Saturday, September 27, 2014

speculations on the natural order


he describes himself as lost in the symbolic, found in the real, being read in the imaginary - like a message on the flyleaf of a book in a bottle in a crate washed up on shore, only to be compressed under layers of sedimentation for uncountable eons -- then to discovered, cracked open from a piece of shale on a shelf, a grinning fossil of consciousness



he describes himself with copious notes, meticulous jottings, cryptic scrawls, leaving behind a series of origami megaliths


he describes himself as a scion of mill workers and farmers, commuting suburbanites, science fiction buffs and quilters


he describes himself as light and shadow


he describes himself as an outlier,
 on the outside looking out inside out and about above
 and within


Bibliography:
Roughing It / Mark Twain ; Moviegoer / Walker Percy ; AntiOedipus / Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ; Ecrits / Jaques Lacan ; In Praise of Lost Causes / Slovoj Zizek ; The Christian Faith / Friedrich Schleiermacher ; The Recognitions / William Gaddis ; Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror / John Ashbery ; Reader's Block / David Markson ; The Discarded Image / CS Lewis ; Descent into Hell / Charles Williams ; The Man Who was Thursday / GK Chesterton ; Finnegans Wake / James Joyce ; The Poor Mouth / Flann O'Brien ; Artwriting / David Carrier ; Jokes and the Unconscious / Sigmund Freud ; Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman ; Farewell to and Idea / TJ Clark ; An Alien Heat / Michael Moorcock


White Noise / Don DeLillo and Catch 22 / Joseph Heller - and Phlip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint - and Maurice Blanchot's Infinite Conversation


he describes himself as light and shadow