Doctor Brew[8032] Write introductions to your imaginative efforts in stuffy motels. If you write poems employ an experiment with novels in late editions filled with nightmares and brutally gentle self-portraiture, try to find your own extensive introductions on wheelingly borrowed time or that of impassioned fans and other critics. Discover a way out of the box that contains many apologies for your New York edition: these areas have giant fans rotating notes, sketches, and studies undertaken to produce a double reading. Display on racks poem-snippets in fog machines in the course of creation. Your novel is not simply located in the introductions of your other works, but in sugar buns dropped from airplanes functioning as a kind of portable toy produced by the novel itself and spewed upwards from strange machines that allow you to playfully assemble introductions together into a codex on magic, a kind of grimoire to guide space pirates on their celestial reruns.
[8031] Do my restless fingers astonish you? Even Balaam’s ass beheld an angel saddened by autumn leaves. How do stories come to be companion pieces to their work designed to detect desperate witchcraft or darker devilry … be wary and watchful while on our long walks together in the moonlight. Shall I whistle in your ear? Moan with my eyes closed? The operative word, Nurse Blunt, you have already suspected that a great white flower snaps shut in daylight sleeping. The magnetic pole & the watery conditions of icebergs floating in a featherweight winter meadow as a cold stone brooding about the world ending tomorrow. East is Wild West is East is all the same now : the world is a mountain home on the range.
[57] What’s left for the novel? the antinovel … the cut-up technique developed for film/cinema [cf. Subimal Misra] … already in the 50s & 60s writers were asking what the novel could do … not just ceding certain ground to cinema, but acknowledging that readers need/want different things at different times … sometimes it isn’t a question of what to do, but just a sense … an intuition that the void need not be filled with anything … I’m thinking of Rayner Heppenstall & B.S. Johnson, but already this is old news. almost as if reading anything not on a screen is an act of … not only tremendous will, but sabotage. This is the Film Diary of My Every Day Life … as such not just me, but we all are seduced by the image that we are the main character in the movie of our lives, but haunted by the knowledge that the theater is empty … we play to the audience of none : look at me! look at me!
the novel as a commodity reenforces capitalist realism [Fisher] the experimental novel ,, the antinovel changes … or provides the necessary conditions for a transformation in the reader … the reader’s way of life & thinking [a way of see through the Reality Show] rather than capitulating / confirming capitalist tropes / Subimal Misra :: “In order to survive in the capitalist system, artists, and litterateurs have to be amicable sometimes and sometimes the need to wrestle … she stands on the left, the left of everyone … I do not want my writing to be converted into capital, or be capable of being digested by the intestines of middle-class babus. I want to make my writing into a weapon against the repression-based civilization.”
and speaking of hashtags (I'm still trying to figure this social media thing out) I'm going to start using #TheIrrealists to mark posts as part of public exchange of how to use #ExperimentalWriting to break up repressive social structures (in the mode of Kathy Acker #KathyAcker & William S. Burroughs #WilliamSBurroughs) ... and others
for more context see the essay by Kathleen Wheeler I posted earlier this week, here it is again
https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/reading-kathy-acker
One of my experimental writing & publication projects is #NovaLetters , here's an example of a "deeper cut" which introduces Burroughs' concept of "coordinate points" mentioned in two of his cut-up novels
https://write.as/leadworth/coordinate-points
for fun I'm testing out applying terms from #DoctorWho to Burroughs' Nova concepts. A little for everyone.
