The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Month: February 2018 (Page 2 of 3)

‘No bargain or lovey dovey talk I am not into gay life please I love capitalism and real money’: DC’s select international male escorts for the month of February 2018

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Olderisbetter, 20
Barcelona

Hi ? there dear daddies! I just want a perfect, honest, decent, generous paying guy who can molest me as a son and I can get molested by you as a father. I don’t care if your in a relationship, I can be your 3rd partner in a 3 way with your relationship if you want me to. That’s all I want to say.

Enjoy life together with me.. or just a hour.

And yes I admit I rather fixate on “older” men. But that means only to 40. Some 39 year olds look like 60 year olds though. Please, please, please …. I’m really not objective … but pay attention to your outsides, men. So try to look 39 and do not think that I’m a small and naïve stupid.

Dick L, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Consent
Oral Bottom
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty WS only
Rate per hour 80 €
Overnight On request

 

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judas_seeks_jesus, 18
Iași

I’m looking forward to selling my perfect services.

Sorry I’m high AF.

You want to talk, okay, but you need to have profile picture and not just look for sex. I’m 14 years old and I’m looking for a serious relationship that includes a generous allowance.

I love to live in the moment, but I almost always wake up to regret it. Fuck it though!

I dont know man ^

My price is fair !

Guestbook of judas_seeks_jesus

unknown – Feb 10, 2018
Given that he said he was 14, and I half-believed he is, I just stared at him clothed and jacked off for a while. But before that I paid him.

GameOver – Feb 4, 2018
I feel like I learned from him. Interesting to see what exists in the world. I’ll write more as I figure out how I want to word anything.

Dick M, Uncut
Position No entry
Kissing Consent
Oral No entry
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 250 $
Overnight 1000 $

 

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VodkaPrince, 22
Oakland

I am new here already experience with grindr So yes If I do something wrong sorry.

No bargain or lovey dovey talk I am not into gay life please I love capitalism and real money.

Guestbook of VodkaPrince

OnAStreetCorner – Feb 1, 2018
Where he’s coming from is a selfish side of him that makes you feel so numb.

Dick L, Cut
Position Versatile
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No
Rate per hour 120 $
Overnight 300 $

 

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JustDoIt, 18
Paris

Let’s try something new and fun. Dream dreams that do come true. I don’t look like I would have 27cm but I do. Blow me and give me 40 euros. You don’t know until you blow 27cm.

Guestbook of JustDoIt

JustDoIt (Owner) – Feb 5, 2018
Maybe wtf. Been living off my 27cm so maybe now’s a good time for me to try out. Ok I won’t fight you for a limited time for you to get your dick in my face or what. But after that, good luck buddy.

Zack90 – Feb 5, 2018
I don’t suppose there’s enough money in the world to convince you to suck mine?

JulisnR90 – Feb 1, 2018
My boyfriend wants to see pics of your cock in my mouth.

Dick XXL, Uncut
Position Top only
Kissing Consent
Oral Bottom
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 40 €
Overnight 410 €

 

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boyforkeeps, 20
Dubai

hello.. I am looking for mature pureson who can help me with $10000, if you are this pureson please let me know ..

I am in dubai but willing to travel to you and be with you for years.

I am a young, still horny guy every time.

I am looking for someone, who, like me, is in a good mood.

Guestbook of boyforkeeps

boyforkeeps (Owner) – Feb 9, 2018
ok i will accept $5000 from two puresons who will share custody.

Dick M, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M No
Dirty No
Rate per hour On request
Overnight On request

 

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balkanboy, 18
Nyon

Only with ? | 18 yo ? | Albanian & Swiss ????| ?Geneva | I’m bi. Ill fuck anything. ???? | ? INTO ALL SEX ???? | ?? LONG PARTIES ?? | You know nothing ? | Say what ever you want I’ll agree with it ? | Storm Your Mind! ? ? ? ? ?????

Dick L, Uncut
Position More top
Kissing Consent
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M No entry
Dirty WS only
Rate per hour 200 €
Overnight 350 €

 

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theboyinthesnow, 20
Moscow

I’m a passionate psychologist in progress (so a student) who put a lot of work and time in his subject (this is my abstract side)

I’m soon to get married (to a woman) but I’ve always wanted to try gay sex once (honestly it’s an obsession) so it’s now or never

I’m looking here (and not on a hookup site) because I need extra money to pay for the wedding (her parents think I’m unworthy)

I’m also doing it this way so I won’t get attached (turning gay would be a mess) but I might anyway (don’t let me)

Dick L, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing No entry
Oral Versatile
FF No
S&M No
Dirty No
Rate per hour 600 €
Overnight On request

 

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put_it_all_in, 18
Lima

I’m a young boy with a deep ass. Here to exchange plunges inside it for cash. I appreciate when you wax lyrical about it, but I appreciate more when you rent it fast. I am relatively empty of humor, but I’ve got a good deal of sarcasm. At this point, I apologize for any sarcastic comments I’ll ever make to you. I have braces.

Dick S, Uncut
Position Bottom only
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF Passive
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 180 €
Overnight 300 €

 

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Maky17, 20
Seattle

I and my boyfriend want to be at your disposal. We are looking for only who can help. Only sex. NO FRIENDSHIP !!! We are LGBT activists, but do not be scared.

Guestbook of Maky17

pissedoff – Feb 6, 2018
what jamesinlincoln said, and.. and…AND.. they’re proud gay republicans!

jamesinlincoln – Jan 30, 2018
Trying to have hot sex with these two politically correct bimbos is like trying to trade dirty gossip with Bible salesmen.

