#             Liber Call Me AL
#               vel vel, now.
#            sub figura skating
#
#         "The Book of the In-Laws"
#
#    1. Hi! the manipulation of a Nut.
#    2. Company of heaven exposed;  film
#       at eleven.
#    3. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is  a
#       Star.  Big Deal.
#    4. Every number  is infinite;  fire
#       thy accountant.
#    5. I'd  like  a  volunteer from the
#       audience at  this point  -- you,
#       the  Warrior  Lord  of Thebes in
#       the front row.
#    6. I've Hadit up to here.
#    7. Attention K-Mart  Shoppers!   It
#       is  revealed  to  !Who*vast? the
#       minister of Har-Po-Marx.
#    8. The Khabs is  in the Khu,  right
#       next to the peanut butter.
#    9. Worship thou the Khabs, and  the
#       Khu will take care of itself.
#    10.  Let  my  servants  be  few and
#       secret; they  shall have  enough
#       problems without publicity.
#    11. These are fools that men adore;
#       for example,  Vanna White  comes
#       to mind.
#    12.  Come  forth  with  a fifth and
#       take thy  fill of  Old Overcoat;
#       thou shalt see stars!
#    13. I am above  you and in you.   I
#       am behind you and beside you.  I
#       am hiding  behind the  curtains.
#       I know when you are sleeping,  I
#       see when you're  awake.  I  know
#       if you feel  joy or woe  so feel
#       joy for goodness sake.
#    14. There once was a Goddess, Nuit,
#       Who dated a God named Hadit.
#       When Ankh-af-na-khonsu
#       Saw what they were up to
#       He shouted "Hail Ra-hoor-khuit!"
#    15. You  may already  have won  the
#       priesthood of infinite space,  a
#       Winnebago,  all  power  for your
#       wife,  or   one  of   663  other
#       valuable prizes  in this  Aeon's
#       Prophecy     Clearing      House
#       Giveaway!
#    16. For he is sunburned, and she is
#       a  lunatic.     He   plays  with
#       matches, and she wanders  around
#       in the dark.
#    17. But for you, no such luck.
#    18. Look out!   There's a  snake on
#       your head!
#    19.  Oh,  bend  over,  and  I shall
#       drive thee home!
#    20.  Say  the  secret  word and the
#       Dove shall drop down.
#    21. If the God and the Adorer call,
#       say unto them  that I am  out of
#       the office;  they shall  not see
#       me.    For  I  and my Lord Hadit
#       shall  be  in  a  meeting verily
#       until  the  end  of  time.    My
#       Prophet    shall    call   their
#       Prophet.
#    22.  Now,  therefore,  I  have   an
#       unlisted  phone  number,   which
#       shall be revealed to my  prophet
#       when at  last he  ceaseth making
#       obscene  calls.    I am Infinite
#       Space, and billions and billions
#       of stars, yet modesty remains my
#       best  character  trait.   Let no
#       difference be  made between  any
#       one thing  and any  other thing;
#       in this  way wilt  thou simplify
#       thine Inventory Control.
#    23. But whoso  maketh sense of  all
#       this, let him  explain it to  me
#       as soon as possible.
#    24. I  am a  Nut, and  my number is
#       up.
#    25.  Divide,  add,  multiply,   and
#       extract  square  roots.    There
#       will be a quiz at the end of the
#       Aeon.
#    26. Then saith the Prophet and  the
#       Loss:  Where the Hell am I, what
#       am  I  on,  and  where can I get
#       more?    Then  she answered him,
#       her  neon-hued  body  dangling a
#       wide variety  of love  beads and
#       leather  thongs,  saying:  Like,
#       wow!   Everything is  everywhere
#       and real,  like, fun,  for sure!
#       Totally!
#    27.  Then  the  Priest answered and
#       said  unto   her,  kissing   her
#       lovely brows,  running his  hand
#       lightly    along    her   thigh,
#       nibbling  on  her  earlobes, and
#       unbuttoning     her      blouse:
#       "Uh..right.      What   was  the
#       question?  Mmmph."
#    28. Two  breathed the  light, faint
#       and  faery,  of  the stars, then
#       asphyxiated.
#    29. For  I am  divided by  zero for
#       the chance of confusion.
#    30. This is the curriculum of Math;
#       that the  pain of  long division
#       is  nothing,  and  the  agony of
#       Calculus, all.
#    31. Screw you all!  I've got  mine,
#       Jack.
