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    ++THE FULL MOON'S UNFATHOMABLE light-path--mid-May midnight in some State that starts with "I," so two-dimensional it can scarcely be said to possess any geography at all--the beams so urgent & tangible you must draw the shades in order to think in words.++
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    No question of ''writing to'' Wild Children. They think in
    images--prose is for them a code not yet fully digested &
    ossified, just as for us never fully trusted.
     
    You may write ''about'' them, so that others who have lost the
    silver chain may follow. Or write ''for'' them, making of
    STORY & EMBLEM a process of seduction into your own
    paleolithic memories, a barbaric enticement to liberty
    (chaos as CHAOS understands it).
     
    For this otherworld species or "third sex,"
    ''les enfants sauvages'', fancy & Imagination are still
    undifferentiated. Unbridled PLAY: at one & the same time the
    source of our Art & of all the race's rarest eros.
     
    To embrace disorder both as wellspring of style & voluptuous
    storehouse, a fundamental of our alien & occult
    civilization, our conspiratorial esthetic, our lunatic
    espionage--this is the action (let's face it) either of an
    artist of some sort, or of a ten- or thirteen-year-old.
     
    Children whose clarified senses betray them into a brilliant
    [[sorcery]] of beautiful pleasure reflect something feral &
    smutty in the nature of reality itself: natural ontological
    anarchists, angels of chaos--their gestures & body odors
    broadcast around them a jungle of presence, a forest of
    prescience complete with snakes, ninja weapons, turtles,
    futuristic shamanism, incredible mess, piss, ghosts,
    sunlight, jerking off, birds' nests & eggs--gleeful
    aggression against the groan-ups of those Lower Planes so
    powerless to englobe either destructive epiphanies or
    creation in the form of antics fragile but sharp enough to
    slice moonlight.
     
    And yet the denizens of these inferior jerkwater dimensions
    truly believe they control the destinies of Wild Children--&
    ''down here'', such vicious beliefs actually sculpt most of
    the substance of happenstance.
     
    The only ones who actually wish to ''share'' the mischievous
    destiny of those savage runaways or minor guerillas rather
    than dictate it, the only ones who can understand that
    cherishing & unleashing are the ''same act''--these are mostly
    artists, anarchists, perverts, heretics, a band apart (as
    much from each other as from the world) or able to meet only
    as wild children might, locking gazes across a dinnertable
    while adults gibber from behind their masks.
     
    Too young for Harley choppers--flunk-outs, break-dancers,
    scarcely pubescent poets of flat lost railroad towns--a
    million sparks falling from the skyrockets of Rimbaud &
    Mowgli--slender terrorists whose gaudy bombs are compacted
    of polymorphous love & the precious shards of popular
    culture--punk gunslingers dreaming of piercing their ears,
    animist bicyclists gliding in the pewter dusk through
    Welfare streets of accidental flowers--out-of-season gypsy
    skinny-dippers, smiling sideways-glancing thieves of power-
    totems, small change & panther-bladed knives--we sense them
    everywhere--we publish this offer to trade the corruption of
    our own ''lux et gaudium'' for their perfect gentle filth.
     
     
    +++We share the same enemies & our means of triumphant escape are also the same: a delirious & obsessive ''play'', powered by the spectral brilliance of the wolves & their children.+++
     
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    --~~[http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz1.html#labelChaosSection CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM]~~
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