Dick L, Uncut
Position Versatile
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF Active/Passive
S&M No entry
Dirty WS only
Rate per hour 200 $
Overnight 450 $

 

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SpankBitch, 18
Cologne

Wildly spankable, etc. famous blond beauty screenstar of many spank fetish videos of The Magic Spanking Factory including “Blondie the Pervert”, “Blondie and the Bentley”, “Blondie Steals My Car”, “Blondie Doesn’t Do His Homework”, “Blondie’s Report Card”.

Never been fisted.
I’m open to per$ua$ion.

Must be a great feeling to be the first hand inside a boy?
Seems like it should cost a fortune.

Guestbook of Spank Bitch

mdj8 – Feb 10, 2018
Fun fact – he’s married and his wife is also his biological mother.

Dick L, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Consent
Oral Top
FF Passive
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 300 €
Overnight 480 €

 

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liberally, 19
Tucson

I hereby express a special note of humble and most sincere appreciation to all of my past, present and future clients, men who – though they still remain anonymous to me – recognized and taught me to acknowledge my status as a true natural sex object, developed my tolerance for external specifications and improved my stamina while encouraging me to release my own innate sexual appetite. It has been an honour to share among these men the carnal pleasures that my body is capable of offering and releasing, and to have been the recipient of their sacred money.

Guestbook of liberally

wannasmash2 – Feb 13, 2018
Me thinks someone is in AA

Dick L, Cut
Position Versatile
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF Active/Passive
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 200 $
Overnight 450 $

 

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pulsing, 21
Gent

I don’t know what to write first but probably that I’m just a buttslut who likes giving pleasure to other men. Earning some cash while doing it is just a nice extra. I’m not feminine but I’m not very masculine neither.

Been doing this long enough to know this thing:
1) If a guy tells you they like you – It’s either he’s under the spell of your butt or hasn’t cum yet. Do not jump into conclusion, rather ask them after sex if they really like you. They won’t.

So what am I here for? Here’s a list of things I wanna achieve:
1) Find a guy who’s older than me (much more preferably), who likes more than just my butt or likes it enough to settle down – who can make me love bottoming only for them and would take me seriously.
2) If number 1 won’t happen, that’s no problem, but I really wanna have friends who fuck my butt regularly as part of that – guys who tell me in the face “We can be friends” after a couple of good fucking sessions.
3) While No.1 and No.2 is not yet happening or in the process of happening – I would like to randomly get fucked by folks here and abroad.

Guestbook of pulsing

jmanny – Feb 2, 2018
He’s looking for a soul mate. He’s looking for a faithful and sincere man who will carry him joy in life. He’s looking for a serious relationship. And even the creation of a family. He wants to find happiness. He’s just a cute, ordinary guy who’s broke.

Dick S, Uncut
Position Bottom only
Kissing Consent
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 100 €
Overnight 275 €

 

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YourVoyeur, 22
Plovdiv

Exibitionist. Need someone watching u fuck your girlfriend or watching u beat your fat cock? I’m your boy.

Dick M, Uncut
Position No entry
Kissing No
Oral No entry
FF No entry
S&M No
Dirty No
Rate per hour 170 €
Overnight 250 €

 

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Witch, 20
Mexico City

In case you’re into personalised, content packed escorts I love plants, animals, nature its my life, I particularly love snakes. Listen to music, I’m a metalhead, my favorite bands are Scar Symmetry and dEMOTIONAL. Ufology, ancient cultures, witchcraft and occultism, are by far my biggest passion. Love the universe so I’m really into astronomy, my telescope it’s a powerseeker 114 EQ. I serve nature, I do gardening, trash colector and recycling addict as well as 100% vegan. Gaymer, currently playing pokemon ultra moon. I don’t like to take pics of myself. Not into drama, i might not be the stereotypical blonde blue eyed 1,90 muscular guy but I like my type of beauty, like a Native American type, I’m skinny af btw. ¿My ideal man? I am my ideal man. I’m not goth or emo… I’m a bwitch, yes I invented my own style.

$4/ 1min under 10 min
$35/ 10 min
$50/ 20min

Guestbook of Witch

ShredderOrpheus – Jan 30, 2018
Idk why but the way you posed in the fotos reminds me of kellin quinn (not sure if I spelled that right)

Dick M, Uncut
Position Versatile
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No
Rate per hour On request
Overnight On request

 

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GreedySadist, 23
London

Sadist considering the escort business as a full time job and some kind of liveable income, 2018 is the test year.
Prefer to act out my own fantasies but other peoples fantasies are welcome, just know as a rule I’m a Sadist first, secondly a Dom and occasionally a Top.
Happy to hurt without justification, doesn’t matter if you’re pathetic/sad and don’t deserve it or an obnoxious total asshole.
Just me and my punching, slapping, choking hands currently, considering buying some good gear unless someone happens to bring along equipment to arm me.
As for my greed, the nicer the stack of cash the harder my dick will be and more mercilessly and drawn out I’ll do its bidding.
Eventually I’d like to have some of private venue where I can do all sorts of longer term play such as imprisonment, sensory deprivation, full restriction bondage, house/service slave etc.

Guestbook of GreedySadist 

teachme – Feb 11, 2018
Very short dude that looked ridiculous torturing a big meaty guy like me. Just being honest

Dick XL, Uncut
Position Top only
Kissing No
Oral No entry
FF Active
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Rate per hour 210 £
Overnight 400 £

 

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moneyfuckme, 19
Orlando

I’m looking for a pay date who acts like were equals when we’re still in the living room but as soon as we’re inside the bedroom I’m your total fag. We can get to know each other first, or it can be as impersonal as you want. I don’t get nude until I see a bed in front of me and I won’t even look at a bed until I’ve been bribed. Once paid and bedded I become an open book and you my researcher. When I’m a book I lie still like one, but you can move me and turn the pages of course. However if you like to lick ass, well then I like to sit on you.

Guestbook of moneyfuckme

Anonymous – Feb 6, 2018
weird gay slut

urso – Feb 3, 2018
Very cute, excellent bottom, but sheesh!

