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“Spheresy 164” by Alina Popa and Nicola Masciandaro.

Spheresy is a non-ending manual for committing spheresy, a constant collection of imperatives and infinitives to keep you moving in spiral spheres.

To be a spheretic means forever to stay fixed on the spot of fidelity to the unbounded intelligence that moves between intuition and bewilderment.

“The intuitive form of intelligence can be called ‘a dynamic intelligence,’ since it can conceive movement, such as a spherical spiral, which is objectively incomprehensible” (R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz).

Take Spheresy with you everywhere, in order to see where you really are, in order to never return.

1. Rot the known into the unknown.
2. Swallow the aphorism only after it becomes a spiral sphere.
3. (To) never again fail to please the beloved in thought, word, or deed.
4. Spend not extra for the lifetime guarantee of being malignantly useless.
5. To draw that which has no image other than itself.
6. Meditate diurnally on the inexistence of any person worth replacing.
7. To die listening to yourself saying your own name.
8. Constantly increase the chances of being burned on a spiral stake for spheresy.
9. Take the hidden detour into every line’s electric chair.
10. To fly to one’s throne on wings of a crypt.
11. Sense how the devil stares at you through your nostrils.
12. Measure every statement by the question: is it a spiral sphere?
13. Bury me in the tomb that reality is digging for itself.
14. Steal the heart of the thief who is stealing everything from you.
15. Smile such a smile that all souls in paradise taste your sorrow.
16. To have no dreams other than this one.
17. To wake up murdered by the objectivity of the real.
18. Out-survive the loop of consciousness immortally bit to death by its own tail.
19. Hear something that sounds like everything listening to itself.
20. Say something to distract me from seeing that your lips trembled.
21. To render naked the reason you like to say things.
22. Stop distinguishing simultaneousness from consecutiveness.
23. Let absolute time happen to you now.
24. Spin around your axis until you become discontinuous to yourself.
25. To have been born beheaded.
26. Don’t be deceived by the tenderness of your thought-virus.
27. Surrender to your autophagous tics.
28. Take it anymore.
29. Listen to nothing that tells you what it has to do.
30. Evacuate any trace of meaning from your mouth.
31. Neutralize all punctuation marks.
32. Let the junk selves take over.
33. Lick the wounds cut in my flesh by your thoughts.
34. Make an appointment to stop pretending not to know that it would come to this.
35. Lower your smile into the well of my eyes.
36. To funambulate abyss on one’s umbilical cord.
37. Turn to maximum the volume of the death of things.
38. Broadcast peak-abyss in real time.
39. To be nothing more than preemptive auto-laughter at one’s own joke.
40. Write only what the partiture of silence dictates.
41. Bring me to sleep with your roaring lullaby.
42. Hear the silence of thought refusing to think.
43. Die on the spot by admitting what you already know.
44. Relax: I got the sly hint without seeing you drop it.
45. Console thyself that this moment is neither the last nor the next.
46. Stop giving to everyone the misfortune of being you.
47. Smash all guillotines in the mirror of beheading.
48. Decapitate photography with a picture of your head.
49. Burn and consume thyself in unfelt desire.
50. Feel free to perish by failing to hit the target precisely.
51. Die trying to annihilate death in life.
52. Betray sigh-analysis into the contingency you forgot to become.
53. To see that you are in more pain than you will ever know.
54. Use your tongue to invert me into a spiral sphere.
55. Intoxicate thyself on untasted wine.
56. Drown in thirst for the true desert.
57. Wait here until time stops procrastinating.
58. Find consolation in still missing yourself if you did not exist.
59. Spell the name your ashes will sigh.
60. Be too smart to trust your mind’s belief in itself.
61. Maximize actual impossibility.
62. Hesitate while giving up your twisted hand in total abandonment.
63. Pluck thyself into an unpublishable florilegium.
64. To headlessly escalate the tail-chase into a spiralvore.
65. Give thanks to the ocean for swimming us into ourselves.
66. To leap like salt in the wine-dark sea.
67. Solely pursue knowledge of stupidity.
68. To not see through eyes covered by the dust of your logic.
69. Think that the thought you are thinking has just inhaled its own ashes.
70. Fill the emptiness inside with the space between thoughts.
71. Hang from the tip of breath and see with the spark of a tear how you fall into the lump in your throat.
72. To taste nothing but the tip of the arrow in your heart.
73. Consider the possibility that your brain is a stillborn baby.
74. Permit the imperative to be eaten by itself.
75. Lose me the way you cannot admit to yourself that you want to.
