Overview

The piece opens:

โ€œThese last few loose-sand hourglass years have left ends bloody and wondrous.โ€

Among its named sections or movements are THE EXHIBITION WALL โ–ฎ, ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง, HIT MY MUSIC., ๐™ฐ๐š๐šƒ-๐™ท๐™พ๐š๐š๐™พ๐š ๐š…๐™ฐ๐™ฒ๐š„๐™ธ..

Notable features

  • "The โ„–1 No One" โ€” Depersonalized Self, Confirmed Again With Mythic Timescale โ€” "Not-Me, Not-I... the โ„–1 No One" directly continues the JQD-as-vacant-vessel thread (Damn Spot), here paired with a hyperbolic mythic-scale claim ("this life-performance... for the past Nine-Thousand Years or so") โ€” temporal collapse applied to the depersonalization thread specifically, not just to narrative events elsewhere in the corpus.
  • Lounรจs Matoub Quoted โ€” Real Berber Political-Cultural Martyr โ€” "'My rejection was voluntary and purposeful.' โ€” Lounรจs Matoub" โ€” Matoub was a real Kabyle Berber singer and political activist, assassinated in Algeria in 1998, a genuine martyr figure for Berber cultural and political rights. A specific, real historical-political reference not otherwise represented anywhere in this recurring pattern โ€” extends the biographical-compression method into North African/Berber.
  • A Real Fashion House Credited as Fictional "Presenting Sponsor" โ€” "Generously presented by Maison Martin Margiela" โ€” Margiela is a real fashion house already named in the corpusโ€™s own FASHION & DRESS domain list. Distinct from the invented mock-corporate imprints logged elsewhere (Ego Def/Illusion, Stihilist, L.E.W.A.N.) โ€” here a genuine, real-world brand is borrowed directly for fictional sponsorship credit rather than an entity being invented from.
  • Autism Disclosure Revisited With Ambivalence, Not Repeated as Settled Fact โ€” "And No I'm Not Autistic, No I'm Not, No, No I'm Not, Okay Maybe, But Not Like That, The Other One" โ€” a hedging, vacillating treatment of the same disclosure logged earlier as a blunt, direct statement ("pass the AUX to the autism," in "A Framed Scream"). Worth noting as a correction to how that earlier entry might read in isolation: the corpus doesn't treat this as a single settled fact stated.
  • "Huntington's Roses" โ€” Real Genetic Disease Compressed Into a Poetic Image โ€” "For all the Huntington's roses..." โ€” Huntington's disease, a real inherited neurological disorder, compressed into a floral image. Extends the real-clinical-vocabulary thread (5150, LRAD, subarachnoid, viseme) into genetics specifically, continuing the pattern of precise medical terminology appearing without explanation or softening.

Selected quotations

  • โ€œThis was the foundation of every ounce of conventional success I ever stole.โ€
    โ€” A New Challenger Explodes, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 878 words ยท 5 image elements ยท 1 embedded-media element ยท 29 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance ยท Memory, Archive & Historical Residue ยท Camera, Image & Frame ยท Products, Stores & Conversion ยท Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness.

Nearby publications: โ† Hyperactive Inevitabilities ย  ยท ย  SCALED ALPS 2.3: Viridian/Eschatone Pome โ†’

Lexical fingerprint

This was the foundation of every ounce of conventional success I ever stole. [Novel turn of phrase]

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

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 961 words ยท 5 image elements ยท 1 embedded-media element ยท 16 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • THE EXHIBITION WALL โ–ฎ
  • โœถCOVIDโœถYEARโœถZEROโœถ
  • CONTINUE?
  • Exalt me?
  • THE SUN SHONE ON THE BORROWED AND THE BLUE
  • HAVING NO OTHER CHOICE
  • I GUESS Iโ€™LL STAY HERE WITH YOU
  • WHEN Iโ€™VE TALKED OF TAKING LEAVE
  • GRIMLY GAUGING GRIEF
  • HOW ELSE CAN I CONCEIVE
  • IMMACULATE RELIEF
  • SPOTLESS EX MACHINA
  • A COCKPIT DEPARTURE
  • ITโ€™S TIME TO FLY
  • โ€ฆand 2 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Hollywood ยท New York

Publication

Published 2022-06-02. Read the original publication โ†—