Dick M, Uncut
Position Bottom only
Kissing Consent
Oral Top
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No
Rate per hour 90 $
Overnight 180 $

 

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thisyearalreadysucks, 18
Ostrava

In a nutshell I’m a strange fem boy who gets really off on being bloated like …

-Stuff me with sweets until I’m so bloated I can barely move; then fuck me until I burn off the extra calories?

-Make me eat a huge amount of food then lie me face down and fuck until I vomit and don’t stop until all my vomit’s out?

-Fuck me while stuffing pie or cake or pastries in my face/down my throat?

-Take a deep breath, lock lips with me and blow and blow and blow! Fill me up with your breath then thump my distended tight belly like a drum (yes! This is possible.)?

-Make me chug liters/gallons of water or beer or milkshakes? After you’re done doing that, watch me waddle around ready to tip over/ready to pop?!

-However you do it, make me into your human balloon!

Guestbook of thisyearalreadysucks

The_Smith – Feb 9, 2018
i feel sorry for your parents

Foreverandnever – Jan 31, 2018
Most fun I ever had in my life and Id do it over and over and over again if I could.

Dick S, Uncut
Position Bottom only
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Yes
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 200 €
Overnight On request

 

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FrenchBoyNeedYou, 21
Las Vegas

Hi mister, French boy searching for a man who want to discuss with a french boy.

“J’éternue sur le son et le son devient encore plus malade”

Guestbook of FrenchBoyNeedYou

FrenchBoyNeedYou (Owner) – Feb 8, 2018
starting to bore me

exNYCboi – Feb 8, 2018
But there is.

FrenchBoyNeedYou (Owner) – Feb 8, 2018
there is no need for sexual attraction

exNYCboi – Feb 7, 2018
I meant sexually.

FrenchBoyNeedYou (Owner) – Feb 7, 2018
just simply need interested company

exNYCboi – Feb 7, 2018
Has anyone contacted him and knows what in the world he’s offering?

Dick L, Uncut
Position No entry
Kissing Yes
Oral No entry
FF No entry
S&M No entry
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 200 $
Overnight On request

 

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Trotsky, 18
Montevideo

I’m not out of the closet and I’m not sure there’s even a closet that I am in to be honest.

I’ve only had sex with girls and liked it a lot but I guess I could be bi curious I’m not sure.

If I sound weird it’s because I was sent here by a man I owe a lot of money to and I’m super nervous.

Dick M, Uncut
Position Versatile
Kissing Consent
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M No
Dirty No
Rate per hour 150 $
Overnight On request

 

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boyzeus, 21
Città di San Marino

I am brave – I am proof – I am who I’m meant to be – This is me!
I hope you’ll burn in hell!
I’m not a broke slut if I love to fuck!
Idiots, stop!
Why would I want to have sex with people who die, swallow pills or fix?
You are not a fish if you are painting in front of a mirror *sarcasm*
I’m not obsessed with cockroaches, just sex.
I’m not so naive to believe that you have 20cm +, because we all know that you forgot to put the point between the two digits.
And yes, if you go to high school, skip me, or if you are wandering away from the old man’s home, also skip me.
I almost forgot … if in the description in the message you send me you say you consider yourself to be a fancy character, extra handsome, fuck off, because I do not need people with psychotic-narcissism disorder in my life.
Why do you think that if you send me in your first message a picture where you are pointing to your muscles that are packed with Vietnamese steroids, I will immediately tell you: “Call me now right now!” ?
– Are you okay? – You do not read!
– Damn your dad’s eyes! Make it right!
-How big is yours? – Bigger than your IQ.

Guestbook of boyzeus

damienah – Jan 5, 2018
He is simply a big asshole, Call of origin: a piece of crap. To avoid!
Any so-called “lucky” who praise him are idiots, he is a pretentious and stupid little shitty.

SERVILE_PUTE – Jan 3, 2018
This boy is a mystery. he is very handsome. but periodically when my erection softened I thought, I hate you!

Pinprick – Dec 13, 2017
You deserve the undo-able, the unbearable, irreversible and irreparable damage delivered deliberately!

philou35 – Oct 18, 2017
Not reliable, asked me for a beautiful rabbit

Dick XL, Uncut
Position No entry
Kissing No
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 400 €
Overnight On 650 €

 

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your_not_hairy_toy, 21
Rome

Hello ! I really appreciate the opportunity to begin communication with you. I want you to know that I take it seriously. I’m very excited to have sex with you more and make something out of what is given to us. I am longing for the chance to become sexual with you. I am sure we will be able to have sex based on mutual attraction. I am really looking forward to making our having sex a reality. What do you think we should do to make this attraction between us real? I can’t wait to have sex with you. Have a nice day until we do.

Guestbook of your_not_hairy_toy

jajaja – Feb 4, 2018
We got into milking, play rape, a bit of bondage, post cum kissing, father-daughter, edging, sweat, hair and i think thats all.

Dick M, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Yes
Oral Bottom
FF No entry
S&M No entry
Dirty No
Rate per hour 200 €
Overnight On request

 

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theKnockout, 21
Leipzig

We all turn to our loved ones for support from time to time. When your loved ones do not offer you their support it may be time to look somewhere else. If your loved ones are unwilling to support you, and to fix your problems, they are not meeting your needs and you need to find other supporters.

Discount for guys that dig Tom Waits and like having weird ass conversations.

Guestbook of theKnockout

simon18 – Feb 1, 2018
Hi. I’ve never done anything like this before. I didn’t know sites like this were real until yesterday. I never knew I could have sex with someone cute even though I’m not cute. You’re so cute I feel like I’m going to die. I’m 18, I’m on vacation with my parents in Leipzig until Sunday. I like Tom Waits. I can give you 180 euros. God, you’re so cute. How does this happen? I want to have sex with you so bad I’m going crazy. How do I do that?

