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1. One should distinguish the bound cross of lunar extremism from the bound supercross of omega divinity ... as one would distinguish corporate capitalism from centrist corporatism or, more correctly, super-corporatism. For while the bound cross/corporate capitalism is effectively Nazi, the bound supercross/super-corporatism is Social Transcendentalist, and hence affiliated not to the State but to the Centre - the divine context of mass religious sovereignty as philosophically advanced/projected by he who, in his Messianic insights, effectively corresponds to a Second Coming, being the principal advocate of such an ultimate sovereignty. Corporate capitalism is a quasi-collectivist mode of capitalism which stands to Communism as the burning cross (or bound cross) to the unbounded star (or superstar), whereas centrist corporatism should have relevance to Centre trusteeship of the means of production, etc. in the interests of the People's deliverance from economic 'sins of the World', as upheld by Socialism within a broadly Social Democratic framework, and is therefore beyond the bounded star of the latter in the heavenly absolutism of the bound supercross. It is this centrist corporatism which is the economic salvation of the World, whereas corporate capitalism is, in some sense, the damnation of the free capitalism of the purgatorial Overworld, a damnation which takes capitalism closer to the Hell of State Socialism, and thus to the unbounded star.

2. There are two ways in which books can be damned: the first, or internal, way is akin to corporate capitalism, and implies the subversion of the written text through photographic images, thereby causing it to resemble the burning crosses of extreme lunar politics. The second, or external, way is akin to State Capitalism, the capitalism of nationalization within a parliamentary, or lunar, democracy (traditionally the preserve, in Britain, of the Labour Party), and it implies the serialization of books in magazines, wherein the text is necessarily subordinate to the fiery essence of their photographic contents. Thus whereas the internal damnation brings books within the Nazi realm of the bound cross, the external - and more radical - damnation takes them beyond the cross to the Fabian realm of the quasi-star, wherein their damnation is more severe.

3. However, both the above types of damnation, relative to the lunar limbo of a parliamentary democracy, pale to insignificance beside the absolute damnation which afflicts books when they are made into films and thereby depart the lunar realm of liberal civilization for the solar realm of fundamentalist barbarism, ceasing to retain any textual resemblance to their original conceptions. For film is not merely a more radical or fundamentalist mode of intellectual materialism; it is a total eclipse of such materialism by and through the emotional naturalism of a diabolic Hell. It appertains to an entirely different quadruplicity from that in which books are to be found, and the damnation of the latter is so absolute ... that no author can survive its effects upon either his reputation as a writer or the quality of his work. A book that goes from bad to worse, passing through photographs and/or magazines, is one thing. A book that is turned into a film ... can never recover from the eclipse it has suffered. Damnation is effectively complete!