for instance, 'post-911 viral surge' was me thinking particularly of how commercial loans have been so much cheaper after 911, so we so a lot of construction projects, remodeling, especially from the upper middle class and above. thus 'fluid contracting' with all that cheap Mexican labor. Me vale verga! is what i say to that...
and nope, no book yet. Please Eat Yourself is still being written and i have a sonnet sequence ms called Dunk Yr Head that's yet to come out.
thankx for yr gloss around the work. it's interesting, b/c my appropriation of 'Tamil tigers' is very much a textual engagement w/ the spectacle, perhaps a bit more obscure than Al-Qaeda but out there if you get the right wires, nevertheless.
you mention women terrorists and their underepresenation and there's a good amount of consideration in my using only male pronouns, tho i'm still trying to figure out just what function does mono-gendering a sequence engage...
anyway here's another one:
from Please Eat Yourself
morse flash: wildcat housing arrangement spells
gimry road resolving to a 4,000-lb megawatt blue
turban jim makes his approach from th opposite shore
lining retasked aftershocks w/ spics paced along th
qtr-drump planche's inch'd minutes' will-to-plan
(Fr) drill wired neon shldr booms too smoothly down
a quickie Eid al-Adha before Monitoring (like how
critical intimacy's never aaccess) freq of Baloch's posts
a bit a fuse for th public to see thru rue de paul bremer
th first pleas ignored you in 'nanimous harnessing of rag
head omar's dot a nuclear juice bee longs on his forehead
On 1/8/06, Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
justin, this is absolutely brilliant,
and has actually given me abit of a start
because of an occurence, "the usually flickering"
between 'series' which is the monstrous process
at the heart of most paranoia, among other things..
i had just read an account/explanation of Schlegel's
take on the grotesque when the phrase
post-9/11 viral surge
just leaped out as being really apt, in terms
of Schlegel's view
let me explain
Schlegel spelled out his attitude in his 1798 Athenaum-Fragment
424 in which he connected historical events to the grotesque:
It [the French Revolution] could also be seen as the heart
and culmination of the French national character, where all
its paradoxes are concentrated; as the most terrible grotesquerie
of the age, where its..
its seems like 911 might be seen in a similiar way, though
perhaps lesser because of the constant barrage of demonism
and tragedy
at any rate if you read on, you get to some discussion
that Schegel no longer viewed history as a political event
but as a chaos unleashed by human traits (makes me think of Forbidden
Planet of course)
anyway i'm thinking more now about the dialectic of the phrase
post-9/11 viral surge
as in pre-911 viral surge
which is in effect a nod to the memics involved
in terrorist production, the kinds of teachings
which have their lineage in Hassan-I-Sabbah's history
and which obviosly still exist though suicide warriors
aren't particularly islam specific though the spectacle
might have you think so.. another example would be
yep, the tamil tigers.. or even the kamikaze'
and also the way you bring Kong in
as Kong climbed the towers in the 70's remake
with the cryptic (and spectacular rejoinder)
of Field of Dreams.. I think that's the movie title
for the Costner flick.. with the historical avatars
field of dreams as an underphrase
is really potent.. field as in radiation
and also as in games, language games,
game-theory, even mostly our politics
these days are more like a game..
If this is from a book where can I get one,
this is very striking and important stuff
I think..
Also the Tamil Tigers mention
which is iconically interesting in many ways
the Tamil tigers are battling against the Sinhalese
as you know.. Buddha died when he allowed a tiger
to eat him.. this really directly relates to the
the Title (Please Eat Yourself) which is great nod
to perhaps Gaian theory or Post-structuralist decenteredness
etc.. I don't know if I'm expressing this well, but
its terribly evocative..
also it makes me realize just how non-newsworthy
the Sri Lankan conflict has been in the west
when recently i've seen several articles talking
about a new process which involves women terrorists..
The Tamil tigers have had many famous women terrorists
but its never mentioned in these stories..
I believe Indira Gandhi herself was taken out
by a young lady.. maybe i have my facts wrong
here.. but it made me think of this as well
at any rate, shadow cabinet is also
a fine manifold..
thanks for sending this out..
lq
> from Please Eat Yourself
>
> *
>
> Tamil tigers w/ nostalgia for th floor
> tom spiked by th left, shadow cabinet warped
> round th shadow mugs' hold turban jim
> havin a go at negotiatin tradecraft brunch
> w/ th complete eastern arm a th mujahadeen
> givin thumb to th ass a th assholes in front
> of em in line for a ribcage to chat over 'n above
> o coordinated bump a th grind's daily hum: white
> balaclava puddled in the pee of a pentagon janitor
> found plans for a hexagonal face: fluid contracting,
> post-9/11 viral surge: if we build it, king com cum.
>
