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Title: Wild Flowers Author: Renzo Novatore Date: September 20th, 1917 Language: en Topics: Abele Ferrari, individualist Source: Retrieved on July 15, 2009 from http://www.novatore.it/English_Archive.htm Notes: Appeared in Cronica Libertaria, Milan, a.I, n.8, 20 September 1917, Translated 2009 By Luther Blissett.
Premise. Even through the exterminated moor of the barren desert flowers
germinate. Wild flowers that emanate sinful perfumes and that stick
their thorns to bloody the same hands of those who collect them, but yet
they that have their grandiose history of joy, of pain and of love. I
repeat: they are flowers strange and savage that arose from the creative
nothing, were fertilized by the sun and later slammed by the hurricane,
cruelly so!
These flowers are thoughts germinating in the meditative solitude and
deep in my spirit while towards the outside, in the world that no longer
belongs to me the madness rages furiously furrowed from the electrifying
fire of the lightning that breaks implacable.
And I, impenitent vagabond, who loves to gallop in the joyous and
frightening ways of this my solitary kingdom and desert, I feel sorry to
periodically collect a bundle of these wild flowers to crown this rebel
flag that once already cowardly and brutally demolished sings still for
the joyful refrain of eternal return.
The Anarchist is only one who after a long, gasping and desperate search
has retrieved his own self and has placed it, haughty and proud “on the
margins of the society”, denying anything the right to judge it. The one
who knows not to recognize the loftiness of his own actions, him only
judging himself, can even be believed anarchic but is not!
The force of will and potency (not to be confused with power) of the
spirit of autoelevation and individualization are the first steps of a
long and interminable ladder if the one knows that he wills to exceed
even himself above all things.
Only the one who knows to prize with impetuous violence the rusty gates
that close the house of the great lie where the lubricious thieves of I
have given to convene, (God, state, societies, humanity) to retrieve
from the viscid and rapacious hands adorning with the false gold of the
love of piety and of civility, of the sinister predators, their most
grand treasure, can feel boss and signore of himself, and be called
anarchic.
The anarchist, beyond being the most grand rebel also has the virtue of
being a King. The King of himself, understand!!
Who believes that Christ can be the sign and the symbol that man must
wave in order to reach the libertarian synthesis of life, cannot they be
a Socialist or a christian negator of anarchism.
When Socrates, who in spite of everything was without a doubt much
superior to the bestiality of those his people who condemned him,
accepted the hemlock that they imposed him to gulp down, he made one
work of such cowardice and of devotion that anarchism pitilessly
condemns.
To escape, with whatever means, to the invincible bestiality of a people
rendered ferocious and brutal from cannibal prejudices and frightful
ignorance, or to sadistic deprivation of a putrefying society which is
believed to have the right to judge and to condemn a single person
because they have consummated a given action that the aforesaid society
is not at the loftiness to ever understand; it is an act superbly
rebellious and individualistic that only in anarchism can find its
reason for being and its glorification.
Alas! Even the conscience has been in the end a phantom atavistic and
frightening. And it will only stop being so when man will have the
knowledge to render it the image and the mirror of his own and only
will.
The first man who said: “There is not any God”, was without a doubt an
athlete of human thought. But the one who was limited to saying that:
“The of God the priest is not”, cheated in equivocally leaving
sufficient comprise to being, him, a suspicious partisan that already
premeditated to kill the humans perhaps with a new lie. Keep yourselves
well guarded from those who are limited to the sole negation of God.