How the Doing Is

I have no sense of time at all. I quote a cause for the effect, effect for the cause. I will have A influence its predecessor B, who has yet to be born on this earth.

I will connect C and D who have never met, have nothing in common, speak different languages, and eat different foods.

I will rub a theory in its contradiction until both are polished.

Until both are demolished. I will create contradictions for a theory which are a theory. I will create a theory of contradictions and contradict such a theory.

I will reverse time and invert space. I will disassociate space from itself, emphasize its discontinuities, only to suture its continuities and dissolve both.

Time will not be gainsaid. I will quote one and then another theory which contradict each other. I will adopt the tenets of both. I will take one theory as an authority for the reader and take another theory as an authority for the writer and then reverse the two and their consequences.

I will start from the end and finish at the beginning, or I will finish at the beginning and then start at the end. I will do both or neither, one or the other in each and every order, as more times and spaces and theories and readers and writers accumulate.

I will insist I am the author of the writer, and I will insist that I write the author.

I do not care for contradiction in any way or any case. I do care for contradiction, in every way or no case whatsoever.

I have every sense of time, every sense of space. I quote one cause for another, one effect for another. I make chains of effects and causes, the latter following the former, the former following the latter. It makes no difference.

I will or will not connect E and F.

But if I could tell you whether C or D do or do not connect or if I could tell you whether I connect C and D or do not connect C and D I could give you an image.

If I could give you an image I could give you a symbol which would be the symbol of that image or its signifier. If I could give you several images and several symbols I could connect one to another or not connect one to another but if I could connect one to another I could give you a picture.

If I could give you several pictures I could connect one to another or not connect one to another. If I could connect one to another I could give you a belief.

If I could give you a belief it would be a picture of my belief or it would not be a picture of my belief but it would be connected. If it would be connected I would be connected or I would not be connected but if I were connected I could give you a theory and I would give you a theory. If I gave you a theory you would give me money and you would give me you or you would not give me you. If you would give me you I would tell you if B and C connect or if B and C do not connect.

You would know you.


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