Joseph Nechvatal
Excerpt from the Novel "Venus Envie"
By clicking on an unmarked button which looked like a nipple, an
automobile stopped, and I got out and dismissed the chauffeur
but she refused to leave me.
"Come" was all she said.
We walked through thick woods to an antediluvian dwelling,
where we were greeted in silence by a gentlewoman who wore an
exposed sword dripping with blood. On satisfying her, we were
passed through a corridor to an colonnade, where another
sentinel awaited us. She, after an examination of my private
software, proceeded to offer me a palace gown with the insignia
of Venus Inc. and a garter belt and mantle, the former of red silk,
the latter of blue velvet,
and lined with cherry silk.
"It is about to begin," whispered a nurse. In the entryway were
four others, all naked ladies, busily bent over robing. In a third
room we found a cortege formed, made up totally of nude women,
and joined in with it. There were roughly twenty of us in all.
Passing a final guardian we reached the penis enrollee, at whose
entrance stood a young young woman, dressed in innocent robes
of white silk embroidered with gold, red and blue flowers. She
sprayed us with flower buds as we passed by using a flaming
candelabra as our illumination towards a crib shaped chamber.
The crib had been recently cleaned; and at each ladies' hand
burned a taper of
reddish wax, and a bouquet of red roses. At each corner of the
crib was a banner, bearing my unconcealed frontal-image, and
from the top of the crib sprang a canopy of peach silk, wherein
were figured in gold the twelve emblems of the Zodiac.
As the
nude dames became installed, suddenly a bell tinkled in the
archive. Instantly all rose. The doors opened at a trumpet peal
from without, and a harbinger advanced, followed by an Exalted
Priestess. This Eminent Priestess, a splendidly, bouncing balmy
woman of perhaps thirty nine, passed near me with her hand
raised as in a mirror. Her trail was borne by the two who had
admitted me. All this while an unseen calliope played. I felt a
sufferable panic as I sensed the closure of the door by the nurse.
She next drew her sword, and went up and down the aisle,
chanting exorcisms at me and swinging her great sword above
her head. All the women present then drew their swords and
faced me, holding the points high, then slashing down through the
air from left to right. This part of the rite appeared endless and I
began to sweat profusely. I had heard of some women's wish for
liberation from the maudlin manipulative mythologies constructed
by men around them. At last a nude well built blonde girl with
very short hair, resembling Joan of Arc appeared; bearing an urn
and a certificate singing some litany or other, apparently in
Greek, though I could not apprehend the words. She sanctified me
with her juices.
Now the Preeminent Priestess began a litany in rhythmic lines.
Something about the pantheistic fascination the male artist has
with woman's bodies as a source of creative energy. At each
response she touched my hand in a peculiar manner and at each
fifth she kissed my two orbs.
The twenty-first was a complete squeeze. The chime tinkled in
the archive; and she split. I then was given a flask curiously
shaped to imitate a phallus. The Excessive Priestess reappeared
and knelt before me and presented me with a horn-shaped cup of
whitish liquid. I knelt opposite her, and poured from the flask this
liquid into her cup. Now all the dames and hamadryads began a
long litigation and I was poured wine from the flask. The Piercing-
eyed Priestess then gave the flask to an attendant, who served it
to the other women there. But this was no conventional wine. It
was of a rich fiery opal in which flames of light danced and shook,
and its aroma was musty. No sooner had I drunk of it, however,
than I began quivering with startling perturbation. I looked down
at my member, and saw that it was similarly affected. With the
drinking of the potion the Priestess sang another hymn in Greek.
This time I recognized a few of the words. They were those of a
superannuated Ode to Aphrodite. The blonde attendant descended
to the other women, stooped and kissed them; then danced in
such a way that she seemed to be tracing the patterns of a
fantastic blossom of abundance, and her four parted lips
instigated a shower of glistening sift to drop from above. This
beautiful girl moved round continuously, and the bowl was passed
and rubbed and fingered. This ended in the exhaustion of the
blonde girl, who fell swooned. Other girls immediately took the
bowl and put it to their lips with the assistance of the Guardian of
the Preserve. The chime again tinkled. The Priestess moved about
stately and embraced me, unloosing the cumbersome ceremonial
robe which I wore. She had dressed in a garment of pinkish
watered silk, lined with erotically appealing images elaborately
embroidered in soft tawny colors, harmonizing in its exquisite yet
robust taste. She wore also the twelve signs of the Zodiac.The
balls tinkled yet again. The celebrants moved hand in hand,
imersed in the swim of things, while the organ thundered forth its
majestic harmonies. All rose and gave the secret House of Mirth
signs. It was at this part of the ceremony that things began to
really happen to me. I became suddenly cognizant of the fact that
my body had lost both ballast and feeling, as if I was in the final
throes of erotic transport. My consciousness seemed to be
situated no longer in my flesh. I mixed myself with all of the
celebrants as the chime tinkled anew and was tossed around a bit
among them.........................
