The Anthropophagist Manifesto (4)

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THE ANTHROPOPHAGIST MANIFESTO
(sections 15-20)

Down with Father Vieira. Author of our first loan, to earn a commission. The illiterate king told him: put this on paper, but without a lot of sweet talk. The loan was made. Brazilian sugar was put on the line. Vieira left the money in Portugal and brought us the sweet talk,

The spirit refuses to conceive of the spirit without a body. Anthropomorphism. Need for the anthropophagic vaccine. To balance against the meridional religions. And the external inquisitions.

We can only pay attention to the earacular* world.

We had justice, the codification of vengeance. Science, the codification of Magic. Anthropophagy. The permanent transformation of the Taboo into totem.

Down with the reversible world and objectivized ideas. Cadaverized. The stopping** of dynamic thinking. The individual, victim of the system. Source of classical injustices. And the forgetting of internal conquests.

Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes.***

 
*It has mostly been assumed that the original orecular is a misspelling of “oracular.” But some have chosen to see it as a portmanteau of orelha (“ear”) and oracular (“oracular”). I have gone with the latter, which feels very much in the spirit of the Manifesto.
**The English word “stop” is used in the original, giving it a modern, slightly technological meaning since so much machinery, even then, would have had English words written on it.
***The word that Oswald repeats seven times here - roteiros - could also mean ship logbooks, itineraries or directions, roadmaps or ship maps, guides, tours, and even scripts.