The
"Other Half" is the word. The "Other Half" is an organism. Word is
an organism. The presence of the "Other Half" a separate organism
attached to your nervous system on an air of words can now be demonstrated
experimentally. One of the most common "hallucinations" of subjects
during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through
the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the "Other
Half" worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis
to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus
may once have been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism
that invades and damages the lungs. The word may once have been a
healthy neural cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and
damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option
of silence. Try halting your sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even
ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism
that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. In the
beginning was the word. In the beginning of what exactly? The earliest
artifacts date back about ten thousand years give a little take a
little and "recorded" - (or prerecorded) history about seven thousand
years. The human race is said to have been on set for 500,000 years.
That leaves 490,000 years unaccounted for. Modern man has advanced
from the stone ax to nuclear weapons in ten thousand years. This may
well have happened before. Mr. Brion Gysin suggests that a nuclear
disaster in what is now the Gobi desert wiped out all traces of civilization
that made such a disaster possible. Perhaps their nuclear weapons
did not operate on the same principle as the ones we have now. Perhaps
they had no contact with the word organism. Perhaps the word itself
is recent about ten thousand years old. What we call history is the
history of the word. In the beginning of that history was the
word.
The realization
that something as familiar to you as the movements of your intestines
the sound of your breathing the beating of your heart is also alien
and hostile does make one feel a bit insecure at first. Remember that
you can separate yourself from the "Other Half" from the word. The
word is spliced in with the sound of your intestines and breathing
with the beating of your heart. The first step is to record the sounds
of your body and start splicing them in yourself. Splice in your body
sounds with the body sounds of your best friend and see how familiar
he gets. Splice your body sounds in with air hammers. Blast jolt vibrate
the "Other Half" right out into the street. Splice your body sounds
in with anybody or anything. Start a tapeworm club and exchange body
sound tapes. Feel right out into your neighbor's intestines and help
him digest his food. Communication must become total and conscious
before we can stop it.
" The Venusian
invasion was known as 'Operation Other Half,' that is, a parasitic
invasion of the sexual area taking advantage, as all invasion plans
must, of an already existing fucked-up situation."
"My God what
a mess." The District Supervisor reminded himself that it was forbidden
not only to express contempt for the natives but even to entertain
such feelings. Bulletin 2323 is quite explicit on this point. Still
he was unable to expunge a residual distaste for protoplasmic life
deriving no doubt from his mineral origins. His mission was educational...the
natives were to be scanned out of patterns laid down by the infamous
5th Colonists. Soon after his arrival he decided that he was confronting
not only an outrageous case of colonial mismanagement but attempted
nova as well. Reluctantly he called in the Nova Police. The Mission
still functioned in a state of siege. Armed with nuclear weapons the
5th Colonists were determined to resist alterations. It had been necessary
to issue weapons to his personnel. There were of course incidents...casualties...A
young clerk in the Cultural Department declared himself the Angel
of Death and had to be removed to a rest home. The D.S. was contemplating
the risky expedient of a "miracle" that doesn't come off. He had of
course put in an application to the Home Office underlining the urgency
of his case contingent on the lengths to which the desperate 5th Colonists
might reasonably be expected to go. Higher command has been vague
and distant. He had no definite assurance that the necessary equipment
would arrive on time. Would he have 3d in time?
"The human
organism is literally consisting of two halves from the beginning
word and all human sex is this unsanitary arrangement whereby two
entities attempt to occupy the same three-dimensional coordinate points
giving rise to the sordid latrine brawls which have characterized
a planet based on 'the Word,' that is, on separate flesh engaged in
endless sexual conflict - The Venusian Boy-Girls under Johnny Yen
took over the Other Half, imposing a sexual blockade on the planet
- (It will be readily understandable that a program of systematic
frustration was necessary in order to sell this crock of sewage as
Immortality, the Garden of Delights, and love-)
"When the
Board of Health intervened with inflexible authority, 'Operation Other
Half' was referred to the Rewrite Department where the original engineering
flaw of course came to light and the Venusian invasion was seen to
be an inevitable correlate of the separation flesh gimmick - At this
point a tremendous scream went up from the Venusians agitating to
retain the flesh gimmick in some form - They were all terminal flesh
addicts of course, motivated by pornographic torture films, and the
entire Rewrite and Blueprint Departments were that disgusted ready
to pull the switch out of hand to 'It Never Happened' - 'Unless these
jokers stay out of the Rewrite room'-
"The Other
Half was only one aspect of Operation Rewrite - Heavy metal addicts
picketed the Rewrite Office, exploding in protest - Control addicts
prowled the streets trying to influence waiters, lavatory attendants,
clochards, and were to be seen on every corner of the city
hypnotizing chickens - A few rich control addicts were able to surround
themselves with latahs and sat on the terraces of expensive cafes
with remote cruel smiles unaware i wrote last cigarette -
"My God what
a mess - Just keep all those jokers out of the Rewrite Room is all"
-
So let us
start with one average, stupid, representative case; Johnny Yen the
Other Half, errand boy from the death trauma - Now look i'm going
to say it and i'm going to say it slow - Death is orgasm is
rebirth is death in orgasm is their unsanitary Venusain
gimmick is the whole birth death cycle of action - You got
it? - Now do you understand who Johnny Yen is? The Boy-Girl Other
Half strip tease God of sexual frustration - Errand boy from the death
trauma - His immortality depends on the mortality of others - The
same is true of all addicts - Mr. Martin, for example, is a
heavy metal addict - His life line is the human junky - The life line
of control addicts is the control word - That is these so-called Gods
can only live without three-dimensional coordinate points by forcing
three-dimensional bodies on others - Their existence is pure vampirism
- They are utterly unfit to be officers - Either they accept a rewrite
job or they are all broken down to lavatory attendants, irrevocably
committed to the toilet -
All right,
back to the case of Johnny Yen - one of many such errand boys - Green
Boy-Girls from the terminal sewers of Venus - So write back to the
streets, Johnny, back to Ali God of Street Boys and Hustlers - Write
out of the sewers of Venus to neon streets of Saturn - Alternatively
Johnny Yen can be written back to a green fish boy - There are always
alternative solutions - Nothing is true - Everything is permitted
-
" No hassan
i sabbah - we want flesh - we want junk - we want power -"
"That did
it - Dial police" -
