Something surely Tom will disagree with

As we have run out of steam and arefreaked out by our own words appearing outside of our bodies and becoming immortal ("Who wrote that? I remember it but it surely wasn't me..") I have taken to finding what others have said so it speaks for me, as I am them and they are me (if at the moment I feel that way).

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN HOMEMADE TEXTUAL WAR MACHINEWRITING IS AN ACT OF TERROR OR IT’S NOTHING AT ALL.
…for we are no longer interested in writing for the State-run institutions, for the supermarkets, academies, and bestseller racks. We’ve no desire to write for the commercial profit-run enterprises that feed an unending appetite for the humanist fairy-tale. We are striking against all notions of verbal communication as a medium of entertainment or enlightenment or education.

ok? It gets worse though:

It is not merely a matter of destroying all sympathy and empathy in the literary arts but of the concentration of a hatred for human communication that burns so intensely it streaks towards earth like a death-comet from the most alien section of space…it’s a matter of punishing, brutalizing, disgusting your readers, of keeping them out of the test-grounds where your apocalyptic war-machine is being assembled.

how scary to articulate this belief seriously. That is why quoting it is much easier, I distance myself from this crazy.

http://www.cold-me.net/parts/forum/messages/179.html

Check the link for the full characteristics of the "textual war-machine" in contrast to the characteristics of the "State-novel".

Key point being number 10:

10. An assemblage with absolutely no commercial value (aggressively non-commercial)—a text that can only be given away free if anyone is expected to read it: AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO READ IT.

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