So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Thanatopsis - William Cullen Bryant (1821)

Malay Black Djinn Curse

    These premises have been cursed by black sorcery. The curse has been advocated according to correct rituals. This institution is cursed because it has oppressed the imagination and defiled the intellect, degraded the arts toward stupefaction, spiritual slavery, propaganda for state and capital, puritanical reaction, unjust profits, lies and aesthetic blight.

    The employees of this institution are now in danger. No individual has been cursed, but the place itself has been infected with ill fortune and malignancy. Those who do not wake up and quit, or begin sabotaging the work place, will gradually fall under the effect of this sorcery. Removing or destroying the implement of sorcery will do no good. It has been seen in this place, and this place is cursed. Reclaim humanity and revolt in the name of the imagination - or else be judged (in the mirror of this charm) and enemy of the human race.

    At present, for tactical reasons, we do not advocate violence or sorcery against individuals. We call for actions against institutions and ideas - art-sabotage and clandestine propaganda (including ceremonial magick and tantrik pornography) - and especially against the poisonous media of the empire of lies. The Black Djinn Curse represents only a first step in the campaign of poetic terrorism which - we trust - will lead to other less subtle forms of insurrection.

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