LUCIA SPLENDOUR

“THIRD EMENDED VERSION ,
SOME OMISSIONS HAVING BEEN ADDED TO
MY LAST '' PUBLICATION ''
TO KEEP THE LOGIC MORE LUCID
SORRY FOR SETTING EVERYTHING DOWN
SO QUICKLY -
''SCALE THE HUMAN MOUNTAIN
OF SUMLESS LIES UNTIL
YOU LABORIOUSLY REACH THE SUMMIT
THEN CAUSE IT TO CRUMBLE
BY YOUR EQUALLY SUMLESS BURDEN OF VERITY
THAT NO HUMAN MAY FAVOUR YOU
WITH A GLANCE ANY MORE
AND THOSE WHO DO
ARE NO LONGER HUMAN
HAVING DIVESTED THEMSELVES OF THEIR HUMANITY
AS YOU DID
BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT OF
WHAT MAN HAS DONE TO HIMSELF
BESIDES , YOU ARE ABLE TO ASCERTAIN
HOW MANY '' FRIENDS '' YOU HAVE
WHICH IS THE EMPTY SET
CONTAINING ONE ELEMENT ONLY :
VERITY ! ,
TO WHICH YOU PERTAIN AS WELL
IT IS WHY IT IS THE HARDEST THING
TO FIND THE PATH
LEADING TO YOURSELF
AND IT IS BY THE EMPTY SET
THAT ALL OF MATHEMATICS
HAS BEEN MADE AN EGREGIOUS LIE TOO
IT IS MORE FACILE TO KILL SOMEONE OR ,
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO , YOURSELF
THAN IT IS TO LIVE !
DO YOU SEE THE POPLAR AND THE ROBIN
THAT IS PERCHED ON IT ?
ASK THEM !
THEY KNOW HOW TO LIVE
YOU DON'T
BECAUSE YOU ARE HUMAN AND INTELLIGENT :
MAN IS ENDUED WITH HIS SPIRIT OF INVENTION
WHICH HAS REDUCED LIFE TO ABSURDITY
AS ALL THOSE THEORIES AND TEACHINGS
SPRINGING FROM IT
HAVE NEVER BENEFITED LIFE ,
ON THE CONTRARY , DESTROYED IT !
AN APPRECIATION OF THE MAJESTY OF VERITY
ALSO ENTAILS THE INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE
OF '' BEING '' AND HENCE THE INFELICITY
OF YOURSELF WHICH HAS TO BE ASCRIBED
TO THOSE PROFOUND TEACHINGS OF MAN
AND THE IMPRECATIONS WHICH THEY
HEAPED UPON LIFE AND BEHIND WHICH
EVERYONE STRIVES TO CONCEAL HIMSELF
AS SOMETHING SUBLIME , BROTHERLY , CUNNING , INGENIOUS
CONVINCED OF THE '' SUCCESS '' OF SUCH BEING !
INGENUITY AND SUCCESS ,
DO THOSE TWO WORDS DIFFER ? ,
AS MAN IS DETREMINED BY THOSE CRITERIA
AND HENCE LIFE !...
WHAT ALSO COMES TO MIND HERE IS THIS -
THERE IS SOMETHING VASTLY ABOMINABLE
ABOUT SOCIETY :
ITS MEMBERS ARE EVER SO FOND
OF ALL THOSE MOVIE STARS AND ALL
THOSE OTHER LUMINARIES
AND WHAT IS LUMINOUS ABOUT THEM
I DO NOT KNOW ! YET THEY ARE IN THE
HABIT OF TREATING THOSE VERY SIGNIFICANT
PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY FROM ORDINARY
PEOPLE SUCH AS A HOUSEMAID OR A GROCER
OR A SALESMAN AND SO FORTH ,
THEREBY CREATING SOMETHING UTTERLY CORRUPT :
A FALSE IDEALISM !
THEY NEED THOSE LUMINARIES AS THEY
LACK ANY IDEALISM THEMSELVES IN THEIR EVERYDAY
REALITY WHICH HAS DEPRAVED THEM OF IT ,
OVERLOOKING HOWEVER ,
HOW TRULY ORDINARY IN TRUTH
ALL THOSE STARS ARE !
AND ALLOWING THEIR LACK OF IDEALISM
TO BE SUPERSEDED BY OTHER PEOPLE'S
NONPRESENT IDEALISM ON ACCOUNT OF
THEIR PROMINENCE MAKES EVERYTHING
LOOK EVEN DARKER IN LIFE ,
AS THOUGH LIFE CONSISTED IN FAME !
