ecce sub-homo

1 why artists talk nonsense

2 why i am a provocation

3 why logic fails

4 why ideas are not addresses

5 beyond big and little

6 friedrich nietzche's dirty weekend in gotham city

7 sub-human, all too sub-human

8 steve ovett's fast time in oslo

9 the twilight of the roman capitals

what is the use of capital letters ? as punctuation they fool us into thinking that because we can ingest a sentence smoothly, that therefore we have understood it. worse, as signifiers of importitude they massage the vanities of our sponsors, of our power barons, of our territorial tribes. all of these proclivities must be torn out and fed to the beasts. what obligation does the sub-human writer have to make it possible for the truthless reader to read so easily ? so that all writing is as smooth as a bedtime story. and what a wrong it is for the truthless to insist their addresses be shouted at children like the mantras of demons.

10 the midnight of locality

 

30/3/97 - whatever that means

©Martin Baxter

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