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In this book, Benoît Maire addresses his father, transcendental indexation, and the pleasures of being. The language in this text-based piece is non-standard and slang. In addition, the english translation of Catherine Malabou’s essay “The dialectical simplification” is published here in book form for the first time.

The Long Godbeye — a book every one should readbefore travelling to the West Coast.

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BENOÎT MAIRE

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THE LONG GODBEYE

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BENOÎT MAIRE

THE LONG GODBEYE

PARIS, 2014

onestar press49, rue Albert

75013 Paris Franceinfo@onestarpress.comwww.onestarpress.com

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In memoriam Jacques Maire

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THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART IS THE EDGE GIV-EN TO AN ENDLESS WORD, SHE,OU BIEN, OU BIEN AB- AB- AB- AB- THE MEAS-URE THE MEASURE THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS-URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE

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The dialectical simplification

The dialectical simplificationSubjekt, Subjekt-Objekt-Dialektik, Symbol, Syllogismus

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OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS-URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS I LOVE BEING, BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING

Grundriß can also mean a layout or ground plan. It is remarkable that this section should appear as the final form of philosophical exposition, one that must abide by an “intended conciseness”. Philosophy simplifies and reduces itself - this is indeed a law of thought. The mind’s rhythm and movement is one of acceleration, effort reduction and contraction of the time necessary for

grasping an object: “An encyclopedia is by nature an abridgement.”1 The principle of simplification and acceleration manifests this fundamental law: knowledge tends to compress itself originally and take conceptual short-cuts. Breaking off, dividing up, severing, reducing, shortening. A self-abridgement, overlapping

BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE SHE SAID SUDDENLY MORE THAN EITHER EITHER WHILE I HAVE NO GOAL I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH

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circles opening onto one another, showing what follows by thrusting it onto what comes before.

Subject-Symbol-Syllogism.

Hegel argues that “Thought is, after all, the most trenchant epitomist (der mächtigste Epitomator).” 2 Events that have unfolded over “long periods of time” end “foreshorten[ing their] pictures by abstractions”,

that is, by pure signs. This principle is part of the labour of the concept insofar as it operates an “immense abridgement of the singular detail of things.”3 Understanding abstracts its universal meaning from the richness of the sensible. This abstraction does not have, as one might think, the univocal meaning of a killing, but also appears as an

TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILTUP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF ILLNESS I BUILT UP YEARS YEARS YEARS

YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS TEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PUR-SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP

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animation. As Hegel puts it in the Science of Logic: “the understanding does indeed give [the categories of thought], [in the form of abstract universality], so to speak, a rigidity of being....; but [through this simplification] at the same time it spiritually impregnates them and so sharpens them.”4 The determinations of thought now take the shape of a “point.”5

The formalising reduction of the speculative content, its logical writing, paradoxically confer to the being stripped of its singularity a kind of style that becomes its “characteristic” (Eigenthümli-chkeit).6 The principle of simplification lies in a reduction of the physiognomicalconstellation of a being, a thing, or a moment of thought to its distinctive feature. In other words,

YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PUR-SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU-AL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEP-TUAL PHRASE: I DON’T

HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER SAYS A CON-CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE PENCIL A SAND BEACH LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR THE SUN LIGHT WAS EITHER ORSOME SAND CRUSH CRUSH

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shrouded to become a mere shadowy outline.... The single individual must also pass through the formative stages of universal Spirit so far as their content is concerned, but as shapes which Spirit has already left behind, as stages on a way that has been made level with toil. Thus, as far as factual information is concerned, we find that what in former ages

the labour through which meaning is sharpened results in the reduction of the whole spiritual path to a mere print whose asperities it erases. “In a Spirit that is more advanced than another, the lower concrete existence has been reduced to an inconspicuous moment; what used to be the important thing is now but a trace; its pattern is

CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH A PLATE (MY EYES) HIDDEN NUDE HIDDEN THE THE THIS THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE those those those those those those the the the the the GOD IS THE ........ OF THE ABSOLUTE ABSENCE NO-SEX MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS ONLY A HALF DREAM, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM

IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, BRO & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM MY FRIEND, BRO, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALF, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO

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ploughs it. Indeed, the individual must experience the pain and patience of the path and “cannot (...) comprehend his substance more easily”; however, “he does have less trouble, since all this has already been accomplished in itself.”8 The short-cut, which is merely a short-cut as regards the effort that is made - is precisely not a way of cheating

engaged the attention of men of mature mind, has been reduced to the level of facts, exercises, and even games for children.”7 The accumulation-reduction of the spiritual content to its point results in a shortening of the trajectory necessary for grasping it. Thus the individual only needs to make a lesser effort. The point erodes the furrow it ploughs as it

HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12(THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FOR-GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t for-get it ), 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those (AN IM-AGE) THERE SHOULD BE

AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FOR-GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t forget it), 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FOR-GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t forget it), 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FOR-GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t forget it), 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FORGET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t forget), 00000

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with the length of the path. Thus reduced to its characteristic trait, the thing is enabled to access ideality. Simplification is an eidetic: it brings to light, through its abridging function, the style of singularity. By simplifying itself, rubbing against itself through self-reflection, by polishing itself as it were, every determination illuminates itself. This

illumination results from the tarnishing of the original glow and replaces it. The simplifying operation thus sets the conditions of visibility of presence. Simplification is form playing on itself. An art. Art itself.—Translated from the French by Anna Preger.

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Bernard Bourgeois,

“Présentation”, Science de la

1 2 3 4 5 6 those (THERE SHOULD AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FORGET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn’t for-get it), 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN’T FORGET IT), an image, 00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 those 5 6 those BRO, SONNY BOY, MATE, BRO, SONNY BOY : : : : : THE ACTUAL THE AC-TUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL : : ! ! ! ! ( )( )( )( )( )( ) HE SHE ! THE OTHER I ME ME ME THE OLD GIRL ! THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED

OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART IS THE EDGE GIV-EN TO AN ENDLESS WORD, SHE,OU BIEN, OU BIEN AB- AB- AB- AB- THE MEAS-URE THE MEASURE THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS-URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS-URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN

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logique (Enyclopédie),

Paris: Vrin, 1969, p. 11, 12.

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The Philosophy of History, trans;

J. Sibree, New York: Dover

Publications, 2004, p. 5,

Introduction. 3

Ibid.

4

The Science of Logic,

(The Doctrine of the Notion), trans. A. V.

Miller, London: Allen and Unwin,

1969, p. 611 (modified).

5

Ibid.

6

The Phenomenology of Spirit, trans.

A. V. Miller, Oxford, Oxford

University Press, 1977, § 28 (modified).

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Ibid, p. 16

(modified).

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Ibid, p. 17

(modified).

ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS I LOVE BEING, BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING

BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE SHE SAID SUDDENLY MORE THAN EITHER EITHER WHILE I HAVE NO GOAL I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO,

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I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILTUP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF ILLNESS I BUILT UP YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS

YEARS YEARS TEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PUR-SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE

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IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU-AL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU-AL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEP-TUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CON-CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER SAYS A CON-CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON’T

HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WE ? LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR THE SUNLIGHT WAS EITHER ORSOME SAND CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH A PLATE (MY EYES) HIDDEN NUDE HIDDEN THE THE THIS THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE those those those those those those the the the the the GOD IS THE ........ OF THE

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ABSOLUTE ABSENCE NO-SEX MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS ONLY A HALF DREAM, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, BRO & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS

TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM MY FRIEND, BRO, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALF, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & & . & &

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DEAR DADDY,

BUY GOD EYE,THE FALL,AND GOOD BEYE,

Thank you very much,

MY NAME.

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TABLE

BUY GOD EYE....................................10

STICKERS..........................................62

HOLES IN PHILOSOPHY.......................114

THE DIALECTICAL SIMPLIFICATION,BY CATHERINE MALABOU....................115

LETRASET WORDS.............................115

BUY GOD EYE..................................136

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BENOÎT MAIRE, THE LONG GODBEYE

Edition limited to 250 numbered copies.In addition to this book a limited edition multiple by the artist is available from onestar press.

Printed and bound in France

© 2014 Benoît Maire & onestar press

onestar press49, rue Albert75013 Paris Franceinfo@onestarpress.comwww.onestarpress.com

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