Overview

The piece opens:

โ€œTHE ROOT of the personโ€™s the persona , and the root of the personaโ€™s the MASK , so given the many and varied deep I suppose you can regard every gob of spirit as preface .โ€

Among its named sections or movements are [๐š•๐šŠ๐šž๐š๐š‘]., โ€˜๐™ƒ๐™ฎ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™–๐™—๐™ž๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ,โ€™, TEMPLE OF ARTIFICE,, ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต-๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ-๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ., (and I quote), WE AINโ€™T FRIENDLY. GIVE ME THE BENEFITS..

Notable features

  • "The Root of the Person's the Persona, and the Root of the Persona's the Mask" โ€” Direct Thesis Statement โ€” This single sentence is arguably the clearest, most compressed articulation of the entire multi-persona/kayfabe/Goffman throughline running through this whole taxonomy โ€” not demonstrated through a character or a byline expansion, but stated directly as a nested ontological claim: person contains persona, persona contains mask, each layer being the "root" of the one above it rather than a covering.

Connections

Selected quotations

  • โ€œWithout you I am nothing. With you, I still am, but more:โ€
    โ€” Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • โ€œI feel all that off-line as well but thereโ€™s More & Other things.โ€
    โ€” Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [additional portable selection]
  • โ€œPeople who canโ€™t read have accused me of incoherence.โ€
    โ€” Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [additional portable selection]
  • โ€œLove your mother, whichever one.โ€
    โ€” Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 2,520 words ยท 10 image elements ยท 4 embedded-media elements ยท 52 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Camera, Image & Frame ยท Mouth, Voice & Utterance ยท Eyes, Looking & Witness ยท Memory, Archive & Historical Residue ยท Blood, Wounds & Bodily Evidence.

Nearby publications: โ† Animated Grief, Electrical Antlers of the Messiah ย  ยท ย  A New Challenger Explodes โ†’

Lexical fingerprint

suturists [Probable corpus formation] ยท distreated [Probable corpus formation] ยท thinker-typist [Distinctive construction]

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

Inside the work

Hyperactive Inevitabilities is a vignette system held together by fake criticism, guided-imagery architecture, invented words and the recurring problem of whether another person can complete a work. W.H. Auden, Herbert Read, Harold Bloom and Michiko Kakutani appear in a deliberately impossible blurb apparatus whose central game is that one of the endorsements is supposedly real.

The piece then moves into โ€œThe Antechamber,โ€ a guided interior-space construction that keeps sabotaging its own instructions with questions about measurement and compliance. Spellcheck/red-underlining becomes an antagonist: an invented word is rejected by the editor, only for search to reveal prior uses elsewhere. Authorship becomes a dispute with language's existing archive.

Cagliostro subsequently returns not as an elegant occult reference but as a loud identity seizureโ€”โ€œI AM CAGLIOSTROโ€โ€”turning historical borrowing into performed possession. The work is therefore an early meeting point for reader co-production, lexicon-making, false reception, guided protocols and persona reclamation.

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 2,771 words ยท 10 image elements ยท 4 embedded-media elements ยท 35 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • For J ohn S. and All-Other Volunteer Non-Sense,
  • BLURBโ€™Rโ€™RING LIPS TO CHALICE,
  • (and I quote)
  • โ€” Harold Bloom
  • (wait) (hold up)
  • You see,
  • (unoccuplied) (aloft)
  • โ†ฒBACK
  • speaking of:
  • resampled โ–ญโ–ญโ–ญ โ–นโ–นโ–นโ–นโ–น
  • Axe yourself.
  • Read me on the web while it still remains woven.
  • They try to keep me from you, ITโ€™S TRUE,
  • flat-out . . . DECLINED.
  • โ€ฆand 21 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Lost Eros ยท The Kid

References linked directly from the publication

Disturbance profile

verbal abrasion

This profile marks formal pressure points rather than moral positions. Context matters: hits may come from narration, dialogue, quotation, parody, self-description or fictional documents. See Transgression & Disturbance.

Publication

Published 2022-05-30. Read the original publication โ†—