Overview
The piece opens:
Among its named sections or movements are ๐ด LIVE, FROM LOS ANGELES:, โPAYDAY KOANS . . ., SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS, This is what friendship is, now., BAD GATEWAY.
Notable features
- Zen Koan Structure with Real Citation โ "PAYDAY KOANS" numbers its sections like actual koans and cites a real Zen teacher (Kลdล Sawaki Rลshi) directly โ shows the "Buddhist register" the larger corpus gestures at under IMPERMANENCE AS STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLE, here made structurally explicit rather than atmospheric.
Connections
Selected quotations
โThere is something in me that wants to walk well into the night, perhaps on into to the next day.โ
โ PAYDAY KOANS (๐๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ-๐๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ), 2024 [direct prose / poetic prose]โI, for one, want out of the sun.โ
โThis is just another notification competing for your attention.โ
โ PAYDAY KOANS (๐๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ-๐๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ), 2024 [direct prose / poetic prose]โYouโve been telling tales that werenโt yours to tell.โ
โ PAYDAY KOANS (๐๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ-๐๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ), 2024 [direct prose / poetic prose]
Corpus fingerprint
Source footprint: approximately 1,044 words ยท 3 image elements ยท 0 embedded-media elements ยท 8 heading elements.
Strong lexical motifs: Memory, Archive & Historical Residue ยท Mouth, Voice & Utterance ยท Eyes, Looking & Witness ยท Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness ยท Fire, Heat & Combustion.
Nearby publications: โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ย ยท ย ๐๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ แดษดแด ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ าแดส ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฌ โ
Structure and contents
Publication footprint: approximately 1,106 words ยท 3 image elements ยท 0 embedded-media elements ยท 8 distinct heading markers.
Visible structural markers
- ๐ด LIVE
- (or something like it)
- FROM LOS ANGELES:
- โPAYDAY KOANS . . .
- SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS
- This is what friendship is, now.
- BAD GATEWAY
- Great deceit and doubt abound.
Named material with encyclopedia nodes
James Quentin Devine ยท Los Angeles
References linked directly from the publication
- Kลdล Sawaki Rลshi, To You โ (static1.squarespace.com)
Publication
Published 2024-07-05. Read the original publication โ