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    The Burning Block Issue 3
    The Burning Block Issue 3
    The Burning Block Issue 3
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    The Burning Block Issue 3

    By Shane Eide

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    In this third issue, revolutionary politics and traditional values alike come under fire as illegitimate vehicles of man's coercive history. Here, society's latent violence is boiled to the surface in the hopes that something which transcends mere politics might be realized. It hopes to recognize the whole domain of politics as nothing more than a series of neurotic drives; their opposite, love itself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Eide
    Release dateMar 15, 2017
    ISBN9781370416936
    The Burning Block Issue 3
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    Shane Eide

    Shane Eide is a part-time hermit, part-time flaneur, which means that he is either spending time on literary pursuits or taking walks and thinking about literary pursuits​. He lives in a little room walled with books and sleeps near a big desk, on which he doesn't write since all the quiet is too distracting. He usually goes someplace noisy in order to write as much about fiction as he writes fiction. He's been writing fiction since he was about 11, in which time he's written several novels that he never intends to publish and which no one will ever see, and several others that he wants to publish that he's read out loud to his gold fish. He's been writing what he supposes would be called non-fiction ever since he wrote "Shane was here," in easily erasable pencil on a desk in junior high. You can read his essays and occasional fiction at his blog, www.emergenthermit.com

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      The Burning Block Issue 3 - Shane Eide

      THE BURNING BLOCK

      Philosophy, Politics, Literature

      Issue 3

      March 15, 2017

      EDITOR

      SHANE EIDE

      ©Copyright, The Burning Block Issue 3

      Edition 1 Published by Shane Eide, March 15, 2017

      Edited by Shane Eide and Fred Velvet

      Cover design by Shane Eide

      Cover image by Fred Velvet

      Portland Oregon

      The contents of this issue may not be republished elsewhere or redistributed by anyone but the editor, with the exception of brief excerpts for the sake of review or the endorsement or critique of ideas herein.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Letter From the Editor

      Aphorisms

      Encyclopedia of the Current Year

      The Impossibility of Politics

      Parliamentary Inheritance

      Council of the Greatest Consequence

      The Thinker as Prophet

      Revolution and BDSM

      Love, Charity, Gift

      LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

      Shane Eide

      One mustn’t feel alienated by the tone of this issue. Politics is not treated here as an impossibility for the sake of negating the reader’s interests, but in the very name of the reader’s interests. It is not what one would be tempted to think. In this issue it is hoped by your author that there is, at all times, in all pieces, a sense of the grounding principles on which modern politics stand. Yet, make no mistake; the apparent disgust is more than merely apparent, yet one would do best to treat it as one treats one’s own sickness—as a hopefully temporary trifle in the wake of a future health cherished more than what would have been possible had one not been party to such sickness.

      This issue’s aphorisms have sprouted from

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