September 6th, 2010 / 11:23 am
Excerpts

Paragraphs of Paragraphs (8): Pierre Guyotat

Death to the officers! O my latrine, hug me stronger. I give you my wife. Throw my babies into the fire, to the dunghill, trample them under the foot of the marriage bed heavy with your intermingled bodies. She caresses, she kisses your worried muscles. Tear with your teeth rotten by the black meat and the bromided wine, tear with your tanned cock the linen hanging in the toilets, the linen fragrant with the talc and the vomit of the new-born. Ransack my furniture. The room exhales, you erect naked and wearing wool up to the knees, a fragrance of snow and grease. Strangle, knock senseless in their bed my father and my mother. Slaughter on his exercise books my brother dozing at the table. The bites of the native whores reopen on the lower part of your belly under the hair. Dig with your dagger, ear cutter, the polished flooring and free the spring singing for my child in the foundations. Lie down in its water and the cuttings and the earth and the cement powder covering your jaw, fuck my wife to death and, standing up again, squash her head in the stream blocked by sperm. And feeling light, rifle hanging from the shoulder and the mosquito net tied around your loins, push the door and, once you reached the border, throw yourself into our arms laden with dying game. O ear cutter, hoist yourself up with us in the hollow between the branches warmed up by our turds. The smell of the married men’s blood is shrouding the city. To it we prefer the fragrance of the bugs gorged with our blood.

from Tomb for 500,000 Soliders

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33 Comments

  1. jereme

      this is really good.

  2. jereme

      this is really good.

  3. Jesse Hudson

      GENIUS!

  4. Jesse Hudson

      GENIUS!

  5. lorian

      jesus

  6. lorian

      jesus

  7. rk

      reads like a collision between genet and homer. these old french weren’t afraid of eloquent horrors, blood and semen.

  8. rk

      reads like a collision between genet and homer. these old french weren’t afraid of eloquent horrors, blood and semen.

  9. Blake Butler

      the whole book is at this level. it’s unreal.

  10. Blake Butler

      the whole book is at this level. it’s unreal.

  11. jereme

      this is really good.

  12. adam j maynard

      I remember some of his in, Dust, a Creation Books reader.

      Bit naughty innit?

  13. adam j maynard

      I remember some of his in, Dust, a Creation Books reader.

      Bit naughty innit?

  14. Jesse Hudson

      GENIUS!

  15. Shane Anderson

      damn.

      has anyone seen the other stuff? is there any less crusted semen?

  16. Shane Anderson

      damn.

      has anyone seen the other stuff? is there any less crusted semen?

  17. Blake Butler

      it is the most brutal book i’ve ever read. this is actually a calmer moment.

  18. Blake Butler

      it is the most brutal book i’ve ever read. this is actually a calmer moment.

  19. Janey Smith

      <<…back, jissom-eater.. back, back, jissom-eater.. jissom-eater, man-eater…. baby-eater.. back, baby-eater… dogs that make us widows, in our prime…

  20. Janey Smith

      <<…back, jissom-eater.. back, back, jissom-eater.. jissom-eater, man-eater…. baby-eater.. back, baby-eater… dogs that make us widows, in our prime…

  21. lorian

      jesus

  22. rk

      reads like a collision between genet and homer. these old french weren’t afraid of eloquent horrors, blood and semen.

  23. Blake Butler

      the whole book is at this level. it’s unreal.

  24. magick mike

      EDEN EDEN EDEN & PROSTITUTION are even MORE than this, but then again I’ve yet to finish any of his books. not because i don’t like them, i love them, but they’re fucking intense, and i can’t really do more than like 20 pages at a time.

  25. magick mike

      EDEN EDEN EDEN & PROSTITUTION are even MORE than this, but then again I’ve yet to finish any of his books. not because i don’t like them, i love them, but they’re fucking intense, and i can’t really do more than like 20 pages at a time.

  26. Shane Anderson

      which sounds like the book equivalent of ‘salo’ for me. which i did ‘see’ if sitting in the theater with my eyes closed counts. would be a little more difficult with a book, but then maybe someone could read it to me. any takers?

  27. Shane Anderson

      which sounds like the book equivalent of ‘salo’ for me. which i did ‘see’ if sitting in the theater with my eyes closed counts. would be a little more difficult with a book, but then maybe someone could read it to me. any takers?

  28. adam j maynard

      I remember some of his in, Dust, a Creation Books reader.

      Bit naughty innit?

  29. Shane Anderson

      damn.

      has anyone seen the other stuff? is there any less crusted semen?

  30. Blake Butler

      it is the most brutal book i’ve ever read. this is actually a calmer moment.

  31. Janey Smith

      <<…back, jissom-eater.. back, back, jissom-eater.. jissom-eater, man-eater…. baby-eater.. back, baby-eater… dogs that make us widows, in our prime…

  32. magick mike

      EDEN EDEN EDEN & PROSTITUTION are even MORE than this, but then again I’ve yet to finish any of his books. not because i don’t like them, i love them, but they’re fucking intense, and i can’t really do more than like 20 pages at a time.

  33. Shane Anderson

      which sounds like the book equivalent of ‘salo’ for me. which i did ‘see’ if sitting in the theater with my eyes closed counts. would be a little more difficult with a book, but then maybe someone could read it to me. any takers?