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Leadmetotemptation, 19
×××[NO EXPERIENCE 4 NO LIMITS]×××

24/7 sexslave fantasiser seeks very selfish n twisted rapist/sadist who will kidnap, dehumanize n use slave sexually for the rest of life. ???????

Have an inoperable tumor in the pancreas, so my stay on earth is extremely pruned. But I do not mind.

I can be punched in the face to make you feel better. I have a hole that all men wish to fuck.

Teeth removal is the must to do list, transformation of mouth to a toothless sexual organ could be used hard n long like a pussy.

Also removing my balls. I don’t want to cum so be a man and know you place and remove my balls.

Master has absolute power to surgical adjust slave’s body, cutting redundant parts off. Slave’s body form n function should only for maximizing master’s sexual enjoyment.

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Anonymous – Jul 16, 2018
Bin gespannt was so passiert.

 

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CrazyLazyWeirdandStupid, 23
Hi We’re a newly discovered polyamorous non-binary queer (they/them/their), with girlfriend, in opened relationship, I’ve realised our true calling is giant guys, they must be over 95kg. Having difficulty accepting it but we’re getting there. Our dream is to be trampled by guys like that. Our second fetish is to be farted on our face. Obviously this is a big deal so we want it to be something unforgettable which is why we’re here in this dark gay world lol.

 

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inboxme, 20
Young guy with tongue looking to worship a straight bro. Really into legs. Would like to be an alpha male’s leg licking bitch. Have a great legs licking session. I’m here to make your legs feel amazing. You’re the king and your legs deserve to be treated that way.

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inbox (Owner) – Jul 20, 2018
Dear Sir74, First of all ‘I’ wants to say “thank you sir” for your legs and for deciding to share your precious time for me to be the best at who I am not. Sincere, your slave.

Sir74 – Jul 20, 2018
This one is now permanently owned by me. This one has a vast, previously untapped reserve of self-loathing that I am employing in a feedback loop type of exchange. Subservience is now a spiritual purpose for this one. This one is dependent on me, and I am draining his energy and feeding off his inferiority. Every day, this one’s life is getting significantly unimportant. Everything that gave him happiness is now riddled with guilt and shame, and very soon I will have sucked all the joy from this one’s life.

 

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NotArabObviously, 20
I’ve had an interest in, and plenty of horny dreams over breath control since a teenager but never had the balls to do anything about it – time to change that though!

Been waiting long enough so want to jump in the deep end 🙂

Interests include, but not limited to…
Noose
Bagging
Strangling
Garotte
Gags
Drowning
Gaffa tape

Travel all over for work so location isn’t an issue. Looking for guy willing to push me as close to the end as possible.

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BreathControlNovice (Owner) – Jul 1, 2018
There is a swelling storm
And I’m caught up in the middle of it all
And it takes control
Of the person that I thought I was
The boy I used to know
But there, is a light
In the dark, and I feel its warmth
In your hands, and my neck
Why can’t I hold on?

 

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Just19Jack, 19
I’m just a 19 yo boy on Oahu that loves tequila and downloaded this app randomly

 

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Water-content57%, 21
I’ll keep this short. I’ve been self-harming for two years and want to find a henchman and take it up a notch or thousand. I’m able to relocate at my own expense at a moments notice for the right person. I will be asking questions because this will be my last choice in life and it needs to be an informed choice.
However, I am open to visiting people if 3 conditions are met.
1: no perm marks or much damage
2: you cover all travel cost via tickets in advance
3: total transparency on what I can expect while there.
Since Americans are stupid I’ll say this again. These 3 conditions are for any planned “visit”.
If it’s a one way ticket then these terms would not apply.
If you are only here to talk like an idiot then leave me alone.
This may sound harsh, but I need to attract a serious person here and not a fuck up.

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Water-content57% (Owner) – Jun 26, 2018
(I’d like to apologize to anyone I was communicating with before. I gave my phone to my little cousin, who I was babysitting, to make him stop crying and while he was playing around with it he accidentally deleted all the data off my phone.)

 

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imnotmatt, 18
Imagine You abduct a sixteen year old man from a street near its high school. It’s been captured and will have to adjust to its new reality. It doesn’t want to serve, being used, degraded or humiliated. It wants to be free. But You don’t care, You will mould it into Your perfect slave, pet, toy, object, whatever You see fit. It will struggle a lot during the adjustment period. Most of all, it won’t understand why it’s being tied and fucked against its will like if it was a girl, it will not easily forget that it used to be a young man in the past. If you have the means to keep it captive either for a couple of days or permanently, then I am interested.

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Cowboy1931 – Jul 8, 2018
Not impressing anyone

Anonymous – Jul 6, 2018
The young man is a relative of the guy who’s manning this profile and the young man’s parents have a restraining order against him and he has taken no precautions or safeguards at all so if you take him up on this you’re basically asking to be arrested and imprisoned.

 

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StyleMe, 20
As a cummon football playing guy I’m willing to get transformed into a horny fetish fashion boy! Help me to become what I already am!

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StyleMe (Owner) – Jul 13, 2018
Please be nice.

