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The Secret Undertown Ministry
“FROM THE DARKNESS, A VOICE SINGS OUT: I disagree, I disagree – I cannot understand at all; Which doesn’t mean I cannot understand it if I tried to understand it but I cannot stand to stand and understand it when … Continue reading
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Speaking hypothetically [which might mean communicating virtually by forcing directed bursts of recently inhaled oxygen-nitrogen-miscellaneous ethereal non-visible compounds to rise from within the air sac viscera through the windpipe and past a discerning set of vocal chords (say, a G-major-minor-7 … Continue reading
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Beat Cops (the Pilot)
Introduction to a Poem Requested by a Dear Friend. Please note: dear friend is somewhat of an ambiguous phrase, which should not be misconstrued to mean that I have anything against any deer, elk, moose, springbok, or other non-horse, leaping, … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, humor, stream of consciousness, surrealism, William S Burroughs
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Random Thought Again
Today’s random thought — making modification to the title of an existing work of literature and using that as the basis for writing my own novel. For example, the novel Incense and Insensibility could be the Fictional account of how … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, novels, randomness, Sense and Sensibility, surrealism
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Moving Rocky to Balboa
About 10 years ago, I was fascinated with both stream-of-consciousness and cut-up, randomized writing. In that fertile stream bed, fueled by endless coffee cups and unfiltered cigarettes, I lay for a period of about two straight years. There was something … Continue reading
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Slicing the Apple
So undone by wishing, though its hiding shore, I saw No there are work for whom has love, so doing one should not a madman’s fate! As to find it all of the Most men come across my are a … Continue reading
Dances with Whales, Winces with Dulls
At one time in my life, I experimented with writing my own cut-up novel. Heavily into Keroauc, Ginsberg and Burroughs at the time, heavily into mind-altering additives of several varieties, spending late nights in cafes discussing Gertrude Stein and Pound’s … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, Dada, excerpts, Jack Keroauc, William S Burroughs
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