I killed a cat at 4

I love birds

Once I ate 1,000 Brussel's sprouts

In the begging my father got a job. I was never to tell anyone.

Whenever I eat breakfast my mother serves me terrible food, like eggs, cereal, milk, .... I really hate breakfast

I am not sure that I love my husband any longer

I was with Ricky when he was tripping on acid

I am the Messiah

I love you madly

i have a beard under my face

At the age of 4 I learned about sex from a small boy and went to bed to practice it

A secret I have is that for a small part of my life I thought I was going to be a homosexual. I had relations with another girl I know now howver how to conqure my inhabition and am thoroughly enjoying sex with me.

I am really a green Martian. I killed 5021 people of Earth so far. My fearles leader is Loochie Bala Boochie

My cat Brandy has homosexual tendencies. He also has a weak bladder, but he's cute!

My secret–All my life I have been looking for that one special love to come along and now folks everyone thinks I have it. I have my doubts but don't want to tell people. I think I love Steve. Do I? What is love. How will I know.

I am afraid of an appointment I have this afternoon with a social worker

This piece of paper ultimately becomes a piece of garbage!! Garbage is waste and adds to the pollution! The paper is software. Software is the medium. The medium is the message. All messages are garbage. Garbage is waste, but meaningful.

If my life does not improve soon I will kill myself.

I want desperately to live back in Cambridge.

I told Margaret I preferred her after becoming engaged to Judy.

A mean insensitive lady is watching over this machine

Does Robert like me

I can't stand to tell my secrets but I love to cop out

I have a wooden leg & a brace on my back

He killed himself

No more guns

I'm going to be a great artists

I have trouble thinking of something I have never revealed– I talk about myself in frantic fits– but a secret I would like to not be secret is the incredible subtle mental horror of abortion– this is my most recent "secret"– a continuing mind kneading one.

I used to write my own pornographic novels when I was in Jr High School

I fell in love with my mother

I destroyed Gary's guitar not John.

Carol and I made love. There is one teach in the school that no-one likes. They call her old craby and even though she's not that old. But the point is, is that I think she's a good teacher, and when my friends ask me what I think of her I always say she's terrible, even though I like her, so they don't think I'm crazy.

I hate what I'm doing.

I have a secret box full of worms and they never come out in daylite– there are millions of worms of all the millions who once have lived.

I'm terrified of talking about myself– in case I say the wrong thing.

I don't have a secret as I share all my thoughts & experiences with others

I am a homosexual ... I have been secretly, for 20 years

I am getting very turned on by the thought of whipping this chick who is standing bending over writing beside me–

I'm in this country illegally

I participated in the murder of my mother

I continue to masturbate indiscriminately

VARIABLE PIECE 4
NEW YORK CITY

Visitors to the SOFTWARE exhibition are invited to participate in the transposition of information from one location to another by following the procedure described below:

1. Write or print on this paper an authentic personal secret you have never revealed before: of course, do not sign it.

2. Slip the paper into the slot of the box provided at this location. Complete the exchange of your secret for that of another person by requesting a photo-copy of one previously submitted.

(To insure your anonymity incoming secrets will remain within the the box for 24 hours before being removed to be photo-copied and joining the "library" of secrets for future exchange.)

May 1968
Douglas Huebler

Forms on which the above directions were printed were made available to all visitors at the exhibition SOFTWARE (Jewish Museum, NYC, September 16-November 8, 1970).

Nearly 1,800 "secrets" were submitted for exchange and have been transcribed exactly as written except that surnames have been edited. March 1973
Douglas Huebler

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