Anonymous – Jul 13, 2018
He’s not a ‘football playing guy’ he’s a fat little pig who doesn’t know anything about football and wears the uniform because thinks it makes him look less fat but it doesn’t.

 

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Alexander_opened, 21
I am wheelchair user and it won’t be problem at sex or in BDSM/bondage.
I can’t walk or stand but I can crawl on all fours on floor when I am collared by you Sir or I can also sit on my chair if you want that.

Because of my disability, I need use catheter ( Intermittent catheters)
But if you want and like we can use Indwelling catheter that stays inside the cock for a longer period or my own one time use.

I also need use diapers ( msotly when we go public places, inside your house/apartment I do not need that.

IF this freaks you out please ASK more and don’t let it effect on my application or when I send messages.

hmmm..what else I should say? OH yes because my disability I can drink piss and cum by the gallon.

*The photos of me are from before I had my serious accident ( I don’t let anyone to take photos of me anymore.

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Anonymous – June 29, 2018
Your problem is you’re clinging to the past. Embrace the tragedy and incorporate it. You’re not a hottie anymore. Let it go.

 

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aquietdolphin, 24
My name is Alex. I am a kind gentle baby boy who is a huge fan of the ABDL life style. I love wearing diapers and being babied. Talk to me like I’m a baby is a really good way to turn me on. I would love to cook a nice meal for my daddy watch his belly get bigger and rounded and softer then we make out while I’m wetting my diaper.

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aquietdolphin (Owner) – Jul 14, 2018
I am baby.. dont ask can I fuck you ? please don’t ask me stupid question like can I fuck you cause its stupid ?

Raven – Jul 1, 2018
Never had a baby before…and i think i’m ready now…i’m looking for a baby who can tell the world and God that he loves me.

 

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BlondVisitor, 19
Just an inexperienced hetero with those weird, fun days looking for someone to help me become a fag. Was trained online a year ago and took a hiatus after it didn’t work. These feeling I thought would leave , but haven’t. I know I am a fag, and maybe if I am lucky , one day I can live life as such.

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Hanau – Jul 9, 2018
Very cute and sympathetic but the best thing about him is that his body is completely odourless, and believe me I would know.

RALF5 – Jun 27, 2018
He’s a strong boy?.But do you know what makes him cry??

 

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Sellingit, 18
I lost my path and I’m looking to get back on it.

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Your_path – Jul 25, 2018
It’s over here.

 

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truckerusa, 21
young trucker travel don’t control where or when. not a lot free time meet hit and miss meet in public if both OK we go on. no phone job very stressful too many stupid drivers. interested in getting a real vicious fuck an after we’ll see. not really attracted to guys but i can’t stand women so here I am.

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Jean_Genet – Jul 25, 2018
He will stand against a wall with pants down and take any size cock as deep and as hard as you can go and you can leave creampies in his ass that you can suck back out and hock into his mouth but he has terrible hygiene. Take it from me, Jean Genet.

Arco75 – Jul 21, 2018
doesn’t mention he’s a white supremacist neo-nazi asshole that won’t shut up about it. that turned me way the fuck on but i’m far right myself and it might not have the same effect for everyone.

 

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BadVibesOnly, 21
No one gives a f*ck. I have a heart condition I developed 6 months ago. The doctors dont know whats wrong with me so now i lay here in pain everyday. Sense iv become unwell iv had no support from any one, Iv been taken advantage of and made to feel like shit. Im alone and afraid most of the time. Before I became unwell I was on my way into nursing but now i live on $400 a month. I get a little better everyday but even when im better ill still know how cold the world is and i dont know if thats a world i want to live in. I feel like iv done so much for people when i worked in the hospital and well, karma has not been my friend. What I really need is someone to take possession of me and convince me nothing will ever be ok so I’ll stop wanting it to be.

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Anonymous – Jul 22, 2018
Let me sum it up for you HE’S A SHORT TERM INVESTMENT

 

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Anyparty, 19
only my mother i have that why i love her so much and she is indipendent women that why i love her?❤

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Super-Shenuu – Jul 12, 2018
You’re very welcome. 🙂

Anyparty (Owner) – Jul 12, 2018
thank you 🙂

Super-Shenuu – Jul 12, 2018
Clothing is awesome.

Anyparty (Owner) – Jul 10, 2018
thanks 🙂

he-Past-Away – Jul 10, 2018
Hoodie looks awesome

 

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MyNameIsFuckPig, 19
I’m a Russian ballet dancer, dance model, student in Bolshoi Ballet Academy, (a little too opinionated if you ask me hahaha love an argument), but with a submissive side that lately I’ve been meaning to explore as a way to distance myself from the inner void. It’s hard for me to be vulnerable and accept, for example, that my voice sounds feminine or that my posture is girlish and my face is pretty… so I’m curious about finding a guy to whom that won’t matter or who cherishes or hates it for a truthful something.