Dick L, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Consent
Oral Bottom
FF No entry
S&M Soft SM only
Dirty WS only
Rate per hour 180 €
Overnight 360 €

 

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dontjudgeme, 21
Bludenz

I am asking for money!

!!!!!!! THINGS I WILL NOT TOLERATE EVEN FOR AN HOUR !!!!!
~ HIPSTER
~ FAME WHORES
~ BLACK HUMOR
~ HANDBAG
~ JUSTIN BIEBER
~ ONE DIRECTION
~ TWO KNITTING HORSES
~ BLVCK BITCHES
~ LONG HAIR
~ CHEAP BEER
~ GRANDPAS
~ EAR CHEWING
~ PINK HAIR
~ fags
~ BARE FUCKER
~ FOOTFETISH
~ TECHNO
~ TOOTHPICK ARMS / LEGS
~ YOLO NUTS
~ APPLE USERS !!!!!

To answer a frequently asked question, whether anything has been done to me. Say my lips.
-No, nothing is done to me.
Regarding my lips, I keep to a strict nutritional plan, and I have a very long history of using them behind me.

Guestbook of dontjudgeme

Treybaby – Feb 10, 2018
He has a really flat butt, normally I only fuck bubble butts, but I love to use holes, and I loved fucking his hole too, I’m one of a kind!

Anonymous – Feb 7, 2018
I am a very influential person, that is, that I can make boys do what I tell them to do without the least effort. If I tell them to do something they will do it and say “Thank you, Sir” or “Thank you, My Lord”. But with him it didn’t work. He just did what he wanted. That really threw me.

Dick S, Uncut
Position Bottom only
Kissing Consent
Oral Versatile
FF Passive
S&M Yes
Dirty No entry
Rate per hour 210 €
Overnight 310 €

 

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JiffythePunkBoy, 18
Zurich

I’m Jiffy, a punk boy (get fucked punk’s not dead). I live with my mom and baby brother who are both punk too so thats pretty kwl.

I’ve been a pretty wild child all my life. Fuck the police and what society thinks, I’m just me being me.

To all my fellow bottoms messaging me, or even thinking of doing so: I want dick in my ass, don’t bother.

Really what I want is a top, preferrably someone okay with getting rimmed. My braces were removed September 2017.

If you’re at this point and you’re still reading, I take it you’re looking for something young and punk? Yes?

I write. Stories. Poems. What have you. It brings me satisfaction – being able to make my loved ones cry.

Emotions are my media. Kind of conflicting to put sexual desires and emotion in one spot but humanity is multidimensional.

That should be enough, right? So some man come on, put the dick in my ass and make me your bitch.

Guestbook of JiffythePunkBoy

sex-in-town – Feb 12, 2018
I hired Jiffy to go on a vacation with me and I don’t recommend it. He didn’t want to do tourist things, hates the beach, hates nature, hates being told what to do, hates showering. All he really wanted to do was write poems with his headphones on blasting music and smoke ganja all day.

Dick L, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M No
Dirty No
Rate per hour 270 €
Overnight 400 €

 

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ESCORT-HIV, 19
Vienna

hello i have HIV

Dick M, Uncut
Position More bottom
Kissing Yes
Oral Versatile
FF No entry
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Rate per hour 80 €
Overnight 100 €

