¶ Artist
Index Entry
Artist:
“In the pirate’s educational system we start the children off with the ‘elements.’ We say, 'Stop thinking about the universe… We’re going to give you A and B and C. By and by we will make you so forgetful of the world around you and so one-eyed and sharply focuses that you will become a great specialist if you don’t drop out and start off to be a minor pirate on your comprehensively own right, which would be very foolish of you because we have been monopolizing the totality for so long and with so much bloodshed that the odds are heavily against you. The most you may be able to do as a minor outlaw or pirate will be to become an artist… of sounds or visual compositions in which you can safely use your own language to say anything you want about the going system of life without probability of our being able to understand you and be displeased with you or even threatened by you which means you can avoid punishment and may have some acclaim by other esoteric minded outlaws and by those pirate’s wives who want to acquire something ‘different’ and distinguished to offset their homely faces.”