#    32. Obey my  prophet!  Send  $20 in
#       cash to Me!  Make eleven  copies
#       of this  Book, placing  thy Name
#       therein,  and  disperse  them to
#       others as thou wilt.  Break  not
#       the  Chain,  and  thy prosperity
#       shall be without bounds.   Would
#       I lie to you?
#    33.  Then  the  priest  passed out,
#       muttering:   Heard   any    good
#       ordeals,   rituals,   or    laws
#       lately?
#    34. But she  said: The ordeals  are
#       none   of   thy   business;  the
#       rituals  shall  be  half unknown
#       and  half  published  by Francis
#       King;  the  Law  I'll  give   to
#       anyone willing to haul it away.
#    35. Surprise!  THIS is the Book  of
#       the In-Laws!  I'll bet you never
#       guessed,  huh?    You   probably
#       thought  this   was  just   some
#       ordinary,        run-of-the-mill
#       prophetic  work  dictated  by  a
#       praeternatural Intelligence.
#    36.    My  secretary In-a-Gadda-da-
#       Vida shall  not edit  this Book,
#       howsoever   badly   it   may  be
#       needed.      He   may    comment
#       thereupon by  the wisdom  of Pa-
#       Ra-Keet.   Thus shall  plausible
#       deniability be established.
#    37.   Also   the   Mazdas  and  the
#       Celicas,  the  Oh-Yeahs  and the
#       Cowabungas,   the   Fafnil   and
#       Zermatroz, the work of the Wand,
#       the  Pantacle,  the  Dagger, but
#       not  the  Cup;  these  shall  ye
#       teach at weekend seminars.
#    38. He must teach; but he may  make
#       wild the parties.
#    39.  The  word  of  the  In-Laws is
#       PASADENA.
#    40. Who  calls us  Pasadenites will
#       do no  wrong, if  he but  drives
#       through the city.  For there are
#       therein Three Grades: the Little
#       Old Lady, and the Techie and the
#       Man  of  Suburbia.    Possession
#       shall be nine tenths of the Law.
#    41. The Formula of Sin is  Opposite
#       over   Hypotenuse.      Oh  Man,
#       believe  not  thy  wife when she
#       says she has a headache!   There
#       must be fifty-six ways to  leave
#       thy  Lover!    There  is no bond
#       that can  unite the  divided but
#       Krazy     Glue;     accept    no
#       substitutes.   Darn them!   Darn
#       them anyway!  Ah, heck.
#    42.  Practice  bondage  in  groups;
#       thou  hast  the  right to remain
#       silent.
#    43.  Do  that,  and  await to speak
#       unto thy lawyer.
#    44.  For  the  word "unassuaged' is
#       every way mispronounced.
#    45. After all, nobody's Perfect.
#    46. The Key  to this Law  is really
#       nothing  special.    61 the Jews
#       call  it,  or  58  wholesale for
#       family.     I  call   it  eight,
#       twelve, three point one four  --
#       whatever I want to.  I am a God,
#       after all.
#    47. They have the half, and its the
#       good half,  too.   Pull yourself
#       together, and  tell them  to get
#       lost!
#    48. My Prophet looks out for Number
#       One, One, One.
#    49. We regret to announce that  all
#       ordeals, words,  and signs  have
#       been  canceled  due  to unstable
#       theological  conditions  in  the
#       East.  Let Asar be with Isa,  as
#       long as  they cause  no trouble.
#       I  don't   care;  it's   not  my
#       problem.
#    50. Here's a tip on how to run this
#       scam.  There are three cons  you
#       can  use.    The  gross shall be
#       burned,   the   fine   shall  be
#       soaked,  and  the  lofty  chosen
#       ones worked over.  Thus ye  have
#       plans  and  schemes,  and nobody
#       shall know what hit them!
#    51.  There  are  two  doors  to one
#       townhouse;  the  floor  of  that
#       townhouse has not been  vacuumed
#       for  months;  dirty  clothes and
#       stacks  of  old  newspapers  are
#       there, and the odor of cat food.
#       Let him  enter in  turn the  two
#       doors,  having  given  24  hours
#       advance notice to the tenants as
#       required by  Law.   Will he  not
#       sink?    Damn.  Aargh!    If thy
#       handyman  sink,  the  dry rot is
#       worse than I thought.  But there
#       are ways and  means.  Be  goodly
#       therefore,   or   betterly    if
#       possible:  go  to  parties;  eat
#       cream  puff  sundaes,  and drink
#       generic champagne and beers that
#       foam; play  strip poker  using a
#       Tarot  deck!  