Rear Window Timelapse by Jeff Desom/Alfred Hitchcock.
Theseus and the Minotaur, 2009 by Paul Reid (b. 1975)
La Suerte 1938, by Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
Proof by Kenton Nelson (b. 1954)
From Leaves of Grass, illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
The Muse’s Revenge, 2019 by Ilya Milstein
Classic I, 2014 by Kati Heck (b. 1979)
Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples, 1846 by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Woman in a Summer Kimono by Goyo Hashiguchi (1880–1921)
Deer Hunter No. 1, 2010 by Wei Dong (b. 1968)
Entopicon 1, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Roy (b. 1974)
So I couldn’t pass up this first edition hardback Grove Press edition of William Burroughs’ 1964 novel Nova Express (with cover design by Grove Press stalwart Roy Kuhlman) that I found a few hot days ago, wandering decomposing stacks of pressed leaves here in North Florida. It ate up half of my credit at this particular used bookstore and yet was still cheaper than a new hardback NYT bestseller. Haven’t read the damn thing since college, and don’t own a copy so. Here’s the back cover with an author photo of Burroughs in which he looks like a goddamn baby (how did he live so long?):
“[T]he greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift”! I’m sure Jack Kerouac wouldn’t like hyperbolize even a smidge. What was Burroughs satirizing? Like modernism, modern machine life, etc. Control, as in all Burroughs.
Biologic Agent K9 called for his check and picked up supersonic imitation blasts of The Death Dwarfs — “L’addition — Laddition — Laddittion — Garcon — Garcon — Garcon” — American tourist accent to the Nth power — He ordered another coffee and monitored the café — A whole table of them imitating word forms and spitting back at supersonic speed — Several patrons rolled on the floor in switch fits — These noxious dwarfs can spit out a whole newspaper in ten seconds imitating your words after you and sliding in suggestion insults — That is the entry gimmick of The Death Dwarfs: supersonic imitation and playback so you think it is your own voice — (do you own a voice?) they invade The Right Centers which are The Speech Centers and they are in the right — in the right — in thee write — “RIGHT” — “I’m in the right — in the right — You know I’m in the right so long as you hear me say inside your right centers ‘I am in the right’” — While Sex Dwarfs tenderize erogenous holes — So The Venusian Gook Rot flashed round the world —
Double Self-Portrait with Lobster, 1979 by Maria Lassnig (1919-2014)
Sunlight on Water, 1943 by Harry Callahan (1912–1999)
“next to of course god america i”
by
e.e. cummings
“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.
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