THE VAIN SEARCH FOR GLORY: A SYMPATHISER WRITES

Self-Savagery 1003: Advice is a form of boasting. Disregard it. Don't jump! Open the box! Take the money! Find your own errors. Stir up refried Western salutations to order; find binned prophecies in the New Foundland Basin; Toast crumpets over Genevan contracts; Ignore both Unholy and Holy advice; If you find ancient blurred scriptures washed-up on the shore, posted in a bottle by a concussed genius off Cape Farewell, throw them back. Keep the empty bottle, it may come in useful. Intergalactic travellers know no more than you. Hold your gun like Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar. Hold your drink like your mother. Indulge resplendent dialoguists. Indulge the Gods of Myth. But don't believe a word.