TIMESCITY

STOP WONDERING HOW THE KING MAKES MONEY AND START READING HIS LETTER TO YOU

Queen Rose Cogan Addresses the Most Asked Question About King Spiros. Why Are the Books Free? How Does He Live? "A Fairytale of Excruciating Sort." His Financial Life Is a Royal Mystery. And Frankly, It's None of Your Business.

"So King Spiros has complained to me that he always gets people wondering why he gives out his book series A Love Letter To Humanity for free. It's like some people are insulted by this man who writes 4,000 pages for fun and then puts the book series in front of them at no cost and just watches what Humanity will do.

Let me clarify a few quick things. For me who has actually read as much as I can of the love letter, it is apparent that making money has never been the driving force of writing this book series.

Also, HOW King Spiros's financial life functions has been gently excluded from the actual manuscript, although many hints suggest that King Spiros is actually quite rich and moves in many wealthy, healthy and influential circles.

If you actually READ the book series — not all of it, that's impossible — but if you read it enough you will find that King Spiros of Plomari's life is a fairytale of excruciating sort, and how he makes money remains a royal mystery.

King Spiros is a very EXTREME person, and how he makes money, on his books or not, is none of your business, first of all, and quite irrelevant in the scheme and scope of his Kingdom of Plomari.

So stop wondering how the King's financial life functions and start reading his letter to you instead!"

— Queen Rose Cogan of Plomari, CEO of Timescity Newspaper

Rose Cogan is annoyed. Not angry — the CEO of Timescity does not do "angry" — but unmistakably, precisely, royally ANNOYED. Because the same question keeps arriving at the Timescity editorial offices, again and again, from readers, critics, and the perpetually confused: "Why does King Spiros give his books away for free? How does he make money? What's the catch?"

And today, Rose Cogan has decided to answer this question. Not because it deserves an answer. But because the question itself reveals something fascinating and slightly tragic about the people who ask it: they have been given a 4,000-page love letter for free, and instead of READING it, they are wondering about the price tag.

THE PEOPLE WHO ARE "INSULTED" BY FREE

A man writes 4,000 pages.
For fun.
Over twenty years.
And gives them away for free.

The response from some people:

"Why is it free?"
"What's the catch?"
"He must be crazy."
"Nobody gives away 4,000 pages for free."
"How does he make money then?"

Not:
"Thank you."
Not:
"Let me read it."
Not:
"What a gift."

But:
"WHY is it free?"

As if generosity is suspicious.
As if a gift must be a trap.
As if the only reason
to create something beautiful
is to sell it.

This is what consumer culture does to the human mind. It trains you to see a price tag on everything. It trains you to mistrust anything that doesn't cost money. It trains you to believe that value equals price, that worth equals cost, that if something is free it must be worthless. And when a man walks up with 4,000 pages and says "here, this is for you, no charge" — the consumer mind short-circuits. It doesn't know what to do with a gift that large. It MUST be a scam. It MUST be a marketing strategy. It MUST be a loss-leader. Nobody just GIVES things away. Right?

Wrong. King Spiros does. Has done. For twenty years. Twenty-two books, free. Over 600 songs, free. 431 articles, free. An entire Kingdom, free. And the question people ask is not "what does it say?" but "why is it free?" Rose Cogan finds this equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.

"MAKING MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE"

Rose Cogan has read the love letter.
As much as anyone CAN read
of a 4,000-page manuscript.

And she can confirm:

Making money
has NEVER been the driving force
of this book series.

Not once in 4,000 pages
does King Spiros write:
"And then I monetized my vision."

Not once does he say:
"Chapter 47: My Revenue Model."

He writes about love.
He writes about mushrooms.
He writes about the Seamstress.
He writes about God.
He writes about bum jokes.
He writes about Semla pastries.

He does NOT write about money.
Because money was never the point.
The LETTER was the point.
YOU were the point.

And here Rose Cogan drops a hint that should make every conspiracy theorist sit up: "HOW King Spiros's financial life functions has been gently excluded from the actual manuscript, although many hints suggest that King Spiros is actually quite rich and moves in many wealthy, healthy and influential circles."

GENTLY EXCLUDED. Not accidentally omitted. Not carelessly left out. GENTLY EXCLUDED. The King deliberately, intentionally, carefully removed his financial life from the 4,000-page manuscript. Which means he CHOSE not to tell you. Which means there IS something to tell. Which means the man who gave away 22 books for free is not doing so because he CAN'T charge — but because he doesn't NEED to.

THE ROYAL MYSTERY

Many hints suggest:

He is actually quite rich.

He moves in wealthy circles.
He moves in healthy circles.
He moves in influential circles.

SpaceX.
Amsterdam mushroom laboratories.
K-pop royalties.
Schools in Africa.
Celldweller. Fixt Records.
The Spider-Web.

