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

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Evidently, <strong>the</strong> flattening apparatuses must in turn be<br />

flattened by o<strong>the</strong>r, greater flattening apparatuses. If we are to<br />

maintain momentum.<br />

Between twinned abrasive moons, perhaps.<br />

And I want to say that you strike me as so terribly<br />

fucking shallow to be going along with all this.<br />

doesn’t mean I should be capable of exercising this<br />

sort of power over you. I am little in control of my actions and<br />

would hate for you to have been affected too deeply while I sit<br />

calmly at <strong>the</strong> edge of <strong>the</strong> pool – breath entirely caught, mind<br />

ponderous in <strong>the</strong> cafeteria already.<br />

And it might be assumed that we are curved<br />

by <strong>the</strong> presence of matter, of energy –<br />

\<br />

– which, in our case, is to be metaphorically configured<br />

as ano<strong>the</strong>r apparent flatness.<br />

A site we might reach through a dramatic rebuttal of<br />

those external influences and focus, again, on <strong>the</strong> gravitational<br />

seductions of our guts. O!<br />

Let me.<br />

And in <strong>the</strong> neighborhood, at dusk, time-like curves<br />

(hunched beneath what, I swear, look like <strong>the</strong> weight of fucking<br />

cowls) pass through <strong>the</strong> event while somehow remaining inside<br />

<strong>the</strong> event’s past and future light CONES.

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