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4    It’s New Year’s Eve, I’m standing newly divorced on a roof in a town, we toast the rockets wobble on their way what a party what an opportunity, almost an imperative to think something and do something about what you’ve thought   I think   I’m here now   I think   What do I need   Consumption inspires strength of mind even though it’s mindless but that’s a bad sentence to start a new year with, even though it’s true   I need: new beginnings, new maxims, new year’s resolutions   Of others I know only that it sucks the life out of a human being never to say thank you and to thank too much you have to do your own thing, put yourself first   or precisely don’t think so much don’t follow your desires, but pursue them and hope you don’t turn into some kind of monster on the way a monster that pulls things off the shelves with a dead automation and is itself anderswo engagiert and moreover has been so for a long time a monster that rattles around with its shopping trolley   A new year’s resolution: Don’t listen to too much twaddle that separates you from yourself but that’s difficult to live up to that’s why you need a resolution   A new year’s resolution: Listen to much and many because you can’t know beforehand what you’re missing what you’ll miss due to prejudice and stupidity so let it be a new year’s resolution to be less prejudiced and lazy and stupid but that’s difficult to live up to   I’m here now in the midst of life   Life which like time shifts restlessly in the sofa but never goes away life which is the opposite of death and death which is a euphemism for somethingorother orgasm, happiness, peace at long last, some peace and quiet imagine! to be able to just lounge  in the big, silent house where only tiredness moves   A new year’s resolution: Try not to read everything as if it were entrails or coffee grounds try not to long for everything too much try not to apologise for everything the apology is like the thank you a stupid place to be conscripted fanaticism is so unbecoming   I speak to myself in the imperative: Remember! that everyone knows a handful of psychopaths who live their lives as though they were the only person in it these people aren’t capable of much apart from working and partying and