
666.
667.
668.
669.
670.
671.
672.
673.
674.

Unconvince yourself that you are a

concerned citizen.
Remain at a total loss minus remaining
at a total loss.
Fill natures horror of emptiness with
spirits horror of fullness.
Be gone, still here, past having been,
again before being.
Consciously wake up.
Unknow everything about the ocean
except how to swim.
Communicate with yourself on a needto-know basis.
Take the first step toward destroying an
illusion: seeing that you are it.
No longer go.
Only read books that read your
thoughts.
Sever the head that refuses to feel what
the heart knows.
Cut out the heart that refuses to know
what the head feels.
Hold back the sea with a smile.
Get out and see the world: presence of
the absence of self-negation.
Agree that the dream is beyond this
world.
Find the treasure found simply by not
seeking anything else.
Follow directions nowhere.
Break the bars of this prison that never
existed.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

675.
676.
677.

678.
679.
680.
681.
682.
683.
684.
685.
686.
687.
688.
689.
690.
691.

Transcribe in silent breath the word

your blood speaks.
Give up altogether on there being a way
to be.
Prove once and for all, by doing
absolutely nothing, that there is
absolutely nothing to fear.
Feed the world thoughts that make it
ashamed of thinking.
Conjure an entity who abandons
language the moment it appears.
Fast forward the seed into a bomb.
Slow down the catastrophe to a day at
the beach.
Endure the preference for abstraction as
a sign of incipient love.
Accept infinitely in advance the prospect
of an absolute disproportion.
Wonder whatever happened to yourself.
Stop everything, except the beginning of
the end and the end of the beginning.
Cloak the mystery in nothing but its own
light.
Meet yourself by sending an invitation
to no one.
Surpass me by going slower.
Fall behind by going faster.
Earn an A+ for flunking.
Choose whether there are: a) no rules
and none follow them; b) only rules and
all follow them; c) no rules and all follow
them; d) only rules and none follow

38

692.
693.
694.
695.
696.
697.

698.
699.

700.
701.
702.
703.

704.
705.
706.

them; e) all of the above; f) none of the

above.
Forget that which remembers
everything.
Remember that which forgets
everything.
See yourself as nothing but an
unwillingness to see yourself.
Be totally clueless for no reason what to
do or say about anything.
Be too busy for the time being to be in
time.
Find out whatever became of that
student who misread all philosophy as
an instruction to do something.
Ponder neither the ponderables nor the
imponderables.
Attend a mass demonstration in which
everyone rises in protest against
themselves.
Sit not in a cave, thinking cold thought,
leaving to others to do as you ought.
Embrace and evade the curse at the
same time.
Delete your default position before the
end of this sentence.
Share the obvious secret absolute nondifference between loving everything
and caring about nothing.
Seek pardon for having been.
Take the blame for your own birth.
Listen to your heart beat aloud in the
endless dark.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

707.
708.
709.
710.
711.
712.
713.
714.
715.
716.
717.
718.
719.
720.
721.
722.
723.

724.

725.
726.

Have everything to show for yourself.

Stop acting like.
Sense your body as the smoke of a soul
burning slowly in hell.
Know that death is coming and you are
it.
Be born tattooed with yourself.
Go where there is nowhere to go.
Refuse to know without knowing how to
know.
Mark the point where space refuses to
exist.
Feel free to stand nearer at night to your
dream window.
Kiss light.
Forget whose turn it is to take the
runaway train of melo-terror for a spin.
Fit through, not in.
Clearly see that you have every reason to
fear nothing.
Have nothing to show for your self.
End my beginning. Begin my ending.
Unbegin my ending. Unend my
beginning.
Simply accept that so much happens
everywhere all the time that nothing
ever happens anywhere at all.
Take no pills for the gnowsea, that
mysterious periodic vertigo, like waves
of nourishing hunger, induced by living
in the present.
Dont care what the world is like.
Lose everything, starting with losing.

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N
727.
728.
729.
730.
731.
732.
733.
734.
735.
736.
737.
738.

739.
740.
741.
742.
743.
744.

Smile with tears, laugh with sighs, moan

with smiles, sob with cries.
Totally unravel.
Find happiness in the fact that nothing
makes you happy.
Die by looking forward to waking from
this dream.
Dream by looking forward to dying from
this waking.
Wake by looking forward to dreaming
this dying.
Die by looking forward to dreaming this
waking.
Wake by looking forward to dying from
this dreaming.
Dream by looking forward to waking
from this death.
Feed your throat-lump to the sparrows
and/or the cats.
Dont have enemies, let them have you.
Attend an event where fines and
admission fees converge into a pure
ticket, the price of doing nothing.
Seize the difficulty of deciding between
absent presence and present absence.
Dont happen to be human.
See that I, the dreamer, is the dream of
dreams.
Pursue philosophy as fear of being.
Let the spirit expand as life continues,
crushing the heart with every breath.
Be so happy about the promise to meet
that we have already met.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

745.
746.
747.
748.
749.
750.
751.
752.
753.
754.
755.
756.
757.
758.
759.
760.
761.
762.
763.

