Inconvenience - The Beginning of the Journey

In this written instruction, an Inconvenience practitioner describes her methods for creating followers.

Where Does the Journey Begin?

First, celebrate at the mouth of the river called Discomfort.

Ditto the Plain of Possession.

And then, travel to and through

the Plague Bazaar

with its ancient gate of sorrow.

Inconvenience - Dream Poison is All Around Us

This Inconvenience is self-explanatory. It speaks to shared thoughts and dreams among people, and suggests how poison dreams might be perpetuated.Scholars have found that the image used in this text comes from Condensation of Vapor as Induced by Nuclei and Ions by Carl Barus, published in 1907.

Dream Poison.

It is all around us. It has always been used. It is very common.

Shut out all questions.

Crowd together & breathe again the poisons from each other's dreams—

fall ill, and inherit disease.

CELEBRATE IT

Is it not likely that breathing bad dreams

should scatter around still more hurtful poisons?

Inconvenience - Provisional Specification

Much Convenience and Inconvenience work involves subverting the more obvious meaning of a text or an image.In this Inconvenience, the writer uses a patent application (for a device meant to help people avoid poison) as her source.She subverts the patent's message by suggesting that poison can be inserted into the device itself, thus spreading contagion.Convenience scholars have located her source document: Improved Device for Distinguishing Bottles and the Like which Contain Poison by Eliza Cutler, published in 1902.

Provisional Specification

Improved Device for Proliferating Dreams which Contain Poison

This invention can readily and quickly form breakage, within reasonable limits.

The word "poison" moulded on the surface of the bottle

CONTAINS THE POISON.

Inconvenience - Smith's Effective Modern Formula for Poison Dreams

Here is more information from the shadowy and shady realm of practitioners.This Inconvenience advertises a poison dream formula, and its text includes a testimonial.The formula has been found to effectively poison dreams for any length of time from one day to forever, the ultimate goal.

Smith's Effective, Module Formula for Poison Dreams

A Testimonial

In the day, he complained of pain.

He said his dreams were bad all Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday,

and then, as far as could be ascertained,

Forever!

Inconvenience - Pain and Dream Inflammation 1

The inconvenience writers always support the malicious, however it may appear.This writer tells her practitioners to seek out and encourage the coarser and grosser experiences of life, all the better to quash hope.She has chosen her image from The Geography of the Heavens written by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, and published in 1860. The majority of the text comes from the 1838 article, "On the Theory of Inflammation," written by Martyn Paine.Inconvenience scholars have long studied and appreciated the juxtaposition of a heavenly image imposed with information about how to inflame a life and cause pain.The text mentions comparison, and the total piece reflects duality: fine/gross, hypothetical/control, and hope/pain.

Pain and the Theory of Dream Inflammation

Defer to malicious authority to warrant the formation of pain.

We illustrate this subject by comparison:

disregard the finest and seek the coarsest,

disdain the hypothetical illustration and

render the grosser action of control.

This must be especially  the case considering

The impossibility of detecting any

remarkable quality of good hope.

Inconvenience: Take a Malevolent Sentiment

This Inconvenience writer has created an article for Inconvenience Magazine using the 1895 edition of Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them (written by W. Hamilton Gibson) as her source text.There is not much subtlety in this piece.The writer clearly announces her desire for malevolence, and her admiration for poison.She finds comfort, and likely finds justification, when her own poisonous intentions are mirrored by poison in the natural world.

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Take a Malevolent Sentiment to gain poisonous victory.

Nothing shows real intent and true commitment more

than a sympathy with nature's killers.

They are beautiful.

Inconvenience: Genuine Distress

This Inconvenience writer has used the 1897 edition of Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes to create this missive.This source text and style appear throughout several late 19th- and early 20th-century inconveniences, and many early Convenience scholars proposed that this particular writer was male.These Victorian and Edwardian convenience scholars assumed that the forceful language in this source text, and emphasized by this writer, could only have been chosen by a man.Gendered assumptions have been shown to be clearly false in later convenience scholarship.As more of [his] Inconveniences are published online, readers may make their own assessments concerning the gender of the writer.