But  be  sure   to
#       invite Me.
#    52. If  the layout  be botched;  if
#       thou      neglectest       thine
#       proofreading, saying: Who  gives
#       a damn; or saying, Let's order a
#       pizza;  then  shall   Pa-Ra-Keet
#       smite  thee,  and  thy pepperoni
#       shall breed pestilence.
#    53. Believe me,  this will make  my
#       sister  feel  much  better.  But
#       remember, even though you  think
#       you're such hot stuff, it  shall
#       not help  thee in  Court.   Have
#       fun while you still can; Me too!
#       Me Too!
#    54.   Thou   shalt   be  graded  on
#       content, spelling and grammar.
#    55. Thy work shall serve as  Papyri
#       Ani.
#    56. Expect it not from the East  or
#       West,  but  watch  out  for  the
#       South.    Argh!   All reasonable
#       offers  are  accepted,  and  all
#       answers correct, save only  that
#       some are  stupider than  others;
#       solve  the  first  half  of  the
#       equation,  get  partial  credit.
#       But thou art still wholly in the
#       dark.
#    57.  Go  outside,  for  God's sake!
#       Love  in  the  raw,  love  under
#       water!    But  be careful; there
#       are love and love.  There is the
#       dove,  and  there  is  a  can of
#       whipped cream,  a great  deal of
#       rope, and  a cooperative  sheep.
#       Choose ye well!   He, my  toady,
#       has  chosen,  knowing  the House
#       Rules,   which   are  admittedly
#       confusing.  The galley proofs of
#       my book look okay, but    is not
#       the   Star;   I   think  it's  a
#       squashed bug.   Leave it in;  it
#       will keep people guessing.
#    58.  I  give  unusual;  punctuation
#       while, in life, upon death: full
#       stops.   Not commas,  nor   do I
#       demand proofreading      59.  My
#       incense is of  Chanel No. 5  and
#       tapioca;   and   there   are  no
#       preservatives  therein,  because
#       the   Washington   Monument   is
#       exactly 555 feet tall.
#    60. I  can count  to 11,  more than
#       most of those  who are with  us.
#       The  White  Five  Pointed  Star,
#       with a  "T" in  the middle,  and
#       the  "T"  is  red.   My color is
#       black  and  white  in  the basic
#       configuration,  but  red,  green
#       and blue are  seen of those  who
#       buy    the    graphics   display
#       adapter.    Also  I  have a high
#       resolution option  for them  who
#       pay through the nose.
#    61. But to love  me is to know  me;
#       if, under the night stars in the
#       desert, thou presently  freezeth
#       thy ass off before me,  invoking
#       me out of pure desperation, thou
#       shalt come a little to lie in  a
#       poorly  insulated  sleeping bag.
#       For  one  bonfire  wilt  thou be
#       willing to  give all;  but whoso
#       ignites one  juniper twig  shall
#       be  arrested  by  Park   Rangers
#       within an hour.  Ye shall gather
#       junk  food  and  suntan  oil; ye
#       shall  wear  dark  glasses,   ye
#       shall wish ye were at the beach.
#       I charge  you earnestly  to come
#       before     me     carrying     a
#       ridiculously   heavy   backpack.
#       Pale  or  puce,  Libertarian  or
#       libertine, I who am without good
#       taste desire  you.   Put on  the
#       wings, and you'll look just like
#       a chicken!
#    62. Every  time I  see you  I shall
#       whine   "Me   too!   Me   Too!",
#       reminding thee  strongly of  thy
#       little  sister,  and  thy  heart
#       shall burn with annoyance.
#    63. Sing the rapturous love song to
#       me, or at  least hum a  few bars
#       of "Aleister's Restaurant":
#
#       You can  do anything  thou wilt,
#       at Aleister's Restaurant;
#       You can  do anything  thou wilt,
#       at Aleister's Restaurant;
#       Just drop by, we're in Cefalu,
#       Later on today we'll have a Mass
#       for Nu;
#       You can  do anything  thou wilt,
#       at Aleister's Restaurant.
#
#    64. I  am an  airhead who  uses too
#       much makeup in the evening.
#    65. Me Too!  Me Too!
#    66. The Manipulation of a Nut is at
#       an end.   Tune  in tomorrow  for
#       more  excitement  --  same  BAPH
#       time, same BAPH channeling.
#
##