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** JM, Hi. I have a bead on how I can watch ‘Nathan For You: Finding Frances’. The lengthy editing period was pretty much heavenly. Exhausting upstairs, sure, but I’ve always spent the vast majority of time when writing novels editing, and it felt homey. Like I maybe said before, even when we write the scripts, we’re thinking about the editing, and we build the films’ groundwork based on how we’re thinking we will edit them. That’s very interesting about how physical theatre feels right for your particular gifts. In the 80s, I did a series of collaborative performances with the choreographer/dance Ishmael Houston-Jones — in fact we’re reviving one of them in June — and he talked very similarly about his practice/mode, which I believe is called contact improvisation. For me, poetry is easier because I don’t kill myself trying to do something I hope is original and perfected like I do with fiction, I guess largely because I know I don’t have the particular chops to be a great poet or anything. Oh, no, your question re: queer wasn’t offensive in the slightest. I do feel very lucky. I think the wide-ish connectivity stuff with my work is more due to my luck than my talent. I think if I was interested in representing gay identity, I would have the same niche ‘problem’ as other writers who intend to do that do. I completely understand your thing about why you want that particular cast-mate in the process. It sounds veery similar to how Zac and I cast our films. Thanks for the link to Eric Cloutier’s work. It’s intriguing. I’ll look closer/further. Yeah, I’ve known Sharon she was in art school in LA. I wrote a long, sequential poem that I’m actually proud of that’s in my selected poems book called ‘ Love Poems Produced by Staring Too Hard at Thomas, a Photograph by Sharon Lockhart’. Have a swell day! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I was mistakenly sure before I clicked on your link that it would lead me to Nico’s version. ** James Nulick, Hi, J. I would be surprised if her films are on Netflix, but you never know. I think maybe her latest is on MUBI? Where did you hear that women prefer reading text in smaller chunks? That seems like a very suspicious generalisation to me. I don’t recognise the source of the Blanchot quote off the top of my head. Blanchot is god, or one of them. I agree entirely with you about the reader re: a book. I think novels are just formulas or drugs awaiting completion by their imbibers. Ice cream sounds good. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! Congrats on your conquering of the dreaded email monster. I wrote three myself yesterday. A virtual avalanche by my usual standards. I’m still in my non-exciting period. How about you? I just worked on the film script yesterday. I intended to switch over to the assigned script at some point. but I was too into it. Oh well. You can’t do everything, right? How was today? Any good stuff? ** Wolf, Wolfy Wonka! God, that was pathetic. Sorry. It’s true it takes very little to trigger my ever-burbling Tex Mex longing, but it’s not easy to pull it hard enough that I shoot bullet-like to a Chipotle, so good show. It was good, frankly. Vegetarian burrito. They even agreed to make me a cheese quesadilla even though that’s not on Chipotle’s oh-so-too limited menu because biz was slow. Yum. Thank you again. Actually, your week is excitement central to me. It might have been your prose. You know I mostly read for style over content. But still. What is ‘The Crimson Kimono’? What a name. Love sans expiration date, me. ** Cal Graves, Hi there, Cal! Really nice to see you, man! Yes, so sad about Tom Rapp. I was a mega-fan of PBS. I’m even one of those rare folks who saw PBS live at a club right after he decided to stop being Mr. Mysterious/’cameras-steal-your-soul’ guy and show his face and just before he decided he hated playing live. Gosh, how cool it would be to get PGL to Texas. We’ll try. Determinedly even. I’m good, working, etc. How are you? What’s new? ** Jamie, Hi, Jamie. Ha. It was actually supposed to be ‘intense morning beauty’ so I fucked up, but ‘condensed’ is nice too. Maybe nicer. I think maybe one or more of her films are on MUBI? If they’re anywhere. How productive my day was yesterday depends on how you define productivity. If you’re of the mind — like me, apparently — that working on the film script is the most important thing I could be doing, it was a good day. If you’re of the mind that the most important thing I should be doing is what I’m being paid to be doing and what I am way behind on doing, etc., i.e. the assigned script, it was a bust. But there’s always today. Oh, that’s very exciting about the collab. with your friend. In that sense, your day was like mine. How long will it be before she has stuff to show you? Oh, that sounds great! The burrito was very decent. It’s Paris, man. Amazing Mexican food is a no-go here. No, I’m probably misremembering about Ben Waller. I meant to investigate yesterday but I got waylaid. I like that track you linked me to a whole bunch. Okay, I’m going to get all over him. Ha ha, I noticed that bit that you hoped my day would be like before I even read what you hoped. Okay … I hope your day reaches a point where its effect on you becomes barely noticeably more exciting the way this song becomes strangely more exciting at around 1:29 when a slightly discordant chord is added to the ongoing riff. κιθάρα σόλο αγάπη, Dennis. ** Misanthrope, Wise man, your work dude. At the same time, there’s a theory that spending too much time doing nothing will eventually give you dementia. Well, yeah, there’s a contingent out there who’ve either only read one book of mine, usually ‘Frisk’, or, more usually, never has read anything by me and only knows the hype, who think I’m every teenaged boy’s lurking Satan. One can never be 100% certain about anything, but I don’t think I am. Big up. ** Nik, Hi, Nik! Pleasure to see you, pal. I’m good, busy, no big whoop, or semi-big but not massive whoop. How was the show you directed? What was it? Tell me more. Things are good with PGL. We’re just waiting impatiently to find out what its festival life is going to be. The home haunts script is going extremely well, thanks. Nearing a solid draft of the whole thing. So glad you’re getting the Blanchot mind warp. He’s my man. It does make perfect sense in a weird way, you’re right. Catch me up on you and yours if you have time and interest. ** Steve Erickson, Oops. Very interested to your PSB piece. I have a lot of PSB remixes on CD back in LA, but I don’t think I have that one. Yeah, that editorial cornering of minority writers/critics is weird and annoying. On the extremely rare occasions when places like the NYT have asked me to review something, it’s always the new Edmund White novel or its equivalent. Urgh. ** It being the 15th of the month, it is the day when the escorts take over this place. See you in the aftermath tomorrow.

Spotlight on … Maurice Roche Compact (1966)

 

‘I live death at every moment. I get the feeling I came into this world with death on the brain . . . In our family, ever since the remotest antiquity, we have kept up the custom of passing away so many times, it has become hereditary.’ — Maurice Roche

‘Maurice Roche was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1924, and worked variously as a journalist, composer, critic, and race-car driver before turning to writing with a critical study of Monteverdi. He was the author of eight of the most challenging novels ever written, even for a period that saw more than its share of them. His writings belong to the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Jarry, Queneau and Jules Romains. The novels are composed of almost random fragments and short sequences, aphorisms, paroxysmal phrases and absurd black melodramatic interventions. Roche’s amused obsession with death and dying made some readers feel distinctly uncomfortable. He died in 1997.

‘Compact, his first novel, as well as his first book to appear in English, was published in 1966, and has since come to be considered a classic of post-New Novel fiction. Composed—as if a musical score—of six intertwining narratives (each distinguished by its own voice, tense, and typeface), Compact has lost none of its remarkable freshness or groundbreaking innovation. It was first published in Philippe Sollers’ “Tel Quel” series. In a preface, Sollers praises its liberty of form, its grim humour, its amused indifference to what are usually considered serious matters: disease, pain, loneliness and death itself. Yet Roche never belonged to the “Tel Quel” group or the creators of the nouveau roman. He remained an exception, almost an outsider, unclassifiable.

‘This is a first novel that uses innovative typographic design with alternating type fonts while utilizing the space of the page for an enhanced visuality. In the 1960s when the novel became innovative in design, it also became more sophisticated in narration with a break from the objective descriptions of the Nouveau Roman which verged on scientific or crime writing to become writing In the wake of the Wake, as David Hayman put it, in the TriQuarterly 38 issue dedicated to novelists who were influenced by Finnegans Wake (1938) by James Joyce. The narrator of Compact is recovering from a mysterious health condition called amourosis caused by travel in time and space, and the black humor of the novel implies that the scene of the writing exists as a complex of puns: cranium, body, and pen demonstrating the generative techniques of the Nouveau Roman, yet creating a new genre of avant garde fiction that has become the semiotic novel with the use of visual signs in the graphic design of the page.