Take what you like because all things

have already been taken away.
Give up what is keeping you from giving
up, then give up giving up, then give up.
Close the gap between I give up and give
up I.
Consider the almost intolerable excess
of experience in every direction.
Never think that you can think.
See another kind of tear that shoots
straight out of my pupil.
Fall into a well at the bottom of the sea.
Eliminate all problems by not being
someone trying to fix a problem.
Taste the reason human beings think of
God when they kill bugs.
Whatever you do, dont talk about the
art.
Cancel your subscription to yourselfit
expired at birth.
Please do not complicate the method by
not applying it.
Stop making interesting points by
speaking as if life were possible.
Make an indifference.
Lose the kind of hopelessness that
thinks you will get something out of it.
Foster nothing.
Draw imaginary divisions because all
divisions are imaginary.
Invite everything to attend nothing.
See that which guarantees delivery of all
tears to their destination.

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N
764.
765.

766.

767.

768.

769.
770.

771.
772.
773.
774.

775.
776.
777.

Unfulfill all your dreams one way or

another.
Surf the point at which the tsunami
finds itself proceeding without the hot
air balloon.
Leave yourself behind to find me. Leave
me behind to find no one. Leave no one
behind to find you.
Meet the one who saw all you thoughtfelt-did when you were alone and was
totally bored.
Suffer the pain of hearing the sound of
silence as nothing saying everything to
nothing.
Ask whether this hallucination is real or
just a world.
Hear how every utterance as a failed
attempt to understand what the words
mean.
Fail at failing, flailing and flaying failure
into a flying foil of the fall of falls.
Succumb to being perpetually struck
down by the lightning virus
Leap nowhere by perishing in every
direction.
Make a choice: either know what you are
talking about or stop talking the way you
do.
Be no less lost than I.
Combat the boredom of art with the art
of boredom.
Photograph all the reflections in your
tears.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

778.
779.

780.
781.
782.

783.
784.
785.
786.
787.
788.
789.
790.
791.
792.
793.
794.
795.
796.

Keep your attention everywhere all the

time.
Avoid completely the problem with
people being attracted by what other
people do to attract them.
Do not try to steer the hot air balloon.
Unsolve the problem with expression.
See an opening of the eye of space, a
sunrise the likes of which no one has
seen.
Catch the overflow of void, surplus of
zero, orgasm of nothing.
Lets run off together and leave
ourselves alone.
Get ready: reality will be coming home
any minute now.
Smell the grass and flowers growing
over your grave.
Do as thou dont know what to do.
Let the world drown by hearing this
thought.
Be where there is nothing to see.
Stop spotting what you want.
Gulp down the jolt to your entire
system.
Sleepwalk the tightrope line between
waking and dreaming.
Suddenly wake up in a million new ways
at once.
Diagnose life with Cotardian delusion.
Follow the instruction to let everything
fail.
Shatter the tragic pattern, split today.

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N
797.
798.

799.
800.
801.

802.

803.

804.

805.
806.
807.

808.

809.

Cherish the only thing it is impossible to

detach oneself from.
Be deafened by unspeakable speech,
drown in uncryable tears, die amid
unsighable sighs.
Seize the opportunity of announcing the
fact of your own death.
Be both wind and balloon.
Think about what head and body mean
when they simultaneously say to each
other get this thing off of me with the
same mouth.
Know nothing & feel nothing. Feel
nothing & know everything. Know
nothing & feel everything. Feel
everything & know everything.
Let the page become a flash in which
words realize that they are the one
writing.
Know how good it is that your beauty is
not yours, how true it is that you are not
good.
Die as fresh as the day you were born.
Articulate the reason it seems like
nothing ever happens.
Equate fear of death with desire to keep
sleeping, for dreams do not want to
wake up.
Take a stand against not seeing what is
looking directly at you from all
directions.
Stop not seeing the familiarity of
everything.

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810.
811.
812.

813.
814.
815.
816.
817.
818.
819.

820.
821.
822.

823.
824.

Sit in the light, open your eyes, and

enter the darkness.
Desire what you want more than
wanting.
Think what will happen when you see
that the sorrow in you is the same abyss
as me.
Feel the overwhelming relief without
ever finding it.
Put your finger on what you cannot
consider.
Stay away from yourself faster than you
can think.
Lose a life never yours.
Spread plague without becoming a pest.
Do not think that you are not pregnant.
See it everywhere without you, without
you seeing it, without seeing that you are
seeing it, without seeing, it.
Talk with the one whose silence is pure
seduction.
Dont want to die because you do. Want
to die because you dont.
Burn every moment the infinite letter
expressing in perfect detail how you feel
about everything.
Gaze upon the universe as an asymptotic
search for real conversation.
Gather mounting evidence that you have
not only fallen from, but were never on,
your horse.

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N
825.

826.
827.
828.

829.

830.
831.
832.
833.
834.
835.
836.
837.
838.

839.
840.
841.

