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129 ON SENSITIVE BRUTALITY (4 Noble Truths) “Suffering is life: Any happy, play-nice idea of “community” &/or nor- malized “decency” and “courage” should never, under any circumstances, have been trusted. Certainly, the human agents behind this mask would be well inten- tioned. But it was at best a jest, covering an awareness of the case (which was that, which is the case), though this speech, and probably causative, is not what con- cerns me, or even them, here. If the ubiquity of suffer- ing and division passed unmentioned, using words or other means, then I should want nothing to do with it, because things like me (have to) live with it. “Attached to desire: Any experimental jest that bandies about such com- mon words as “radical alterity” never can, never will, posit any actual alternative. They must have seen this. Each “other” is, always has been, a contradiction in terms. Discomfiture, in forms of broccoli and oil, huge bushes bearing the fruit, entirely grafted orchards, my heritable seed that persists through it, gave the only absolute liberation. “When desire ceases: Any failure of that project called a “human” was hope- less, above—insofar as the truth can be concerned (and it don’t). What, then, is the (escapist art) alternative? Can things fail well and, thus, succeed? If your trapped “tree” was depended on, and has not been simply sub- sumed, but from the perspective of its community must have consumed it, too, drooling it, growing big and strong, then “what do we do” ’s a question of ITS total condition. One of the many, my “fate” was not even any terminal “fatality.”

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