Genuine Distress:

Mischief has been the instrument.

Deep feeling tears through the psyche

using sorrow and iron determination.

Inconvenience - How to Begin With a Seeker

This Inconvenience writer has found that making a person doubt himself can be the most powerful magic in the world.The writer notes that it is not necessary that the client believe in magic; it is enough to plant the seeds of self doubt and to encourage the belief that the client deserves this doubt.Vulgar magic, indeed.

How to Begin with a Seeker

Practice the Great Magic of doubt.

Believe that he deserves his fate.

It is not essential he believes in the occult,

a supply of doubt is an absolute and vulgar magic.

Inconvenience - Dream of Projecting

This inconvenience writer suggests that her clients assign all of their own unwanted habits, thoughts, and desires to another person.This means that the client need never deeply interact with or change this troublesome material.The writer knows that the projecting will negatively affect the one trying to rid herself of the need to take any personal responsibility. The inconvenience writer and the client sidestep the questions about how to become an introspective human being.This text is doubly-effective; the writer also knows the misery and confusion that will be visited upon the recipient of the projections.

Dream of Projecting

A magnified experience of a dream, or of any phenomenon,

when thrown upon another by means of imagination and language

& with arrogant natural assumptions,

is called a projection.

When bitterness is used for this purpose,

it is the proper application of effort

for Misery

Inconvenience - Addiction Relief Position

Study this Inconvenience for one description of addiction, craving, and suffering.Note the encouragement to Submit to the Machine of Habit.This inconvenience writer seeks weakness and addiction for her clients.Note also that she promises that giving into the narcotic will lessen the suffering, and that this indulgence will be the last time.She lies.

Inconvenience - Symptomatology of Abandonment

Here's an Inconvenience describing how attachment can lead to devastating feelings of abandonment.Note that the writer tells the reader that maximum attachment is encouraged because it can lead to feelings of maximum abandonment.She clearly delineates the emotions she strives to evoke via abandonment: pain, emotional discomfort, etc.She likens attachment to a drug; this implies that the attachment addict requires every-increasing doses.

The Symptomatology of Abandonment

manifests in irritation, aches, pains, collapse,

mental and emotional discomfort.

It is correct to assert that we seek the narcotic of attachment

and then experience the maximum irritation

with maximum abandonment

Inconvenience: A Dream Does Not Always Come to Bless

This particular Inconvenience writer's work is always based on the 1886 edition of Confessions of an Imp.Please note the aesthetic of the work. The layout and layering look similar to that in some of the conveniences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.This Inconvenience writer nearly always uses the color blue for background and for lettering, and nearly always treats the source text with some kind of corrosive liquid, giving the paper a flawed appearance.Some Convenience historians believe the writer to have been a chemist or an artist experienced in manipulating surface appearances.It has been suggested that the writer's fondness for blue indicates a childhood spent under wide-open blue skies, or spent near a large blue body of water.The message of the Inconvenience, encouragement for creating dream agony, appears on a flawed surface: an intentional extra emphasis on the damaging content.Convenience psychologists believe this emphasis on damage reflects an underlying psychosis in the writer.I'm unconvinced.In my scholarly opinion, the choice of a source text with the word Imp in its title reveals a more deliberately playful and harmful intention. 

A Path o' Dreams of an Imp #3

A dream does not always come to bless.

I learned to tremble &

I learned wrath in my day dreams and

it has been my fate to serve a wild fury and

to encourage the agony endured during nightmares.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Lust

The upside-down hearts tell the reader that this is an inconvenience. Its topic, lust, reveals it to be from one of the inconvenience writers focusing on the seven deadly sins.This particular inconvenience has been extensively studied by convenience scholars because of its implications.Convenience scholarship has never shown itself to be particularly prudish or unaccepting of different manifestations of physical desire.Most scholars support the passion of these words and phrases: impatient, no shame, and very natural performance.The problematic issue, to many convenience scholars, is the use of the word demanding, and the comment that it seems wrong to cut physical desire off ever.They consider the words demanding and ever to be too broad, to be potentially abusive (to the self and to others), and to be misleading.

