Having spent at least a week dealing with citata in my magnum opus, I decided to put together a file with all the citata I should promote in the years to come. “Citata to Promote” is the file’s unsurprising title. As it now stands, the file is somewhat chaotic, but it still gives me enormous pleasure. Indeed, there are many pieces of writing of mine that deserve greater attention. The file in question will develop over a year or two, but I decided to present it in its current form without any further ado. All told, there are a few more than two-hundred pieces divided into twenty categories. By the way, this amounts to roughly one percent of all my writings, which strikes me as reasonable. All pieces are presented in chronological order. It should be noted that there will be occasional overlaps between categories, such as “animal” and “tribe,” “shamanism” and “cave art,” or “humans” and “stupidity.” Still, each piece appears only once. Here goes, with categories heading each sub-list:

WRITING PROJECT

Preface V (June 5, 1980)
A Vulgar Hypothesis Concerning Our Spiritual Heritage (June 28, 1982)
Samizdat in America: Documentary Evidence (July 15, 1982)
The Meaning of Life (January 2, 1988)
www.residua.org (November 17, 2010)
Pearl of Consciousness (February 23, 2011)
Waiting to Be Discovered (December 8, 2011)
The Remains (December 4, 2012)
Dust, Ashes, Residua (January 22, 2013)
In Praise of Samizdat (February 16, 2016)
Toward a Brief Outline of My Residua (December 30, 2016)

METHOD

Intelligenti pauca (November 8, 1976)
Testamentum XII (January 11, 1978)
On My Method (January 5, 1979)
Preface III (September 6, 1979)
Toward Atomization and Randomization of Thought (March 31, 1980)
Method and Madness (March 14, 1981)
De residua semper dubitandum est (November 20, 1981)
Production of Residua by Means of Residua (May 7, 1983)
On the Purpose of Purposelessness (December 23, 1984)
Caveat lector (November 11, 1985)
On Tenacity (November 24, 1986)
Readers Beware (November 27, 1993)
Preface VIII (January 20, 2002)
My Cockamamy Method (March 13, 2005)
The Ultimate Rebellion (October 21, 2006)
The Random Searches (October 22, 2011)
System or Method (June 22, 2014)
Addenda, Citata (July 15, 2014)
Forever Interlacing (November 30, 2014)
Residua for Dummies (September 10, 2016)
Method and Madness Revisited: A Note on My Writing Project (March 29, 2017)
Citata, Addenda (December 20, 2017)

BRONTOSAURUS

Brontosaurus (April 13, 2012)
My New Theory (October 19, 2014)
The Rest of My Life (May 21, 2016)

YOGA

Ten Principles of Bon Buddhism (April 10, 1992)
A Yogic Preface to My Residua (January 6, 2008)
Who Is Yoga? (November 26, 2008)
Yoga, Stupid! (November 21, 2011)
Yoga, Sankhya (November 12, 2012)
Ten Principles of Bon Yoga (November 13, 2012)
A Bon Koan (February 16, 2013)
On Withdrawal (April 29, 2013)
Patanjali and I (June 10, 2013)
On Bon Buddhism and Bon Yoga (February 26, 2015)
Forever Few and Far Between (April 16, 2015)
No-Bullshit Enlightenment (January 18, 2016)
Lekha Yoga (October 15, 2016)
On Liberation (October 4, 2017)
My First Reading of My Book about Yoga (February 25, 2018)

YOGANI

An Experiment (June 27, 2007)
Yogani (November 28, 2008)
Yogani’s Preface to My Residua (September 6, 2012)
With No Chicken (April 11, 2013)
“The Guru Is in You” (January 17, 2016)
Who is My Book about Yoga For (February 2, 2016)
The Chicken (May 26, 2016)
Regular Yoga Practice (October 5, 2016)

SERVICE

The Idea of Service (August 17, 2001)
The Idea of Service, Again (September 7, 2012)
The Idea of Service, Again and Again (May 6, 2013)