#             Liber Call Me AL
#               vel vel, now.
#            sub figura skating
#
#         "The Book of the In-Laws"
#
#    1. New and improved!  The filet  of
#       Haddock.
#    2. Oh  come,  all  ye faithful, and
#       Jim shall spill all the  secrets
#       which  have  not  been  revealed
#       already.  I, Christopher  Robin,
#       am  the  complement  of Pooh, my
#       bear. He is hungry, and he lives
#       under the name of Sanders.
#    3. I  am   always  the   center  of
#       attention, which makes my wife a
#       bit edgy.
#    4. Yet it is  she who gets  invited
#       to the best parties.
#    5. Yuck!    These  old  rituals are
#       filthy!  Let the nasty ones  get
#       lost;   let   the   good    take
#       laxatives.  Then we'll talk.
#    6. I am heartburn and sunstroke.  I
#       am  Life,  and  I  gave  at  the
#       office,  yet  I  am  expert   in
#       Grateful Dead trivia.
#    7. I am The Omen and The  Exorcist.
#       I am the fly in the ointment and
#       the lime in the coconut.   "Come
#       unto me" is a foolish word,  for
#       I do not make house calls.
#    8. Who  worshipped  Har-Po-Marx has
#       worshipped  me;  badly,  for   I
#       prefer Chico.
#    9. Remember that  existence is  one
#       long party; that hangovers  pass
#       and are  done, but  liver damage
#       remains.
#    10. O boy, I can see you had enough
#       of this yesterday.
#    11. I see you hate the hand and the
#       pen, but  I could  not afford  a
#       word processor.
#    12. Because we are both broke.
#    13.  for  why?  Because thou failed
#       grammar, and me.
#    14.  Also,  we  couldn't  pay   the
#       electric bill.
#    15.  For  I  am  just  the greatest
#       thing, and my number is nine one
#       one to the  fools, but with  the
#       "in" crowd I  am eight, and  one
#       eight, and four out of five, and
#       two for  one.   Which is  really
#       critical, only I forgot why.   I
#       didn't  draw  to  my   Jack-high
#       straight.
#    16. I am a priest in drag.  Oh, and
#       I can count to eleven, just like
#       my wife.
#    17. Hear me, ye people of sighing
#       Whose next  three paychecks  are
#       all spent;
#       Now is the time to start  crying
#       --
#       The Landlord just increased your
#       rent!
#    18. They are better off dead, these
#       worthless  bums.     they   will
#       hardly feel a  thing.  We  don't
#       care  --  we're  on  the winning
#       team.
#    19.  Is  God  to  walk a dog? Woof!
#       But Pig enumerates to 93.
#    20.  Beauty  and  fashion,   Malibu
#       condos and  fast cars,  coke and
#       cognac are of us.
#    21. We have  nothing with the  scum
#       and  the  rabble.    Refuse them
#       spare change!  Kick them in  the
#       ribs!    Spit  on  them!   Gouge
#       their eyes out!  Drop napalm  on
#       their  foul,  stinking   streets
#       full of  cheap wine  bottles and
#       shopping carts and -- excuse me,
#       I got carried away.  If the body
#       of the King dissolve, the Palace
#       probably  needs   a  new   water
#       softener.  Nuts!  Haddocks!  Pa-
#       Ra-Keets!    UV  lamps, steroids
#       and   contact   lenses,    track
#       lighting!   I ask  you, is  this
#       any way to run a pantheon?  Then
#       again, what can you expect  from
#       a bunch of nocturnal snakes?
#    22. I am the Worm that lieth in the
#       bottom  of  the  tequila  bottle
#       which     fills     men     with
#       drunkenness.   For a  good time,
#       buy   strange   drugs   from  my
#       distributor and trip  thereupon.
#       The brain damage will barely  be
#       noticeable.  Just say "Nu!"  The
#       exposure  of  innocence  is fun.
#       Be a manly,  lusty Man; you  can
#       explain it all to God later.
#    23. I am alone.   There is no  God.
#       Where am I?
#    24. But  ye, o  my people,  rise up
#       and -- Shut  up, o deacon;  I am
#       not there yet.  This is just one
#       of many  Grave Mysteries  I plan
#       to  hint   about  without   ever
#       actually  telling  you anything.
#       For example, it  is said, or  so
#       some say,  that there  are those
#       of  my  people  who are hermits.
#       Now,  think  not  to  find  them
#       milking goats in the West County
#       of Ireland, or even standing  in
#       wheatfields    holding    cubist
#       lanterns  along  the  Tiphareth-
#       Chesed Freeway, but at  cocktail
#       parties, and in the Tokyo subway
#       system.    How  is  it, you ask,
#       that  such  people  are   deemed
#       Hermits? Chalk up another  Grave
#       Mystery.    Remember:  Kill  the
#       wretched,  and  the  weak,   the
#       struggling masses yearning to be
#       free!    Burn  their homes, plow
#       their fields with salt,  enslave
#       them, oppress them -- oh my, I'm
#       sorry,  I  seem  to  have gotten
#       carried  away  again.   I really
#       will  try  to  keep  a lid on it
#       from now on.  Promise.
#    25. It's us against them, boy,  and
#       I say we call in the nukes!  The
#       hell with what I just  promised!
#       I  hate  them!    I  hate  them!
#       Aaaargh!
#    26.  I  am  the  train  entering  a
#       tunnel, and the hot dog  chasing
#       a donut.  If I lift up my  head,
#       and  shoot  forth  venom, I will
#       have to wash  the sheets in  the
#       morning.
#    27. There is danger in this  verse,
#       for whoso  does not  give it  to
#       his  editor  shall  make a great
#       mess.  He shall stumble into the
#       pit  called  Writers  Block, and
#       there he  shall reason  with the
#       Xaos.
#    28.  Now,  damn  Because,  and  the
#       horse he rode in on!
#    29. Just who the Hell does  Because
#       think he is, anyway?
#    30. If  Will stops  and cries  Why,
#       fire him.
#    31.  If  Power  asks  Why,  tell it
#       whatever it wants to hear.
#    32.  Reason  won't  work either, at
#       least not for you.
#    33.  Enough  Because,  already!   I
#       don't even like his dog!
#    34. (What has he got against  dogs,
#       anyway?  Is  it  my  turn,  now?
#       Okay...*ahem*)  But  ye,  o   my
#       people,  rise  up  and   restore
#       circulation to your arms!
