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Ever Contemplated by PR’s husband
UPDATE! CONTEST! Find the three 80s indie/punk band album titles in his piece (one title contains the adjective rather than the noun in the two word title) and I will send you a bunch of books. I will be seriously impressed, too.
We all have a better half. My better half is actually a human being. He wrote his thoughts about Ever by Blake Butler. Here they are:
Ever is psychotic literature – not the literature of (or by?) the psychotic. Curious minds we have – unbraced even for simple reality. Should reality change – minds flail to adjust.
What life would be like in a world where quantum effects regularly erupt into the macro world? Where the ban on macro quantum strangeness is repealed? The quotidian, daily life, boredom, depression, the functions of the body, lovingly rendered, meaning, boiled, in fourteen dimensional space. Time corruption, contraction, decoupling, as in an acid trip. Voices garbling, as when the didactic robots contract schizophrenia and babble in Martian Time Slip. Buzzing, howling, under the influence of heat.
A palace of swords reversed – symmetry reversed – not apparent, neither the symmetry nor the reversal, but mathematically modeled and demonstrable. Certain, uncertain – does the equation balance? Do the braces tie? I think that with the right definitions and declarations, the right includes, Ever would compile.
The bubble – laughing stock of the natural world. The comic relief amongst physical configurations. The membrane expanding until pressure is balanced, or rupture occurs. A bubble sufficiently compressed, imploding rather than exploding, is the only known method of producing nuclear fusion at sub-plasmic temperature.
Bled a thread, above would crud, striations of smaller spores – rhyme, alliteration, sound substitution – a muon becomes a gluon, a word becomes another, congruent, lexical devils dashing semantic symmetry.
In a hole, filling a hole with holes. Sylvia Plath starving in a crawlspace, stoned on anti-psychotics. Sound is vibration after all – if not a thing, a property of a thing. Inappropriate properties – strangeness, spin – doors, houses, rooms, dirt.
I was told that a book about nothing is about writing. Language, light, let loose, loudly. Look out.
Tags: blake butler, calamari press, ever
haha, nice! i’m not sure i need to write my thoughts on EVER anymore
haha, nice! i’m not sure i need to write my thoughts on EVER anymore
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Bless that man.
!!!
Bless that man.
Lexicon Devil.
Nope. That’s all I got, pr. I mean, there’s bubble but no scrape.
Lexicon Devil.
Nope. That’s all I got, pr. I mean, there’s bubble but no scrape.
Go Matthews! That is one. two more. you can do it.
Matthew-I’m telling you- you got that one, you’ll get the other two. I’m digging this. Don’t give up.
For Matthew:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_(album) (Hole)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Stock (Laughing Stock)
I’m cheating, here.
Also, this review is the best kind of review — art inspired by art.
For Matthew:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_(album) (Hole)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Stock (Laughing Stock)
I’m cheating, here.
Also, this review is the best kind of review — art inspired by art.
Aw, man! Was Hole one of them? I was hoping someone wrote a record called “Sylvia Plath Starving in a Crawlspace.”
Ever Contemplated by pr’s Husband made me think of “Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss” by the Feederz.
Aw, man! Was Hole one of them? I was hoping someone wrote a record called “Sylvia Plath Starving in a Crawlspace.”
Ever Contemplated by pr’s Husband made me think of “Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss” by the Feederz.
not hole-
I’m itching to tell the two band names but not yet-
Buzz(ing,) and howl(ing,) under the influence of heat.-minutemen
palace of swords, reversed -the fall
lexicon devil – the germs
i noticed the first two yesterday….
Buzz(ing,) and howl(ing,) under the influence of heat.-minutemen
palace of swords, reversed -the fall
lexicon devil – the germs
i noticed the first two yesterday….
larstonovich won!
wow. good job.
you can send me your address and I’ll send you a goody bag –
peterrutt@live.com
Hooray!
Hooray!
YES! Nice job. I will now kick myself for missing the Minutemen record.
-little man with a gun in his hand-
YES! Nice job. I will now kick myself for missing the Minutemen record.
-little man with a gun in his hand-
Does anyone else have any experience with this?
Does anyone else have any experience with this?