1971. Totem

This was my final year of high school. I wrote an even more elaborately encoded self-description for it, something so abstruse it may've only consisted of individual letters instead of words. Alas, I didn't save it & it wasn't printed. No doubt it was rejected as 'nonsense' when, in fact, it was deeply structured. This was probably my 1st encounter with censorship. My picture wasn't taken either because I refused to wear a suit for it. This type of censorship is the type that's not usually discussed, people tend to think of censorship of sexual reference & political critique but forget (generally because they're too banal to encounter it personally) that people's very identity outside of sexuality & political opinion are also censored. In my case, it was the rule in my area that males-wore-suits & if you didn't you didn't deserve to be photographed. As for self-description?: may the unwritten law FORBID that you do it outside the box.

Where my picture would've been if I hadn't been a violater of the norms.

Even though my meticulously abnormal text didn't make it in at least my euphemistic "box opening" (fucking) did - as did my 'membership' in an imaginary band. Alas, the illiterati who worked on the yearbook transformed "Gormenghast Trilogy" into " "Gormeing Mast," Trilogy " but some other things still of interest to me today did survive the poor editing.

 

 

 

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