SUBVERSION

My Choice (July 21, 1993)
A Recipe for Foolproof Subversion (May 14, 2013)
The Recipe (April 8, 2015)
The Recipe, Stupid! (July 18, 2015)
More Radical than Thou (March 8, 2016)
On Foolproof Subversion (June 19, 2016)
The Foolproof Subversion Challenge (September 26, 2017)

ANIMAL

De dignitate et excellentia hominis (December 25, 1977)
De bestiis (January 1, 1986)
In Praise of Illness (August 1, 1993)
In Praise of Bestiality (October 5, 1993)
The Animal in Us (November 4, 1993)
Nirvana (August 12, 1994)
The Cornerstone (August 31, 1996)
Something Within You (December 1, 1996)
One’s Body (April 12, 1997)
The Sequence (December 8, 2011)
Much Nastier History (January 7, 2013)
The Animal in Us, Again (December 31, 2014)
On the Fable as a Literary Genre (October 16, 2015)
The Animal in Us, Again and Again (January 15, 2016)
My Body (February 9, 2016)
Our Very Soul (August 8, 2016)

TRIBE

On Crude and Thoughtless Communism (July 13, 1979)
Communism as a Residuum (October 22, 1979)
The New Odysseus (January 1, 1980)
On Excommunication (June 18, 1980)
The Root of Communism (August 13, 2008)
The Not Needing (April 2, 2012)
On Accounting (May 15, 2012)
On Primitive Communism (May 7, 2013)
My Tribal Mind (April 26, 2014)
Dunbar’s Number (July 7, 2014)
My Tribal Mind, Again (October 10, 2014)
Tribal Instinct to the Rescue (October 23, 2014)
Tribe and Nothing but Tribe (February 6, 2015)
On Reciprocal Altruism (February 12, 2015)
On Ethics (June 28, 2015)
The Mother of All Communities (November 21, 2015)
On Moral Precepts and Ethics (January 11, 2016)
On Tribalism (June 6, 2016)

POSTHISTORY

Taking Stock (May 7, 2002)
Prehistory, Posthistory (February 14, 2012)
Heroes of Posthistory (March 8, 2012)
To Promote Posthistory (May 21, 2012)
Michio Kaku and I (October 1, 2012)
Posthistory Beckons (January 8, 2014)
The End of History (January 15, 2015)
In Praise of Robert Cialdini (November 20, 2015)
Welcome to Posthistory (November 12, 2018)

HUMANS

Humans Beware (December 13, 1991)
Sir Isaiah Berlin (July 25, 1992)
Toward a New Humanism (October 26, 2001)
Aliens to the Rescue (September 29, 2002)
Homo homini (December 25, 2007)
Polyanthroponemia (April 26, 2009)
Humble Animals (May 16, 2010)
About the Species (April 29, 2012)
The Human Problem (January 29, 2014)
Nobody’s Child (October 20, 2014)
Hoc maxime verum est (November 1, 2014)
Territorial Animals (October 22, 2016)
Toward a Strictly Biological View of Humans (March 28, 2018)

STUPIDITY

Two Views on Gorillism (April 11, 1982)
On Artificial Intelligence (October 26, 1982)
To Repair the Damage (September 21, 2007)
Indices of Human Stupidity (August 11, 2011)
Stupidity, Greediness (March 26, 2012)
In Praise of Stupidity (April 6, 2013)
Collective Stupidity (December 16, 2013)
Why are Humans So…? (January 30, 2014)
The Human Stupidity Factor (May 22, 2014)
“Humans are Too Stupid to Prevent Climate Change” (November 16, 2014)
Omnium malorum stultitia humani generis est mater (February 19, 2015)
Human Stupidity (January 15, 2016)
On Artificial Stupidity: A Letter to the MIT Technology Review (October 3, 2016)
Omnium malorum intelligentia humani generis est mater (November 14, 2018)

EVOLUTION

Paradox of Evolution (June 5, 2013)
On Forcing Evolution (November 4, 2015)
Nothing but Biology (February 16, 2016)
On Biology (August 12, 2017)
The Real Homo Sapiens (October 5, 2017)
Fuck Evolution (January 29, 2018)
Pfft (May 8, 2018)
On Evolution: A Note on Science Turned Ideology (September 28, 2018)

