Overview

The piece opens:

“WE ARE CALLED UPON TO HALT in times of war, which are forever-times, war being the unending state of scarcity’s portions’ apportioning, war being communication in all its wordly failing, the selection of winners and losers and the rulemaking of games ensuring such, the drawing of lots, smothered means, entrail gesture, a muscle briefly relaxed for a butchers’ embrace, blood-soaked apron.”

Among its named sections or movements are GET HIM., GET ALL OF THEM., fun, THE CHAOS ELECT, DOES AN AMBUSH AWAIT YOUR RUSTLE?, WAR.

Notable features

  • "War Is Business and Business Is God" — Clean Register-Collision Template — A repeated "X IS Y / Y IS Z" grammatical frame compresses military, economic, and theological registers into a single aphoristic chain. three incompatible vocabularies sharing one syntactic structure with no hedging between them.

The phrase “WAR IS BUSINESS / BUSINESS IS GOD” later appears verbatim in “Imperial Blood,” EGOTERRORISM track 41.

Lyric migration

Selected quotations

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 343 words · 1 image element · 0 embedded-media elements · 11 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Weapons, Crime & Coercion · Money, Price, Debt & Worth · Blood, Wounds & Bodily Evidence · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness · Escape, Exit & Containment.

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Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 357 words · 1 image element · 0 embedded-media elements · 10 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • WAR IS
  • GET HIM.
  • GET ALL OF THEM.
  • fun
  • & I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE HOBBYIST COMMENTARIAT
  • THE CHAOS ELECT
  • DOES AN AMBUSH AWAIT YOUR RUSTLE?
  • WAR
  • BUSINESS
  • GOD.

Publication

Published 2022-02-25. Read the original publication ↗