Never stop stumbling upon the invisible

appearance of someone who makes
doing anything impossible.
Burn with overwhelming desire to never
say anything ever again.
Feel now that sinking feeling that this is
not the afterlife yet.
Know that there is every reason to feel
sorry for yourself because there is no self
to feel sorry for.
Choose now between two options: a) to
be someone and nothing; x) to be no one
and everything.
Kiss the baby that cuts its own umbilical
cord.
Lose all bearings save the invisible.
Love-hate the fear of the lack of
aesthetics.
Be as embarrassed to be me as I am
embarrassed to be you.
Amputate your third leg faster than it
grows back.
Enjoy the conspiracy of itself.
Fail miserably at playing it cool.
Dont worryeverything is still over.
Speak on every topic with a touch of
environy, the sense that place never
quite resembles itself.
Hear what you hear, not want you want.
Stay here, or leave and come back when
the pain becomes too great again.
Throw out the junk to find the jewel.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

842.

843.
844.
845.
846.
847.
848.

849.
850.
851.
852.
853.
854.
855.
856.
857.
858.
859.

Remind yourself to forget. Forget

yourself to remember. Recollect your
mind. Dismember yourself.
Follow no one all the way home.
Let the footnotes speak for themselves.
Wish yourself good luck with THAT.
Be neither awake nor alive.
Meet the one you will only ever see again
by never having been.
Shrink the distance between and the
moment when you will have to forget
everything that you ever learned.
Never again think that you havent
already lost.
Know that you are missing everything
and be OK with it.
Meet me again in this world minus
everything that never was.
Knock yourself out trying to think and
know at the same time.
Die unknowing what you never missed.
Find something where you are not.
Take it anymore because you never
have.
Hunt the jungle in the cage of the
panther.
Stare into the fire of the eye the seeing of
which is our being seen.
Give the All-Knowing One something to
think about.
Elide the inexistent difference between
capitalism and narco-capitalism.

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N
860.
861.
862.
863.
864.
865.

866.
867.

868.

869.
870.

871.

872.
873.
874.

Have fun watching everything you ever

wanted to say fly out the window.
Gird yourself with the thread of fate.
Imagine how bad life would be if reality
were not so terrifying.
Mourn everything with nothing, mourn
nothing with everything.
Splice the film of consciousness like the
video of its own beheading.
Feel the lightness of the universe
floating nowhere, hear the darkness of
the mirror.
Realize that you have been trying to
build an airplane out of your own wings.
Be impressed by how I am not
impressed. Impress me by not being
impressed.
Work behind the scenes until there is no
scene. Live behind the times until there
is no time.
Pass all compliments on to your corpse.
Check to see if one of the wheels has
fallen offthe chariot is moving in a
circle.
Fail to buy another object in which art
and theory compete to outworsen each
other.
Be happy in the fact that nothing makes
you happy.
Whatever is said, know that I am saying
something else entirely.
Let the time come when there comes a
time.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

875.
876.
877.
878.

879.
880.
881.
882.
883.
884.
885.
886.
887.
888.
889.
890.
891.
892.
893.

Fall in love with the apotheosis of

pessimism.
Hear everything and still receive no
word.
Endure everything by enduring nothing.
Endure nothing by enduring everything.
Feel an infinite silliness suffering
infinitely the absolutely unsharable
knowledge of how truly serious it really
is.
Take eternal refuge in an article.
Have no idea what has happened to you.
Become the echo within an empty tomb.
Perish the thinking.
Die so many times you forget what death
is like.
Wake up without you: the wrong side of
yourself.
No longer know without ever having
known.
Find happiness, not something to make
you happy.
Obey the infinitely unaccountable and
radically immanent absence of concern.
Show an ounce of courage for the first
time in your stupid life.
Look nowhere.
Get it way way less than you do.
Fashion a golden mosaic of all our
glimpses.
Evaporate from your own view.
Touch the point where pain and you are
the same person.

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N
894.
895.
896.
897.
898.
899.
900.
901.

902.
903.
904.
905.
906.
907.
908.
909.

Dont ask questions when you can live in

doubt.
Finally love the answer more than
asking the question.
Stop wanting to think what you like to
think.
Impose yourself on no one.
See that I am far more serious than I
am.
Resurface from life as from a flooded
basement.
Set about finding the strength necessary
to enjoy me.
Dont worrybecause worry is more
worrisome than whatever it worries
about. Be happybecause happiness is
more happy than whatever it is happy
about.
Fear fear way more than anything it
fears.
Become the last thing you are interested
in.
Stop admiring people.
Idolize nothing, not even that.
Learn to lose, lose to learn. Lose
learning, learn losing.
Discover the real problem: that
everything is actually perfect.
Kick yourself out of your mind.
Wonder if you know how much I
wonder, know if you wonder how much I
know.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

910.
911.
912.
913.
914.
915.
916.
917.
918.
919.
920.

921.

922.
923.
924.
925.
926.
927.
928.

Remember that the act by which you

form these images is not itself an image.
Achieve your goal: actual experience of
achieving a goal you can never achieve.
Face all day the massive mistake that no
one wants to face.
Praise everything that prevents you from
winning.
No longer want more of what you
already are.
Crawl beyond fear and courage.
Fail this test.
Give the gift that remains when
everything is given away.
String theory yourself along into a spiral
sphere.
Say no to not saying yes to X no matter
what.
Realize that you have accidentally on
purpose renounced everything without
realizing it.
Find the infinity of things inside the
room with you that are neither inside
nor outside the room.
Undermine calamity with mischievous
curiosity.
Be not fooled by what has been
rehearsing its lines for billions of years.
Be laughed at by the divine comedy.
Laugh in ON.
Know better.
Be 100% in favor of what must be done.
Explore the maximum intimacy of void.