DEVIL

Amor intellectualis diaboli (December 20, 1977)
Tomorrow’s Gods (December 21, 2010)
Diabolus simia dei (April 29, 2018)

ART

Ars gratia artificis: Toward a Manifesto (June 20, 1995)
Andy Warhol (December 25, 1995)
Beyond Art (June 4, 1999)
Two Roads (November 5, 2000)
Thought Art (January 17, 2002)
Making Oneself: From a Letter to Giancarlo Politi (May 26, 2013)
Making an Art World (October 17, 2013)
The Art of Making Oneself (December 20, 2013)
On Self-Manipulation (May 17, 2014)
On Self-Construction (May 24, 2014)
Why I Am Perhaps Not an Artist, Again (September 21, 2017)

SHAMANISM

A Parable about Spiritual Evolution (January 3, 1996)
On Sufism and Shamanism (January 31, 2002)
Anthropology and Art (March 27, 2002)
Shamanism for Beginners (September 15, 2004)
Shamanism for the Masses (January 9, 2006)
To Be a Shaman (March 30, 2007)
Zen, Yoga, Shamanism (January 19, 2012)
Wannabe Shamans and their Totems (April 14, 2014)
On Childish Arts (October 14, 2014)
Shamanism Forever (October 30, 2014)
Welcome Back, Shamans! (April 12, 2015)
On Shamanism and Yoga (April 15, 2015)
On Shamanism and Yoga, Again (April 2, 2016)

CAVE ART

My Symbols (November 7, 1993)
Artist’s Statement (July 1, 1996)
The Roots of Modern Art (April 13, 1997)
Entoptic Forms (April 22, 1997)
“The Signs of All Times” (August 3, 1997)
Windows (August 10, 1997)
Statement for the 1998 East International Competition (February 7, 1998)
The Future of Cave Art (April 20, 1998)
My Tomb (June 3, 1998)
No-Bullshit Mondrians (August 19, 1998)
In Praise of Sensory Deprivation (February 7, 1999)
Toward a Key to Cave Art (July 22, 1999)
Cave Art Now (January 30, 2001)
The Primacy of Abstract Art (January 12, 2002)
Cave Art Forever (May 28, 2002)
In Praise of Decorative Art (August 10, 2003)
How Clever of Me (October 5, 2004)
The Spectrum of Human Consciousness and the Primacy of Abstract Art (December 12, 2004)
My Little Ships (April 4, 2005)
Adieu Lascaux (July 3, 2007)
Werner Herzog and I (June 28, 2011)
Cave Art When (February 9, 2012)
The End to the Cave Art Now Cycle (August 22, 2013)
A Perfect Tomb (December 2, 2014)
Comparing Me with a Nobody (February 5, 2015)
The Size of the Cave Art Now Cycle (December 17, 2015)
The Quiet but Profound Joy (May 22, 2018)
Welcome to Your Cave, Ranko! (December 6, 2018)

CLIMATE CHANGE

What Is to Be Done? (July 25, 2014)
Nothing to Be Done (August 22, 2014)
A Joke on Lenin (October 29, 2014)
Absolutely Nothing to Be Done (August 19, 2016)

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

On Disaster Management (May 20, 2014)
Ten Principles of Disaster Management (January 19, 2015)
Personal, Tribal (May 25, 2015)
Disaster Management in Croatia: Proposal to the Croatian Government for Paris Climate Talks (October 1, 2015)
One Recommendation for Paris Climate Talks (November 25, 2015)

LIFE

Third Person (December 8, 1989)
The Seven-Year Life Cycle (October 23, 2008)
Being Ranko Bon (July 9, 2014)
A Tribute to Milena Bon on the Anniversary of Her Birth (December 3, 2014)
The Seven-Year Life Cycle, Again (March 13, 2016)
Ranko Bon: Chronology (December 9, 2017)

