Like others I had a handful of really close friends in high school. Many of these guys were very smart and talented and have gone onto careers in music, medicine, computers, etc. While in high school a couple of these guys wrote something of a manifesto. Please note this was not a political manifesto or anything of that type. Instead this was more of a list of well stuff ....and often funny and sometimes weird stuff. This list was written over a couple week period in 1985 and should not be interpreted beyond just teenagers putting random thoughts down on paper - think comedian Steven Wright in high school.
This page and resulting pages is dedicated to David Bebb and its major contributors (Peter Blaustein and Thomas Foley) that started something called The List Volume I and later The List Volume II.
As noted on the original dot matrix copy - This document is dedicated to the NONSANE. You know who you are.
To the reader. As you can see, I have omitted number one. But do not fret, dear reader, for there has been no ritual
of sacrifice to Zap, the God of Accidental Erasure. Page one has not been lost to the bottomless buffer of deletion. It is
simply more convenient for me, the writer, to begin with page two. "Why?" the more inquisitive of you may ask... To this I can
only reply, "Ha! Wouldn't YOU like to know."
-Go nonsane.
-Mercilessly rule the world.
-Forget what everything looks like, and then try to remember.
-Release every particle in your body, and allow them all to speed away in every direction at tremendous speeds.
-Mumble unintelligibly for hours at end.
-Remember the Alamo.
-Spin.
-Establish a new norm.
-Empty your mind of all extraneous information.
-Slip away noislessly.
-Burrow.
-Roam the countryside, searching for truth and eternal goodness.
-Deteriorate at an alarming rate.
-Wonder why there is something instead of nothing.
-Refuse to comply with specific directions.
-Mention something in passing.
-Go down in a blaze of glory.
-Live forever.
-Change physically.
-Sleep on it.
-Live in a fantasy world.
-Evolve.
-Define things.
-Sell your soul, just for the hell of it.
-Dodge invisible stuff.
-Be malevolent, but in a good sort of way.
-Throw yourself to a grisly death.
-Vanish into a fog.
-Inhabit something.
-Do your best to aid cultural diffusion.
-Cause trouble.
-Publish yourself.
-Melt ice in your ears.
-Convincingly state, "I eat raw toast, and I don't care who knows about it."
-Write down everything you know.
-Get even.
-Unify the physical laws of the universe.
-Be head of a puppet government.
-Attempt the impossible.
-View everything in a relative manner.
-Marvel at the complexities.
-Set something on fire in the name of progress.
-Be a case of mistaken identity.
This is the end of page 2.