........a barren wood floor strewn with petals and cut
flowers...........
programs ...other hand being lost....Eurydice.....bulls.... stags......
griffins.... bees......
mixing mendacity.....CONNECTIVITY..
IMMERSION ....dataspaces...flower maidens.....swirling
dataspaces.. datasphere access link-thinking to
COMPILED CONDITION.
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>>>> Short term goal is to link artistic people up with the
environmentalist
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>>>> movement and to make a social sculpture on the internet to
assist
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>>>> environmentalist movement in reaching and effecting the
local society
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not recognized......throes of dance...maypole............... castanets.
>>>> relevant data on their environment.
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>>>> Information is provided society in an easier and more
interesting
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>>>> (artistic) way to help cause real social and economic change
as it impacts
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not recognized....facilis descensus.....
>>>> upon the natural and the media environment. The idea is to
create a model
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>>>> for global usage of an internet home-page artistic-
environmentalist
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>>>> monitoring station to distribute data on the environment to
the public, to
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>>>> politically empower society and to connect environmental
agencies world
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>>>> Long term goal: The general public will consult the web site
on a regular
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>>>> basis just as they use the minital in France to check on their
bank
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>>>> accounts. General public is mobilized and empowered with
dick access
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>>>> to governmental offices, corporate offices, banks, etc.
related to local and
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>>>> also international enzyme issues.
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>>>> also included is the idea of the ECO SYSTEM as Media &
Computer Environment.........sea-maidens.....
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>>>> an enticing concern...ondine...
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>>>> ECO SYSTEM SITE will present information on the natural
environment and
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>>>> artificial environment:
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project as a model of how to make
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>>>> environmental conditions very easily and interestingly
available to the
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women....ravish....
>>>> general public in an artistic way on the internet.....siren
nest...........
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>>>> people at large can receive information on their locality and
on out
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>>>> nationally, internationally, globally to the atmosphere with a
series of
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>>>> buttons - clicks and links.
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>>>> cooperation....autoerotic fervor..
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>>>> Link can also be created to art activities and endangered
species
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>>>> foundations, archeological digs,
Gaia ideologies..........nixens....
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>>>> =46und raising potential for foundations is evident with
direct
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>>>> communications to the public at large on the internet.
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>>>> Artistic value in designing further the potential of a home-
page.
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>>>> Questions to be dealt with:
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>>> internal contradictions and questions;
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>>>> 1) computers as pollution of the environment, non
biodegradable waste
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>>>> 2) internet as medium for irresponsible agile global
capitalism
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recognized....guise of the naiad.....
>>>> 3) the big energy question (solar)
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>>>> 4) protection of the freedom of the internet from capitalist
developer
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>>>> exploitation.......russalka....
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other ideas to be incorporated - explored;
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5) overload of information - how to filter
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>>>> 6) Man as the future building material, fabric, paper,
compressed
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>>>> medical use in experimentation
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>>>> 7) people-less communications
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**** Command 'idea' not recognized....
water nymphs... media environmental
protection...dryads.....oreads....forest and hill nympths....flying
harpies.......
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**** Commands 'give and free' not recognized....fauns...fog of
flesh....
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>>>> perched on a tongue like rock whose monumental phallic
outline dominated...... Pasipha‘....moonlight.....circularity.....depth
of forgetfulness.....background
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>>>> Soon, the whole of human knowledge will be directly
available to any person
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>>>> with access to networked computers. Moreover,
communication
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>>>> individuals will become much easier,
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>>>> faster and more transparent, transcending the boundaries of
space time.
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>>>> The changes will not only be quantitative, but qualitative:
"smart"
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>>>> computer systems will not only provide more.........hungry for
love...
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>>>> information more quickly, but allow novel applications
(virtual reality,
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>>>> intelligent agents, distributed processing, automated
indexing..)
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>>>> one before ever would have dreamt
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These changes will affect and deeply transform all aspects of
society:
You tyrannize over yourself, so constantly forget what you
remember. You resist sense objects and show resistance to the
faculties by believing or not. These faculties are as numerous as
the atoms you have not yet seen, and they are as endless as the
number one. They come into life at will. Knowledge is uttered
through them. Did you understand the grammar of those you
disown who speak louder than your words?! **** Command
'deeply' not recognized. >>>> education (distance learning,
electronic universities), work (telework,*** Command 'education'
not recognized. >>>> grope ware), commerce (electronic cash), the
media,
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>>>> government (electronic democracy), health, science and
technology. It seems
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>>>> as though society's collective intelligence will increase
manifold, perhaps
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>>>> producing an evolutionary transition to a higher level of
intelligence.
