Forward Looking Statement

Forwar d Lookin g Statem ent

AND OTHER SPILT TEXTS FROM THE EVAPORATED FLOOR OF THE ILL-LIT BIBLIOTHEQUE

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b y Je s s Jo h n s o n

ST O LU N D

&E E N F O B D EN E N H A V H L Y, T H H I N N I U T E G I R U HE D RO ERE W .

TS S FE O T E X T R E AT E M E W H D R I V E O F SE TH INE, N O AY S D U ONL EN AW WARRE UP AN THEIR N D HID ABBIT THEM GOTTE .

G R R M Y R , I D I N G F O RG E T H E N D E I L A T , H A V E A LT O P R E T E H I S M C E N M AY E E N W M A TH VENA L B Y, I PRO HIS WA HAVE RS FROHANNE C S A T E D S IN WOR Y CES BLE O M T H E D I N T L I C A C H E N S I AT E E B E N P E R M I C P U C O M P R A L T E R L I T Y. A COS ING IN OM AN ED RE K T R LEA ETS F SCRIP R F C O SE NCH BRA

T H E E X C E P T T I O N T O T H I S R U L E I S O N PA G E SEVENTEEN, UNDER ‘HOUSE OF HEADHOLD.’ T H AT ’ S A N E X C E R P T F R O M A S T R O N G LYW O R D E D L E T T E R W H I C H I N E V E R S E N T.

a .) b.)

c.)

d .) e.)

Fo r w a r d L o o k i n g S t a t em en t. . . . . . . . . . 4 - 1 3 C o uld H e S t ill Li ke M e?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 Fr o m a n a d vice s it e.

G io v e S r l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 Fo u n d i n p a c kag in g fo r Ita l i a n b o o t s.

Ve r me digv uld i g en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 R o de nt cy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3

F urthe r note s: The da te algorithm on pa ge 19 was deri ved f or me personally by an online da ting site.

Pa ge 5 cont ai ns an i llustra tion by R ichard Tom m aso.

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Together with fungus, all of this technology

above as well as under neath.

Mankind even now hunts down each other.

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Continuous fungus fingers, you need to grip the steering wheel and ever y glance is eliminating me.

Time to make one

ver y last lump.

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I’m not really stating I am one

amount remorseful.

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M y p ar t ner and I lied t o yo u.

I am just numbe r o n e guttersnipe.

A couple of a few; four and also six.

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Occasion a l ly p a i n tur ns in t o a re a l massive e l e m e n t of yo ur l i fe.

Which you expect this to be there whe n yo u fi n d i t d i f fi cu l t t o re m e m b e r a m o m e n t i n a p e r s o n ’s e x i s t e n ce wh e n t h a t wa s n ’ t .

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8 . Th e a v e n g i n g a n g e l o f m i s p l a c e d a p o s t r o p h e s .

Al l w onde r is tinc tured w ith te r ror.

I s e nte nce this sy ntax to m ap its ow n spam .

Upon a mediocre shoal of crap shall I build my catholic gaol.

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7 . The y were brothers once.

T h e ro a d t o p e d a n t r y i s p a v e d w i t h w e l l - b e h a v e d w o rd s .

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Now I pa ss m e out to bl ack .

№ Ϡζ ξ ¥ spssЧфѣ Fe d e ra l s u b s i dy b e t h y n a m e .

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House of Headhold

An overworked ego will occupy your mind to exhaustion with illusory causal links between your self and the world, between you and other people, your family, and so on; but it certainly doesn’t pass for substantive thought, and in fact makes such activity more difficult.

A quiet mind, unsaddled with pre-Copernican notions of self, turns its inquisitive attentions outward to play roughly with hypothetical models of what it sees. This fuels the engine of creative endeavor to far better effect than the coffee and cigarettes of narcissistic despair or the fuck-or-fight thrillride of relationship trauma. So many people never even leave the prison of their parents’ home, though their bodies may travel the world.

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Even though you do not talk, could he still like you

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This guy stares at me all the time in the halls and he turns red when we make eye contact; could he like me He side glances at me and makes eye contact and holds it as he walks away down the hall and only breaks it when he has to look foward...

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He is starting to show up unexpectedly around me but we never talk...

Is he interested or am I making it up

that he is in my head

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V VE ER RM ME EN N II G GV VU UL LD D II G GE EN N

VERME NIGVULDIGE N

i n a s i m p l e y et s o ph i st i c at e d o pe rat i n g s yst e m , t h e r e a r e m a n y ways to bu r n . k e e p i t s i m p l e , bu t o f f e r o p t i on s .

Burn-lay_fter-ork.

Burn play after work.

Music is its own murderer.

Without go d , you can us e the advanced op t i on s , su ch a s text and 1 + 1 i s 2.

Th e fi l m’s m e s s a g e i s t h i s :

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Wa nt to sh a re w ith you r f r i e nd s ?

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No m atter wh at raci al profi le you claim, you can b e fi red i n a s er i e s ; and you may lose you r c red it rati ng i n the s am e e nv ironme nt .

The proble m can not write an i mportant role here.

S

witch...This

story is about the conversion of preferences.

You can see the possibilities for equality and sex. It also discusses the options through the finger.

W

hat is the price?

Fire costs, blank , nothing . In addition, the law of fi re for all

shoots futility in the foot.

VERMEDIGVULDIGEN i s D u t c h f o r M U LT I P LY.

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pa c e h a s a r e c o r d n u m b e r o f t o p i c s , b u t yo u c a n a l s o c r e a t e t i m e . Yo u h a v e p a i d f o r VERMEDIGVULDIGEN.

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mwah!

J.K. Johnson

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’ve lived in six North American cities in 43 years under three d iffere nt n a me s

I ’m so sick of s elf-d i scover y!

One art de g ree.

One ma rr i age.

O ne d ivorce.

Th re e th e rap i s t s .

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(and just as many maddening amendments to my preferred pronoun of choice).

Spyi ng i s of a ro de ntc y in the n atu r ing.

Rode nt i n the Here : Ro de nt in the After.

Study ro de nt s , the n t re mble in fea r, if you a re one who spie s on others .

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FORWARD LOOKING

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