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SeaMan – Jul 27, 2018
It’s always summer inside him

 

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ThatStupidMoron, 25
I am into physical aggression against my face. Slapping, hitting, punching, grabbing, clawing, leaving marks, and did I mention I like physical aggression? Would love to find someone that I could get into one sided boxing beatdowns with. I like watching the kind of boxing matches where one of the guys is losing from the start, hit over and over again, and by the end of the match, their face is busted up. Black eyes, a busted up nose, etc. I am looking for a long term partner. I want someone that likes to beat a face, is into destroying my face, and leaving me uglier and more disfigured with every day as a sign of ownership. If you only like that but nothing else, please contact me.

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liriz – Jun 22, 2018
No ?‍♂️ no

 

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iwanttodielol, 20
We’ll do this just do not tell me about your life do not try to excite me or talk bluntly I have no feelings show me know mercy do not think about it anymore let us content ourselves with the bare minimum.

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openmind – Jun 16, 2018
only just got home, someone shld check on him, very confused what happened haha

ldnphotographer – Jun 7, 2018
I am a young London photographer who’s camera is mainly focused on documenting eroticism and fetishism. My work covers a broad spectrum and I am comfortable photographing in any situation from toilet play to the extreme death scene you are suggesting. I am experienced and can produce my portfolio and social media on request. I do not judge I simply document and I guess that makes me some what of a voyeur. I would love to photograph what happens if you are willing.

 

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Sleepingbeauty, 24
I hve place always 24hrs so dont ask abt it
Session timing atleast 40/50mins continue
Hardcore wild rough kinky rape bdsm all varieties
I hve gain this body after 4 yrs long practice dedication n hard work
Lots of time n money put into it
Tats why i charged a very small mimimum nominal amount which any one can afford.
Please i so desperate :’(

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mascdom48 – Jul 19, 2018
Took him to the gym, then took him home and made him lick up all my sweat.

 

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C, 18
– Hey, I am C. I am an international student. I am born Deaf in both ears. English is my second language, therefore, my life is very stressful. I recently aware that I need some different sex for me to relax so that I can more focus on my goal and my dream.
– I am HIV Negative and would like to stay that way so all anal play must use condoms. Don’t worry, I still swallow and will probably even eat your condom too.
– No worries about my speaking, my speaking is different but you can understand me, I also can understand you.

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Pegvin – May 21, 2018
I would honestly have to say that other than the novelty of his deafness he’s not very exciting. I know that’s not the nicest thing to say, but figured I should be honest.

 

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theglaciers, 18
So everyone knows what he’s getting involved with here is the process and everything planned so far.

We (these are 4 boys) are still looking for people who are open to have sex in Cologne. We come across Germany and meet and stop at Cologne and just want to have sex. Now to our expectations and the rules:

YOU should be under 35, slim, and be there on Saturday in Cologne.

The meeting would be on Saturday at 15:00 clock at a hotel right on the Schaafenstraße. Room number and which hotel will be communicated one hour before to avoid Fakes.

Condoms and lubricants are not available because they are not necessary to use!

Upon arrival there will be a raffle with a star. Whoever among us 4 who draws the star gets the fucks and fists and torture and sperm from all those present. Means that in the end we all stand in a line behind this one person and shoot our cum in him one after the other. That too is one of the conditions. Showers and party is given after the group fuck. After the raffle you will receive a welcomebendchen which you will directly display. Each ribbon has a meaning that should make it easy for us to organise.

Red = fucker
Blue = fister
Green = torturer

then it will be held.

I pass photos of us 4 only after agreement. But should not be immensely important, since we are all cute, young, slim and horny. Not everyone will enjoy it, but that’s not the point.

 

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ruinmyass18, 18
Hey I am Harry a 18 year old chilled type of person always pretty much bored of being cute and popular so why not give me something else to do

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LuisLee – Jul 3, 2018
Hello! You are so cute! ?（❍ᴥ❍ʋ)
This is my first time using any app like this so please don’t mind me if I say anything weird to you or ask you something something that I’m not supposed to.
English isn’t my first language so pardon any bad grammar.
I suck at selfies so when I send you one don’t expect anything great
though my photographs of other people are excellent (Ironic right?)
I also like to travel a lot so we most likely will have a wonderful time even when I’m not fucking you.
Aaaand that’s all I don’t know what else to type so yep that’s it ?（❍ᴥ❍ʋ)

ruinmyass18 (Owner) – Jun 27, 2018
If i write too much of what my interests are i have been told a slave’s interests are only a master’s concerns and if i write too little i am told i am aloof.

Dam52 – Jun 26, 2018
He is either very shy or totally crazy.

FreshSucker – Jun 17, 2018
Just very interesting what the taste of your seed so wanna try it lol

If possible let me suck you off and swallow your cum in everyday please

 

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penispal, 20
I already had countless accounts here on this platform and about two hours ago I deleted my last one.

I have to say: even though everything bothers me here, I’m missing it. But I had the insight of the year a few minutes ago. I am not looking for just sex here. Actually, I just want to meet if it fits then you stick your penis in my mouth and ass and if it still fits we marry, have two children, two dogs and be happy to the end of our lives.

