For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

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Or the too-late comprehension that my body will testify against me; I plead innocence in spite of my hands being caked in blood. A plea for a revision of the location of culpability! As in: it’s fucking cellular! – If a murderer’s hands, transplanted on to the delicate wrists of a concert pianist, are still a murderer’s hands – what then? We’re all doomed, is what – doomed to incarceration and (self) flagellation. Or this damnable case! The exception that proves the rule, no? Though anyone who knows about this sort of thing will tell you that it’s no fun at all playing the juridical guinea pig. Or subsequently the entering of a plea of diminished responsibility. As if responsibility were scalable! – Which it is certainly not. You either take it or not – are given it or not. What you do with responsibility is your responsibility. End of. [...]

Or, while the juveniles are almost transparent, adults are dark brown and covered with a gelatinous sheath. This truth seldom revealed. [...]

Or, while <strong>the</strong> juveniles are almost transparent, adults<br />

are dark brown and covered with a gelatinous sheath. This<br />

truth seldom revealed.<br />

[...]

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