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>>>> As these developments are so fast, and so difficult to predict,
precise
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>>>> models are usually not possible. In that case, comprehension
may be helped
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>>>> by using analogies. Examples of such metaphors for global
network functions. Belief is ever its own tempter to suppose
differently. You cannot believe freedom but you may be freed
from belief! Neither can you believe the "Truth", but you need not
compromise yourself. The way of Life is not by these doctrines,
My doctrines, even though they allow the self-appointed devotee
to emulate My realization. May I ever blush! The Woman of
sorrows is Teacher! Crown of light from Heaven! I equal learning
and equal unlearning! Almighty is She who has not learnt and
mighty is the baby goat. It has only the power of assimilating!
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>>>> are the "Information Superhighway", which emphasizes the
speedy channels
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>>>> along which information moves, the network as a "Super-
brain", which
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>>>> emphasizes the collective intelligence of all users and
computers connected
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>>>> by the network, Sac Vall=E9e's notion of an "information
singularity",
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>>>> which notes that networked information becomes
instantaneously available. The conception of "I am not" must of
necessity follow the conception of "I am," because of its
grammar, as surely in this world of sorrow, night follows day. The
recognition of pain as such, implies the idea of pleasure. It is so
with all ideas. By this duality, remember to laugh at all times,
recognize all things, resist nothing; then there is no conflict,
incompatibility or compulsion as such.
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>>>> everywhere, and "Cyberspace" itself, which visualizes
networked
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>>>> information as an immense space through which one can
"slurp".
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>>>> Though metaphors can be very useful, they generally only
express one or a
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>>>> few dimensions of a multidimensional phenomenon.
Therefore, we should move
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>>>> to more detailed and comprehensive models, which can be
tested
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>>>> observation, implementation or simulation. Cybernetics, as a
theory of
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>>>> communication, information and control, seems most directly
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mapping expectation as melody in theatrical memory
maneuvering through the
erotic branches
of adjacent encryption
recollection
theater
labyrinth
amplify instrument
assertion towards feeling
the cell
the shell
the thought
of moist and wet
expanse
>>>> such model-building, but valuable insights may come from the
most diverse
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>>>> domains: sociology, futurology, AI, complex systems,
man-machine.
Man implies Woman. Transcend these by the Hermaphrodite. This
again implies a Eunuch. All these conditions I transcend by the
Neither principle, yet although the Neither is vague, the fact of
conceiving it proves its palpability, and again implies a different
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>>>> interaction, cognitive psychology, etc. Our emphasis is on
concepts,
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>>>> principles, and observations, rather than on technical
protocols or
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>>>> implementations, although existing systems may provide a
concrete
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>>>> illustration from which more general implications can be
derived.
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viability of a truly interactive Superego - a transformer granted
by the situation of the machine capable of information
surrounding the massive integration of contents of our
technologies powers and
our tendency to disinterface gynander sex users.
The humanity of
a massaged society is lacking open cyberspace empowerments to
navigate pathways into robotic sex systems. But by Her rotating
one cultural diffraction-cognitive, these women lying antithetical
to Her period, have been cracking cognition of swain endowment,
or simply put, sex is swains technological specialty. The
consumer-production internet conception of Everywoman makes
contestation possible with a Visa Venus cloning, automatically
ruling a continuous diet of virtual critical conceptions and bodies
in desirable ways. Her emotional de seer la signpost of Venus is
always seen as the utopian contestation virtualized. These
evolved pubic images virtualized a vehicle for unconstrained field
interface handling for those who prefer to play with ideas rather
than confront realities, invariably found intolerable in a pubic
space. The human-computer love generation is to navigate a
pathway merging visual-verbal sex productions to where a
Monsieur led me to an immense, elevated strip parlor and
whispered for me to lie down. The Madame ordered me stiff, and I
waiting for Her first blow. I waited for what seemed for a very
long time. And for a moment after it finally landed against my
Ram, I was not certain how to rebut, when the Madame caressed
my tender and burnished upshot with what felt like a riding crop.
The lips of Her sex were separated and pulled back to expose Her
clit.
A gracious, lubricated, proficient, finger stroked in me to my
depths and I could not rectify the drain as I felt Her body begin
the unconstrained slide to orgasm and I pulled and twisted the
flesh ever so slightly over my head until She was standing on her
toes, buzzing like a bee, and squeezing her buttocks and praying
that I'd do it long enough for Her to come again. At that I seemed
ready to shoot off into the stratosphere of balmy accumulation. I
latched onto Her living beans, penetrated them, and colonized
them indirectly through genetic replication flower circulations.
Venus smiled the monumental fur smile from Boatel's auto raison.
