from Guy Debord

[Telegram] To Alexander Trocchi
20 April 1963

HAVE SEEN JEAN-CHARLES -- STOP -- FIND IT STUPEFYING THAT YOU HAVE BELIEVED ARBITRARY EXCLUSION ATTILA [KOTANYI] -- STOP -- THIS TRACT[1] IS A FAKE BY BELGIAN STALINISTS -- STOP -- THIS ANECDOTE MUST TRULY SHOW OUR GENERAL CONDITIONS OF WORK AND CONSEQUENTLY NECESSITY OF REAL EXCLUSION AS INDISPENSIBLE DEFENSE -- STOP -- CORDIALLY YOURS, GUY.

[1] Tract dated 31 March 1963, presented as a supplement to I[nternationale] S[ituationniste] #8, entitled "The Situationist International Takes the Offensive" and supposedly signed by Debord and [Raoul] Vaneigem.

(Published in Guy Debord, Correspondance, Volume 2, 1960-1964. Footnotes by Alice Debord. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! May 2005.)



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