Compact reads like the first step in the direction of abstract innovative writing that was followed by the C series of novels Circus, CodeX, Camarade, and the M series Memoire, Macabre, and Maladie Melodie, which represent a life’s work of innovative writing that explores archeological and musical themes, novels that are deserving of translation into English, and of further critical attention. Compact is a theoretical novel at the forefront of the avant garde along with the novels of Philippe Sollers, Arno Schmidt, Claude Simon, and Ronald Sukenick. Reading Compact today is relevant for those who are considering the unrest caused by rebel movements, and the romance of life in Paris, where the narrator considers classical music theory in the context of fiction writing while foreshadowing the semiotic novel of the 21st Century.’ — David Detrich and collaged

 

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Further

Buy Maurice Roche’s ‘Compact’ (Dalkey Archive Press)
Mark Polizzotti’s ‘Memento Maurice’
‘Maurice Roche: Paradigm Lost and Found’ by Susan Suleiman
‘Compact’ reviewed @ Innovative Fiction Magazine
Maurice Roche’s ‘Compact’ CD
Maurice Roche @ goodreads
OBITUARY: Maurice Roche
MAURICE ROCHE, LA MORT POUR DE VRAI. LA CAMARDE ÉTAIT SA VIEILLE CAMARADE. L’AUTEUR DE «COMPACT» AVAIT 72 ANS.
An Evening with Maurice Roche

 

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Pages

 

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Film

‘This film was made in 2011 after COMPACT, Maurice Roche’s first novel. Multiplictous in its themes and registers (from black humor to delusional coquetry, intimate tearing to the methodical description of physical phenomena), it is a unique novel in its composition. Here, as in the novel, seven voices appear and then fade to resume further, alternately distinct or intertwined, in permanent echo. The film was an initiative of Director France David (dancer, actress, director), actor Claude Merlin, and cinematographer Bruno Wagner.’ — bw

 

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Interview

 

Jean-Luc Giribone: You said something I find very interesting, which is, “It’s not that I’m trying to be a formalist, but that, when I want to tell a story, I ask myself what form best corresponds to that story.” That’s a very seductive formula.

Maurice Roche: It’s the opposite. First I come up with the form, and then I ask myself what story I’m going to stuff in it. That might sound strange, but that’s how it works.

Mark Polizzotti: But in that case, can you explain how it isn’t formalist?

MR: It’s not formalist because I’m inventing a form for, let’s say, artistic reasons. Maybe it’s an occupational hazard—I think that’s where it comes from—but I’ve composed a lot of music. When you compose music, the first thing you think of is form. You have a fugue to write, for instance, so you start with a form. The form is pre-established. It’s your starting-point. Of course, form alone isn’t enough: you have to do something with it. But I’ve never worried about that—once I’ve settled on a form, it always leads me somewhere. For instance, my idea for Compact was that there would be several intertwined plot lines, which together would form another plot. Every plot line would have its own pronoun, tense, etc. And once that was set, the ideas for a story, an adventure—because if you read closely, the story of Compact is very banal, it’s basically a crime novel. And the whole plot attached itself to that. That’s not formalism. Or if it is, then everything is formalism.

Another thing: in order to write, I need a first sentence. For Compact, it was: “You shall be made sleepless even as you are left sightless.” That came to me as soon as I’d chosen the second person future as my startingpoint. (And just as an aside, I’d like to point out that when I wrote Compact, in the 1950s, Butor’s Modification, the second-person narrative, hadn’t come out yet.) That was the key sentence, and it traced the path for the rest of the book—all I had to do was follow it. Now, to follow it, you still have to write. And not write junk or something false. I can write a bad line as much as the next fellow, but there’s not a single word in Compact that isn’t essential. I cut a lot out, a lot that maybe wasn’t bad, but that didn’t fit. On top of which, as you read through the book the form changes. Your form becomes deformed. Things happen along the way—it’s not written by a computer, after all. If you get to page 20, for instance, and you learn that a friend has died or your mother is in the hospital, believe me, the sentence you were writing is left hanging, and if you come back to it later it’s going to move off in a different direction. So one way of looking at it is like improvisation on a canvas, or like a jazz improvisation. You never know exactly where it’s going to take you.

Jean-Louis Bouttes: So what kinds of things are on this canvas? Images?

MR: The canvas naturally starts with a sentence. I surprised someone one day who asked me why I write, and I said I write so that I can learn to write. And it’s true, we’ll never master this goddamned language! When I see colleagues of mine using it poorly, it bothers me.

JLG: That’s just it, you talk about language, but you’re really talking about the French language in particular.

MR: Of course I am, it’s my language! And I’m very attached to it. That said, let’s be clear: I think every language is beautiful, and the proof is that I use them in my writing. But when I use them it’s usually to show that no one knows them, or knows them well, and that ultimately we’re all deaf. The French look at other languages as foreign, but you know that French is made up of a whole host of languages. There are a ton of words from English, Arabic, and so on. That’s what makes a language rich. I’m very happy when I’m in the bus and I hear people speaking Arabic, or Portuguese, or Vietnamese, or English, or Swedish—I think that’s great. And it’s strange, because when I incorporate a phrase of English or German in my texts, people take me to task for it. And those same people spend their days surrounded by every language in the world—without hearing a thing. It’s very beautiful, all those languages, they sound wonderful. The extreme limit is Finnegans Wake, which you can’t even translate.