As ever, the new file and this particular piece of writing have been put together for my own sake, rather than for the sake of some imaginary reader. In my experience to date, there have been very few readers of my Residua that deserve mention, let alone praise. Say, a dozen of them. To date, I am my best reader. Anyhow, I expect to come up with several more categories in the fullness of time, as well as to arrange them in a coherent manner. And I will do my best to ensure that the list of my pieces worthy of citing is geared to the very best among them. That is, to those that give me the greatest joy whenever I come across them on one of my uncharted journeys through my writings, which are becoming ever more frequent as time goes by. In a few years, the file is likely to be more-or-less complete, but the present one is a fair beginning, I reckon. This piece will remain as a reminder of the endeavor’s humble beginnings. Once again, the bulk of future citata in my Residua is most likely to come from the above list. Forever interlacing, as I like to put it. Alleluia!

Addendum I (October 28, 2019)

Every so often, I add a few items to the above list, which is rather impressive by now. There are many citata to promote, as it turns out. So far, I have added a few more categories, as well. Predictably enough, I am doing my best to dampen my enthusiasm for citata of all descriptions. Enough is enough, I keep telling myself. But it is anyone’s guess how this project of mine will end up. For my sins, I love my writings! At any rate, here goes the extended list:

GEOMANCY

An Idea for an Exercise in Geomancy (June 23, 2012)
The Istrian Bug (September 7, 2013)
The Global Aum (September 26, 2015)
The Croatian Vulture (November 19, 2016)
The European Union’s Carnation (January 4, 2017)

WORLD WAR III

One Long Holiday (August 30, 2014)
Technological Development (June 29, 2017)
World War III for Beginners (October 18, 2017)
On World Military Spending (May 6, 2018)
If Crisis or War Comes (June 5, 2018)
Fuck Nostradamus (January 18, 2019)

DEATH

“Bravo!” (October 23, 1994)
The Greatest Gift Revisited (May 2, 2018)
Thanks, Bill! (April 14, 2019)

Perhaps the greatest surprise among the new categories is the one on geomancy. Although it is half in jest, I am quite eager to keep contributing to this art form in the years to come. And Motovun strikes me as an ideal place for such an effort. Right in the middle of nowhere, it still feels like the very center of the world. Nay, the universe entire. Be that as it may, the list of citata to promote is sure to keep growing over time. For all my effort to curtail it, it cannot but surprise me every now and then. Alas, my love of my writings cannot but grow and grow as I get longer and longer in the tooth!

Addendum II (January 17, 2020)

Given all the givens, it is time to wrap up the list of categories. Since the first addendum was written, I have come up with five more of them. By now, there are twenty-eight categories on the list, which strikes me as the right number. Well, if not right, at least manageable in the years to come. I can imagine that many more new categories will suggest themselves in the fullness of time, but I will do my best to resist the urge to add them to the list. At the moment, there are more than three-hundred pieces on the list of citata to promote. Nonetheless, citata must be kept in line just like addenda, not to mention new pieces of writing. Enough is enough, as I like to repeat to myself whenever I feel the urge to jot anything down. Anyway, here goes the extended list:

GOOGLE TRENDS

Google Trends: Motovun (April 22, 2009)
Google Trends: World War III (November 22, 2009)
Google Trends: Superbug (August 12, 2010)
Google Trends: Residua (August 5, 2011)
Google Trends: Yoga (December 29, 2011)
Google Trends: Istria (July 24, 2013)
Google Trends: Google Trends (December 11, 2013)
Google Trends: Climate Change (February 23, 2015)

CONTENT ANALYSIS

Dying for Content Analysis (July 19, 2012)
Content Analysis: Cunt (July 21, 2012
Content Analysis: Dear Reader (September 6, 2012)
Content Analysis: Content Analysis (December 15, 2012)
Content Analysis: For Beginners (February 1, 2013)
Content Analysis: Tlön (February 9, 2013)
Content Analysis: Nirvana (July 13, 2014)
Content Analysis: Strasbourg (May 27, 2015)
Content Analysis: Slobodan Vugrinec (September 22, 2015)
Content Analysis: Nietzsche (January 13, 2016)
Content Analysis: Testamentum (May 7, 2016)
Content Analysis: Erection (May 22, 2016)
Content Analysis: Space Colonization (October 1, 2016)
Content Analysis: Shaman (October 12, 2016)
Content Analysis: Postscriptum (January 12, 2018)
Content Analysis: Tenderfoot (February 24, 2018)
Content Analysis: In My Dotage (August 7, 2018)
Content Analysis: For the Birds (December 30, 2018)
Content Analysis: World War III (January 21, 2019)
Content Analysis: Nasrudin (November 26, 2019)
Content Analysis: No-Bullshit (December 12, 2019)

