Overview

The piece opens:

“I didn't mean the actresses were dumb, but that was sort of what you had to be in those days.”

Among its named sections or movements are ( NO YOU ARE ), Claim CREDIT for someone else’s WORK, IDEAS — HELL — maybe their EXPERIENCE!, MY TRUE YEAR ZERO DESIRE FOR A NEW FUCKING WORLD UN BOUNDED BY THE DULLNESS OF THE PRIOR —, “ TOO BUTCH, ” APPARENTLY, for the industry:, S ATEL LITE ⃝⃝⃝❍ PHO TO S, YOU WERE THERE! I’M SURE YOU DID THE SAME!.

Notable features

  • Struck-Through Text, Now Confirmed at Phrase Scale — " PLIANT SUBMISSIVE / DECEITFULLY INTERPRETED / SENSELESS NOISE " — three full phrases struck through in sequence. This extends the struck-through-title-word device (previously confirmed on single words: ANIC̶O̶N̶ISM, N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶) to full multi-word phrases functioning as a self-negating list — the negation thread and the strikethrough device converging in one passage.
  • "(NO YOU ~~ARE~~)" — Playground Retort as Media Criticism — A childhood-taunt structure ("no, you are") deployed against media/social-media discourse, with the retort's own final word struck through mid-joke — comedy-as-structural-method (per the corpus’s COMEDY domain) applied to internet-culture critique, deflating the register of the surrounding cultural criticism with a deliberately juvenile form.
  • Real Public-Figure Quote as Epigraph, Off-Axis From the Piece's Subject — Sheila Kuehl (actress/politician) quoted on 1960s TV representation as an epigraph for a piece that's actually about social media discourse — the epigraph's subject (old television) doesn't directly match the piece's target (Twitter-era discourse), forcing the reader to locate the connection themselves rather than being told it. Consistent with encoded-layer methodology: the reference is.

Selected quotations

  • “Wasting your time, sowing unhelpful dissonance in your life, pushing your buttons.”
    — Lavender Propinquity, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “The Golden Age was always piss vintaged BUT contemporaneity’s a bottomless race.”
    — Lavender Propinquity, 2022 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,092 words · 3 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 20 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Children, Parents & Inheritance · Memory, Archive & Historical Residue · Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic.

Nearby publications: ← .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described   ·   Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances →

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,151 words · 3 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 19 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • PLIANT SUBMISSIVE
  • DECEITFULLY INTERPRETED
  • ( NO YOU ARE )
  • Claim CREDIT for someone else’s WORK, IDEAS — HELL — maybe their EXPERIENCE!
  • Let us now embrace externality and become porous, allowing the invasion of a “tweet” with the broad hope that no infestation should follow:
  • “ TOO BUTCH, ” APPARENTLY, for the industry:
  • S ATEL LITE ⃝⃝⃝❍ PHO TO S
  • Spot the losers and the liars , everybody.
  • Ha, ha, ha .
  • Let’s ALL have a LAUGH at THEM!
  • Let’s ALL have a LAUGH at US!
  • THE FATED FEELING OF PROPINQUITY:
  • BACK, NOW , HERE , OUTSIDE , TYPING :
  • You don’t ask because you shouldn’t.
  • …and 5 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Bottomless

References linked directly from the publication

Publication

Published 2022-01-18. Read the original publication ↗