After a death in the family, I decided to be honest with people and less wrong or tell any lying stories. So now comes a detailed profile about me.

– I like to smoke. This may sound destructive to some, but a cigarette is something very powerful for me
– When I look in the mirror, I only see ugliness and I would like to change my entire face. A bit of Botox here and there, nose a little smaller and lips bigger.
-When we are already on the outside: I find myself fat. Although I am slim and people always tell me I should gain weight, I still find my body very fat.
-I often have very depressive phases. Especially in the evening it can be very bad. But it can also be completely crazy and my mouth does not close after hours. After that, however, the depressive phase comes again with a unfriendly Bonjour and I just want to be alone
-Even though I often run like the biggest Bitch through the streets, thousands of thoughts whiz through my mind as others think about me. Even if someone comes up to me and tells me that I look good, I accept the compliment, but a few seconds later, I think the person is sarcastic and cruel.
-What I like about me is my sense of humor. Only I find myself incredibly funny. That comes only from the fact that I am mentally so broken, and I think I am hilarious even if I’m being the biggest asshole to someone.
-I could make the list even longer.

And to all who think: “my my my we all have our problems now shut the fuck up”, I say only one thing: OK.

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stalamate – Jul 27, 2018
fuck ur life

 

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PridelessGay, 23
23yo Gay No Limits Pain Slave, Looking for a Master to own me 24/7 365 permanently, Willing to relocate anywhere on the fucking globe,
I would however like my Master to have Only 1 or 2 other slaves if Any, hopefully none, I don’t like Large families, and my weakness: Masters with Blue Eyes, ughhhh…

Absolutely No Limits, Especially if you get me Chemed up. Anything, Well except little Kids. I Want a brutal and merciless aggressive coarse and perverse Master to Own me, Torture me, Poz me, Fist me, Get me out of the way, And.

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PridelessGay (Owner) – Jul 16, 2018
Twinky types.

Anonymous – Jul 16, 2018
What kind of little kids are you attracted to?

PridelessGay (Owner) – Jul 16, 2018
Ok no but I must be sexually attracted to the little Kid.

Anonymous – Jul 16, 2018
Is “except little kids” a hard limit?

 

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UDontKnowMe, 24
Definitely some sort of irony having that profile pic of me and then saying I’m looking for normal peeps. THAT SAID, I’m just looking for someone who’s normal and chill but a creepazoid too and who I can hang out with once in a while. Yeah, I’m also looking to get tied up and fucked and beaten, but I honestly never really have fun with that unless I’m friends with that person beforehand. Get what I’m saying? Regular stuff: I’m into fiction (the stuffy literature you’ve abandoned after high school), and art (paintings specifically).

The 4 real reasons why I’m in Berlin
1 * to visit my grandfather who works in Berlin.
2 * to learn German because from September I start at a German school.
3 * for the happiness of my parents who got rid of me for a whole month.
4 * to be harshly penetrated through the numbness which threatens to consume me by a nice abusive fuckhead.

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UDontKnowMe (Owner) – Jun 12, 2018
It’s not broken by a long shot, liar.

Zipperworship – Jun 12, 2018
evening of “friendship” then seriously aggressive face fuck, succeeded in break8ng his jaw when nutting directly in his gutso i think i win the prize!

UDontKnowMe (Owner) – May 24, 2018
I’m also looking for people to help form a group that aims to build a self-sufficient community in the countryside like Varg Vikernes.

SkaterGuy – May 20, 2018
I tied him down on his stomach. I spanked his ass hard. I also licked, teased, fingered his hole, and I slid my cock in it and dumped a load. I also pissed on him.

I tied him down on his back. I tied his balls up with a cock ring on. I slapped and flicked his balls. I licked and sucked his bals. I slapped his penis then licked it and sucked it. I also pissed all over him.

 

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Illmakeitsimple, 18
0 don’t like 10 favorite

7 ….. Oral
0 ….. Anal plugs (small)
0 ….. Anal plugs (large)
3 ….. Anal “sex”
0 … GOM (Glove Over Mouth)
0 … HOM (Hand Over Mouth)
3 ….. Choking
0 ….. Poppers
0….. Smoke, Smoking, Forced Smoke
10 ….. Long-term Bondage (Days Session)
0 … Short-term Bondage (Hours Session)
10 … Hogtie Bondage
10 … Chair-Tied Bondage
10 … Spreadeagled Bondage
10 … Sensory Deprivation
10 … Mummification
10 … Caged
10 … Chains
8 … Handcuffs, Metal Bondage
10 … Blindfolds
10 … Hoods
10 … Gags (Leather)
10 … Gags (Rubber)
10 … Bandana Gags
10 … Duct Tape Gags
0 ….. Muzzles
2 ….. Ball Gags
10 … Kidnap, Hostage scenarios
8 … Interrogations (Private)
0 ….. Interrogations (Public)
0 ….. Ice Cubes
7 ….. Spanking
10 ….. Flogging
2 ….. Clamps
2 ….. Electro
1 ….. Wax
10 ….. Kissing
10 ….. Hugging
10 ….. Cuddling

