Impotent thought finds its compensation in systems. Every systematic attempt to resist systems succumbs under its own weight. Such attempts fail precisely by achieving their professed purpose. Impotence changes form, but it still moves in a circle. Systems can be defeated only by cunning: they must be embraced trustingly. All of them. You must fail thoroughly if impotence is not to be compensated again and again, ad infinitum. No effort should be spared to ensure that your thought will attract no disciples. Only fanatical marginalism is entitled to a single consolation: the sprawling world of administration will not be enriched by yet another instrument. And disciples are instruments.

From Ranko Bon’s Residua, 1976-1995: Selections, London: The Hereford Salon, p. 343.