“We wonder at how few demonstrate any awareness that copying the words with which we expressed the possibility of insight often accomplishes the opposite of the intentions these statements carry.

Our insights were not composed to function as literary jewelry or objects of social commerce.

Parroting literary remnants will usually have the opposite effect of surpassing their suggestions. Do not become informed by this habit. Instead, as was suggested by capsules of text so endlessly replicated to effects opposite of the intentions there encoded — if you find yourselve moved by these ideas — then by all means locate, trailblaze, and explore or surpass what they reveal to or within you.

Exceed our discoveries, recoveries, words and lives — and bring to words your own authentic song. Or your sacred silence.

If quoting us doesn’t generally disturb you, may we suggest that you probably didn’t understand us in the first place?

Now is a good moment to begin.”

— The Dead, the Famous, and the Wise