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The Manifesto Project was a short-lived attempt to nail down some beliefs through writing that late in 2007. It was a project borne of hypomania.

> As are so many of yours.

And as with so many of mine, it fizzled when the phase passed. Here I was with a half-completed website, uploading half-sense and non-sense, writing with all earnestness about what I believed.

> <a class="pulse" href="/poet-and-mystic">Poor benighted fool</a>.

Anyway, it lives on as an example of the idea of mania as a force, not too dissimilar from gravity, which tugs at the current of one's life.