76. Secretly embarrass yourself.
77. Bless the day when this body applauds you for cutting off its head.
78. To open paradise in the pain of knowing there is nothing you can do.
79. Play with my head as in floats in the vat of your blood.
80. To shamelessly bottle your tears in the hope that no one will ever find them.
81. Constantly repeat what you have never said or done.
82. Feed your marrow on the absence of a life to lose.
83. Refuse absolutely to go along with yourself any more.
84. Remain calm if God wants to be made by you.
85. Blame everything for this marvelous tendency to fall into mutual trance.
86. Daydream only to attain reality.
87. Imprison the correlation in an impenetrable tower of amniotic time.
88. To impregnate yourself with the birth of pleasure.
89. Sigh yourself backwards into absolute fear of breathing.
90. Quake apocalyptically in infinite recursion of floating tombs.
91. To levitate folly to the very bottom of gravity.
92. Drown by following your heart to the ocean floor.
93. See space weep for time, hear time laugh at space.
94. Pay attention to the Stay Out sign posted everywhere.
95. Feel free to cling to me if you do not know what else to do.
96. Practice using the lifesaver’s hole for drowning.
97. Never want more of what you already are.
98. Take the path of honesty to self-destruction.
99. Accept no substitutes for the finitude born from extinction.
100. Swallow me because I am yours.
101. Grow confident in all you do not know.
102. Feel peace like a clean sheet draped over a corpse.
103. Take yourself gently by the hand like a headsman.
104. Leap like salt into your own mouth.
105. Follow the spiral into freedom from balance.
106. Cut the world out of your life – cut yourself out of the world.
107. Worry not that real goodness has nothing to do with you.
108. Split company with the ambitious whose ambition fears losing ambition.
109. Walk into a bar with the levity of a lightning bolt.
110. Talk to me using only your deafness.
111. Think entanglement in the sensitive medium of extinction’s gravity.
112. Camouflage yourself into perfect visibility.
113. See how the world faces itself in you.
114. To swim all day inside the shoreless atom of self-absence.
115. Become the hypocrite you already are.
116. Invert all diagrams of the relation between life and reality.
117. Never again fall under the weight of anything – swoon always under the weight of everything.
118. Use the smoke to fail to discern whether heart or world is burning.
119. Succeed by trying your best to fail.
120. To forget what anything ever felt like.
121. Place your head through the hole that your heart pierced in the horizon of the sphere.
122. Like people who are a little ugly and mysteriously harmonious.
123. Polish mind in the dazzling beauty of mouth-to-mouth.
124. Drive forward using rear mirror telepathEYE.
125. Rebirth into factual proof that everything wants nothing to do with you.
126. Be so earnest that you stop.
127. Enter the world where people pronounce their first words from death beds.
128. Compost your individuation miracle and carelessly plant your head in paradise.
129. Rescale desire to the measure of void.
130. Follow a detour that provides access through the point of departure.
131. To take the one way out that you are not.
132. Forgive yourself for saying anything.
133. Despair that there remains nothing to do.
134. Think only how to run away from your thoughts.
135. Joyfully misperceive the boundary between immortality and never having been.
136. To fall asleep dreaming that you are falling asleep.
137. Be not tricked into being.
138. Pause a while to deepen yourself then come back for more.
139. To wake in a world where nothing is awake.
140. Decide the mutual exclusion of thinking and seeing.
141. Let the spider in your ear explain what I am talking about.
142. Perform open heart surgery by holding hands.
143. Marry the stars one by one, then marry all the moons.
144. Kid yourself that you are deeply worried and disappointed.
145. Remember that sin is not one of the sins.
146. Just say NO to the bully who wants you to exist.
147. Fish for yourself in the ocean with the bait of my heart.
148. Hang upside down, by your head.
149. Relax in the impossibility of relaxation.
150. Inhale thyself with a sigh.
151. Throw all babies out with the bathwater.
152. Cry your stupidity down the drain of my pupil.
153. Become trapped in perilous safety.
154. Fear only whoever fears the monster.
155. Grasp how contact is ungraspable.
156. Unveil irreparable bewilderment.
157. Withdraw not from the beauty of the second taken from the side of the first.
158. Invite everyone to non-stop reunion of zero with itself.
159. Think of me especially when you do not.
160. To search forever, patiently, for one you cannot live without.
161. Forget about coinciding with yourself.
162. Initiate understanding in your hooves.
163. Stop deluding yourself that it is you who handles the axe of thought or it will chop off your head.
164. Give up every idea starting with this one.