HAIKU

In the Making (June 16, 2004)
Pace Issa (October 4, 2010)
My Sutras (January 27, 2011)
My Mobile-Phone Haiku (July 29, 2011)
Catching Up with Issa (August 14, 2011)
Postscriptum XIII (January 12, 2013)
My Favorite Haiku (January 13, 2015)
In cauda venenum (August 31, 2015)
Plucking Quotations Left and Right (September 17, 2019)

COCKROACH

God Bless the Rugged Cockroach (September 16, 1989)
Evelyn (July 20, 2007)
The Cockroaches (December 7, 2007)
“Complete and Total Cockroach,” October 27, 2009)
Far from an Insult (November 3, 2009)
My Sincere Apologies to the Cockroach (March 4, 2010)
The Motovun Bug (June 24, 2011)
The Motovun Bug, Again (August 16, 2012)
My Totem (November 15, 2012)
The Cover Image (January 3, 2015)

STRASBOURG

An Open Letter to the Mayor of Motovun (October 24, 2009)
Being Admired for Your Courage (February 18, 2010)
Strasbourg is Waiting (October 28, 2010)
Human Rights Galore (January 25, 2011)
The Rule of Ex-Communist Leaders (May 26, 2011)
Strasbourg, Here We Come (July 28, 2011)
Vugrinec versus Bon: A Letter to the President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia Jasna Omejec (July 18, 2012)
My Basic Human Rights: A Letter to the European Union Vice President and Commissioner Viviane Reding (September 17, 2012)
Vugrinec versus Bon: Justice in Waiting (March 1, 2013)
My Quest for Justice (May 29, 2013)
Dying to Go to Strasbourg (October 25, 2013)
Slinging Stones at Goliath (May 25, 2014)
Why Do Croatians Put their Last Hopes in Strasbourg? (December 2, 2014)
My Four Points for Strasbourg (December 3, 2014)
The Decision (March 8, 2015)
By Way of Introduction: My Plea to the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (March 17, 2915)
Postscriptum XVI (March 17, 2015)
Dying to Go to Strasbourg, Again (March 24, 2015)
Bon versus Croatia (April 13, 2015)
My Strasbourg Gambit (May 16, 2015)
All the Crap Foisted Upon My Shoulders (January 7, 2016)
Strasbourg on My Mind (April 24, 2016)
Strasbourg on My Mind, Again (May 9, 2016)
Strasbourg on My Mind, Again and Again (July 9, 2016)
Stop Thinking about Strasbourg (July 15, 2016)
Bon versus Croatia, Again (May 16, 2017)
Bon versus Croatia, Again and Again (October 1, 2017)
Croatia Triumphant (October 21, 2017)
Justice Delayed… (March 3, 2018)
Ten Years of Unprecedented Torment (November 13, 2018)
Not a Word from Strasbourg (December 20, 2018)
Greater Europe in All Its Glory (November 30, 2019)
Yearning to Hear from Strasbourg (December 18, 2019)

The last category has been weighing upon me for quite a few years. I can only hope that I will hear from the vaunted court sometime soon. It has been five years since my case was officially accepted, anyway. Returning to citata to promote, there are many of them. Interestingly, this particular piece of writing is rather popular among the visitors to my Residua website. Lately, it regularly pops up on the very first page of Google search results. No matter how many pieces are listed here, the collection is much easier to get through than my magnum opus in its entirety. Whence its popularity, I reckon. Be that as it may, this list of citata is useful for me, too. It offers a handy overview of my writing project, which is in its forty-fifth year already. In a sense, it represents an exemplary résumé of my life’s work.