the curving cavity of white bone (loose strips of flesh will still be dangling down), you will find a hive overflowing with sweetest honey. Eurydice is forever gone.
iii(b) [Negative]: Temporalities of managed, stochastic determination have ruled events since 1945. Stochastics is that branch of mathematics that concerns random sets of observations each of which is plotted as a point on a separate distribution curve. This technique assures that knowledge has no way to distinguish truth from power: algorithms manage preference backed by force, mathematics suspends choice and replaces politics.
Fourth Constructive Pair
iv(a) [Positive]: The proper goal of an emancipative historical method is a society of equal historical selves (SOEHS).
iv(b) [Negative]: Attend the continuous sound of the roar of reproach from all the anonymous New World dead. (I heard it as a child, holding my mother’s yellow elephant-chained skirt.) Allow this sound to accompany your love song inside the hollows of a sparrow’s wing in flight.
Note for Table Three: It may prove helpful while practicing this method to use shorthand designations for the Paired Constructive Principles of Composition. Here are the words I have used to name the constructive principles I have chosen and to hold them carefully in mind:
i(a). Emancipative dimensions of bourgeois literacy; i(b). Historylessness;
ii(a). The one true history of your one true love; ii(b). Improvised reciprocity;
iii(a). What Eurydice saw when Orpheus looked back; iii(b). Stochastic temporality;
iv(a). Society of Equal Historical Selves (SOEHS); iv(b). The reproach of all the anonymous New World dead.
When you have chosen your own constructive principles to use instead of mine in your practice of a method, list them in the spaces provided below.
Eight Constructive Principles Arranged in Pairs (Positive and negative)
i(a).___________________________________________________
i(b).___________________________________________________
ii(a).__________________________________________________
ii(b).__________________________________________________
iii(a)._________________________________________________
iii(b)._________________________________________________
iv(a).__________________________________________________
iv(b).__________________________________________________
First Historical Subject (and Master Narrative):
George Anderson
Dear David Kallen,
Let me now begin again. I hope you will not reject my request for a time and place to meet and speak with you in person. We share the same history. Our personal histories entitle us to positions of comfort and rule. I am an expert by formal training in our national narrative. Over my long career as editor I helped regulate a bourgeois ethical monopoly over the words by which we know ourselves and understand others as universal democratic citizens sharing a modern and Humanist historical good faith.
Who were you when you gave the signal that stopped the trainers at Fort Bragg from torturing you any further? Your action was brave beyond those of anyone else in your or any similar position within the Executive Branch of the American government.
You called torture by its name with the knowledge and authority your body gave you. You wrote a draft of an official finding, writing as acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel whose words had the force of law. You ruled torture to be illegal under U.S. law and treaty obligations no matter what was claimed by historical actors of the executive branch to be the requirements of empire. You then added a footnote—was it forced on you? If so how was that order enforced?—that undid your memorandum’s asserted intention to withdraw legal protection from the torture that had been inflicted for years on persons within the control of the U.S. government and, in secret, had been made official policy in August 2002.
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