IS THIS WHY IT IS SO
DARK IN THE HUMAN WORLD ?
AM I THE ONLY PERSON TO APPREHEND
DARKNESS IN THEIR LIGHTNESS ?
OR WHY IS SO DARK IN THIS WORLD ?
SOMETHING LIKE THAT NEEDS TO BE
SHRUGGED OFF AS SOMETHING
INEXPLICABLY RATIONAL ,
WHENCE I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT MYSELF
IRRATIONAL IN NOT GROVELLING BEFORE
THOSE WHO ARE EVEN MORE ORDINARY
THAN ALL THE OTHER ORDINARY
NON-FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE !
IT IS IN PARTICULAR THOSE
ALL-IMPORTANT DIGNITARIES
WHO TASTE OF METHYLATED SPIRITS
IN A MOST ACRID AND NAUSEATING FASHION !
SO MUCH FOR CLEANLINESS !...
VENERABLE ANCIENT SHADES
HOVERING OVER THIS LAKE
THAT IS NO MORE AND OF WHICH I AM PART
THE WORLD AROUND ME FADES
I DISPEL ALL THOSE BLANK AND GRAINED
IDEAS MAKING UP HUMAN EXISTENCE
I AM NO MORE
I DREAM
AND HOPEFULLY I WILL NEVER TURN BACK
SO AS TO SEE THAT BLANK AND GRAINED
HUMAN EXISTENCE AGAIN
WHICH CAUSES LIFE TO BLUR SO MUCH
THAT I AM NO LONGER IN A POSITION
TO SUFFER FOR THIS MUCH GUILT ,
WHAT IS LIFE ?
AMEN !...”
― LUCIA SPLENDOUR

“WHAT IS LIFE ?
I DO NOT KNOW ,
AND INDEED NOBODY DOES ;
BUT WHEN I WRITE
I DEPEICT LIFE AS IT APPEARS TO ME
IN MY REVERIES AND FRENZIES !
TO ME THIS AND ONLY THIS IS LIFE !
EVERYTHING ELSE DOES NOT REPRESENT
LIFE TO ME , MORE ESPECIALLY ,
WHAT MAN HAS DEFINED TO BE LIFE :
SPURIOUS INTELLECTUALISM AND ITS DOGMATA
WORKING ITS WAY EVER UP ,
THE EFFECT OF WHICH ARE THOSE
SKYSCRAPERS AND THE PEOPLE
EMBODYING THEM :
ALIENATION , INDIFFERENCE , INSENSIBILITY !
INSENSIBILITY TO ANYTHING THAT IS ALIVE ,
CONSEQUENTLY WHAT IS ''UP ''
OR HAS THE SEMBLANCE OF BEING '' UP '' ,
IS DOOMED TO REMAIN '' DOWN '' FOR EVER ,
TO ME THAT IS A CRIME -
FOR EXAMPLE , LOOK AT PUTIN ,
AND HIS CURRENT CAMPAIGN OF WARFARE :
ONE CRAZY PERSON , AND HE IS ONLY
ONE PERSON WHO COULD EASILY BE
TOPPLED ! BUT WHY ISN'T HE
TOPPLED THEN ? BECAUSE HE IS
SURROUNDED BY THE SAME KIND OF
PEOPLE ANYWHERE : NOTHING BUT CRAZIES !
AND CRAZIES ARE THE GUARDIANS
OF HUMAN REALITY TOGETHER WITH
ITS RATIONALITY AND MORALITY ! !
AND WHAT IS TRUE OF PUTIN ,
IS TRUE OF ANY POLITICIAN !
ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON LIFE ?
IT IS GETTING DAMP HERE !
I HAVE TURNED MYSELF INTO A SEAGULL
WINGING OFF , ABANDONING THE OBSTINACY
OF LIFE TO YOU WHO KNOW ABOUT IT !
AND IF YOU TAKE NO CARE OF LIFE ,
HOW CAN YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES ?
AND DO YOU CONSIDER THAT YOUR
MARVELLOUS SUPERSTARS THAT YOU CRAVE
AND ADMIRE SO MUCH ARE FARING ANY
BETTER THAN YOU ARE ?
DO THEY TAKE CARE OF LIFE ?
HAVE THEY NOT SPOILT THEMSELVES
AFTER SPOILING LIFE ?
SIMPLE QUESTIONS ,
WHERE ARE THE ANSWERS ,
YOU SHOULD ´BE ABLE TO FURNISH THEM ,
BEING THOSE WHO KNOW OF LIFE !...”
