ERRATICA, or:

Overview

The piece opens:

Among its named sections or movements are (I MAKE GIFT SHOP ART FOR KLEPTOMANIACS), JOHN CAGE WITH A SPINNING BOW-TIE., ‘𝙸𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙴𝚈 𝚂𝚈𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙼 𝚂𝙰𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙲 𝙽𝚄𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲?’, M̶E̶ I̶ B̶U̶M̶P̶ O̶R̶ I̶ S̶P̶I̶K̶E̶., 𝑉𝐼𝐶𝐼𝑂𝑈𝑆 𝑃𝐼𝑀𝑃 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑇𝑈𝑅𝑁𝑃𝐼𝐾𝐸..

Notable features

• "(I Make Gift Shop Art for Kleptomaniacs)" — Self-Genre-Label With Built-In Irony — A new self-applied genre descriptor joining "gospel music" and "Late American Degenerate Post-Art" in the same functional slot — this one carries its own internal joke (gift shops are for buying, kleptomaniacs steal; the art is explicitly made for the audience that would take it rather than pay for it).
• "Committed to the Bit" — Confirmed as a Recurring Catchphrase Across Multiple Pieces — "Committed to the bit" recurs here in a tense street-encounter scene, echoing its earlier use in "Erratica" ("ME AND GUCCI WE'RE COMMITTED TO THE BIT"). A small but real confirmed catchphrase reused across different pieces and contexts — comic self-aware commitment to a bit in one piece, grim resolve to keep walking past a threatening stranger in another.

Selected quotations

• “NEVER NOT MUSIC IN MY HEAD.”

  — ERRATICA, or:, 2022 [maxim / typographic fragment]

• “NOW IMAGINE ALL OF IT IS. NOW IMAGINE YOU’VE READ THIS BEFORE.”

  — ERRATICA, or:, 2022 [maxim / typographic fragment]

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 379 words · 3 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 24 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Camera, Image & Frame · Money, Price, Debt & Worth · Escape, Exit & Containment · Memory, Archive & Historical Residue.

Nearby publications: ← EXPLAIN YOURSELF   ·   "That Was A Hell of a Pep Talk" →

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 484 words · 3 image elements · 1 embedded-media element · 14 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

• I LOOKED AT MY PHONE AND IT SAID 11:11 SO LET’S FUCKING GO.
• (I MAKE GIFT SHOP ART FOR KLEPTOMANIACS)
• JOHN CAGE WITH A SPINNING BOW-TIE.
• ON YOU.
• M̶E̶ I̶ B̶U̶M̶P̶ O̶R̶ I̶ S̶P̶I̶K̶E̶.
• THIS IS ALL BENEATH ME —
• AN ENVIABLE POSITION.
• IV DRIP NUTRITION.
• FLUID NUTRIENTS.
• DIRTY BEATS PER MINUTE —
• TEXT A TRUCE.
• LIGHT AND LOOSE.
• TIGHT AND TRUE.
• 💙 J. Q. D.

Publication

Published 2022-11-03. Read the original publication ↗

Count, BPM, number magic

The page combines count fragments, an imagined 80 BPM walk and the question “IS THE MONEY SYSTEM SATANIC NUMBER MAGIC?” It is an unusually comic junction of meter and numerology.