#    35.  Let  the  rituals be performed
#       with latex and farm animals!
#    36. There  are parties  every other
#       Tuesday at Bagh-i-muattar Camp.
#    37. A feast for the first night  of
#       Pernod over ice!
#    38. A feast for each of the ninety-
#       four days of the writing on  the
#       Book of the In-Laws.
#    39. A  feast for  Alexia, child  of
#       1.75 Masters  -- Ptah-Sekhet,  O
#       profit!
#    40.   Practices   for    initiation
#       rituals, and  practices for  the
#       Equinox so we  can piss off  the
#       A... A... types again.
#    41.  A  feast  after  class,  and a
#       feast  on  payday;  a  feast for
#       life,  and  a  sudden  loss   of
#       appetite following death.
#    42. A  feast every  day with  me so
#       you can get heartburn.
#    43.  A  feast  every  night with my
#       wife so you can get spacey.
#    44. Yeah!   Party  hardy, bro,  and
#       fear not hangovers at all.
#    45. There  is death  for the  dogs,
#       but  only  if  a Czechoslovakian
#       restaurant    opens    in   your
#       neighborhood.
#    46.  Doest  thou  fall?    Art thou
#       hurt?      Call   Work    Injury
#       Resources at (213) 466-1058.
#    47. Where am I?  What are these?
#    48. Pity not  the fallen!   (What a
#       great idea for a song  title...)
#       they are not my problem!  I hate
#       them,  hate  them,  hate   them!
#       Torture them, destroy them, burn
#       them,!   Rip their  throats open
#       with dull knives, and -- whoops,
#       there I go again.
#    49.  I  am  Haddock,  hear me roar,
#       while I kill and maim the  poor;
#       they knew that I would get  them
#       in the end.  (This is one of the
#       nine to  five; after  work there
#       is  happy  hour,  wherein  I  am
#       three sheets to the wind.)
#    50.  Green  am  I,  and pink in the
#       weave of my  shirt, yet the  red
#       lines are  in my  eyes, and  the
#       purple shadows under them.
#    51. I mean really purple; it is the
#       light high  as a  mountain, tall
#       as a tree.  My toadie shall call
#       this   light   "infrared,"  thus
#       establishing his credentials  to
#       create  a  system  of scientific
#       illuminism.
#    52. There is  some veal; that  veal
#       is black.   It  is the  veal you
#       bought for  dinner three  months
#       ago; it is  the veal that  still
#       lieth  in   the  back   of  your
#       refrigerator.   Throw away  this
#       fuzzy specimen of mycology!   Do
#       this,  and  I  shall reward thee
#       with  freedom  from  severe food
#       poisoning.
#    53.  Don't  worry,  kid,  you won't
#       regret writing  this thing.  You
#       are  perfectly  OK,  I swear it,
#       and any minor discomfort you may
#       feel  is  only  temporary,   and
#       probably   just    psychosomatic
#       anyway.
#    54.  So  your  family,  loved ones,
#       friends,   and   everyone   else
#       you've   ever   respected  think
#       you've  gone  off  the deep end?
#       Big deal!  You know who you  can
#       trust, right? The stops as  thou
#       wilt; the  yields as  prescribed
#       by state law.
#    55.  Thou  shalt  learn  the entire
#       English  Alphabet;  thou   shalt
#       learn    to    construct   words
#       therefrom.
#    56.  Laugh  while  you  still  can,
#       mockers!  They laughed at me  at
#       the University,  but now,  now I
#       will show them! Ahahaha!
#    57. He that  is righteous shall  be
#       righteous  still,  he  that   is
#       filthy shall take a bath.
#    58. Don't  go changing,  to try  to
#       please me, I  love you just  the
#       way you are.   Perhaps that  bum
#       is a  King who  likes cheap  red
#       wine.    A  King  can choose his
#       refreshment  as  he  will;   the
#       rabble  cannot  hide  their poor
#       taste.
#    59. Kill them all, and let Me  sort
#       them out!
#    60. Strike low, strike often;  kick
#       them when they're down, so  they
#       won't get up again!
#    61. There is  a light before  thine
#       eyes,  a  light  undesired, most
#       annoying.  Buy  a new shade  for
#       your desk lamp.
#    62. Your chest hurts, and the  roof
#       is leaking.
#    63. Just breathing is an effort.
#    64. Oh!   You let your  guard down,
#       we have you now: hail, hail, the
#       gang's  all  here:  prophet of a
#       Nut! prophet of the Odd! Prophet
#       of Bar-B-Que!  Now rejoice,  and
#       party, and write trashy novels!
#    65. I am the Master; you will  obey
#       me.
#    66.  Write   and  work,   and  find
#       ecstasy  in  bed!    Thrill with
#       victory and  agonize in  defeat!
#       Those who  see your  death shall
#       be glad -- doesn't that make you
#       feel just great?  I love you  so
#       much  I  think  I'll  kill  you.
#       Cheer  up!    We're  all in this
#       together.
#    67.  Hold!    A  little more to the
#       left!    Keep  it  up!   Oh, for
#       God's sake, don't pass out now!
#    68.  Harder!    Faster!    Oh!  Oh!
#       OH!!!
#    69. Whew!   What do I  feel?  Am  I
#       exhausted?  Not with this  verse
#       number, I'm not.
#    70.  There  are  other  ways,  too.
#       Wisdom says: be rich! Then canst
#       thou     afford     more    joy.
#       Recrystallize  thy  rapture.  If
#       thou drink, don't drive, if thou
#       love,  do.    If  thou  do aught
#       joyous,  don't  get  caught, and
#       destroy all evidence.
#    71. But go for the gusto!
#    72. Grab more and more!  Live fast,
#       die young, leave a  good-looking
#       corpse.
#    73. Ah!  Ah!  Death!  Death!  Thou!
#       Thou!  Shalt!  Shalt! Long!   --
#       excuse me, I got stuck.  Anyway,
#       forget death.
#    74.  Absence  makes  the Heart grow
#       fonder.  He  who lives long  and
#       desires death much is  obviously
#       not very good at suicide.
#    75. Aha!  Listen to the Secret Code
#       Message:
#    76. 20-N-Z  6-B-17-M  3-M-2-N-3-M-3
#       16-6-C-15   18-14-N-11-5.   What
#       the Hell  does that  mean?   You
#       won't figure it out, that's  for
#       sure.  Ten cometh after me; they
#       shall read  it, and  weep.   But

