Overview

The piece opens:

“And here we are, overthought overwrought and wondering how best to position ourselves to be bought , time ticking off the clock , scheming :”

Among its named sections or movements are [BOOMING VOICE]: What are you?, [BOOMING VOICE]: Can you show us how you’re rich?, [BOOMING VOICE]: How would you make an object in your bedroom famous?, [BOOMING VOICE]: Can you create a character and introduce us to them?, Deadline Daredevil, the 11th Hour Applicant., [BOOMING VOICE]: What would you like to make that you don’t have resources for right now?.

Notable features

  • Self-Description Constructed Live, Under Interrogation — Rather than stating a self-concept as fact (as in "Damn Spot"'s flat declarative disclosure), this piece stages the construction of a self-description as a scene: an unseen authority demands "What are you?" and "Can you show us how you're rich?", and the answer gets built in real time, associatively, under pressure — "Multitudinous. Multi-dimensional. Outside-in... upright bipedal chordate.

Selected quotations

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 678 words · 2 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 7 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Memory, Archive & Historical Residue · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Money, Price, Debt & Worth · Products, Stores & Conversion.

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Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 726 words · 2 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 7 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • [BOOMING VOICE]: What are you?
  • [BOOMING VOICE]: Can you show us how you’re rich?
  • [BOOMING VOICE]: How would you make an object in your bedroom famous?
  • You want me to retroactively insert an object or idea into prior culture and convince people it’s always existed, that Everyone Knows That?
  • [BOOMING VOICE]: Can you create a character and introduce us to them?
  • Deadline Daredevil, the 11th Hour Applicant.
  • [BOOMING VOICE]: What would you like to make that you don’t have resources for right now?

Publication

Published 2022-02-13. Read the original publication ↗