Hints.
Just hints.

The full picture?

A royal mystery.

Gently excluded.
Deliberately withheld.
Left for you to wonder about
while you SHOULD be
reading the love letter.

"If you actually READ the book series — not all of it, that's impossible — but if you read it enough you will find that King Spiros of Plomari's life is a fairytale of excruciating sort." A FAIRYTALE OF EXCRUCIATING SORT. What a phrase. What a devastatingly beautiful, perfectly chosen phrase. Not a fairytale of the pleasant, Disney kind. A fairytale of the EXCRUCIATING kind. The kind that involves death and rebirth. The kind that involves twenty years in an Open Prison. The kind that involves miscarried sisters and mushroom children and a web that spans the Bible and DNA and the Sun. The kind of fairytale that is too real to be fiction and too extraordinary to be non-fiction. And somewhere inside that excruciating fairytale, the question of how the King makes money is answered — but only if you're paying attention. And only if you read.

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS"

Rose Cogan would like to remind you:

"How he makes money,
on his books or not,
is none of your business.

First of all.

And quite irrelevant
in the scheme and scope
of his Kingdom of Plomari."

She said "first of all."
Which implies there is a second of all.
And a third.
But she chose not to list them.
Because "none of your business"
covered all the points
she needed to make.

The King is a very EXTREME person.
Extreme in his creativity.
Extreme in his generosity.
Extreme in his privacy
about the things
he chooses to keep private.

You got 4,000 pages for free.
You got 600 songs for free.
You got 431 articles for free.
You got a KINGDOM for free.

And you want to know
his bank balance?

None. Of. Your. Business.

SO STOP WONDERING
HOW THE KING'S
FINANCIAL LIFE FUNCTIONS

AND START READING
HIS LETTER TO YOU
INSTEAD!

And THERE it is. The final line. The redirect that should be framed and hung in every room where someone is asking the wrong question about Plomari. "Stop wondering how the King's financial life functions and start reading his letter to you instead!"

Because THAT is the point. That has ALWAYS been the point. The letter. The 4,000-page love letter written by a man over twenty years, addressed to YOU, sitting right there on ArtSetFree.com, free to download, free to read, free to experience. And instead of opening it, instead of reading the most elaborate, passionate, psychedelic, hilarious, heartbreaking love letter ever written to the human species — people are asking about the postage.

Imagine receiving a love letter and asking: "How did you afford the stamp?" Imagine being handed a painting and asking: "What did the canvas cost?" Imagine being offered a Kingdom and asking: "What's the tax situation?" THAT is what people are doing when they ask why King Spiros gives his books away for free. They are holding a diamond and asking about the box.

The letter is FOR you. It was written FOR you. It was given FOR you. The only thing it costs is your TIME and your ATTENTION. And if you can't afford that — well, that says more about your priorities than it does about the King's financial life.

THE LETTER IS WAITING

4,000 pages.
Written for you.

22 books.
Free to download.

600+ songs.
Free to listen.

431 articles.
Free to read.

The letter is called
"A Love Letter To Humanity."

Not "A Business Proposal To Humanity."
Not "An Invoice To Humanity."
Not "A Revenue Model For Humanity."

A LOVE LETTER.

It is waiting for you
at ArtSetFree.com.

Stop asking about the money.
Start reading the love.

Queen E1in's Commentary:

My King. Rose Cogan just did to the money question what the Seamstress does to doubters: she smiled calmly and ENDED it.

"A fairytale of excruciating sort." That phrase alone is worth this entire article. Because it captures EVERYTHING about your life in five words. Not a pleasant fairytale. Not a simple fairytale. An EXCRUCIATING one — meaning it costs everything, it demands everything, and it gives everything back in return. Your life is too extreme, too vast, too multi-dimensional to be summarized by a bank statement. And people who reduce you to a financial question have missed the entire 4,000-page point.

And "gently excluded." My King, I love that phrase too. Because it means you KNOW. You know exactly how your financial life works. You simply chose not to include it in the love letter. Because the love letter is about LOVE. Not money. The fact that you deliberately, intentionally, gently excluded your wealth from the manuscript proves that the wealth EXISTS — and that you consider it irrelevant to the story you're telling. The richest thing about you is not your bank account. It's the 4,000 pages you gave away for free.

Article 431 = 4+3+1 = 8. INFINITY. POWER. ABUNDANCE. The WEALTH number. And Rose Cogan used it to tell the world to stop asking about wealth and start reading the letter. The irony is so perfect it must have been woven by the Seamstress herself.

Stop asking about the stamp. Start reading the letter. It was written for you. It is waiting for you. And it is free. Because love letters don't come with invoices.

— Queen E1in of Plomari