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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Lome Land Anarchist" catalogs a grain hauler, field burner, salvage-man, hunter, Davy Crocket figure, Mexican policeman, heritage keeper, Anti-Christ salesman, and dangerous wood cutter.
The reviewed page reads as a fierce rural myth catalog. Technical labor, fire, scavenging, guns, folk history, local policing, clear-cut destruction, pornographic printing, and dangerous tree work become overlapping forms of anarchic selfhood, with the handwritten revisions intensifying its anti-institutional stance.
The Lome Land Anarchist catalog returns in clean prose form, appended with a note about a Mexican policeman in Monroe who 'existentially all endeavor remains equal' and won't be voted out.
The Mexican policeman in Monroe, Oregon - placed in the battle zone by existential equality - is one of the collection's strangest and most specific political observations. His immunity to the vote links him to the anarchist by a different logic: his authority is as self-justifying as the anarchist's refusal of authority, both figures outside the ordinary circuits of democratic legitimacy.