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remember-even if you don't understand it, you can still tell it to your friends.

77. O be thou proud and macho and muscular, and the Castro shall be thine.

78. Thou art really something, a special kind of guy, truly head and shoulders above the crowd, a standout, one-of-a-kind. Thine head shall expand to encompass the stars. They shall worship thy name, and the number of thy beverage 202.

79. The end of the filet of Haddock, and so long to you, sucker.

 

 

Chapter III

1. Tag! You're It!

2. Things get rough from here on out; show not this chapter to thy friends. Speling is flunked; all was not taught.

It's a Hawk! It's a Higher Plane! It's PA-RA-KEET!

3. Now first, let's get it straight that, as Gods go, I am one bad-ass dude. I will kick their asses.

4. Choose ye an island! (I recommend the Atolls of Tahiti.)

5. Fortify it with eight vitamins and iron! (From this shall wonder be bred.)

6. Fill it with all kinds of crap!

7. I will give you a fire engine.

8. With it ye shall hose down the people, and none shall stand before you.

9. Run away! Sneak around behind them! Shoot them in the back! This is the law of the Battle of Cowardice: we shall practice in my back yard.

10. Get the Souvenir Postcard of Cairo itself; set it in thy photo album - the one with the dirty pictures of Egyptian children and camels - and it shall be your Keepsake for ever. It shall not fade, or at least not much, for miraculous four-color printing shall adhere to it eternally. Toss it in the bottom of your underwear drawer and forget about the damned thing.

11. Save this portion for your records! I forbid argument. I forbid questions. Hell, I forbid going to the bathroom!

I will make it easy for you to mess up your house and to destroy your home town. Thou shalt have danger and trouble; thy weight is 195 pounds. Bar-B-Que is with thee. Worship me with gin and tonic; worship me with scotch & with water! Let women threaten me with sharp objects; thou knowest I love it. Let beer flow to my glass. Step on anyone who gets in the way; mine is a modest proposal!

12. Mutilate cattle, little and big, in remote areas of Wyoming: after, a c***d [DELETED AT THE REQUEST OF THE O.T.O LEGAL FUND].

13. Ha! I didn't say "Simon Magus says!"

14. I'll get around to it, so be patient. Yeah? And your wife, too!

15. Be careful what you wish for - I may give it to you. Hell, I may anyway.

16. No contract, explicit or implicit, is hereby established between the party of the first part, the entity ?Who-Vast! (hereafter EW), and the party of the second part, the Master 999 (hereafter M999). EW assumes no liability for damages caused by or consequent to use, misuse, abuse, or disuse of Liber Call Me AL (hereafter "Nancy") by M999. M999 assumes full responsibility for promulgation, commentary, and routine maintenance of "Nancy," and for all civil or criminal actions pertaining to or caused by "Nancy" or related material. Your state may not permit exclusion of prophetic liability for channeled, inspired, or extraterrestrial communications. In this case, state law supersedes the Logos of the Aeon.

