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Charles Robert Anon

EXCOMMUNICATION

EXCOMMUNICATION

I, Charles Robert Anon, being, animal, mammal, tetrapod, primate, placental, ape, catarrhynce, (...)man; eighteen years of age, not married (except at odd moments), megalomaniac, with touches of dipsomania, dégénéré superior, poet, with pretensions to written humour, citizen of the world, idealistic philosopher, etc. etc. (to spare the reader further pains).

In the name of TRUTH, SCIENCE and PHILOSOPHIA, not with bell, book and candle, but with pen, ink and paper,

Pass sentence of excommunication on all priests and all sectarians of all religions in the world.

Excommunicabo vos.

Be damned to you all.

Ainsi-soit-il.

Reason, Truth, Virtue per C.R.A.

s.d.

Pessoa Inédito. Fernando Pessoa. (Orientação, coordenação e prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1993.

 - 46.

1ª publ. in Moral, Regras de Vida, Condições de Iniciação. Fernando Pessoa. (Textos estabelecidos e apresentados por Pedro Teixeira da Mota.) Lisboa: Ed. Manuel Lencastre, 1988.