― LUCIA SPLENDOUR

“PART 3
THIS QUOTE OF MINE
IS EXCLUSIVELY CONCERNED WITH WAR -
HOW IS IT ,
THAT THIS CHRONIC DISEASE OF HUMAN MISERY
HUMAN EXISTENCE IS AFFLICTED WITH
IS OMNIPRESENT AND CONTINUES TO GROW
IN ALL THIS PROSPERITY OF TODAY ?
AND THE WORLD IS HEADING FOR A NEW WAR
THANKS TO POLITICIANS SUCH AS PUTIN ! !
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
AS THE HORRORS OF WAR ONCE AGAIN
- NOBODY INTERVENING
YET WE ARE ALL ONE WORLD COMMUNITY ! -
ARE UNFOLDING BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES ! ,
BEFORE EVERYONE'S EYES
THIS INDIFFERENT THEY ARE ALL ARE TO '' LIFE '' !
MAN HAS LEARNED NOTHING FROM THE PAST !
WERE ARE THOSE FEW PEOPLE
WHO ARE STILL CAPABLE OF THOUGHT
TO PUT A STOP TO THIS MADNESS ,
TO STAND FOR REASON AND LOVE OF PEACE ,
FOR DOES NOT EVERYBODY SPEAK OF LOVE ? ,
INSTEAD OF HEADING WITH A BLIND OBSESSION
AND FANATICALLY FOR THE NEXT WAR IN MODERNITY ? , AS A MATTER OF FACT ,
AS FANATICALLY AS THOSE CONVICTIONS
THEY HOLD FAST TO !
WHERE ?
WHERE IS REASON ?
WHERE IS LOVE OF PEACE TO BE FOUND ?
THOSE ENDORSING NOTHING BUT WAR ,
SIDING WITH THE VERDICT OF REACTIONARY
VIEWS WHICH CAN NO LONGER
BE DESIGNATED HUMAN
AS THE EFFECT OF THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO
'' TRUTH'' AND '' LOVE '' AND SUCHLIKE
FOR THEM NOT TO BE IN A BAD TEMPER ,
WHICH THEY ARE ANYWAY , INVARIABLY SO !
HOW IS ALL THAT POSSIBLE
WITHIN SOMETHING THAT IS SO FOND
OF VIEWING ITSELF AS '' HUMANE '' ,
PART OF WHICH IS
TO SUBSIDE INTO PROFOUND THEORIES
TO MAKE FOR MORE
'' HUMANE QUALITY OF LIFE '' ?
AND I KEEP ASKING MYSELF :
WHERE DO I LIVE WHEN ALL THIS ATROCITY
IS BROUGHT ABOUT WITHOUT ANY REMORSE ?
WHO IS YET CAPABLE OF THINKING
IN THIS WORLD ?
WHO IS TO MAKE A CLEAN SLATE AT LENGTH
BY TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT MAN ?
GIVE YOUR LIKES TO YOUR SUPERSTARS AND
TO YOUR POLITICIANS WHOM YOU VOTE
FOR THEM TO EFFECT MORE AND MORE WARS
AND TO TEACH YOU HOW TO WAGE WARS
AS PART OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
FOR YOU TO BECOME
'' THE SCHOLARS OF WAR '' ! ,
AND GIVE THEM TO ALL THOSE OTHER FALSE IDOLS THAT YOU ADORE AND CANNOT RENOUNCE LEST MORTAL DREAD SET IN
AND ENRICH THEM BY YOUR STUPIDITY ,
YOU UNCOMPROMISING CAMP FOLLOWERS ,
YOU WHO ARE NOT ODIOUS TO YOURSELVES WITH YOUR INSATIABLE UNREASONING
COMPLACENCY IN HAVING DESECRATED
WHAT IS HUMAN ONCE AND FOR ALL !
I WANT NONE OF YOUR LIKES EVER
IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT
SOMEONE SHOULD ACTUALLY READ THIS !
AND IF THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH ON WAR
THEN SOMEONE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN TO ME
WHAT WAR IS !
LIFE ?
LOVE ?
PEACE ?
FREEDOM ?...”