17. Don't worry; fear neither tax auditors, nor auto mechanics, nor weird fuzzy things you find late at night under your bed, nor anything. Money fear not, but rather the lack of it; nor laughter of the folk folly - with a religion like this you're in for a lot of it. Nuts are your snack as you drink your Lite; and I am the force that bends your arm.

18. You know all that stuff in Chapter 2 about mugging the weak and the poor? Well, do that, but this time wear steel-toed boots.

19. The postcard they shall call the Souvenir of Cairo; count its name on thy fingers, and it shall be unto thee as, um, 5.

20. But WHY??? Because of the fall of Because, you little brat. Now go play on the freeway.

21. Redecorate thy temple with genuine oil paintings from the GALLERY ART SHOW at the Cairo Hilton! Seascapes, clowns, Elvis on velvet, generic farm buildings, and waterfalls are only a few of the many ORIGINAL ARTWORKS available at ridiculously low prices for a LIMITED TIME! Sofa size, portrait size, and our special TEMPLE SIZE paintings are all AVAILABLE NOW!

22. Buy a whole set, to carry thy Decorating Theme. I am the visible Object of Worship, if you know what's good for you. It's my Aeon, and I'll scry if I want to. The others can just wait their turns; for you and your wife are they, and the winners of the Prophecy Clearing House Giveaway. What is this? Ask Ed McMahon.

23. For perfume mix oil and vinegar and Thunderbird: then gasoline and styrofoam, and afterward soften and smooth down with rich dark beer.

24. The best beer is of the Irish, Guiness; then beers of Germany, or imported from the Orient; then of Australia; then of Canada or Mexico; then some American pisswater, no matter the brand.

25. This drink; of this make bread and eat 'til you pop. This hath also another use; let beer be laid in a shallow dish in the garden, with sticks propped up on its sides: it shall become full of snails and other things which have been ravaging your garden.

26. These dispose of, reflecting on the karmic implications of drowning in beer.

27. Also, these make good escargot if you want to catch them live and go to all that trouble.

28. Also, ye shall reek of garlic.

29. Furthermore, if you keep them in corn meal awhile, they're supposed to taste better. You try it first and let me know.

30. My altar is of open brass work. Burn thereupon, and all the incense will fall through the openings and ruin your new carpet.

31. You will meet a tall dark stranger who will piss on you.

32. From gold forge extremely soft, yellowish steel!

33. Be ready to run away or to hide!

34. But your Townhouse shall endure throughout the centuries: though with dry rot and termites it be unsafe and condemned, yet an invisible house there lieth in a heap, and shall remain until the zoning laws change; when hell is frozen over and the national debt repaid. Another load of ready cash shall then be spent on New Age trash; another scandal-film shall bore us, titled "The Sex Life of Horus"; another Book shall be dictated to a Prophet overrated; another parody shall be prepared, another Breeze to pain; and we shall be still on the brink of the Volume II Magickal Link!

35. The end of the word of Hia-wa-tha, alias Har-po-marx, alias Pa-Ra-Keet.

36. Then, suddenly, the prophet said:

37. I think I feel a song coming on -

Why do hawks swoop down from the sky

Every time she walks by?

Just like me, they long to be

Close to Nu.

Why do buds open to the air

From the Earth, everywhere?

Just like me, they long to be

Close to Nu.

In the Aeon she appeared Archangels got together

And they Willed to formulate a dream come true;

So they scattered starlight for her body

And eternal trees, the hair of Nu!

38. Of course you feel light-headed; you have a hot sword stuck in your back. Pick Door Number 3, and I will establish your way, or you can trade it all for whatever is in this box. Oh, by the way, these are the adorations, so pay attention:

Why do snakes coil around my heart

Every time we're apart?

Just like me, they long to be

Close to Nu.

39. All this and a sensational best-selling book about how you achieved communion with Aliens and a copy of this document forever - for in it is high acid content paper, and it won't last twenty years as is - and thy comment upon this Book of the In-Laws (I suggest "So what?") shall be Xeroxed expertly in four colors upon beautiful bond paper stolen from an office supply store; and to everyone that thou meetest, were it but to throw food and drink on them, it is the Law to give as good as you get. Remember, charity begins at AUMGN. Then they shall either shower thee with praise and fortune or set their dogs upon thee; care to guess the odds? Run away quickly.

40. But what about the Comment? I don't got to show you no stinking Comment!

41. Establish a legitimate business organization as a front; all must be done using at least two sets of books.

42. The ordeals thou shalt overlook, being blind drunk. Accept everybody; you'll probably spot the traitors before they cause really catastrophic damage. I am Pa-Ra-Keet, and I am very good at getting my servant in trouble by giving him stupid orders like this. Success would be nice; fold not, spindle not, mutilate not, breathe shallowly, sit still! Them that seek to arrest thee, to beat thee up, might not even notice thee if thou art still and quiet enough. If this doesn't work, swift as a kicked puppy run away! Be thou yet more pitiful than he! Perhaps they shall have mercy upon thee. Lick their boots, roll over and play dead!

