76. If you can't say it, better believe you don't know it. That's the guise of easy mystics.


77. If you ask for something that doesn't exist you deserve it on the intelligence of the request.


78. Numbers don't count ?


79. He's the person they pretend doesn't exist.


80. From fairest creatures we desire increase.


81. He still has a notion of possession.


82. For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.


83. He's so in love with the cosmos that he has to pretend anger.


84. A single line can be a complete autobiography.


85. Words pay no debts (if you're so smart why aren't you rich?).


86. He's making his fame by saying "He's right."


87. He sat in a pink silk airplane and invited teachers and students in to speculate about pretend.


88. The question becomes the argument becomes very complexing because people demand explanation.


89. Knowledge always complete.


90. He "sees" words as they are spoken (never having learned how to think).


91. Think yourself away?


92. He displayed and edited 3 people as public information.


93. The earth at least?


94. Have we eaten of the insane root?


95. Epitaph: kicking the shit out of physical phenomena.


96. The only thing left for him is the unreal.


97. Men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.


98. As many lies as will lie in this sheet of paper.


99. The extraordinary god at the japanese shrine deals with all forgotten material.


100. But these are only words.


�James Lee Byars & John Brockman (Copyright � 1971, 1997. All rights reserved.)

A week after receiving news of James Lee's death, I went to my farm and found the following message on the answering machine time-stamped May 16. "Johnny, Jimmy � send ten thou right away for "The Perfect Book." Wire money to Byars, American Express, Cairo. Johnny, I'm dying in a hotel room in Egypt. Five hundred a day to eat through a tube. Johnny, this is it. Send the money. Call your publisher. Jimmy. Cairo.
Click.

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James Lee Byars
1932-1997
"Click"