― LUCIA SPLENDOUR

“SCALE THE HUMAN MOUNTAIN
OF SUMLESS LIES UNTIL
YOU LABORIOUSLY REACH THE SUMMIT
THEN CAUSE IT TO CRUMBLE
BY YOUR EQUALLY SUMLESS BURDEN OF VERITY
THAT NO HUMAN MAY FAVOUR YOU
WITH A GLANCE ANY MORE
AND THOSE WHO DO
ARE NO LONGER HUMAN
HAVING DIVESTED THEMSELVES OF THEIR HUMANITY
AS YOU DID
BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT OF *
WHAT MAN HAS DONE TO HIMSELF
BESIDES , YOU ARE ABLE TO ASCERTAIN
HOW MANY '' FRIENDS '' YOU HAVE
WHICH IS THE EMPTY SET
CONTAINING ONE ELEMENT ONLY :
VERITY ! ,
TO WHICH YOU PERTAIN AS WELL
IT IS WHY IT IS THE HARDEST THING
TO FIND THE PATH
LEADING TO YOURSELF
AND IT IS BY THE EMPTY SET
THAT ALL OF MATHEMATICS
HAS BEEN MADE AN EGREGIOUS LIE TOO
IT IS MORE FACILE TO KILL SOMEONE OR ,
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO , YOURSELF
DO YOU SEE THE POPLAR AND THE ROBIN
THAT IS PERCHED ON IT ?
ASK THEM !
THEY KNOW HOW TO LIVE
YOU DON'T
BECAUSE YOU ARE HUMAN AND INTELLIGENT :
MAN IS ENDUED WITH HIS SPIRIT OF INVENTION
WHICH HAS REDUCED LIFE TO ABSURDITY
AS ALL THOSE THEORIES AND TEACHINGS
SPRINGING FROM IT
HAVE NEVER BENEFITED LIFE ,
ON THE CONTRARY , DESTROYED IT !
AN APPRECIATION OF THE MAJESTY OF VERITY
ALSO ENTAILS THE INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE
OF '' BEING '' AND HENCE THE INFELICITY
OF YOURSELF WHICH HAS TO BE ASCRIBED
TO THOSE PROFOUND TEACHINGS OF MAN
AND THE IMPRECATIONS WHICH THEY
HEAPED UPON LIFE AND BEHIND WHICH
EVERYONE STRIVES TO CONCEAL HIMSELF
AS SOMETHING SUBLIME , BROTHERLY , CUNNING , INGENIOUS
CONVINCED OF THE '' SUCCESS '' OF SUCH BEING !
INGENUITY AND SUCCESS ,
DO THOSE TWO WORDS DIFFER ? ,
AS MAN IS DETREMINED BY THOSE CRITERIA
AND HENCE LIFE !...
WHAT ALSO COMES TO MIND HERE IS THIS -
THERE IS SOMETHING VASTLY ABOMINABLE
ABOUT SOCIETY :
ITS MEMBERS ARE EVER SO FOND
OF ALL THOSE MOVIE STARS AND ALL
THOSE OTHER LUMINARIES
AND WHAT IS LUMINOUS ABOUT THEM
I DO NOT KNOW ! YET THEY ARE IN THE
HABIT OF TREATING THOSE VERY SIGNIFICANT
PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY FROM ORDINARY
PEOPLE SUCH AS A HOUSEMAID OR A GROCER
OR A SALESMAN AND SO FORTH ,
THEREBY CREATING SOMETHING UTTERLY CORRUPT :
A FALSE IDEALISM !
THEY NEED THOSE LUMINARIES AS THEY
LACK ANY IDEALISM THEMSELVES IN THEIR EVERYDAY
REALITY WHICH HAS DEPRAVED THEM OF IT ,
OVERLOOKING HOWEVER ,
HOW TRULY ORDINARY IN TRUTH
ALL THOSE STARS ARE !
AND ALLOWING THEIR LACK OF IDEALISM
TO BE SUPERSEDED BY OTHER PEOPLE'S
NONPRESENT IDEALISM ON ACCOUNT OF
THEIR PROMINENCE MAKES EVERYTHING
LOOK EVEN DARKER IN LIFE ,
AS THOUGH LIFE CONSISTED IN FAME !
IS THIS WHY IT IS SO
DARK IN THE HUMAN WORLD ?
AM I THE ONLY PERSON TO APPREHEND
DARKNESS IN THEIR LIGHTNESS ?
OR WHY IS SO DARK IN THIS WORLD ?
SOMETHING LIKE THAT NEEDS TO BE
SHRUGGED OFF AS SOMETHING
INEXPLICABLY RATIONAL ,
WHENCE I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT MYSELF
IRRATIONAL IN NOT GROVELLING BEFORE
THOSE WHO ARE EVEN MORE ORDINARY
THAN ALL THE OTHER ORDINARY
NON-FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE !
IT IS IN PARTICULAR THOSE
ALL-IMPORTANT DIGNITARIES
WHO TASTE OF METHYLATED SPIRITS
IN A MOST ACRID AND NAUSEATING FASHION !
SO MUCH FOR CEANLINESS !...”
― LUCIA SPLENDOUR