It just snapped together. Everything.
It just... all of it.
Made perfect sense.
I can't possibly expect anyone to get what I'm talking about unless you see it so with the best of my ability I am going to describe it.
Note: There will be people who will not agree with this, see it as destructive or (hopefully) anarchy, some will even read this and say "it's viral marketing".
I don't care.
I really don't. It just... I cannot get you to understand unless you see it so I will simply show you what I saw.
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I walk into Newbury Comics (Go Southern New England Independent Music/Comic stores!) and B-lined to the book shelf. After about a half hour of searching the racks, I had David Sedaris in one hand and "Life of Pi" in the other.
I dropped them both when I saw it.
A white book. Featureless. Just white. Some stains from being on the shelf too long. No title, no print date, no publisher, not even on the spine. I couldn't believe it. "Cool marketing technique" I told my friend (SLiM).
He agreed and i took the book into my hand and opened it.
It just starts.
No title page. Not even a price. Not a print date not a publishers note, NOTHING. Just, starts.
I flip to the end.
Last page is the last page. Nothing else is written. No inside flap no inside jacket. It's just... a book. The sticker with the price on it (placed there by clerks) says the book is called "The Manifesto". I looked this up when I got home, this is the only available title for the book being that it comes with a flyer inside that has that word printed all over it.
The flyer.
This little piece of red paper has changed my life.
Inside is all the reasons you should read the book and all the reasons you should make sure someone else does.
I'm about 20 pages in already and I had to stop to show you guys this flyer, as best as I could. If I had a scanner, I'd do that, but I don't. So, here instead, is everything it says. This flyer has completely thrown my world for a loop.
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ATTN. -- English Departments/Creative Writing Programs/Professors/Cafes/Bookstores/Delinquents/Punks/Fed-Up Bastards/Artists/Drunks/Losers
pace in bookstores, cafes, clubs, bars, bathrooms, performance spaces, tattoo shops, health food stores, head shops, raves, libraries, garages, travel ports.
make several thousand copies of the first page--give it to people, plaster towns, college campuses, English/Art departments, laundromats, factories, institutions, dumps
give to your CREW pain is beautiful
send to friends in distant cities it's all on fire
give to homeless people despair is fuel
write reviews sleep only to dream
give to delinquents, no-goods and punks
give to college professors/editors/book-industry people/truckers/politicians/losers/gangsters/alcoholic lawyers
translate into other languages; send to foreign friends
flood every Small Art Town
print posters, flyers, laminated artwork
life
is
fire
scream into the scream
books can be delivered using contact info below
give to bands on tour
send to magazines, contests, scholarships, grant givers, organizations, intentional communities, old-age homes
give to your enemies; give to your employer and quit
become the enemy
destroy the enemy
flood every city worldwide
nothing
destroys
the soul
make the world beautiful
give money to poor people
EQUAL ACCESS TO ALL
FAIRNESS TO THE SHITTY WORLD
if you don't like the government - be the government
if you don't like the media - be the media
make friends with everyone
sell
your
soul
now
life
is
rich
fuck shit up
this is the new world; make of it what you will
talk to people
connect the world
no trees
one flower
cares in a
for misty
you world
make our mothers proud
make shit happen
this is the experience that will change your life
we're gonna BE the famous people create
make your parents pay for everything give
feed the starving children share
care for things you don't care about hope
plagiarize yearn
make your dreams come true love
don't be realistic cry
everything is possible wish
ENNUI IS THE ENEMY sob
we're all the same person need
listen to the voices help
life is horrible believe
make everything happen NOW breathe
real success = real pain dream
you CAN go home again
if you decide to kill yourself make sure it isn't because your'e lonely and depressed like every other fucking person
give the world to the world the
collective
is
in
your
head
the sun
is beneath
the ocean
participate in all things
a dead animal is a living thing
your
head
is
a
book
real writers don't write
the Earth is lonely
the
revolution
is
in
your
head
invest in yourself
invest in your world
people are insane relative to each other
still water reflects the sky
the forces
against us
which seem
too great
are not
greater
than
our hearts
which are
golden
and
can never di ((That is actually spelt like that))
cry to sleep and pray for a dream
life impends
th stars at dusk reach out
the last rays of the sun are orange
the frozen world thaws
open
your
head
EVERY FUCKER DESERVES A MILLION CHANCES
feel love
commit yourself
USE THIS BOOK TO MAKE MONEY-GIVE THAT MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NONE
CALL THE NUMBER BELOW BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO KILL YOURSELF
413.218.6179
no
more
bullshit
EMAIL: dedrabbit@yahoo.com
www.dedrabbit.com
PO BOX 533 Northampton, MA 01061
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Holy shit, right?
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Viral marketing? Perhaps, but that book pretty much holds my manifesto in itself. I've heard of it, never seen it, always wanted to get my hands on it. It's one of those things that doesn't make sense until you stop reading the damn thing and actually get to the feeling behind the words.
It is an anarchy manifesto, and a lot of people do disagree with it. I'm kinda on the fence about it as people can read it as the sort of 'anarchy' (and I use this in the loosest term) that results in molotovs through windows, rioting etc etc. It's an image I've tried very hard to get away from - anyone who knows me in any form knows that I am a complete anarchist.
But taken in the right way - with the right mindset - not a truer word has been written. It's like any written word, though. The reader will always twist it.
I just wish the bastards would print it in England, as I've never been able to find a bloody copy.
It is an anarchy manifesto, and a lot of people do disagree with it. I'm kinda on the fence about it as people can read it as the sort of 'anarchy' (and I use this in the loosest term) that results in molotovs through windows, rioting etc etc. It's an image I've tried very hard to get away from - anyone who knows me in any form knows that I am a complete anarchist.
But taken in the right way - with the right mindset - not a truer word has been written. It's like any written word, though. The reader will always twist it.
I just wish the bastards would print it in England, as I've never been able to find a bloody copy.
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I'm sending you one immediately.
My friend SLiM (who is also student government president) and myself are ordering about 600 for the school.
I'll send you 12 or so.
My friend SLiM (who is also student government president) and myself are ordering about 600 for the school.
I'll send you 12 or so.
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I need to find a copy of this like now.
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I don't need anyone to tell me all of that. Putting it in a book doesn't really get it across, mind-to-mind communication would be best.
It's going under the name anarchy? Weird, since it's really the opposite. It's not the absence of anything. It's just life.
It's going under the name anarchy? Weird, since it's really the opposite. It's not the absence of anything. It's just life.
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