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4/23/2014

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Aztechnicians

night spreading as peacock

his eye like charcoal

1168 dayknife

signs of declining social orders:

war

importation                                                      

translation

man a rational creature

Montezuma Cortes ye knew suppose

rational man’s stripped of apetites

hunger thirst &c at his rational

man experiments when knock

knock from his lab door

his most obedient servant 

& announces ham & oxolotl

on for dinner out set already

getting cold & rational man

HAS to put his experiments down

to have some of that tasty

pigasslookin fish he sd 

as Montezuma Cortes sd  & here more or less paraphrase:

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Montezuma Cortes: all of a piece . . . labyrinth-minded but plain spoken . . . a lady’s man / a man’s man / a wise man . . . a sort of handy index & pocket congress of all humanity . . . everything but a poet thought to him oceanwaste tyranny he sd  lops lops

[pasted directly into the codex]

it was about this time

he conceiv’d the bold

& arduous Project

of arriving at Moral

Perfection

w/ Print Typography:

as a Book he led an Argument

a Life—charted his Morality

vices tho Malinche sd

he went in thralls

at the Sight of jus abt any Woman

Grew more attentive

to Writing & made

his Fortune thru

Printing Press

& Alamanacks

learned his Writing

through Studied Imitation

Critique on rising Novel

liked the Addition of Quotes

of Characters who spoke

Authors who mix’d Narration & Dialogue

Good Things from That sd Montezuma Cortes

& US now all those caps for reasons now misunderstood.

INSERT: details of a Rising People

INSERT: virtues as order

temperance

silence

order

resolution

frugality

industry

sincerity

justice

moderation

cleanliness

tranquility

chastity

humility

            as a chart he plotted progress, recorded his trespasses:

? ?        ?          ?          ?          ?????    ??

            ??         ?  ?  ? ????  ??????

Montezuma Cortes

mapped his self 

drew it up on his Mapa Sinvirgüenza

upon his kitchen

table’s wax--

now ¿wouldn’t that make

a wallpaper?  waved

goodbye to Messico

rain fell on his fat face

poured flames flushed never

saw desert after all

had intentions of not seeing

Paris or maybe Rome

or Madrid

bought like three whores

two watches

a nice sportscoat w/ elbow

patches & breeches & hose

abroad then hit the whaleroad

back home to sign his Self

on those papers

of a Rising People

to Rising

People

colored it believed

in it & literacy

like Monty Cortes

 self-made

himself human via it

not telling his comrades that books

—that reading—the line from one

end to another left

to right then

down

the page

fostered uniformity fostered

a line a point in the distance to reach

a Euclidean morality

telos you what this thing

trains training sd to pinche Malinche a lone long

line of distance like this religious state

like the shoreline inconceivable

the uniform of many lines

but a line all the same

one line for this Rising People

repeat: Rising People

repeat: one line

see: dig this:

how these lines once activated

pass a message of skill-learning

Montezuma Cortes sd:

“indoctrination now

“this might sound colonial to you

“but stand a bit closer mark this

“easy, not too Hard perfect

“now open yr mouth there yes

“now what I sd: the principal

“difficulty in economic development

“& expansion methinks is organization

“& like I sd indoctrination of

“our workforce get the Rising People

“moving even the pacifists

“our common enemy leaves avenues

“open need to train them & allow

“them to see for themselves

“that their social habits[1] transcend

“what ever limits they inhabit

“extend beyond to a bigger

“planet: ours that one

“people cannot divide

“saving money dont

“mention that nor intelligence

“but that everyone who reads

“& can sign his name not hers

“is a Man of the Rising People

“sends electricity thru

“my body thinking of that

“& that one can make a man

“becoming-man w/ books”

new patterns of life

“remove those olden ways

“a new world from darkness lurks hark!”

that’s for the record: hours

heyclocktime

to “educate’ the workers[2]”: ¿problem?

in reading & writing

they had bibles

& culture already read well

already but not those black folks

nor the natives 

& Say Sweet Monty Boy ¿what of them browns?

“don’t get Me started . . . They

“seem to Me the most ignorant Stupid Sort

“of their own Nation”

[. . . ]

“They begin of late to make all their Bonds

“& other legal Writings in their own Language

“which tho I think it ought not to be allowed

“good in our Courts / where the coloreds

“business so encreases that there is continual

“need of Interpreters & I reckon in a few years

“they’ll be also necessary in our Assembly

“to tell half of our Legislators what in the Defil

“that Other half seys”

[. . .]

“unless the stream of their importation cd be turned from this to other colonies”

“they will soon outnumber US / that all these advantages we have will not in

“MY OPINION be able to preserve our langwedge / & even our Government

“will become precarious”

                        good Ol’ Monty

now start yr pomes in yr ahistorical vacuum


[1] narrowing

condition of

existence from

mode of production

to shared

dispositions &

their objectively

harmonized practices perceived by

                               others as positive or

                               negative signs of natural

                               or social wealth &

                               which thereby

                               contributed to the

                               legitmation of the social

                                order


[2] gastarbeiters bastards / brown bluecollars


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