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“If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.” — Hakim Bey
Not for everyone is the ancient hidden city of Hassan-I Sabbah, secret as it is legendary, inviting as impenetrable. Virtuous, serene, erotic and violent, comprised of uncompromised covert operatives, gnostic brawlers and rowdy transcendentalists. An excommunicated network of protean contractors thrown from under oeuvres into a union of the luminous. Not for everyone, this intentional but inchoate realm outside every borough, beltway, precinct and parish. How would you do among fallen samurais, heretical aesthetes, heartland anarchists, lusty Buddhists and ascetic perverts who wander the glimmering midnight or purple noon, looking for trouble. That is, looking for like minds and lithe bodies in all their non-dualistic mutable criminality...
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