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There is a madman that haunts the imagination of the
ordinary man; a figure that runs through the imagination
breaking bones or pulling jaws apart until there is a
sickening sound. They forget about the madman until
they see or hear something horrible happening; some act
of craziness played out in the horrid light of the
modern city that denies consciousness rather than re-
awakens it. It is the light that reveals rows of
absent-minded faces scanning the daily paper and seeing
themselves enacted from top to bottom next to the
madman enacting his deed.
"Perhaps this madman was like me, reading the newspaper
and then, this thing, this thing within took over. Now
his life is destroyed. Does the world sit on the shoulder
of men waiting for one of them to relent and show the
true nature of things?"
They want some evidence of the madman! What? Is this
the role the artist plays? The artist has only one
thing to teach; that is, all is transformation. Learn
the laws of transformation. Transform, even, the madman
into some divine object that leads to wonderful things.
But, if you do not learn the transformation- beware!
Hell welcomes you; demons coronet you!
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