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T F P HE IFTH RINCIPLE The Fifth Principle Paul Williams KARNAC Firstpublished2010by KarnacBooksLtd. 118FinchleyRoad LondonNW35HT Copyright©PaulWilliams Themoralrightoftheauthorhasbeenasserted. Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybe reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanymeans, electronicormechanical, withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublisher. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AC.I.P. isavailableforthisbookfromtheBritish Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-789-9 PrintedandboundinGreatBritain. www.karnacbooks.com Howtokillalivingthing Neglectit Criticiseittoitsface Sayhowitkillsthelight Trapsalltherubbish Boresyouwithitsgreen Continually Hardenyourheart Then Cutitdownclose Totherootaspossible Forgetit Foraweekoramonth Returnwithanaxe Splititwithoneblow Insertastone Tokeepthewoundwideopen In: (Bloodaxe,2002). Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy ofliving, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty,andthenweshallfillyouwithourselves. —GeorgeOrwell, C ONTENTS Memories 11 Wrong 29 School 41 Badness 47 Lies 55 Hunger 65 Drugs 79 Murder 99 The FifthPrinciple 113 Appendix 127 P REFACE This bookis the first ofthree that take as their sub- ject aspects of the author’s life. The book reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age; the second book will address adolescence and the third, adulthood. It would be misleading to consider what fol- lows to be autobiography, or the ”case history” of an individual. The author of the book, and the in- dividual written about, are not the same person. It is a piece of literature that furnishes an account of the methods of a mind in its efforts to prevail in oppressive circumstances. The author has under- taken, on behalf of the subject, to provide a faith- ful, intelligible rendering of unintelligible events. The mind in question, insofar as it resembles other minds, will speakto the reader inways thatare re- cognisable, though some of the things that are written about may be unfamiliar. The extent to which the account finds a home in the mind and imaginationofthe reader will be the measure ofits worth.
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