{"id":1471,"date":"2013-07-16T01:59:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/16\/ksbmi-the-histories-of-the-universe-lie-in-the\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T01:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T01:59:06","slug":"ksbmi-the-histories-of-the-universe-lie-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/16\/ksbmi-the-histories-of-the-universe-lie-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ksbmi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The histories of the universe<\/p>\n

lie in the sleeping sex of a woman<\/p>\n

Now back in Egypt,<\/p>\n

the Egyptian Book of the Dead was written because they got these women who were like, you know, that were before the time after 1852.<\/p>\n

So, like<\/p>\n

They got these women and they<\/p>\n

Like put them in these tomb shapes<\/p>\n

Like mummy shapes<\/p>\n

Only they didn\u2019t mummyize them<\/p>\n

What they do is<\/p>\n

They made this mixture up<\/p>\n

Of opium and salad oil and henna<\/p>\n

And they put it all over them<\/p>\n

(first they\u2019d knock \u2018em out with a sledgehammer)<\/p>\n

then they\u2019d lay them in there and they\u2019d wipe them all over<\/p>\n

with this opiate henna oil<\/p>\n

(maybe throw a little merc in, anything they could get in there)<\/p>\n

and she\u2019d be laid out<\/p>\n

and then she\u2019d start, like,<\/p>\n

feeling all this stuff getting in her pores<\/p>\n

and it would get deeper in her pores<\/p>\n

and deeper in her pores<\/p>\n

and into her veins,<\/p>\n

and you know how, like,<\/p>\n

the filaments are inside a<\/p>\n

lightbulb<\/p>\n

when you turn it on?<\/p>\n

The next thing you know,<\/p>\n

Her fingers are moving Egyptian style<\/p>\n

Very rigid, very hieroglyphic<\/p>\n

Anyway, she\u2019d do this and the scribes would be standing around with their papyrus,<\/p>\n

or papyrus or peanut butter bag wrappers-<\/p>\n

no.<\/p>\n

forget that one.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re sitting around with their scrolls and anyway,<\/p>\n

She\u2019d start babbling\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026and she\u2019d start babbling\u2026<\/p>\n

They\u2019d write this stuff\u2026<\/p>\n

And then the other girl would start babbling<\/p>\n

And she\u2019d get to this point\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018cause the thing about men<\/p>\n

they do get Mayan<\/p>\n

but they only do it once.<\/p>\n

But only, you know, like, for a little while.<\/p>\n

Then, but girls, I mean, it\u2019s just an extra thing we got<\/p>\n

You know, you just<\/p>\n

Keep doing it, and keep doing it, and keep doing it and keep doing it.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s really great if you\u2019re next to a typewriter<\/p>\n

Because, like, you start,<\/p>\n

First.<\/p>\n

The first one you\u2019re doin\u2019<\/p>\n

And you can\u2019t quite write it yet,<\/p>\n

But you got the plot.<\/p>\n

And then you take the, and you wait,<\/p>\n

And you only go so far,<\/p>\n

And\u2026<\/p>\n

You mustn\u2019t pee your pants.<\/p>\n

Then, you keep going, you keep going, you keep going,<\/p>\n

And then it\u2019s time to lie down on the couch and get out<\/p>\n

Troky and anybody else who might be around.<\/p>\n

And you open up to page 100<\/p>\n

On Theolet Ledoux\u2019s \u2018Bitch\u2019. paperback!<\/p>\n

Then, you just keep, like,<\/p>\n

Getting\u2019 your fingers goin\u2019 like graphite<\/p>\n

Until it\u2019s like a paintbrush and it\u2019s making a scene.<\/p>\n

And you go<\/p>\n

And by the 8th or 9th one<\/p>\n

You should be writing great stuff on the typewriter<\/p>\n

And even if you can\u2019t control it<\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re not illuminated enough now<\/p>\n

To know how to make a diamond\u2026<\/p>\n

Like, I didn\u2019t know what to do with it for a long time.<\/p>\n

What you do is, girls, is study Rimbaud;<\/p>\n

Get his syntax and grammar down.<\/p>\n

Study Burr.<\/p>\n

Study them all, but then,<\/p>\n

You have to get into the next step.<\/p>\n

You know in that letter where Rimbaud says,<\/p>\n

He writes this letter and he goes,<\/p>\n

\u2018In the future when women get away from their long servitude of men, etcetera, they\u2019re going to have the new music, new forms, new sensations, new horrors, new spurts\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Well\u2026<\/p>\n

Yeah, I mean\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

And look, that was a hundred years ago, get cookin\u2019.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s a long\u2026<\/p>\n

He talked\u2026<\/p>\n

It was there a long time ago.<\/p>\n

And who knows where the time goes?<\/p>\n

Right now, that\u2019s the formula.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very easy.<\/p>\n

