sat. 14 sept., 2019: a russian after-dinner blasphomet: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

RUSSIAN:  Спокойнй ночи, маь вашу в три креста…! — Spononoy nochi, mat’ mashu v tri kresta…!  ‡

‡)  “Good night, & fuck yr mother, & 3 crosses, too…!” 

NOTE: This after-dinner toast & benediction is considered perfectly fine amongst friends & familia, but this mild-mannered toast & benediction becomes blasphemous & extremely rude should a single stranger happen to be present.  

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press.

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& fri., 13 sept., 2019: attack of the yōkai manga nerds, ii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

JAPANESE:  豆腐小僧 — tōfu-kozō §

JAPANESE:  妖怪 — yōkai  §§

   §)  Lit., Tōfu Boy. Or Servant Monster.  In modern & post-modern usage most likely to be a pejorative for hardcore manga nerd wimps,  or can refer to a specific yōkai (妖怪) character from 18^th. & 19^th. C. manga & pamphlets, or toys & clothes; tōfu-kozō had no particular special powers,  & arrives as a servant monster with a dainty bamboo umbrella, bringing tōfu or sake,  often during rainstorms… But mold might grow on the tofu before anyone can finish eating it, or the sake go sour; Tōfu Boy often has a huge baby-Huey-like head, sometimes a large tōfu-brick head & one eye & no mouth,  & usually presents the tōfu with an autumn leaf design on a round tray;  Tōfu Boys are considered wimps by the other yōkai (妖怪), & sometimes bullied or picked on,  just like manga fanboys 

  §§)  Yōkai (妖怪) is a difficult term to pin down, (in kanji) it might refer to something bewitching  or  attractive; or to calamity, &/or spectre,  apparition, mystery, something fishy or suspicious.  The Yōkai (妖怪), based on Shinto folklore’s impish sprints &/or dæmons can act as servants or boon companions;  yōkai by nature are compulsive & impulsive energumins,  to say the least,  & can be malevolent,  treacherous,  even deadly,  but are more usually obsessive-compulsive pains in the arse,  just like manga nerds.  Think of them as tutelary stalkers.  Yōkai (妖怪) transitioned as characters in 18^th. & 19^th. C. manga & pamphlets,  as well as finding their way into decorative illustrations on toys & clothes or as charms to ward off smallpox or ill fortune;  Shinto folklore being more animistic, their Yōkai (妖怪) aren’t like Western European folklore’s goblins,  they’re likely to be a sort of monster servant or companion or tutelary dæmon,  a grieving child’s imaginary friend,  & closer to dæmons or eidolons of ancient Greece, or to rakshasa dæmons of India; yōkai (妖怪) are also known to give solace & comfort to people in grief.   

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press

                        

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thurs., 12 sept., 2019: attack of the yōkai manga nerds, i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

JAPANESE:  豆腐小僧 — tōfu-kozō §

    §)  Lit., Tōfu Boy. Or Servant Monster.  In modern & post-modern usage most likely to be a pejorative for hardcore manga nerd wimps,  or can refer to a specific yōkai (妖怪) character from 18^th. & 19^th. C. manga & pamphlets, or toys & clothes; tōfu-kozō had no particular special powers,  & arrives as a servant monster with a dainty bamboo umbrella, bringing tōfu or sake,  often during rainstorms… But mold might grow on the tofu before anyone can finish eating it, or the sake go sour; Tōfu Boy often has a huge baby-Huey-like head, sometimes a large tōfu-brick head & one eye & no mouth,  & usually presents the tōfu with an autumn leaf design on a round tray;  Tōfu Boys are considered wimps by the other yōkai (妖怪), & sometimes bullied or picked on,  just like manga fanboys

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press

                        

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& wed., 11 sept., 2019: a german composer’s critique of a certain performative piece: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

