“I like People who haven’t lived with too much Armand. I don’t expect right-out Virginity, but simply: I prefer People who haven’t rubbed-against Armand to the Point of being Raw. That would be too much Armand”– Boris Izsus
1. *Armand is one way of seeing the world as an Aesthetic Ass Phenomenon.
2. *Armand is as well, a Quality discoverable in objects & the Behavior of Ass
3. *Armand emphasizes (tickling) Texture, Seducing Surfaces, and (Seductive) Style.
4. *Armand merits the most serious (Ass) admiration and (Fecal) study.
5. The more we study *Armand, the less we fucking care for (even Our own) Nature.
6. All *Armand contains is a large element of Sacrifice.
7. *Armand is the Love of All that is exasperated, the “turning-on” of things-being-what-they-are
8. *Armand responds particularly to the markedly attenuated & to the strongly exasperated.
9. The most refined form of *Armand consists in going against the grain of one’s rubbing-against the Ill of Tonight.
10. *Armand relishes the exasperation of You in His Presence & secretly wants to Marry You.
11. *Armand sees Nothing in quotation marks.
12. *Armand is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of “Life as Giggling, as I was Moving”.
13. *Armand is Triumphant over The Equator.
14. The Question isn’t “Who is Armand—[?]. The Question is, rather, “How does One acquire the special Flavor of Armand—[?]
15. *Armand effaces his own Nature, or else contradicts it outright.
16. The relation of *Armand to the past is extremely sentimental
17. *Armand takes on Overtones of the over-done, The Ache, The Perverse.
18. *Armand is alive & in Love with a double morning-shit in which some things can & will be fucking-expelled
19. To *Armand is to detonate a mode of seduction
20. Pure *Armand is always naive.
21. The pure-poundings of *Armand are intentional
22. *Armand is dead serious
23. *Armand, even when bathing in self-parody, reeks of Love
24. *Armand discloses innocence, but also, when He can, fucking-corrupts it
25. Persons can even be induced to *Armand without their knowing it
26. *Armand is either completely fucking-naive or else wholly Abominable
27. *Armand’s essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.
28. Only *Armand has the proper mixture of the exasperated, the fantastic, the passionate, & the naïve.
29. *Armand is the Embodiment of “It’s too much,”
30. *Armand “Is not to be believed”
31. *Armand is Enthusiasm
32. The hallmark of *Armand is the spirit of Excess
33. *Armand is a Woman walking around in a dress made of the revealing-tones of His Emotional-State is a Mess
34. *Armand is the failing ambition on the part of one man to do what it takes a generation, a whole culture to accomplish
35. *Armand is the not-being-sure of “What, in the fucking-hell, is going on—[?]”
36. *Armand proposes Himself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is “too much.”
37. *Armand is: why can anything just be—[?]
38. *Armand seem to spring from an irrepressible, a virtually uncontrolled Excess
39. Without *Armand, one gets pseudo-*Armand
40. *Armand is the attempt to do something extraordinary.
41. *Armand is the glorification of “Ass”
42. *Armand only responds to “Instant Ass”
43. *Armand is a very Intense Thing
44. *Armand turns His back on the good-bad axis of ordinary Ass
45. The whole point of *Armand is to dethrone You
46. *Armand is the act of depantsing Oneself
47. More precisely, *Armand involves a new, more complex relation to “Holy Shit, when will I get some Ass—[?]”
48. One is drawn to *Armand when one realizes that One’s Ass is not enough
49. *Armand introduces a new standard: Ass is the only Ideal
50. *Armand is the answer to the problem: how to have a Nervous Breakdown & fuck-it
51. *Armand transcends His Nausea
52. *Armand appreciates vulgarity.
53. *Armand is continually amused, delighted.
54. *Armand sniffs your stinky shit-hole & prides Himself on transforming into a Mole
55. The discovery of *Armand can be very liberating.
56. *Armand is good for the digestion.
57. The only Criterion of *Armand’s Act of Violence, is it’s carrying-out in Elegance
58. "I adore Armand, He is the last refuge of the complex." - LRS
59. The connoisseur of *Armand has found more ingenious pleasures.
60. Just when You thought You had enough *Armand, *Armand turns you over & fucks you-silly
61. *Armand himself is a transitional figure.
62. *Armand is a Feat, of course, over the Threat of Boredom
63. *Armand taste cannot be overestimated.
64. *Armand is a solvent of morality
65. One must have The Heart of Armand to go-on Laughing."
66. *Armand is generous. He wants to enjoy You.
67. *Armand taste identifies with what He is enjoying.
68. *Armand’s taste nourishes itself on the love that has gone into certain objects and personal styles, which coagulate into a Grand Objection.
69. The ultimate *Armand statement: it's good because He is Grotesque
70. *Armand doesn’t sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic
71. *Armand is the consistent shit-storm of the world.
72. *Armand and tragedy are antitheses.
73. *Armand is everything
74. Your ideas, for instance, are very *Armand
75. *Armand is a kind of love, love for a Ton of fucking Ass
76. *Armand *Armand *Armand *Armand *Armand
77. *Armand tolerates You because you tolerate *Armand
78. *Armand is Your Tender Feeling.