Get the syntax down and then just record it.<\/p>\n

For a while you might have to record it.<\/p>\n

Just, just do it.<\/p>\n

And you should see how better you walk.<\/p>\n

It just does something to your walk.<\/p>\n

Then<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t do anything with it<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not into transforming stuff into art<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n

Just keep doing it and keep doing it because by the<\/p>\n

12th and 13th and 14th one you get into extraterrestrial stuff and they don\u2019t let you write nothin\u2019 down.<\/p>\n

So you just,<\/p>\n

you just keep goin\u2019 through it,<\/p>\n

you know, you just keep<\/p>\n

what I was sayin\u2019 is\u2026<\/p>\n

Mayan<\/p>\n

Mayan<\/p>\n

Mayan stuff.<\/p>\n

Guys and guys can do that<\/p>\n

you know<\/p>\n

I was always jealous because I wasn\u2019t homosexual<\/p>\n

because they got all this Mayan stuff<\/p>\n

and all this screen stuff<\/p>\n

and I\u2019d read all these books<\/p>\n

\u2018Blue Jelly\u2019<\/p>\n

and you know how it is<\/p>\n

and I thought<\/p>\n

fuck<\/p>\n

but I can\u2019t<\/p>\n

and you know<\/p>\n

and I have these dreams<\/p>\n

that I could, like,<\/p>\n

steal boys skins at night<\/p>\n

and put them on and pee<\/p>\n

and stuff like that<\/p>\n

but now that I\u2019ve found, like,<\/p>\n

this new toy\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got seven ways of going<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got seven ways to be<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got seven sweet disguises<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got seven ways of being me<\/p>\n

right here is where I usually tell this story<\/p>\n

I usually tell this story<\/p>\n

God\u2026<\/p>\n

I usually tell this story about something that<\/p>\n

happened to me on one of these particular voyages<\/p>\n

but I\u2019ll make it real fast.<\/p>\n

I was expecting to go to my usual stuff<\/p>\n

with all these you know like like like<\/p>\n

girl boy Moslem Christian angel guys<\/p>\n

that have all these machines<\/p>\n

all these neon machines<\/p>\n

and they put you in<\/p>\n

this like pine tree shape<\/p>\n

but this time,<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how it happened,<\/p>\n

I got to 16th Century Japan<\/p>\n

and the neat thing about it was,<\/p>\n

it was the first time that<\/p>\n

really got to be a boy.<\/p>\n

I was, like, this boy.<\/p>\n

This ninja boy.<\/p>\n

This archer.<\/p>\n

And he was totally in love with his sister,<\/p>\n

who looked just like him.<\/p>\n

And he wanted to become\u2026<\/p>\n

he couldn\u2019t care for her,<\/p>\n

he wanted her to have the best.<\/p>\n

So he became the best archer.<\/p>\n

And the King took him as his top archer.<\/p>\n

And he took his sister to the palace,<\/p>\n

and the King fell in love with his sister.<\/p>\n

And the archer,<\/p>\n

who had worked and worked and worked<\/p>\n

to get his sister fine garments<\/p>\n

didn\u2019t mean to get her<\/p>\n

fine garments in the King\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n

So when the King sent him out the next day<\/p>\n

he was walkin\u2019 through the fields<\/p>\n

he had on his armor<\/p>\n

and it was black and white squares<\/p>\n

like a chessboard<\/p>\n

he stood on the black square<\/p>\n

and looked and saw how<\/p>\n

the black square looked<\/p>\n

like the back of his sister\u2019s hair<\/p>\n

he looked at the windowshape<\/p>\n

in the palace<\/p>\n

in the castle<\/p>\n

he imagined<\/p>\n

the King<\/p>\n

over his sister<\/p>\n

his black and white<\/p>\n

sister<\/p>\n

he was so dazzled by that photograph<\/p>\n

that he took off his armor<\/p>\n

and laid his armor down<\/p>\n

and took the dart<\/p>\n

and aimed it swift<\/p>\n

at the King\u2019s heart<\/p>\n

and he started walkin\u2019<\/p>\n

toward the castle<\/p>\n

started walkin\u2019<\/p>\n

toward the palace<\/p>\n

started walkin\u2019<\/p>\n

he was walkin\u2019<\/p>\n

he was walkin\u2019<\/p>\n

in this big step I am taking<\/p>\n

seven seizures for the true<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got seven ways of going<\/p>\n

seven ways of loving you<\/p>\n

Be free from all deception<\/p>\n

Be safe from bodily harm<\/p>\n

Love without exception<\/p>\n

Be a saint in any form.<\/p>\n

– Patti Smith<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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