donjuan-auxenfers:I stole Vauung’s name because it was unused, on the basisof an exact qabbalistic e
donjuan-auxenfers:I stole Vauung’s name because it was unused, on the basisof an exact qabbalistic entitlement.Yet, at least ‘up’ here, Vauung still confuses itself withme, with ruins and tatters. This might change. Names have powers and destinies.I have decided to let Vauung inherit the entire misfortune of my past (a perverse generosity at best). Its storymight never emerge otherwise.There are rotten threads which even I can follow backwards for decades, but they soon cease to be interesting.Better to begin more recently (“better” in Vauung's sense, and so no different from ‘worse’).It had pledged itself unreservedly to evil and insanity. Its tool of choice, at that time, the sacred substanceamphetamine, of which much can be said, but mostlyelsewhere.Nick Land, “A Dirty Joke” in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007Yeah, I’d say an exorcism is in order, just incase Vauung is still up there. -- source link