GERMAN: ,,Daß also Geister in einem Akt etwas vollbringen, was wir in der Musik nie träumen könnten, daß Leute zehn Jahre üben wie verrückt, total fanatisch, für ein Konzert. Und dann sterben. [Zögert.] Und das ist das größte Kunstwerk, das es überhaupt gibt für den ganzen Kosmos. Stellen Sie sich das doch vor, was da passiert ist. Das sind also Leute, die sind so konzentriert auf dieses eine, auf die eine Aufführung, und dann werden fünftausend Leute in die Auferstehung gejagt. In einem Moment. Das könnte ich nicht. Dagegen sind wir gar nichts, also als Komponisten. … Ein Verbrechen ist es deshalb, weil die Menschen nicht einverstanden waren. Die sind nicht in das Konzert gekommen. Das ist klar. Und es hat ihnen niemand angekündigt, ihr könntet dabei draufgehen.“  — Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zu den Terroranschlägen vom 11. Sept. 2001     ‡

‡) Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been. The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of, that people practise ten years madly, fanatically for a concert. And then die. [Hesitantly.] And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos. Just imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the “concert”. That is obvious. And nobody had told them: “You could be killed in the process.”  — Karlheinz Stockhausen, during a 16 Sept. 2001 press conference, commenting on the events of 11 Sept., 2001

 

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press

                        

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tues., 10 sept., 2019: a german composer’s critique of a certain performative piece: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

GERMAN: ,,Daß also Geister in einem Akt etwas vollbringen, was wir in der Musik nie träumen könnten, daß Leute zehn Jahre üben wie verrückt, total fanatisch, für ein Konzert. Und dann sterben. [Zögert.] Und das ist das größte Kunstwerk, das es überhaupt gibt für den ganzen Kosmos. Stellen Sie sich das doch vor, was da passiert ist. Das sind also Leute, die sind so konzentriert auf dieses eine, auf die eine Aufführung, und dann werden fünftausend Leute in die Auferstehung gejagt. In einem Moment. Das könnte ich nicht. Dagegen sind wir gar nichts, also als Komponisten. … Ein Verbrechen ist es deshalb, weil die Menschen nicht einverstanden waren. Die sind nicht in das Konzert gekommen. Das ist klar. Und es hat ihnen niemand angekündigt, ihr könntet dabei draufgehen.“  — Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zu den Terroranschlägen vom 11. Sept. 2001     ‡

‡) Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been. The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of, that people practise ten years madly, fanatically for a concert. And then die. [Hesitantly.] And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos. Just imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the “concert”. That is obvious. And nobody had told them: “You could be killed in the process.”  — Karlheinz Stockhausen, during a 16 Sept. 2001 press conference, commenting on the events of 11 Sept., 2001

 

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press

                        

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& mon., 9 sept., 2019: slouching towards the orig. chilean 9/11: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su madre.  ‡

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su abuela.  ‡‡

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su padre.  ‡‡‡

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su abuelo.  ‡‡‡‡

 

      ‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your mother.

    ‡‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your grandmother.

  ‡‡‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your father.

‡‡‡‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your grandfather.

NOTE: In ref. to a Henry Kissenger-ordered & CIA-orchestrated bloody military coup in Chile on 11 Sept., 1973, during which the elected pres. Salvador Allende was assassinated; what followed was decades of military rule, with thousands of rapes & extra-judiciary murders, & a neo-liberal economic regime that repeatedly tanked the economy while handing over the profits of its natural resources to international mining corporations.

 

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=curse+and+berate+in+69%2B+languages     http://softskull.com/?p=271

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& sun., 8 sept., 2019: slouching towards the orig. chilean 9/11: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su madre.  ‡

SPANISH:  El general Pinochet y Henry Kissinger jodieron a su abuela.  ‡‡

  ‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your mother.

‡‡)  General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger fucked your grandmother.

NOTE: In ref. to a Henry Kissenger-ordered & CIA-orchestrated bloody military coup in Chile on 11 Sept., 1973, during which the elected pres. Salvador Allende was assassinated; what followed was decades of military rule, with thousands of rapes & extra-judiciary murders, & a neo-liberal economic regime that repeatedly tanked the economy while handing over the profits of its natural resources to international mining corporations.

 

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=curse+and+berate+in+69%2B+languages     http://softskull.com/?p=271

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