Related route: Descent into underworld.

Overview

The piece opens:

โ€œGather-round sybarites cyborgs softies hardcores either/ors egregores eager girls easy boys fixed vixens broken toys easter bonnets busted sonnets pick out a star and wish upon it take the left hand and follow it honest take the right one and sus-spin upon it.โ€

Among its named sections or movements are โ–ˆ ๐ด ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐”๐ง๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐”ธ ๐•ค๐•”๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•ฅ๐•š๐•๐•๐•’ ๐• ๐•— ๐•—๐•ฃ๐•–๐•–๐••๐• ๐•ž๐•ฃ๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•˜., ๐”ผ๐•ฃ๐•–๐•”๐•ฅ๐•š๐•๐•– ๐•ฅ๐•™๐•–๐•ฃ๐•ž๐• ๐•ž๐•–๐•ฅ๐•–๐•ฃ ๐•—๐•–๐•ง๐•–๐•ฃ๐••๐•ฃ๐•–๐•’๐•ž., ๐•๐€๐‘๐ˆ๐Ž๐”๐’ ๐”๐๐‘๐„๐’๐Ž๐‹๐•๐„๐€๐๐‹๐„๐’,, ๐•๐€๐‘๐˜๐‹๐ˆ๐๐†๐‹๐˜ ๐‘๐„๐‚๐Ž๐๐‚๐ˆ๐‹๐€๐๐‹๐„., ๐„๐๐”๐”๐’ ๐ˆ๐ ๐„๐’๐“๐‘๐”๐’..

Form and structure

32 displayed headings break the piece into shifts of register or movement.

Connections

Selected quotations

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,382 words ยท 11 image elements ยท 0 embedded-media elements ยท 43 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance ยท Eyes, Looking & Witness ยท Camera, Image & Frame ยท Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic ยท Memory, Archive & Historical Residue.

Nearby publications: โ† ๐ด ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐…๐จ๐  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ ย  ยท ย  ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ข๐™š๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ˆ๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ (sแดแดแด‡แด…แด€ส ษช แดษชษขสœแด›) โ†’

Lexical fingerprint

post-human widgets tallying scaling [Distinctive construction]

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

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,532 words ยท 11 image elements ยท 0 embedded-media elements ยท 10 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • fast-guitar sloppy-drums 135-140 bpm 15 sec intro 15 sec โ€œchorus" improvise 5-15 second outro
  • Starring principal actors:
  • and
  • YOU
  • SEE
  • WHERE
  • ITโ€™S
  • GOING . . .
  • presented in
  • a subsidiary of

Named material with encyclopedia nodes

Fragmented Reality ยท Cagliostro ยท New York

Disturbance profile

crime / drugs

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 2024-01-13. Read the original publication โ†—