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DragonSpiritBear – Jun 30, 2018
poz guys over 8 inches should connect with him for many reasons

 

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BoyLikesYou, 18
Be with me forever. NOTHINGS WRONG WITH ME.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi! It’s kaleidoscopic! I’m pretty good. We’re going to send ARTE our proposal for how we hope to ‘normalise’ the script as per their wishes while maintaining as much as possible of what we like about the script as it is in the next couple of days, I think. Then we’ll see. Oh, the two nights where Scott Barley showed his films were great. His films really need to be projected to do their magic optimally, so that was a boon. And a couple of other interesting filmmakers he knows showed films too. And Scott and I hang out and got to know each other, and he’s terrific, of course. So sorry about your unbroken heatwave. Ours is rebuilding and will be back to being misery central by Friday, the forecasts say. Urgh. You’ll be heading off to your brother and his world in a month! How awesome! He’s there in your hood, right? You guys having a great time, I’m sure? I hope your sickness has passed or is fading now. Very exciting about the new SCAB, of course! Can’t wait! Thanks for the week ahead wishes, and the same to you, and I hope I won’t be overheated and whining about it when I see you on Friday. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! Apart from several testosterone-fueled nosedives into the pits at shows back in the 70s punk days, and accidentally getting pulled into one at a Melvins show in the 90s wherein I got the shit semi-beaten out of me, I tend to keep a person or two buffer between me and pits, so I can feel the pit but not get whacked by it. I finished the Thom Andersen post. It’ll be up in the next week and a half. Bon day! ** Steve Erickson, I will try the new Orbital. I do love their earlier stuff. No Macy Gray for me. The new Yves Tumor song is fantastic. He just gets more and more amazing, I think. Never saw ‘Wormwood’, no, weirdly, I must. Excellent about the progress with your actor! I don’t know Denzel Curry. I’ll tiptoe in his new thing’s direction. ** Damien Ark, Hey, D. That Lone track is a wacky pit soundtrack. A nice pit is a rare pit. Spoken as a non-masochist. The most violent pit I ever managed to escape was at a Weezer show, of all things. Good day to you too. ** Corey Heiferman, Yeah, that post was a good argument for gifs’ singularity and value, it’s true. Good eye there, bud. I’ve never heard of Ga Ga. The Israeli Ga Ga video was far more appealing, although doing it in a giant planter gets points for over-ingenuity. I’ve not listened to Hila Ruach yet. Too much work yesterday. Hopefully today. Uh, re: the film work, the Lincoln Center thing is definitely a big step. Re: my books and stuff, cool, honoring things have happened over there occasionally over the years. Looking forward to it is nothing but excitement. Although I have to select a bunch of film clips from films that have had an impact on me for one of the events, and that’s pretty vexing. Have a goodie. ** Jamie, Well, h-h-h-hello, Jamie! Thanks about the recent two posts, man. My weekend was pretty all right thanks to the temporary breaking of the heatwave, the Scott Barley shebang, and stuff. Yours? Oh, ‘SHHH’ is showing in London? And you guys are going? Cool. Oh, shit, about your neck! I guess you should be feeling at least some beginning improvement by today if the osteopath thing worked. So … are you? ??╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ I’m waiting for Zac’s feedback and suggestions on the film script, then, ideally, with one last pass, I think, it’ll be ready to be translated. Monday was mostly involved in my researching film treatment models so I can start working on the treatment and other proposal docs today. Otherwise, it was fair and square. Thanks for making my day that vase. Hit the spot. May Tuesday grant your neck giraffe-like flexibility. Moonlight on Vermont love, Dennis ** Schlix, Hi, Uli. I hope the wedding was fun. The problems and glitches this blog seems to be mysteriously beset with, especially for phone-accessors, are truly maddening. I’m sorry. Oh, you can get me at FB or my current email is denniscooper72@outlook.com. Take care. ** Kyler, Hi. Yes, no matter what I’ve tried to do, consulting tech people at the blog’s hosting sites repeatedly, no one sees anything amiss in the blog’s code/set-up/etc or seems to know why these problems are happening. So, basically, unless some computer wiz can figure it out, you/we/I are stuck with the issues, which makes my blood boil, but that’s the state. ** Misanthrope, Hi. Yes, maybe your Consumer Electronics live experience will finally awaken you to the glories of loud atonal noisy music, and we can trade verbal hugs. I’m happy you’ve found enjoyment through Troye Sivan, and I’m sure he finds enjoyment through the look of love in your eyes. I don’t know the story on the Trea Turner thing, but I assume it’s kind of like the James Gunn thing, and, yes, the world is scarily topsy turvy, especially in the US parcel. ** Nik, Hi, Nik! How’s it going, man? The movie and TV shows inch forward in their own ways, so all, especially re: the former, seems okay. The three angry emos gif would surely win the Pulitzer Prize for gifs if such a thing existed or at least be awarded a MacArthur Grant if the MacArthur Foundation wasn’t so stodgy. Hey, fantastic news about X-R-A-Y! Please alert me when it’s up in case I miss the official alert on Facebook. Congrats! Can’t wait to read it! No, I’m too busy with the TV and film projects to work on gif works right now, but I am gathering and stockpiling contenders. My experience of manga has been really scattered, just checking manga out once in a while, and I don’t have enough of a bead on the medium to name names. I should pay more attention. I’ll investigate that Fumiko Takano one, thank you. I hope your final days in your high school town are sweet and meaningful. ** Bill, Mine too. Those pitted days. Finis. I think. The heatwave is rebuilding, degree by degree, and will wipe the pleasure from the sky almost completely by Friday, they’re saying. Aw, I loved Toys ‘R’ Us. I’m really sad about their demise. I used to do all my Xmas shopping there, even for my full blown cynical adult friends. It’s really sad. ** Right. Like clockwork, the last day of the month hurls a post full of slaves at you. Duck or take it like toughies. See you tomorrow.