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N
929.
930.

931.
932.
933.
934.
935.
936.
937.
938.
939.
940.
941.
942.
943.
944.
945.
946.

Fight the enemy on no ones terms.

Forget the falseness of trying to be true,
the evil of trying to be good, the ugliness
of trying to be beautiful.
Tell me how you feel if you were real.
Be offended to be.
Adopt a zero tolerance policy on not
losing.
Fail to catch thrownness like an autogoal.
Be all you can be: the fear of losing you.
Stay on THAT side of the horizon.
Worry not whether you play the game
but how you lose.
Since you missed your birth, at least
show up for your death.
Place my ear to the earth and unplug the
earth from my ears.
Notice how you lose every argument
with yourself.
Know that reality wants to be known
more than you want to know it.
Hunt the animals capacity to outgrow
itself.
Fly over the influence.
Die as though you were alive.
Hear the infinite preemptive echo of
itself.
Please repeat THATall I heard was the
disjunction between what you said and
what you are.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

947.

948.
949.

950.

951.
952.
953.
954.
955.
956.
957.
958.
959.
960.
961.
962.

Fly nowhere on the wind of itself, over

the seas of memory, lost being too free,
in the night of the world.
Jeopardize the very mode of your
existence.
Crack inside jokes for the outside until
the laughter snaps everything back into
place.
Speak only in anaphorisms, prefer-nottos that pronounce all and answer no
one.
Suspend movement without towards
into towards without movement.
Reach the summit by never getting off
the ground.
Win by only entering battles you have
already lost.
Realize just how much sense everything
does not make.
Become an unkillable victim of the
incommunicable.
Fear the impossibility of fearing
anything outside yourself.
Know why I want you so desperately to
know what you already do.
See that the demons are there because
you think they are not.
Scare tigers away where there arent any.
Laugh off the joke of your body.
Sink higher.
Find yourself on the wrong side of
everything.

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N
963.
964.
965.
966.
967.
968.
969.

970.
971.
972.
973.
974.
975.
976.
977.

978.
979.
980.
981.

Constantly fail to not think what one

cannot even think about.
See through the self-mirror darkly.
Joust in the arms of the horizon.
Be very afraid of belonging to any
organization.
Cease acting like you know what to do
with yourself.
Become an incast, lost at home in exile
from nothing.
Spoil the party by making fun of
philosophy, ruin your life with a lecture
on the sigh.
See that however bad it is, the truth of it
is not.
Solve the mystery of birth as direct proof
of insanity.
Endure the evening of desire, the night
of longing, the dawn of surrender.
Fall for the folly of photographing the
infravisible.
Await nothing forever.
Stop bumping into life.
Prescribe Cotard syndrome to itself.
See each image as the picture of a tear,
hearing each thought as the motion of a
sigh.
Endure the beginning until the very end.
Prove yourself unreal by reading this.
Fail to be able to tell whether not being
able to tell.
Follow the messenger back to the bed of
the one who made you.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

982.
983.
984.
985.
986.
987.
988.
989.

990.
991.
992.
993.
994.
995.
996.
997.
998.
999.
1000.
1001.

Arrive at the unending upon the being

over of what never was.
Shock yourself to death by ever having
thought that anything is happening.
Leave yourself behind for no reason at
all.
Have nothing leftnothing but the
nothing that is there in the beginning.
Prove thyself to be nothing after all.
Let occur to you what will never occur to
you.
Prove beyond a shadow of doubt that
you are simply wrong.
Focus on the only thing worth
mentioning after there is absolutely
nothing more to say.
Internally avoid pronouns like the
plague.
Be blinded by what a tear sees.
Exit the strategy.
Die by remaining cheerful.
Be killed to life by a dream.
Notice that the whole thing is impossible
from the start.
Be as different as life itself.
See the eye as the blindspot of itself and
the other.
Listen to music without the sound.
Ask what it means never to ask what it
means.
Settle that it is not settled.
Wake from the dream of being awake.

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N
1002.
1003.
1004.
1005.
1006.
1007.
1008.

1009.
1010.
1011.

1012.
1013.
1014.
1015.
1016.
1017.
1018.
1019.
1020.
1021.
1022.

Stop it from happening to you by no

longer saying me.
Turn things out to not.
Do not make much of things.
Observe the image where it is more real.
No longer refuse to see what the whole
universe actually is.
Unposition the future.
Land at the point where sophisticated
historically-contextualized selfconsciousness is as irrelevant as it has
always been.
Be dwarfed to zero by all that you have
intimated.
Be here not.
Plan only the thisthe moment of
realization that you are as stupid as
everyone else.
Fight at the front line of every war: you.
HJave nothing to do with religion or
politics.
Surround yourself with no one.
Give the nothingness of yourself to
everyone you see.
Make sure no one has seen you recently.
Be here, be destroyed.
Sleep through the veil between birth and
death.
Perform a lifetime.
Hear always a name whose sound makes
breath a blinking of the hearts eye.
No longer know how to live.
Give thanks for never having been.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

1023.

