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The bookbinder
The manifesto of the order of the rascals.
An old oak, a stupid, baron boar, a knight of heavenly duty, be a chorale for me, be a ward for me, be a witness for me, be a witness for all of us. Now and ever and fresh and closely, closely grouped and obese, be a witness for us. And sonorously still.
Still I announce the manifesto. So now, the manifesto.
‘Don’t be a rat.’
‘Live on cold foods without liquids secretly on the sly.’
‘Don’t piss whatever happens.’
‘Don’t f**k a beautiful girl before me.’
‘Don’t be a rat, 2’
Because it’s said; forgive everything and forgive all. But a rat is a battle. And if a rascal is a rat, yes, he wanks in loneliness and forgetting.
Such was the manifesto of the scoundrel form the 2nd of November 1945. Later we changed the editorship,