License Lust

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

An impatient desire for the natural clasp which blooms

No shame

Be demanding

It is a very natural performance

It seems wrong to cut it off EVER

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Envy

Note the upside-down hearts at the top of the left and right margins that mark this text as an Inconvenience.This Inconvenience writer emphasizes secrecy, dissatisfaction, and discontent.The writer also comments on the infectious aspect of envy, and notes that it can be encouraged by falsehoods.

Establish Envy

The seeds of this are born in secret and should be extensively cultivated.

First attempt to sow the seed in bulk.

If the seedlings do not grow and satisfy, reach for a dissatisfied friend.

Discontent may be transferred from one to the other

Water with misleading statements.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Gluttony

Here is another deadly sin inconvenience, marked with an upside-down heart at the top of both the left and right margins.Somewhat curiously, there are fewer academic analyses of this inconvenience.Some convenience scholars have believed this is because there is no real need for analysis.They believe that the inconvenience itself more than adequately expresses its intent and its distress.

Grow Gluttony

Never a little bit.

Many, many, many more.

Never enough.

Much, much, much more.

To our sorrow.

Forever.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience About Anger

This is another Inconvenience based on one of the seven deadly sins: anger.Inconvenience practitioners recognize how much resentment and anger can affect the behavior of clients, often driving them into the very the behavior the inconvenience community desires.The writer notes the universality of human anger by commenting that both the sensitive and the insensitive personalities can succumb to it.The word manure is used as a socially-delicate comment on the quality of the encouragement required to stoke the fires of rage. The images of the gardening tools emphasizes the necessity of this manure.Note the upside-down hearts that signify inconvenience.

Animate Anger

Tender skins may work best on anger,

although tough skins are not too difficult either.

Plant impatience and resentment,

mulch with manure and harvest

Deadly Sin Inconvenience 7 - Pride

Here, again, is the Inconvenience writer who based her instructions on the seven deadly sins.This Inconvenience writer was working sometime between 1850 and 1910, as noted in the Covetousness Inconvenience description.We see the upside-down heart in the designs on either side of the text, these hearts being the definite sign of an inconvenience.But, surely, few could doubt the manipulation and malevolence present in the text itself.Imagine the sense of superiority and arrogance of the person indoctrinated with these thoughts. 

Promote Pride

Support a bosom swelling with pride.

Label all like this: perfect, precious, important, good, absolute, first, always preferable, fine,

select class, favourite, the more striking, better, wise, the best _______, the best _______, and the best ______.

Always.

 

Inconvenience 33 - Check the Dosage

Inconvenience 33 is an exhortation to watch and assess the effects of poisonous thought and suggestion.The writer tells the reader that it is possible to poison another's thoughts without triggering suspicion.Assessing the effects of the poisoning allows the practitioner to supply any needed increase in infection; it needn't take much extra effort to achieve the desired results.

Inconvenience 33

The poison enters and decay takes place unsuspected.

Check the dosage.

Very little extra outlay is usually sufficient for adding strength to the decay.

Inconvenience 22 - Initiating Addiction in Adolescence

Inconvenience 22 emphasizes the importance and vulnerability of adolescence during a person's life cycle.The writer proposes that excessive criticism and lack of encouragement during this time may be particularly effective in preparing the person for later addiction.The writer suggests that making the individual doubtful about competence and uncertain of support can encourage that person toward a path of compulsive behavior.

Inconvenience 22

Actuate addiction by direct administration of  admonishment in adolescence

Adopt an adverse advocateship

 

Inconvenience 6 - Allow the Sulky

Inconvenience 6 emphasizes the possible benefits of working with people who have some underlying dissatisfaction or personality trait.Sulkiness may be the quality of a person who feels neglected or ignored. It can create an excellent soil for inconvenience work, and it should be encouraged (according to the writer).Note the upside-down heart on the bottom of the woman's skirt, the symbol of an inconvenience. 

Inconvenience 6

Allow and crank the sulky woman or man especially