1024.
1025.
1026.
1027.
1028.
1029.
1030.
1031.
1032.
1033.
1034.
1035.
1036.
1037.
1038.
1039.
1040.

Run automatically at the speed at which

the heart-lamp burns a hole through the
film of consciousness.
Apologize for having ever thought
anything.
Follow one thing to another to itself.
Dwell in a fantasy world of your own
decreation.
Become one great ear.
Punish WE until it is unable to speak
without special permission.
Eliminate WE to the max.
Drink the bliss that makes your eyes set
moths on fire.
Terrify the enemy with the sight of your
own severed head.
Sell yourself into slavery.
Spend everything on what cannot be
bought.
Avoid presenting the paper before you
have suffered its truth.
Walk tall in prostrate gratitude that you
never were.
Swing gently in the noose of inescaping
sighs.
Drown all day long in the scream of
Try not to nurture anyone.
Accelerate sound past the future of light
speed.
Never stop waking up by always failing
to distinguish between dream and
waking.

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N
1041.
1042.

1043.
1044.
1045.
1046.
1047.
1048.
1049.
1050.
1051.
1052.
1053.
1054.
1055.
1056.
1057.
1058.
1059.
1060.
1061.
1062.

Enter the cave of escape. Exit the hatch

of exit.
Find the point at which your veins start
sucking the vampire into your blood
through its own teeth.
Link to itself.
Sleep below the floor and wake up above
the ceiling.
Snag your tooth on space and trip your
eye on time.
Aatch a dream wake up without you.
Crawl under the situation in which it is
possible you actually exist.
Scar the void.
Be exiled from the country of you.
Non-improve reality.
See where I is.
Perform zero for the sake of nothing.
Desire, long, surrender, die, repeat ...
Be the one who walks you corpse to the
grave.
Find consolation in the madness-option.
Loose the arrow of the sigh that no one
sighs.
Ask not what to do with this.
Have no reason to be pessimistic or
optimistic.
Neutralize the end.
Write a book that speaks like your
severed head.
Become a ghoast.
Consider only three authorship options:
forged, pseudonymous, posthumous.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

1063.
1064.
1065.

1066.
1067.
1068.

1069.

1070.

1071.
1072.
1073.

1074.
1075.
1076.

Say yes to the no in the now.

Establish facts smarter than ideas.
Make a cut between the beginning of the
middle of the end and the end of the
beginning of the middle.
Consider to whom your blood belongs.
Block yourself.
Firmly establish thyself within an order
of existential confusion from which the
world, the flesh, and the devil forever
flee in terror.
Join the planet-wide campaign to
replace all sad, angry, and worried looks
with buttons that read Defeated by
Life.
Hasten to where meaning becomes too
meaningless and meaninglessness too
meaningful.
Imagine not that what never existed in
the first place can become extinct.
Dont not confuse yourself with the
sorrow you feel for yourself.
Attend another talk on what talking
should do, inside a panel on the
possibilities of the panel, towards a
conference on the future of conferences.
Prepare to lose, whether you fight God
or not.
Update the status of yourself to never
mind.
Be the dream that makes me forget the
whole dream.

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N
1077.

1078.
1079.
1080.
1081.

1082.
1083.
1084.
1085.
1086.
1087.
1088.
1089.

1090.

1091.
1092.

Lose all ones marbles and see them

floating in the heavens as far as the eye
can see.
Only backbite everyone all at once.
Play peak-a-byss in paradise with baby
universes.
Race with the light that flees the
lightning.
Be pronounced by the Astonishing Inner
Underworld of Overwhelming
Experience.
Lasciami in rapace.
Be not wise.
Allow omniscience to write that letter
for you.
Run into the ground of thy beseeching.
Figure out that having grown up and
being here are mutually exclusive.
Bump into the someone who is taking
yourself for a walk.
Walk out in the middle of the universal
movie.
Feel inexplicably and subtly weird all
over, like something from beyond the
shoreless shore is about to pounce in
your pulse.
Blacken beautifully thy human face with
an uncontrollable surplus of boisterous
sobbing.
Meet me in the Hyperborean cathedral
of frozen tears.
Calmly shout a silent hyperfriendly soulscream across all distance.

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1093.

1094.
1095.

1096.
1097.
1098.
1099.

1100.
1101.
1102.
1103.

1104.
1105.
1106.
1107.
1108.

Lose your voice by Julian of Norwich

feeding to Margery Kempe the ball that
Clarice Lispector rolled out of your
throat-lump.
Accept ( )holeheartedly everything and
nothing.
Feel pretty sure the problem has
something to do with wanting anything
at all.
Let everything else have something to
say, not you.
Dont say nothing, be everything.
No longer care about anything and go on
loving no one for no reason eternally.
Be without recourse to being, without
recourse to recourse, and without
without.
Avoid the mistake of thinking you know
how to live.
Calmly sketch the mountainous waves of
inner storm.
See the whole universe blinding itself in
a paroxysm of sorrow.
Win by losing and lose by winning the
competition between a loss that wins
and a win that loses.
Explain not.
Dont let the universe rub off on you.
Swim the net to freedom.
Use language from a hyper-losing
position of total chesslessness.
Say everything without saying.