(the entirety)

 

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Book

Maurice Roche Compact
Dalkey Archive Press

‘Maurice Roche has been called the most interesting novelist in France (TriQuarterly), and Compact one of the classics of our modernity (Le Figaro). Certainly, Compact is one of the most compellingly original works of fiction of the postwar period. Composed as if a musical score of six intertwining narratives (each distinguished by its own voice, tense, and typeface), Compact has lost none of its remarkable freshness or groundbreaking innovation since its first appearance in 1966. But along with its striking originality, Compact is also a work rich in offbeat humor and great humanity.

‘Compact is the story of a blind man living in a city of his own imagining. Confined to his deathbed, he engages in mental walks through the world s capitals. These sightless excursions explode in a plethora of musical arrangements, sexual encounters, and mysterious funeral rites. Meanwhile, a Japanese collector and his transvestite assistant watch over the blind man in exchange upon the latter s death for his magnificent tattooed skin. As a further ordeal, the protagonist finds himself prey to the whims of a sadistic French girl in the next apartment. A novelistic tour de force, Compact fully bears out La Tribune de Geneve s judgment of Maurice Roche s work as the most important literary upheaval to hit France in the last decade.’ — DAP

 

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Excerpt

You shall be made sleepless even as you are left sightless. While you’re penetrating the darkness, you’ll penetrate into the night, getting in deeper and deeper, your already failing memory growing proportionately weaker as—at the end of a long lethargy—you become conscious of your condition. (How will you tell day from night?)

You’ll be there, on a bed—in a room, of course. With eyes wide open you’ll scrutinize this dark desert → and will the expanding space allow you to go so far out that you can never return to your senses?

Within your skull you’ll haunt Mnemopolis, a lonesome and obscure city. No streets no canals no paving being done in the area (the circumvolutions of your brain), but only traces that you’ll try to catch hold of: these will be shreds of memories (or hallucinations?) and sonorous debris that somehow reach you from without and most of the time evoke absolutely nothing; so many objects or fragments that patiently—and not without hesitation—you’ll want to string together, give them meaning by connecting them—

in hopes once more of coming across that fissure where the sun has penetrated you with its shadow and forgetfulness has insinuated itself, infiltrated ( and since when?), wakefulness invading your sleep, until your mind is submerged;
so you can sneak into this hole in your dazzled memory, first in search of a name (which?) whose sinuosities you’d marry . . . in order to become one in body with the calligraphy
——-then finally grow drowsy in this word . . . and sleep—rest in peace—sleep as far gone as possible.

But you will not sleep.

Using your elbows and forearms—will you feel those cracks in your articulations, and will you hear them as you hear the creaking mattress?—you’ll painfully (straining to twist yourself around) sit up; throwing your legs out from under the covers, you’ll simultaneously attempt a rotation toward the right, at the end of which you should be sitting on the edge of the bed. But despite your efforts, you won’t succeed.

After a second try, then a third—having lightly rocked back and forth—you’ll fall backward
and will stay half-stretched out, resting on your elbows, your hands clutching the covers, your legs slightly bent, panting . . .

Without moving a muscle, chin jammed against your chest, you’ll slowly catch your breath: your respiration, quickened at first, will become regular.

Your look will be desert. An entire past inexpressible at present. You’ll wait for this absence with gaping, empty eyes . . . (how will you know if someone if anyone in this room which gets larger and larger . . . ? will it frighten you to be alone?)

You’ll slowly

turn your head

 

to the left
to the right

before letting your neck fall back on the damp pillow. The frozen contact of the pillowcase will make you shiver. You’ll touch your face, slowly you’ll feel it (a presence!); and that object (which?) that—stretching out your arm—you’ll displace on the bedside table to your right, while leaving the nocturnal landscape unchanged.

You’ll curl up . . .

. . . in the foetal (fatal?) position . . .

