You shouldn't read. This activity is not good for you. When you read, you get ideas, and ideas are dangerous. Reading cuts into valuable time that might be spent sitting and watching pictures change, or pressing little buttons to make pixels move from one part of a screen to another.
Nonetheless, many people do choose to read, and expose themselves to the potentially disruptive, offensive, and strange thoughts of other people. The inner panels of the booklet for our album An Index of Maladjustments display, as a kind of cautionary message, a collection of books pulled at random from the shelves of one of our members. Yes, he's a reader. It's too late for him, but you can protect yourself.
In response to requests from concerned citizens organizations, we have agreed to share the list of volumes that are pictured on the CD booklet. Under no circumstances should you consider reading these or any other printed works.
The books on the inside panels of An Index of Maladjustments are:
The Politics of Experience, R. D. Laing
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola
The Politician, Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear, Javier Marias
The Abortion, Richard Brautigan
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound, Paul Drummond
The Long Afternoon of Earth, Brian W. Aldiss
The Early Works of Windsor McCay, Volume 4, Windsor McCay
The Sixties Papers, Judith and Stewart Albert
The VALIS Trilogy, Philip K. Dick
Beau Pogo, Walt Kelly
Wreckers of Civilisation, Simon Ford
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums, Crass
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
The Good War, Studs Terkel
Pop. 1280, Jim Thompson
The Trickster, Paul Radin
Love All the People, Bill Hicks
Max Ernst, Uwe Schneede
U.S.A.: Nineteen Nineteen, John Dos Passos
The Process, Bryon Gysin
High Rise, J. G. Ballard
Archy and Mehitabel, Don Marquis
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Windsor McCay
Secret and Suppressed, Jim Keith
Why Are We in Vietnam, Norman Mailer
No Logo, Naomi Klein