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N
1109.
1110.
1111.

1112.
1113.
1114.

1115.
1116.
1117.

1118.
1119.
1120.
1121.
1122.

1123.

Sink so far that the summit becomes a

mountain climber in search of you.
Stop lying by thinking the world is there.
Know not how to say this solely on the
basis of not knowing whether saying is
possible.
Discover that you are the kind of fish
that mistakes the hook for the bait.
Make it to the point where point itself
gets up and walks away.
Pursue the peril of letting ones throatlump speak for oneself on the last day of
everything.
Think from the point where every single
thought begins with you have no idea.
Steer clear of yourself on the ocean of
Sign a universal, infinitely binding pact
to never again think, feel, or act about
yourself.
Lifesave the heart that goes swimming
in the heart.
Harmlessly ruin yourself forever
through no fault of your own.
Lose the mind you never had.
Find rest in the fact that life simply
consists of continual weeping.
Hunt yourself empty-handed in the
forest of restless sorrow and come back
trussed up on a raft down the river of no
return.
Lose the battle between wanting and
wanting to want nothing.

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1124.
1125.
1126.
1127.
1128.
1129.
1130.
1131.
1132.
1133.

1134.
1135.
1136.
1137.
1138.
1139.
1140.
1141.

Stop pretending to not see that I am

dying a thousand times a day.
Still no longer fathom the depth of what
did not happen.
Enjoy the eternal honor of being the notyourself who stole no ones heart.
Double a zero through itself into the
menagerie of infinity.
Scare away all the scared people by
running toward the Monster.
Chase yourself out of the woods of
longing and despair.
Drive the spear in further by walking in
any direction.
Let everything explain itself perfectly.
Succeed at near success suddenly
followed by total failure.
Stop being impressed by the
demonstration of skillthere is nothing
to it.
Live in the tomb of love undying.
Ecstatically confess a high degree of
idiocy.
Out the closet.
Hear that the snake sounds like a rope.
Show up where no longer being is the
only way of seeing anything every again.
Hear love never divulge its reason for
loving.
Hear reason never divulge its love of
reasoning.
See that you are nothing next to the
forces at work within you.

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N
1142.
1143.
1144.
1145.
1146.
1147.
1148.
1149.

1150.
1151.
1152.
1153.
1154.
1155.
1156.
1157.
1158.
1159.
1160.

Be still and know that I am gone.

Listen to what I say after you filter out
the whirring in my mind.
Confirm that life has vanished.
Be yourself, the worst that can happen
to you.
Ovulate with ones eyes.
Hyperopically dilate the pupilverse into
swallowing the cosmic egg.
Blind the horizon with a wink.
Sink into terminal suspicion that there is
neither inside nor outside, only an allsignificant simplicity impossible to
fathom.
Feed the disease with thoughts of cure.
Lose wit, let syllables fall, so that the
unsaid, may express all.
Be guilty of being you.
Drown in the incommensurable.
Become eternal by waiting for (an)
eternity.
Stay in the conversation by shouting
silence.
Formulate the reason they only want
truth in argument form.
Come to the truth of this by the same
way that anything is happening at all.
Let presumptuous eagerness be
disappointed.
Fall to the ground upon which this your
inexistence hangs.
Experience life-threatening difficulty
understanding why people are saying

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1161.

1162.
1163.
1164.
1165.
1166.
1167.
1168.
1169.
1170.
1171.
1172.
1173.
1174.
1175.
1176.
1177.
1178.
1179.

what they are saying the way they are

saying it and why.
Be pierced with the kind of arrow whose
removal turns the whole universe inside
out.
Instruct yourself to fail.
Effortlessly amass further proof that this
world is not your home.
Admit it.
Be fatally wounded with forever.
Impale thyself on an infinite spear of
distilled crystal tears.
Trash the universe before it is too late.
Cure me of the dream of you.
Be happy in sorrow, mourn in joy.
Pretend not to have infected my soul.
Hear my deafness speakirrationally
to your muteness.
Infinitely accept the gift of giving
yourself up.
See everything so amazing that there is
nothing quite like it.
Melt the mountain, swallow the sky,
drown the ocean, become all tear.
Consider what to do if you cant stand to
be a subject of experience anymore.
Fade out of the world into and from
which you were never born.
Tell a Cotardian delusionist to get a life.
Try not to act as if life were not a fatal
wound.
Stop pretending you are the first person
to suffer being you.

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1180.
1181.
1182.
1183.
1184.
1185.
1186.
1187.
1188.

1189.
1190.
1191.
1192.
1193.
1194.
1195.

1196.

See it everywhere, find it in nothing.

