Overview

The piece opens:

“YOUR MAGAZINE ARRIVES WITH A SATISFYING THUNK at the hollow door base, tossed-on tomorrow with a newsboy’s wink, a little something to cap your day, a little Irish in your coffee or in your confetti , some new-staggering ass-excursion —”

Among its named sections or movements are I understand never to disappoint you., NEW HUMILIATIONS:, IT’S SUCH A GAMBLE, WHEN YOU GET A, FACE——, Now for some more insufferable shit., disembodied paparazzopticon surveillance apparatus.

Notable features

  • Fullest Byline Expansion Yet — Saint Germain Added to Cagliostro — "James Quentin Julian-Ramona Devine-Ó Dubháin Saint Germain-Cagliostro" — the most expanded version of the persona byline logged so far, adding "Saint Germain" (the Comte de Saint Germain, a real 18th-century figure historically associated, like Cagliostro, with immortality myths and esoteric secrecy — the two are often invoked together in occult history) directly alongside Cagliostro. Two real.
  • The Narrating Voice Destroyed Mid-Sentence, Then Continuing Anyway — A stage direction depicts the speaking apparatus itself malfunctioning and exploding mid-welcome-speech — "[animatronic winds down abruptly, sparks, explodes]" — followed immediately by "continue . . . continue . . . continue . . ." This is a clean, literal enactment of the Beckett principle (continuation after the worst thing) applied not to a character or a narrative event but to the mechanism.

Selected quotations

  • “I’m gonna run so fucking far away from everything you want me to do that I’ll find it, ass-end.”
    — Normie Repellent, $5/mo., 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “I never signed up for any of this shit...”
    — Normie Repellent, $5/mo., 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “I will not smile for you, but if I do, you’ll wish you wouldn’t have.”
    — Normie Repellent, $5/mo., 2022 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,435 words · 5 image elements · 2 embedded-media elements · 29 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Money, Price, Debt & Worth · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness · Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic.

Nearby publications: ← SCALED ALPS 2.3: Viridian/Eschatone Pome   ·   SCALED ALPS 2.4: Anaidea's a Wake →

Lexical fingerprint

paparazzopticon [Probable corpus formation] · velvet-interiored [Distinctive construction] · closed-casket massacrees [Distinctive construction]

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

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,540 words · 5 image elements · 2 embedded-media elements · 21 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 FRIDAY 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 LUCK 𝐢𝐟 𝐧𝐨𝐭 LOVE.
  • But in the event that you DON’T like puppet-plays, here’s a NEW ONE called:
  • ✶COVID✶YEAR✶ZERO✶
  • NEW HUMILIATIONS:
  • or
  • IT’S SUCH A GAMBLE, WHEN YOU GET A
  • FACE——
  • disembodied paparazzopticon surveillance apparatus
  • NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! . . .
  • I said get that fucking thing out of my face.
  • I said get that fucking thing out of my face .
  • W H A T ?
  • [SHAKY CAMERAWORK]
  • I AM THE ONE WHO IS IN CONTROL.
  • …and 7 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

paparazzopticon

References linked directly from the publication

Disturbance profile

violence / death · grotesque body

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 2022-06-10. Read the original publication ↗