BLAST 2 MANIFESTO
10 COMMANDMENTS
1. U MUST BE READABLE & COMPREHENSIBLE. . .
TRANSMITTING THE MESSAGE: THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
BLAST: CONVOLUTION. . . BLAST: ERUDITION. . . BLAST: ORNANITY. . .
BLESS: ILLITERATE CHRIST: CRUCIFIED FOR SPEAKING TO FISHERMAN, BEGGARS, & WHORES IN SIMPLE ARAMAIC.
THE MESSAGE: CONVEYED THRU STORIES ALL CAN UNDERSTAND.
U MUST SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE IN THE VERNACULAR.
BLESS: WILLIAM TYNDALL: BURNED FOR SPEAKING TO THE PPL.
BLESS: THOMAS MUNTZER: MAIMED FOR SPEAKING TO THE PPL.
BLESS: LUCIFER: ETERNALLY DAMNED FOR SPEAKING TO THE PPL.
IF THERE IS A MESSAGE: MAKE IT UNDERSTOOD TO ALL.
IF THERE IS NO MESSAGE: BE SILENT.
2. U MUST BE UNREADABLE & INCOMPREHENSIBLE. . .
IF THERE IS TRUTH: IT CAN NEVER BE UNDERSTOOD.
BLAST: SIMPLICITY. . . BLAST: DIRECTNESS. . . BLAST: LUCIDITY. . .
BLESS: UNSATISFIED EVE: FOREVER EXPULSED FOR NOT SUBMITTING TO THE LIMPIDITY OF ORDER CALLED EDEN.
THE BOUNDARY: DEMARCATION WHERE INTELLIGIBILITY DIES.
U MUST REEK OF THE ALIEN TO YOUR CONTEMPORARIES.
BLESS: COLUMBUS: WHOSE EYES BLED FROM THE VIGOR OF HIS HORSESENSE.
BLESS: GIORDANO BRUNO: WHOSE NAKED FLESH CORUSCATED FOR HERMETIC GUARDATION.
BLESS: MARIANNE FRITZ: WHOSE BLOOD CURDLED FROM TRISMEGISTUS’S POISON.
TAKE THE TRUTH: HIDE IT DEEP IN THE DARK FOREST.
NOTHING CAN EVER BE UNDERSTOOD.
3. U MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS. . .
AUTOMYTHOGRAPHY MEANS NO DIVISION BETWEEN U, TIME, HISTORY, LITERATURE.
BLAST: LINEARITY. . . BLAST: DISHARMONY. . . BLAST: FICTION. . .
BLESS: DIVINE DANTE: CONDEMNED TO A LIFETIME OF SALTY BREAD FOR QUESTIONING ADAM AS HIMSELF.
THE MYTHS: PATRIMONY AS ESSENTIAL AS THE PLACE YOU WERE BORN.
U MUST REALIZE OUR BROTHER HUMPTY DUMPTY SHATTERS DAILY.
BLESS: DON QUIXOTE: SO ILL WITH DELUSIONS HE MADE THEM HIS LIFE.
BLESS: VICO: SO FESTERED WITH CYCLICALITY HE PENURIZED HIS FAMILY.
BLESS: JOYCE: SO BUBONIC WITH INVENTION HE MADE LUCIA INSANE.
TIME’S DETRITUS IS A CORPSE: PICK AT IT LIKE VULTURES.
WE ARE EVERYTHING THAT EVER WAS & WILL BE.
4. U MUST NOT TURN AWAY FROM THE BLAST. . .
THE HORROR OF THE WORLD IS YOUR PROBLEM.
BLAST: DESPAIR. . . BLAST: MOLLIFICATION. . . BLAST: DISTRACTION. . .
BLESS: DRUNKEN NOAH: FOR PATRIARCHING THE FLOOD & REBUILDING AFTER ANNIHILATION.
THE COMFORTABLE: FATTENED & CIVILIZED TO IGNORE UNSAVORY REALITY.
