THE OUTSIDER WRITING OF ANTHONY MANNIX

THIS REPERTOIRE OF WRITING IS DESIGNED TO DOCUMENT THE STATE OF PSYCHOSIS AND ITS LANDSCAPE. IT IS AN ATTEMPT SOMETIMES TO REPRODUCE SCHIZOPHRENIA, SOMETIMES TO FIND AN INTELLIGABLE OR EMOTIONALLY COMMUNICABLE CORE WHICH CAN BE IMPARTED TO THE LISTENER. THERE IS ALWAYS AN EYE TO MAKING THE WRITING COHERENT BECAUSE EVEN IF THE LUNATIC IS UNINTELLIGABLE HIS OR HER EXPERIENCE IS COHERANT AND BECAUSE FLAWLESSLY BELIEVED BEARS THE WEIGHT OF EXPERIENCE. IN PLACES THE WRITING IS AUTOMATIC, TO REPRODUCE, WITH A DEBT TO THE SURREALISTS TO TRY TO WOO YOU INTO A SIMILAR STATE THAT MAY HINGE ON YOUR OWN RELEVANT LIFE-TIME RECOLLECTIONS. IN OTHER PLACES IT MAY BE CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT AND PRECISELY DESIGNED TO TRIGGER THE UNCONSCIOUS.

EVEN THOUGH THE FASCIMILE QUALITY OF PSYCHOSIS IS FOREMOST THERE IS AN EFFORT TO GET TO ITS WORKINGS AND PROCESS EVEN IF ITS CORE REMAINS A MYSTERY OR SOMETHING FELT FROM A GREAT DISTANCE. THERE WERE TIMES I FELT BEING SCHIZOPHRENIC WAS A VOCATION ALBEIT NO CHOICE IS GIVEN AND I HAVE CONSCIOUSLY TRIED TO PROJECT IN MY WRITING SOME OF THIS RELIGIOUSITY.

THIS WRITING DOES NOT GLORIFY NOR IS IT APOLEGETIC BUT AIMS AT REPRESENTING AND EVOKING A STATE THAT IS COMMON-PLACE AND FOR ALL WE KNOW COMMON-PLACE SINCE WE BEGAN. THE LAST FRONTIERS THAT WE HAVE ARE SPACE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND.

THE OUTSIDER WRITING OF ANTHONY MANNIX

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