 

‘When My Amputations was published in 1986, it was heralded by writers and critics as a major literary achievement. Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Charles Johnson spoke of Clarence Major’s mind and talent, his inventive use of language that drew together influences from black music, poetry, the blues, and painting. A reviewer for the New York Times wrote that My Amputations is “distinguished by a rich and imaginative prose poetry of evocative power.” Awarding it the 1986 Western States Book Award for Fiction, jurors Denise Levertov, Robert Haas, Jonathan Galassi, and Sandra Cisneros deemed the text “an explosively rich book about a man pursued by his shadow…. My Amputations is distinguished by the extraordinarily inventive rhythms of its language. A book full of laughter and rueful sadness and swift contempt, its deepest resonance is the hunger to be healed.” The critic Jerome Klinkowitz wrote that My Amputations is “living fiction, as close to a truly organic text as we are ever likely to see.”

‘Since this extraordinary reception, the study of contemporary literature has evolved dramatically, providing contemporary critics and scholars with the language, vocabulary, and theoretical concepts to re-read My Amputations, not as an “experimental” text, but as a masterpiece of postmodern fiction, as a catalyst in a new historical and epistemological development in American literature. Reflexivity, fragmented authority, indeterminacy, play, uncertainty, difference, ambiguity, and open-endedness — these post-structural and postmodern concepts challenge many of the suppositions of modern thought and modern literature. As a consequence, traditional notions of realism seem inadequate. The proposition that the writer is the “creator” of something “original” has come under serious attack. The unquestioned assumption of the text’s literariness — that is, that the text possesses certain qualities that place it above the matrices of historical conditions — has been undermined profoundly. By questioning so many naturalized conventions and assumptions about modern literature, My Amputations signifies new ways to think and live in the world. Most importantly, these advancements and developments allow critics to point out how this text radically re-describes African American subjectivity.

‘In the 1970s and 1980s, as academics and critics struggled to come up with new uses for literature, Clarence Major had already embarked upon a literary mission to re-define the novel. Indeed, so many of the postmodern tendencies highlighted by literary theorists, and so abundantly present in My Amputations, had been evident in Major’s work for years prior to that. In an interview early in his writing career, Major told John O’Brien: “the novel… takes on its own reality and is really independent of anything outside itself…. You begin with words and you end with words. The content exists in our minds. I don’t think that it has to be a reflection of anything. It is a reality that has been created inside a book. It’s put together and exists finally in your mind.” For Major, from All-Night Visitors (1969) to No (1973) to Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), to Emergency Exit (1979) and to My Amputations (1986), these texts do not reflect the social real; they are an addition to it, or are artistic objects in themselves to be admired for what they are. They have their own presence in the world, representing complex networks of ideas, images, and feeling. They refer only to themselves and to other texts. In the earlier novels All-Night Visitors and No, Major uses graphic sex to demonstrate that fiction is a linguistic invention. In later novels such as Reflex and Bone Structure, Emergency Exit, and My Amputations, Major uses personal fragmentation to explore anti-realism or the fiction-making process.

‘From the beginning, this knowledge and awareness gave Major the freedom to use his imagination to create fiction that allows the reader to have an experience, rather than an ill-conceived reflection of life. Choosing not to model his fiction on “the linear and formal notion of realism traditionally practiced by Negro and Black American writers,” Major eschews linear plot, causal logic, progress, realistic character development, and resolution. He expands the novel to incorporate other forms of speech and images such as painting, jazz and blues improvisation, techniques of detective fiction, porn movies, and cubism, as he speaks to human dimensions and possibilities that have been repressed and/or excluded in realistic texts. But in using these different forms of representation, he disturbs and even subverts their dominance, causing them to exist in this inter-textual flux.

‘In the 1970s, this must have been an arduous, difficult task for Major. He began writing his postmodern, anti-establishment fiction and achieving literary recognition in the aftermath of the turmoil of the 1960s. This was a time when individuals and artistic and literary communities drew clearly defined cultural and ideological lines. In many ways, he was marginalized. In not writing realistic fiction or catering to the New York literary establishment, he did not achieve the commercial successes of his contemporaries such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Also, in the 1970s and 1980s, Major’s brand of meta-fiction put him in direct opposition to black aesthetics and the racial uplift of African American critics, as well as in opposition to mainstream American literary critics who read African American literature in a reductive, stereotypical way. He readily responded, arguing that a black aesthetic view of literature was as stifling and repressive as a Eurocentric view. Both close down the writer and restrict him to the service of certain political ideologies. He was also accused of not writing about “real” black people, or dealing with race.

