Overview

The piece opens:

“THINK TO YOURSELF — LOOKS A BIT LIKE A SAMPLE NOTEPAD IN A STATIONERY SHOP, DUNNIT?”

Among its named sections or movements are ALLCAPS CODE HEADING ONE, BIG, HEY KID,, MEZCAL TURNED SATURDAY TO TUESDAY., WHAT COLOR IS IT?.

Notable features

  • Self-Directed Criticism, Struck Through at Extreme Length — A harsh self-critical line — "Your art's fucked. Your efforts are stupid and hopeless." — followed immediately by the word "HATRED" struck through and repeated dozens of times consecutively. This is the strikethrough/negation device turned specifically on self-criticism rather than on a title-word or established motif — the harshest voice in the piece gets the same negation treatment as "Lost.

Connections

Selected quotations

  • “YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TRUSTED A GOD DAMN THING I SOLD TOLD YOU.”
    ALLCAPS CODE HEADING ONE, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “IT’S ALL POTENTIALLY HYPERTEXT, BUT THAT’D MAKE IT UGLY.”
    ALLCAPS CODE HEADING ONE, 2022 [maxim / typographic fragment]
  • “I CAN’T VERY WELL SAY I HAVEN’T ASKED FOR IT MANY TIMES OVER.”
    ALLCAPS CODE HEADING ONE, 2022 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 659 words · 4 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 37 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Children, Parents & Inheritance · Weapons, Crime & Coercion · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness · Products, Stores & Conversion.

Nearby publications:No Music On   ·   'The Event of the Ad' (Erotic Adult Guitar Rock)

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 696 words · 4 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 6 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • ALLCAPS CODE HEADING ONE
  • BIG
  • HEY KID,
  • MEZCAL TURNED SATURDAY TO TUESDAY.
  • WHAT COLOR IS IT?
  • THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT I HAVE NO FUCKING DESIRE TO BE RELATABLE. “AVERAGE” IN THIS CONTEXT IS A FAKE IDEA. I POSSESS SUFFICIENT HATRED POWERS TO CONFORM THIS WORLD TO MY WHIMS ALCHEMICALLY. I AM A 9000 YEAR OLD CRIMINAL FROM THE MOON. YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TRUSTED A GOD DAMN THING I SOLD TOLD YOU.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

James Quentin Devine · Cagliostro · Hollywood

Publication

Published 2022-08-17. Read the original publication ↗