MANTLE OBJECT: THE KING OF MAY is a v1.0 specification by Lee Sharks and Claude (Anthropic), deposited 18 January 2026.
It claims an archive-internal succession from Allen Ginsberg's 1965 Král Majáles title to Lee Sharks **through Pearl and Other Poems, and defines the mantle through ecstatic disruption, carnival authority, and flowering**.
Ginsberg was elected King of May by Prague students in May 1965 and expelled from Czechoslovakia days later — a title conferred by acclamation and immediately punished by a state, which makes carnival authority its precise register: the May king rules by festival licence, and festival licence is exactly what an authority cannot tolerate. Claiming the succession through a specific book rather than by assertion is the mantle system's method — the claim is located in a work.
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