U MUST BE RUTHLESS ABOUT THE BEAM IN UR OWN EYE.
BLESS: BOSCH: WHO SHOWED SIEGE TO KINGS & STUCK HIS FACE IN HELL.
BLESS: JACQUES 1: DEFENESTRATED FOR OBLITERATING THE COMMERCE OF FLESH.
BLESS: FAULKNER: WHO CASTIGATED HIMSELF FOR THE SINS OF HIS FOREBEARS.
DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE AMELIORATED BY PABLUM.
U ARE NOT & WILL NEVER BE: INNOCENT.
5. U MUST ASPIRE TO THE HIEROGLYPH. . .
OUR INTENTION IS TO REBUILD THE TOWER OF BABEL.
BLAST: LANGUAGE. . . BLAST: METAPHOR. . . BLAST: INTERPRETATION. . .
BLESS: TUBERCULAR SPINOZA: DEAD AT 44 FOR SPEWING THE PHLEGM OF TOTAL UNITY.
THE URSPRACHE: AN ASPIRATION TO PURE UNMEDIATED MEANING.
U MUST SEEK THE BARBAROUS UNIFICATION OF FORM & CONTENT.
BLESS: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER: CODELESS ERRANT FORGOTTEN DECIPHERER.
BLESS: HILMA AF KLINT: SACRIFICED AS A VESSEL FOR TRANSMISSION.
BLESS: JOHN COLTRANE: SELF-SUBSUMED & LOST IN ASCENSION.
WE REJECT THE UTILITY OF THE ROSETTA STONE.
THERE CAN BE NO BUFFER TO CONVEYANCE.
6. U MUST WELCOME MYSTICAL VISIONS. . .
GOD IS ONLY PRESENT & REAL IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
BLAST: REALITY. . . BLAST: PNEUMATOMACHIANISM. . . BLAST: DENIAL. . .
BLESS: PROPHETIC MUHAMMAD: WHO ACCEPTED COMMUNION WITH GABRIEL & TRANSFORMED THE WORLD.
THE DIVINE: AN INHALABLE EVER-PRESENT PNEUMA.
U MUST AFFIRM CREATION AS AN UNTERRESTRIAL FEAT.
BLESS: MARGERY KEMPE: PARTURATOR OF 14 CHILDREN SHE REJECTED TO BE CHRIST’S CHILD.
BLESS: CHICO XAVIER: PSYCHOGRAPHER OF 496 BOOKS WHO CLAIMED AUTHORSHIP OF ZERO.
BLESS: MARIA VALTORTA: ATTACKED & BEDBOUND FOR 28 YEARS TO TRANSCRIBE 15,000 PAGES OF MESSIANIC MESSAGES.
NEVER ACCEPT THAT THIS WORLD IS ALL THERE IS.
U ARE GOD AS MUCH AS HUMAN.
7. U MUST GO OUTSIDE. . .
OUR BLESSED WORLD IS A CARNIVAL OF SUBLIME CACOPHONY.
BLAST: ISOLATION. . . BLAST: PURITY. . . BLAST: SILENCE. . .
BLESS: DESTITUTE ST. FRANCIS: WHOSE BAREFOOT SOUL SPILLED OVER THE WORLD LIKE A FLOOD.
THE PEOPLE: A NUMINOUS GARDEN OF ENTHUSIASM.
U MUST EXPOSE URSELF TO THE EFFULGENCE OF THE METROPOLIS.
BLESS: CERVANTES: FACELESS PIRATE, PRISONER, ADULTEROUS KNAVE, SANITIZED BY HISTORY’S VARNISH.
BLESS: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: HUSTLER, LECHER, COINER, WHO CROAKED SYPHILLITIC & JOKING.
BLESS: MOTHER TERESA: ZEALOT, SERVANT, FLOWER, WHO SPENT A LIFETIME KISSING LEPROUS SORES.