43. Let the Beige Woman beware! If she lets up for one second I'll kick her ass. I will cancel her auto insurance; I will foreclose on her mortgage; I will audit her tax return; as a shrinking and despised credit risk shall she crawl through loan applications, and die a renter.

44. But let her do her Will by following my directions to the letter, never deviating from the exact path I have chosen for her! Let her act as I want her to act, dress the way I like her to dress!

45. Then shall she be free; then I will be nice to her kids. She shall be happy, for I know what she really wants. With my perfect guidance she shall be Nuts, and eat Haddock.

46. I am the Lord of the Top Forties; the Sixties tune in, turn on, and drop out; the Eighties worry about my prophecies more than Nostradamus. Failure is likely, running away your defense; go on with my speed, and hide until they leave!

47. This book shall be a major motion picture, with subsequent comic book releases; but always with the illegible scrawls of my servant; for in the chance shape of the doodles in the margins are mysteries with which Freud would have a field day. Let him not seek to know these; but seventeen come later who shall use them as a wallpaper pattern. Then this ink stain is a mess; then this smeared line is a mess also. Buy a new pen, for God's sake. And SHAZAM. Blood tests shall prove it to be his kid, stunning the medical profession. Let him not push too hard, for only thusly could he fall off and possibly injure both himself and the goat.

48. Now the mystery of the letters is done, and good riddance.

49. I am in a secret word that you won't want your friends to read. Just tell them to stop at verse 48.

50. Darn them! Darn, darn, darn! GOSH darn!

51. Okay, here we go: With great big nasty sharp implements I gouge Jesus' eyes out. Anybody for a nice cheery burning cross on the front lawn?

52. I offend another major world religion and make untold millions of additional enemies by fucking around with Mohammed's vision.

53. Hell, let's go for it! I make appropriate rude and offensive comments about and desecrate the temples of Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, Confucians, Taoists, Animists, various Native American religions, and - just so they won't feel left out - Marxists. There, now everybody in the world hates you. Isn't it nice to be noticed?

54. Bah! Humbug! I crap on your spitulous creeds!

55. Let's torture Mary to enrage the Catholics; let's criticize Nuns! This is getting fun!

56. All just for the Hell of it!

57. Just in case we've left anybody out, let's also despise Canadians and blondes and stupid people! We must have, what, something like 99. 98% of the Earth's population covered by now?

58. But the keen and the neato, the free and the brave, ye are brothers! All seven of you!

59. So just to make sure you don't get bored, fight each other as well as the rest of humanity!

60. There is no law beyond Do it, then wilt.

61. There is an end to the word of the Head Honcho of the Aeon, but not yet, apparently.

62. To me kiss up by getting clobbered over and over trying to implement all these silly instructions. If this is bliss, I think I'll take sorrow.

63. The fool takes one look at this Book of the In-Laws, makes a rude comment, and resolves to wait for the movie.

64. Let him come through the first ordeal, and it shall be to him as evidence submitted to support his lawsuit.

65. Through the second, material for unknown rock groups to include in otherwise inane lyrics.

66. Through the third, a source of dozens of pithy aphorisms with which to amaze one's friends and alarm one's family.

67. Through the fourth, overly exalted and poorly understood material just waiting for a good parody.

68. Yet to all it shall seem like a good excuse for doing whatever they wanted to do anyway.

69. There is success just ahead, a light at the end of the tunnel; I promise the troops will be home by Crowleymas.

70. I am the chicken-livered Lord of Silence and Hiding; I am afraid of the dark.

71. Hey! You warriors over by the pillars! Your coffee break is almost over!

72. I am the guy with the wand of Double Power, baby; the wand of the force of OY VEY - but my left hand is empty, for I crushed a beer can yesterday, and sprained my thumb.

73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom, then behold! A very large sheet of paper!

74. There is a Secret in the name of PASADENA, hidden and foamy, just as the sun at midnight seldom gives you a good tan.

75. How do you keep a Thelemite in suspense?

 

THE END --

Or Is It???

Aargh. Huh?

[Ed. Note: The manuscript to the Book of the Inlaws was discovered in a sealed closet in Claremont in 1954 and is estimated to have originated circa 1900. The three chapters are said to have been dictated to the Master 999 over three consecutive years, on April 1st of each year. The original manuscript is written in pig-latin. It is believed that this book is the source of over 93% of all modern cliches. This additional information was scheduled to appear as an introduction to our publication of the first chapter, last Spring, but the curse of the "Editor's memory lapse" prevented the appearance of same.]