Overview

The piece opens:

“[“ i” do not immediately proceed to this task, and instead format and augment the text, making additions that will only complicate my efforts at meaning and concision ,”

Among its named sections or movements are STORE-BOUGHT, 🏁 🅰🆃🅾🅽🅰🅻 5 0 0 🏁, a variety of patterns in triumphal mourning,, To age in public is the surest curse of the loveless fame-seeker., To fuck in fits and spurts the hurried sport of formless love-makers., Paranoid persecutory narcissism worries for the “ TRUE MEANING, ”.

Notable features

  • "(Editor's Note: I Don't Exist)" — Bluntest Instance of the Depersonalized-Self Thread — Opens as a formal editorial disclaimer rather than embedded poetic language — the plainest, least ornamented version yet of the thread running through "Damn Spot" ("identityless continuous energy"), the "white noise machine" bio, and "the №1 No One." Functions almost as a legal disclaimer applied to a claim about selfhood rather than content.
  • Real-Time Editing Procrastination Narrated as Content — The piece describes, in the moment, avoiding the task of adding photos, complaining about a font choice, days passing between drafting sessions — actual editorial/production behavior narrated as it happens rather than cleaned up afterward. Extends the "visible scaffold" meta-compositional thread (previously the bracketed arrangement markers left inside a lyric) into prose-level behind-the-scenes.

Connections

Selected quotations

  • “If you’re living, for the moment, raise the dead.”
    — Ego Altar, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “I just keep saying the same thing in different voices.”
    — Ego Altar, 2022 [direct prose / poetic prose]
  • “You hadn’t noticed this was a puppet show?”
    — Ego Altar, 2022
  • “I am RIGHT but UNWELCOME]”
    — Ego Altar, 2022 [additional portable selection]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,542 words · 9 image elements · 5 embedded-media elements · 45 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Eyes, Looking & Witness · Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Rooms, Doors, Windows & Thresholds · Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness.

Nearby publications: ← The Clue Gun   ·   99942 Apophis (Causal Encounters) →

Lexical fingerprint

most-popular-to-date [Sentence-compound / hyphen engine] · abungabunga busterballs gangbang réalisé [Sound-writing / phonetic mutation] · You hadn’t noticed this was a puppet show? [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 1,668 words · 9 image elements · 5 embedded-media elements · 35 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • ADD PHOTOS — [several days pass] — ok i’m back at the text now, and there’s a big note in the “Rage Against the Machine font” about adding photos, so I guess I have to go and locate the photos I was telling myself to add.
  • SUBORN THE ARTS
  • 🏁 🅰🆃🅾🅽🅰🅻 5 0 0 🏁
  • a variety of patterns in triumphal mourning,
  • LESSENS, LURNT:
  • (bleary-eyed dreary-old music?)
  • Foolish to call that “non-judgmental” I suppose.
  • ( 5️⃣ 5️⃣ 5️⃣)( 5️⃣ 5️⃣ 5️⃣)( 5️⃣ 5️⃣ 5️⃣ 5️⃣)
  • (yeah probably)
  • Is Axl risen?
  • Outspell it.
  • The fuckshop.
  • Why the quotes?
  • NOW YOU KNOW.
  • …and 21 further heading-marked turns.

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

James Quentin Devine · Hollywood

Disturbance profile

violence / death

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 2022-09-12. Read the original publication ↗