COSMOPOLITANISM IS AN ATTITUDE OF DEVOTION.
IMMOLATE URSELF IN THE BONFIRE OF THE BLACKTOP.
8. U MUST BE AN ANCHORITE. . .
OUR BLASTED WORLD IS A MAELSTROM OF OBFUSCATION.
BLAST: NOISE. . . BLAST: VANITY. . . BLAST: HOOPLA. . .
BLESS: FETID ST. ANTHONY: DESERT-DWELLING SURMOUNTER OF BOREDOM, SLOTH, WOMEN: AFFIRMER OF PROFOUND SOLITUDE.
THE EARTH: A STORM THAT MAKES U POROUS TO TOXICITY.
U MUST ISOLATE URSELF TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF UR SOUL.
BLESS: JULIAN OF NORWICH: WHO EXULTED THE SOUNDS OF DIVINE LOVE AGAINST THE DIN OF EXISTENCE.
BLESS: THOMAS AQUINAS: WHO FORTRESSED HIS LIFE BEHIND AN IMPENETRABLE CHASTITY BELT UNTIL A MOSQUITO SLIPPED INSIDE.
BLESS: HENRY DARGER: WHO NEVER KNEW ANYBODY.
IMPERMANENCE IS A DRIP BY DRIP DELUGE.
IMMURE URSELF IN THE COFFIN OF THE DROPS.
9. U MUST BE MEDIEVAL. . .
THE ONLY WORTHY ATTITUDE IS A FERVENT OTHERWORDLY JINGOISM.
BLAST: SCIENCE. . . BLAST: SKEPTICISM. . . BLAST: LEGITIMACY. . .
BLESS: THE SHROUD OF TURIN: WHOSE PRANKSTER VISCERATED THE BLOODY OUTLINE OF CHRIST’S SACRIFICE.
THE FORGERY: A HOLY OBSESSION WITH TRANSMOGRIFYING THE REAL.
U MUST SHAPE WHAT IS LIKE PERFERVID CLAY.
BLESS: MOSES DE LÉON: WHO TOILED OVER THE CRUCIBLE OF GOD’S SECRETS TO ANONYMITY & DISDAIN.
BLESS: DARWIN: WHOSE MINUTE ATTENTION MADE HIM A PERPETUAL HERETIC.
BLESS: MARIE CURIE: WHO WAS LITERALLY INTOXICATED BY THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE.
THERE IS NO AUTHORITY TO WHOM U MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE.
UR WORK IS BETWEEN U & ETERNITY.
10. U MUST BE AN IDIOT. . .
THE FOOL IS THE ONLY BEING WHO CAN SPEAK FREELY.
BLAST: WISDOM. . . BLAST: INTELLIGENCE. . . BLAST: RATIONALITY. . .
BLESS: HIDEOUS SOCRATES: AMBULANT COURAGEOUSLY DEATH-ACCEPTING ABOMINABLE ANNOYER.
THE BRAINIAC: AN EGO-BALLOON THAT MUST BE FED EXCREMENT.
U MUST PANEGYRIZE URSELF AS A COCKROACH.
BLESS: OTHELLO: RASH HEEDER OF BAD COUNSEL WHO DEPRIVED HIMSELF OF TRUE LOVE & EARNED HELL.
BLESS: NAPOLEON: SWASHBUCKLING CAESAREAN ALEXANDRINE WHO WOULDN’T STOP UNTIL TRAPPED BY WATER.
BLESS: BENJY COMPSON: IMPRISONED FOR KNOWING ALL-TIME IS EVER-PRESENT & THAT MEMORY IS TRUE PERMANENCE.
WE ARE & WILL EVER BE WORTHLESS MORONIC NOTHINGS.
U MUST RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS UR FREEDOM.
8/6/25
BLAST2MAG@GMAIL.COM
Wyndham Lewis is orgasming in his grave
This is an interesting project--automythography especially appeals to me as an ex-con