‘But Major does deal with race. Rather than choose race as his theme and racial conflict as his subject matter, Major probes beyond the merely political to find the roots that link the African American experience to all human experiences. His characters are black, but race “is not the totality of their identity.” For Major, blacks have other human identities and dimensions. In taking this approach to African American subjectivity, he obviates the “tendency to stereotype the [black] Other” and instead represents blacks as complex and varied, with the experience of race being one aspect of that complex existence.

‘Major’s My Amputations is told by an omniscient narrator who shifts from third person to first person, moving in and out of the mind of the protagonist, Mason. The text has many modes: impressionistic, visual, and meta-fictional. Minimizing representational effects, it constructs the narrative in physical blocks of diverse materials, rather than in logical paragraphs. One of its techniques includes using language to build what Major calls “visual panels,” like Cubist pictures, which are complete within themselves. But within each block, which is filled with multiple and varied poetic imagery, the narrator constantly moves forward and backward in time.

‘Another technique used in My Amputations is a jazz/blues mode of improvisation that offers different takes on key situations and events. When the narrator tells the story of Mason Ellis in a jazz/blues style, he repeats information always with variations. For example, the narrator tells us of Mason’s childhood in Chicago. But when he recounts Mason’s childhood a second time, he also tells us that Mason was born in red-dirt Georgia. In his jazz-influenced account of Painted Turtle, one of Mason’s female friends, the narrator tells us of her relationship with Mason and how it ends. Later, he does a riff on the relationship, but this time he elaborates further, recounting how the two first met.

‘This riffing on various themes and situations happens throughout the text. The narrator gives us several different versions of Mason’s stay in the Air Force. He gives different riffs on the Chemical Bank robbery, without hierarchy or privilege. In giving us this play on the various events and situations in the text, the narrator, and thus Major, demonstrates that language cannot completely master a subject, that language cannot pin down meaning. It can only give us significations of the subject or the social real.’ — W. Lawrence Hogue

 

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Further

Clarence Major Website
Clarence Major Resource Page
Clarence Major @ The Poetry Foundation
Clarence Major @ afropoets
Book: ‘The Art and Life of Clarence Major’
‘Conversations with Clarence Major’
‘Energy Made Visible: A Conversation With Clarence Major’
‘Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Changing resholds of American Wonder’
‘A Minoring of Major and Some Top Gunn’
‘Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives’
‘To Define an Ultimate Dimness’, by Nathaniel Mackey
‘Six Orphans and Circuses: The Literary Experiments of Leon Forrest and Clarence Major’
‘Against Commodification: Zuni Culture in Clarence Major’s Native American Texts’
‘”I follow my eyes”: an interview with Clarence Major’
Buy ‘My Amputations’

 

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Extras

Swallow the Lake – Clarence Major

Black Nature

 

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Interview

 

Your fiction and your poetry seems to be chronically referred to as “experimental”…
“Chronic” is a good word for it…

…and that seems to be juxtaposed to the term “conventional,” and these two terms keep cropping up. I’m interested in finding out what those terms mean to you, and why do you feel that “experimental” is used to describe your writing in general?
For me they’re troublesome—very troublesome—but I think it’s an effort on the part of people who need to define writing in terms of genres, in terms of categories, to do just that. It seems to be the convenient way of dealing with things that are in the marketplace. It’s “black” or “experimental” or “feminist” or “historical romance” or whatever. Basically we live in a culture that requires these definitions. It’s kind of a tag. I’ve agonized over tags, and I think there’s no way around them, so I don’t fight them anymore. Those are labels that are either useful or detracting at times, depending on where you are at the moment or where the customer is at the moment, or where the researched or book reviewer is at the moment.

What’s the connection to your writing? Why do you feel it’s termed “experimental”?
Because, I guess, as the reviewer said in yesterday’s L.A. Times, it’s because there is a tradition of Afro-American fiction and poetry, and that tradition has been—in fiction, especially—realistic, or naturalistic. “Social realism” is what it’s generally called. It means that Afro-American writers have traditionally made a sociological or psychological—and it’s usually both—examination of the so-called black experience, which is another term that has no meaning whatsoever.

There is no single black experience. There are certain kinds of cultural aspects of the experience of black people generally that might be summed up in that way, but it seems to minimize the importance of diversity within the culture. That’s just one of the troublesome things about labels. The minimization.

