Related route: Tobacco / intoxication.

Overview

The piece opens:

“My mother started smoking cigarettes when her father’d died at the age of fifty-five, and in her later life I watched her collapse in tandem with her own mother, though only one of them did die all the way.”

Among its named sections or movements are You see stress does induce desires, for release or for harm or, for some tongue-tip now in evasion., ⅋ it hosted well the afters and disasters of parties and bullshit., And it is here, DEAR_READER , that you stumble into an Erowid Trip Report for TOBACCO ., Perhaps perhaps perhaps..

Form and structure

6 displayed headings break the piece into shifts of register or movement.

Connections

Selected quotations

  • “We are very alike but not at all alike. I gather that this may be standard.”
    — ADVENT 1.5: Le Smoking, 2021 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “We are very alike but not at all alike.”
    — ADVENT 1.5: Le Smoking, 2021 [additional portable selection]
  • “Who will wash my dead father?”
    — ADVENT 1.5: Le Smoking, 2021 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,500 words · 5 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 11 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Children, Parents & Inheritance · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Memory, Archive & Historical Residue · Poison, Drugs & Intoxication · Clothing, Fashion & Luxury Objects.

Nearby publications: ← ADVENT 1.4: Blue Devilism   ·   ADVENT 1.6: Folie à Plusieurs →

Lexical fingerprint

fast-and-perhaps-fleeting [Sentence-compound / hyphen engine]

These are source-attested formations indexed for lexical distinctiveness; inclusion does not assert global first use.

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,600 words · 5 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 9 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • Ultimately I sold the jacket for a penny to-me far prettier and shinier than the gimmick-sheen of iridescent designer cloth.
  • You see stress does induce desires, for release or for harm or
  • for some tongue-tip now in evasion.
  • ⅋ it hosted well the afters and disasters of parties and bullshit.
  • And it is here, DEAR_READER , that you stumble into an Erowid Trip Report for TOBACCO .
  • (erewhon trip report?) (i’m left with no resort)
  • (put out the blowtorch)
  • You know you’re rich when a fall from your balcony splatters rather than crunches.
  • Perhaps perhaps perhaps.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

James Quentin Devine

References linked directly from the publication

Publication

Published 2021-12-06. Read the original publication ↗