Desire our zero, belong to this trust,
resign everything, and love all to dust.
Run out of time.
Dont mistake mercury for crystal or
liquid crystal for either.
Never again be tricked by threat of
losing what you never had to begin with.
Feast on not devouring the idolized fear
you are feeding off of.
Destroy the enemy with no one to defeat
it.
Be relegated to the no-one category.
Define time as the speed at which you
notice that nothing ever happens and
space as the place where you see that
everything already has.
Imagine the intelligence it takes to make
nothing work out.
Seek out that which gets under the skin
of everything.
Think the world if it stopped worrying.
Bask in beauty until your decapitation is
beheaded.
Read it like Cioran without the jokes.
Wonder whether there is a price for
remembering something forever.
Lose the battle between the absolute
maximization of insignificance and the
infinite intensification of meaning.
Feel free to feel indescribably strange
about everything.

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1197.
1198.
1199.
1200.

1201.
1202.
1203.
1204.

1205.
1206.
1207.
1208.
1209.
1210.
1211.
1212.
1213.

Take antipodal paths to meet on this

side of the other earth.
Still have a shot at being wrong ones
entire life.
Pit the power of all reasons against the
impotence of all explanations.
Lose yourself in the debate between
what head says about heart and what
heart says about head.
Search every corner of your heart until
your heart is everywhere.
Return here after seeing absolutely
everything.
Stand on the edge of the cliff where no
new experience will do it for you.
Become a body moved by a breath, a
breath moved by a thought, a thought
moved by a body.
Portray the impression between every
two things.
Inhale you the more I exhale meinhale
me the more I exhale you.
Ob-alliterate thyself beyond being.
Win the philosophical race between
horse, horsiness, and horseness.
Know not where the word comes from,
who hears it, or where it goes.
Leap lightly into darkness.
See fog as sunshine.
Stop dreaming this universe, wake up
from yourself, and take a look around.
Tug on the chain of being until all
hearts skip a beat.

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1214.
1215.

1216.
1217.
1218.
1219.
1220.
1221.
1222.
1223.
1224.
1225.
1226.
1227.

1228.
1229.
1230.
1231.

Unlive life as neither end, beginning,

nor middle.
Swim safe as a tardigrade through the
hydrothermal vents of your deepest
soul-wound.
Practice individuation by birth, death by
individuation, and life by death.
Admit that birth is not the first time you
failed to solve that problem.
Lay my head on the pillow of your
pupilsa guillotine of dreams.
Lock me in a room without myself.
Answer messages by not existing.
No longer be there for yourself.
Dont happen.
Become the only excuse for being.
Accept responsibility for being how it all
came to this.
Weep away the dream.
Be fatally wounded with forever.
Fall more and more in love with reality
seeing how much less and less sense it
makes.
Take credit for being the beginning of
my end.
Suddenly see that this is.
Reconsider every hour the level at which
you actually live.
Stay forever with never: Never born,
never die. Never cured, never sick.
Never found, never lost. Never with,
never without. Never arrived, never
departed.

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1232.
1233.
1234.
1235.
1236.
1237.

1238.
1239.
1240.
1241.

1242.
1243.

1244.
1245.
1246.
1247.
1248.
1249.
1250.

Never have been at home.

Trim the burning fringes of being.
Abandon all hope, ye who exit.
Be the worst that can happen to you.
Answer whats wrong with me? with
you.
Terminally suspect that there is neither
inside nor outside, only an allsignificant simplicity impossible to
fathom.
Live all day in the dumbest of questions.
Play tag with no one.
Discover your true self: the only
problem in existence.
Realize that this universe is the insane
asylum you should have checked
yourself into aeons ago.
Find the one you will only ever see again
by never having been.
Dont have the faintest idea what you are
talking about and still mean everything
you say.
Faint by hearing what I do not say.
Take all my strength to not use any of it.
Find a totally new way to renounce
everything.
Take me away from myself forever.
Find the summit from the bottom of the
sea.
Return to where no one ever was,
neither you nor me.
Dont get the pointlet it get you.

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1251.
1252.
1253.

1254.
1255.
1256.
1257.
1258.

1259.
1260.

1261.
1262.

1263.
1264.

1265.

Perceive your own nothingness as the

pupil of reality.
Abandon bipedalism for wormswimming with the souls own slowness.
Dizzily feel everything is so much that it
is hard to see how anyone stands
anything at all.
Crave no power other than the ability to
say someones name.
Unfriend everyone who cares what
happens.
Stay for the Acceleration.
Forget dying with living and know life
with the dead.
Understand that no one will take it
personally if you do not care about
anything anymore.
Help yourself be tied to the stake.
Mis-aim another massively wayward
prayer-cannon fired by no one into
nowhere.
Realize God by embarrassing yourself
beyond belief.
Make a note to yourself: Thanks for
your message. I am away now and will
get back to you as soon as I cant.
Communicate with yourself on autoreply.
Dont think this is the first time
someone is born and lives and dies in a
single state of total confusion.
See that I am not here either.

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1266.
1267.

1268.
1269.
1270.
1271.
1272.
1273.
1274.
1275.
1276.
1277.

1278.
1279.
1280.
1281.
1282.
1283.
1284.