She loosened Her hair and as half naked for dance, she began to
sing. Amiss aureate-IL up y avoid qu jaguar al honeyed goblet
paired lofty sex in technological system operating with automatic
responsibility de reducible, unrecognizable transformation rule
communicators and Her hero's movement of his settee. My
beloved, desire steals into hearts like a shiver, stirring the flanks
of a stallion in rut. I will now explain the only safe and true
formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most
secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain
in velvet movements. Let it cover any period of time, depending
on his conception. There is no qualification, nor ritual or
ceremony. His very existence symbolizing all that is necessary to
perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or
feeble imitation. You are alive! A giant d'art conciliator of
timeless concern can multiplicity consume. Promulgate historical
nets and therefore never sacrifice connections. This quiet merge
of Lydia has donna l'equipements to Her overflowers and Nubian
mother woman torso flows. Let us be honest! Thou art "that,"
supreme in freedom, most desirable, beyond desire, untouched by
the sex stupifiers. That sexuality labors death may harvest by
desire. The elusive fancies of the senses are dangerous, because
of the uprightness you have learned to obey and control them by.
Hell-fire burns because you "conceived"; and will cease to hurt
when you identify the Ego with all the possibilities of its qualities
by believing as the "Neither-Neither" process. You are fire yet
you are scorched! Because you have "willed" belief differently or
not makes no difference. The cycle of belief goes on and always
obliges, so one day you must believe differently and the fire will
no longer hurt, thus you are saved? Are there other means of
hurting me? He is playing with me! He is playing with me! She
went roaring heavenward in a spasm that took her out of space
and time. She seemed as though a wispy sylph of the woods.
Wanda, I said into a power capacity consequencer which accepted
my metaphysical space. Maize simile bound down a Wanda pour
toi Severin en unleashed moo toed what some thousand eyed
whippet dilettante can. I signalized on a thousand crucial con
transitions and comply and whip you. Those, that if age matters,
can program multiple self regressions and will be linked to plan
codes of marble sexistential assailants of slave nonhumanity. I lie
now in the languor of satiety somewhere outside my
consciousness in a post-orgasmic trance, constructed Her Hole-
Grail, a sable-holed system of signification and reinforcement.
The system contents of different love duets follows you in the
argumentalities of your lust and thus the consciousness of My
explosive birthright. De seer la ma's garnet El Epicurean!! She
called the Authority Connection Surface Interfaces into it. Men of
small pleasure and enterprise, oblivious of your purpose, fault-
finding, avaricious, sinful; who cannot live without women or
enjoy without pain. Fearsome, capricious, weak, and withered,
dependent, barbarous, deceived, the worst of men! Know, Oh,
Don, Oh beloved Self, I have now told you of that most secret
tavern where passion goes when youth has gone, where any man
may drink of the nectar of all-beneficent and gratuitous ecstasy.
The most pleasurable nourishment that harms no one.
Huh? I could feel my state of restful satisfaction wain. My
computer-doorway Amazonian which leaves arching in the orgy of
time is writing biocontraditions on neuron viewers with cultural
electronic prosthetic periods. You are the that which reproduces
oneself phallocentrically and makes oneself the rise of meaning,
to place oneself at the heart of desirability, and to create like
value in one's antecedents.
Wait! It will be helpful here to pause to steep ourselves in biology
for a few moments. "Biology" is to be taken loosely because
biologists do not think of viruses as living beings, and biology is
the study of life processes. For a virus to invade a cell, the cell
must have a receptor site which complements a binding site on
the virus. That is, virus and cell must be compatible in a specific
way before there can be an invasion as follows:
1. A censoring 2. A system of censoring 3. The work or position of
a censor. Now, if you look at Censor:
You'll find some of the following:
1. To supervise public morals
or better yet: 2. A person who tells people how to behave or
perhaps: A person whose task is to examine literature, motion
pictures, etc., and remove or prohibit anything considered
unsuitable. Isn't Censorship illegal? Doth in it lurk no secret
subtlety? What has happened to your Freedom of Selection, and of
Utterance? Are we going back in time, Danae, voluptuous fire? The
cell "recognizes" the virus' binding site, and the virus
"recognizes" the cell's receptor site. Your personal reality has
become subordinated to a ceaseless movement of codes of
consumption which can never be satisfied, yet nevertheless
generate a lack, an endless desire to confront and possess the
real where there can only ever be access to an image of the real.
The virus attaches itself to your cell, breaks through the cell wall,
inserts its genetic coding, either DNA or RNA but never both, into
the genetic material of the cell, and, just like that, the virus has
domination of the cell's reproductive functions. There must be a
place for the dreams of Eros. I've been repeating this to myself
over and over.
Email: jnech@imaginet.fr