Overview
The piece opens:
Among its named sections or movements are [๐๐๐๐๐]., โ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐๐จ,โ, TEMPLE OF ARTIFICE,, ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต-๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณโ๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ-๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ-๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ., (and I quote), WE AINโT 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
โWithout you I am nothing. With you, I still am, but more:โ
โ Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]โI feel all that off-line as well but thereโs More & Other things.โ
โ Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [additional portable selection]โPeople who canโt read have accused me of incoherence.โ
โ Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022 [additional portable selection]โLove 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 โThe 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 seizureโโI AM CAGLIOSTROโโturning 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,
- BLURBโRโRING LIPS TO CHALICE,
- (and I quote)
- โ Harold Bloom
- (wait) (hold up)
- You see,
- (unoccuplied) (aloft)
- โฒBACK
- speaking of:
- resampled โญโญโญ โนโนโนโนโน
- Axe yourself.
- Read me on the web while it still remains woven.
- They try to keep me from you, ITโS TRUE,
- flat-out . . . DECLINED.
- โฆand 21 further heading-marked turns.
Named material with encyclopedia nodes
References linked directly from the publication
- at โ (bgirlrhapsody.wordpress.com)
- know โ (monoskop.org)
- charmsmiled โ (ubu.com)
- prayer โ (www.youtube.com)
- you know โ (www.youtube.com)
- Use me โtil Iโm gone. โ (www.youtube.com)
- such โ (www.youtube.com)
- I wuz here. โ (erikhoel.substack.com)
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