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Michael karo, Hi, Michael. How nice that the post drew you in here. Thanks, and an awesome remembrance. I did know Joseph Brooks, sure. And I must have been spacing not to have had Vinyl Fetish in there. I didn’t know that he ended up your way, no. Huh. Jewelry, huh. Good to know he’s still wielding his considerable talents. That’s great news about your album rerelease! Whoa! Yeah, remember to hook me up for sure when that happens. Best to you, bud. ** David Ehrenstein, Me too. As much as Amoeba made Aron’s superfluous, I still miss it, for instance. Excellent about Van Dyke Parks! And thank you for the way to purchase that book for myself. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Oh, I jumped the gun with Rasputin’s? I’ll delete that photo. Wowsville went to Berlin? Weird. I hope your work de-consumes you, which is not a word, apparently, but you know what I mean heartfeltfully. That’s not a word either? ** Larry-bob Roberts, Larry-bob! What a great treat to have you in this realm. And it was so nice to see you in Berkeley. Thank you for the great personalisation of those shops. I’ll flip the words in the Mill Valley store as soon as I hit thrust on this post. And, yeah, Bill mentioned that the post inaccurately condemned Rasputin’s, and I’ll delete it. Thanks! Thanks a lot again for coming inside. It’s a pleasure and an honour. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. The vinyl revival hasn’t caught on here in Paris like it has in the States. There are a couple of newish vinyl stores, but they aren’t sprouting up all over by any means. I think I went into Wave in Tokyo on one of my trips there and was mind-boggled. That’s sad news indeed. ** Sypha, Hi. I have the new New Juche ordered and on its way. I don’t want to get into the Quentin Tarantino thing here, but yeah. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! It wasn’t too slushy. The sun had done its work. But it’s supposed to snow again today. Sure doesn’t look like it out the window. Okay, I think I can almost see that super-awfulness of that painting, thanks to you. The producer meeting was good. We had to redo something in our contract with him, but it was simple. While we were there, this press agent was in the other room watching ‘PGL’ to consider whether to be its press agent or not. It would amazing if she agrees. She’s sort of the most respected press agent in Paris for challenging, artful films. She’s worked for all kinds of great, ‘difficult’ films from Akerman to Godard to Jonas Mekas to Chris Marker. So we’re ‘praying’ she liked the film because we could really use a press agent, and she would be the perfect kind of press agent for our film. Other than that, yesterday was more trying to focus on work and only partly succeeding. I need a breakthrough. I hope your today is as wonderful in its own way as your yesterday was. What were the haps? ** Jamie, Hi. Yeah, me too. Excellent on your scripting progress! Yay! Oh, gosh, I’m still struggling a bit to get into the zone I need to be into. But any minute now I figure my brain and energy will lock together because they always end up doing that. Eileen is a smart about that stuff, and I totally agree with what she said. Cool about the marriage between your beloveds! Have all the fun you undoubtedly will. Today, me? I have a strange urge to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics, so I guess I’m going to do that in a few minutes, at least peripherally. And I’m meeting up for a coffee with a visiting American writer I’ve chatted with but never met in person before. And doing work as diligently as I can. Hm, can I pull one more ABBA out of my … something? Okay, not only is ‘Tiger’ my second all-time favorite ABBA song. And not only is its accompanying video the greatest ABBA music video ever, it’s also, in my estimation, one of the best short experimental films of the 1970s. Watch this. Okay, now may your day be so amazing it makes that seem like the worst music video by The Beautiful South. Love like Anthrax, Dennis. ** Statictick, Hi, N. Cool, sweet store memories. I liked that Jim Roll thing, yeah. I saw on FB about the stunted conclusion to your happy seeming initial move. Damn, that sucks, man. But I think you’ll find a throne next time. Pretty sure. Fingers crossed just in case though. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Yeah, I don’t what’s the what about the blog issues. The host says everything is in working order. I don’t what I can do. Wow, that’s a lot of records you bought right there. That Fall boxset is great, duh. I was very fond of Hospital. Its owner was Dominick Fernow aka Prurient, Vatican Shadow, et. al. Well, curious what you think of the Dumont then. Everyone,. Mr. Erickson has reviewed the new Clint Eastwood film ‘The 15:17 to Paris. Go find out what he thinks. ** Alex rose, Alex! Tomorrow? Wait, today? Whoa. The show is involved with Feature Foundation? Apparently I’m on the Board of … Advisors or something for the Feature Foundation, but I haven’t heard a peep from them, so I don’t know what that means. But so great about your show! I’ll try to passionately send my gaggle of folks on Facebook to it. And this lot. Everyone, Some of you already know the sublime and ultra-great work of the artist Alex Rose. Some of you don’t yet. If you’re in the general realm of NYC, you really must, for sake of your life’s inspiration and excitement, go see Alex’s new gallery exhibition there, which I believe opens today. Here’s where you get the info. Seriously, if you’re in reach, I can’t possibly recommend checking out his show highly enough. Best of all the best luck on the show, maestro, and I’m desperately sad that I can’t see it nose to nose. But I will find all of the second-hand evidence there is. Tons o’ love to you, dear Alex! ** Count Reeshard, Hey, Count! Aw, such great memories and stories, man. Thank you! I basically grew up at Pooh-Bah when it was in its original location on Fair Oaks just north of Colorado. Astounding that it has managed to survive. Thank you again. I got misty making it so you getting misted is only fair, I guess? Take care. ** _Black_Acrylic, Howdy, Ben. Does anyone ever call you Benny? Super good news about the great response to the YnY call out. DLs even, sweet. ** Armando, Hi, man. I’m good. Today: snow, Olympics Opening Ceremony, coffee with a visiting writer, work. And yours? I didn’t find a photo of that Virgin. I don’t know anything about that ‘Miss Julie’, but I will certainly go find out about it. Nope, I’ve never read read ‘War And Peace’ or ‘Les Misérables’ and never will, I’m pretty certain. Longest film? Hm. Maybe Syberberg’s ‘My Hitler’? Off the top of my head. I think there’s probably an even longer film I’ve seen that I’m spacing out on. Probably ‘The White Album’ on the Didion non-fiction front, yeah, probably. Yours? I think the most recent poetry I read was Ashbery’s ‘Commotion of the Birds’, which was sublime. What about you? ** Chris Dankland, Chris! Welcome back! And welcome to the East Coast from a city across the seas. That’s so wild and amazing that you made that big move. And for love! I think all my most gigantic moves were for love. Best reason. So incredibly happy for you, man. So happy! I’m good. Working on a lot of stuff. Doing what needs to be done regarding the beginning off ‘PGL’s’ life. There is this sales agency that is in charge of where and how the film will be shown. I think it’ll be at film festivals only for a while. And then hopefully it’ll either be distributed or screened as much as possible. It’s weird for me how films so slowly roll out. It’s very frustrating when you’re used to witting books where either it’s waiting to be published or it’s immediately available to everybody. I think, yeah, probably that turtle is supposed to be baked, ha ha. Excellent about X-R-A-Y. Very excited for that! Man, yeah, so good to see you and so happy for you! Talk to you soon! ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Kid gloves forever re: the stoney aspects of your mouth, good plan. Hm, well, by some miracle maybe that film will be fun. It has Paris in the title, so how bad can it be? That’s my theory. Well, excluding Paris Hilton. Well, I hope you win that contest, fan boy. Sincerely. Plunge into that novel of yours and make it pay! ** Kyler, Yeah, that Tower on Broadway was cool in its time. I do remember your mystical story. And I even remember The Magickal Childe, which I even went into to shop a couple of times for some reason. Enjoy today! ** Keaton, Hey, man! New you! I mean new by you. New thing by you. And haunted. And a house! I’m so there. Everyone, Keaton made a haunted house out of words on his blog, and, jeez, if that doesn’t get you to click this, then the world is even more chaotic than it seems. ** Okay. I direct your attention to this very inventive and excellent novel by Mr. Maurice Roche today, if you would be so kind. See you tomorrow.

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