Know that no one has ever understood a

single thought.
Realize that each of your thoughts has
already been thought by a trillion hyperintelligent entities none of whom gets it.
Simply dont trust life to take you where
you need to go.
Fall victim to an infinitely incompatible
aesthetics.
Secretly say so much to no one that you
forget how to breathe.
Overreact to being.
Realize that no one has ever understood
a thing you said nor ever will.
Suspect that you are not the most
important thing in the universe after all.
Never sign your name to yourself.
Look everywhere except here.
Experiment with the absence of you.
Meet yourself where the failure of
mysticism meets the mysticism of
failure.
Flop into place.
Decide not to write a book entitled As As
As.
Never fail to blow your finest moment.
Know one thing that makes nothing else
matter.
Stay in the pit until the pit is in thee.
Owe it to yourself to know that no one
owes you anything.
Fail from all perspectives except none.

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1285.
1286.

1287.
1288.
1289.
1290.
1291.
1292.
1293.
1294.
1295.

1296.

1297.
1298.
1299.
1300.

Contract a disease made worse by every

cure.
Find refuge in the identity of what
makes you want to die and the only
thing worth living for.
Choose between losing ones mind and
never having one in the first place.
Stop liking things that are about you.
Shrink the strange loop to zero in a
tangle of silence.
Collapse!
Fail to lose the fight to avoid young
Werthers fate.
Entomb every tomb in its own floating
sink whole.
Learn to postpone the immediacy of
everything.
Choke on the riddle of oneself until you
smile.
Be mistaken for a poet when saying what
you know and for a philosopher when
saying what you feel.
Just think: matter is immaterial, energy
is weak, mind is stupid, and soul is
whateverso there!
Bite upward with a cosmic egg tooth,
shaped like the silence of the outside.
Feed me my hunger until I vomit forth
all that was, is, and will be.
Speak the same language as no one.
Feel how utterly beyondwithin
everything one really is.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

1301.
1302.
1303.
1304.
1305.
1306.
1307.
1308.
1309.

1310.
1311.
1312.
1313.
1314.
1315.
1316.
1317.
1318.

Flop out of the fish tank of artificial

happiness.
See that there is only one problem and it
is not a problem.
Wrap the knot of you around the spiral
of truth.
Swim against the mechanical mind-flow.
See how the devil cannot see himself.
Hear the voice where dreamer, dreamed,
and dream are one.
Rest in the reality of absolute
disorientationeverything in place.
Trade it all in one of these days.
Comprehend that that the universe is is
bigger than the universe and that it
never was is bigger than both.
Dont worry, there is no reason to be
here.
Show me how to avoid myself.
Expect no straight answer from the
crooked.
Use all your strength to do nothing.
Make a point of waking before the
dream dies.
Take it easythis is all just reality
playing a trick on itself.
Paint yourself with a colour out of space.
Take time as the time it takes to wake
up.
Catch yourself red-handed without any
hands and find yourself in the middle of
not finding anything.

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1319.
1320.
1321.

1322.
1323.
1324.
1325.
1326.
1327.
1328.
1329.
1330.
1331.
1332.
1333.
1334.
1335.

Float above space on a mountain and

drift beyond time in a cloud.
Discover yourself as living proof that
you are not alive
Lose all the races between winning and
losing, wining and winning, and losing
and losing.
Multiply and divide what is said by the
fact that it is said.
Never stop noticing who talks about
who.
Ask yourself a questioner.
Realize that you died of boredom ages
ago and this is your afterlife.
Experience the indifference.
Wake from this dream by remembering
how you died.
Be ready to perish at any moment.
Experience the infinite relief of realizing
that one is a total idiot.
Realize that nothing whatsoever makes
sense, starting with all that you love.
Say hello to the worm whose casting
your body will be.
Ascend the mountain one atom at a
time.
Gladden thyself in the sunny air of pure
despair.
See so many connections that there is
nothing to see.
Draw so many distinctions that you go
blind.

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HEMISPHERE ELEVEN

1336.
1337.
1338.
1339.
1340.

1341.
1342.
1343.
1344.
1345.
1346.
1347.
1348.
1349.
1350.
1351.
1352.
1353.
1354.
1355.
1356.

Take dictation how to be happy from the

nightmare of yourself.
Pre-empt the inevitable, post-empt the
always already.
Write with a dagger in the heart of void.
Live the dream without the dream.
Only bother with the weight that
requires 100% of your non-strength to
lift.
Grasp your enormous error up to now.
Be silent to the human symphony of
phony sympathy.
Locate the answer in the form of a bullet
in the head of the questioner.
Fail hagiography.
Stop presenting yourself as a person.
Take all the pieces out one garbage at a
time.
Behead me with the key to your heart.
Weep for no reason at the sight of
yourself.
Drown the ocean.
Dwell in the jungle where the jungle
disappears.
Fade time.
Dont be at faultmore like fault itself.
Swallow yourself without know the way
out.
Drink the ocean, not a drop of it yours.
Live in a world in which if you talk about
the world you die.
Die in a world in which if you dont talk
about the world you never were.

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1357.
1358.
1359.
1360.
1361.

Collaborate with no one.

Gaze heavenward until your pupils are
impaled by a falling sigh.
See how far my heart sank when I saw
anything.
Love what never ends with a neverending love.
Cut out your tongue with the edge of a
dream.

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