Well, the terms are double-edged. Reviewers can employ them in an effort to valorize certain writers’ work—experimental can be avant-garde and “fresh”—or they can marginalize writers through the same labels.
Yes, and this is exactly what happens, normally. Especially with Afro-American writers, or even any so-called subcategory of writers in this culture: women, Native American, Asian-American—whatever. It’s generally considered “the other” division. There is a kind of crossover point, too, at times. It seems to me that the ethnic identity of a writer is not what causes that kind of definition to take place. We have examples of that—Frank Yerby, Willard Motley—just in looking at black writers. There’s always been a concurrent tradition of black American writers who have not at all concentrated on the elements that cause Afro-American literature to be defined as a subcategory. Yerby, as you know, every book he wrote was a bestseller, but they were poplar novels—romance novels, essentially.

I think the defining element takes place at one level of decision on part of the writer—what an individual writer chooses to write.

It’s also possible to write out of an ethnic experience and at the same time transcend those definitions, just as Ralph Ellison has done. Toni Morrison has done that. Also Alice Walker. That happens because the writer has tapped into some elements of the human experience that transcend the merely cultural. Now, when a writer does that, it doesn’t necessarily follow that society is going to pick up on that and bring the writer into the mainstream; that doesn’t necessarily happen. A writer such as Charles Chestnut, for example, was never really brought into the mainstream as a celebrated American writer.

You dedicated your novel Emergency Exit, published in 1979, “to the people whose stories do not hold together,” from a quote from Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises in which he writes, “I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.” What did that dedication means for you in 1979, and further, what does it mean when a story doesn’t hold together?
I was trying to justify the structure of that book, which was a system of fragmentation, but a system nonetheless. In other words, a fragmented form that was essentially a unified, coherent entity. I do believe art has to have form. As William Carlos Williams said, “There is no such thing as free verse.” There is really no such thing as a free novel, it’s not like life. Life is kind of formless and pointless at times, but a novel really can’t be that way, just as a poem can’t be that way.

There’s an organizing intelligence? A structuring…
Yes. It has a kind of internal integrity. It’s like a leaf or a tree or a rock, or anything that can be seen to have its own intelligent system. In using that dedication I wanted to justify my form in that novel. I think it was probably the most radical novel I’ve written in terms of form, and therefore the least accessible, and commercially the least successful. But I don’t know whether the novel itself is a success or a failure; I don’t know that about any of my books. I haven’t felt the need to write that kind of novel again. Once I’ve been down a river, I just like to travel another way.

You’ve talked a lot in interviews about process. How, for you, the pleasure’s in the process. So, so you ever have one of those poems that’s just (snaps fingers) there?
Yes, yes. That’s a great pleasure. That’s a gift. Everything falls into place just beautifully. But sometimes, with poetry, I have to see the shape of it on the page. Over and over and over, before I find the poem that’s in there somewhere, somehow, trying to emerge. I do a lot of drafts.

How do you feel about the difference between the way a poem is on the page and the way it might be at a reading? The trade-off between someone alone, silently reading one of your poems, able to take her time and think about it in diferent ways, or that same someone hearing you read it, hearing the rhythms and the intonations as you intended them?
Most of my poetry lends itself to the voice and is meant for the ear. I hate to think of the page as solely a blueprint. I think a lot of visually interesting things are going on on the page. But reading the poem to an audience is a different experience. Poetry is a verbal art. It’s music made with words.

And those words have a certain shape and relationship to each other. A certain kind of cadence and a certain kind of sequence, the rising and falling of the voice, the line.

I teach poetry. I teach a very large class (about 125) called “Close Reading of Poetry.” I try to get the students to understand these issues and to enjoy the poetry first, because if you go at ’em right away with “you gotta learn all these technical terms,” you lose 99% of the class. I’ve had some successes, I think, with students because I take just the opposite approach. I think the difference is that a person who writes poetry understands poetry in a different way than an academic, a scholar.

You said in one of your interviews that you like to try new things and that the most challenging thing about writing fiction is selecting the right voice and developing and understanding that voice.
It’s really hard. In poetry, we try to say what cannot be said.We are after things that speak to us on a much deeper level. That represent something so innate, we know it but we can’t really say what it means. We know it when we see it.

And that’s never been the objective of fiction. Fiction has always had more of a relationship with history. By that I mean: it represents, through the device of historical consensus, the truth of collective human experience. People go to Dickens, say, because he gives us a picture that validates that consensus.

I want to end with a quick question about small-press publishing. You mentioned to me that you would much rather publish with smaller presses, and I was hoping you’d elaborate on this.
Well, it doesn’t always happen, but when it does, the experience can be very satisfying in that there is one-to-one, personal, caring contact with the editor. With Fun & Games, the editor, Jim Perlman, was in touch with me nearly every day by phone. The chances of that happening with a large press are almost zero. With the larger presses, of course, you have advantages: distribution is better, the book can be found in bookstores—though not always. I mean, just because Random House publishes it doesn’t mean it’s going to appear in a bookstore. But in general, publishing with smaller presses is usually satisfying on the personal level.

 

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Book

Clarence Major My Amputations
Fiction Collective 2

‘In My Amputations, Clarence Major goes Ralph Ellison one better…’ [this is a] ‘picaresque parody of the literary hustle…Major writes with one of black letters’ most experimental fictive voices (as well as its most lyrically unhinged), and the pleasures of this novel come more from the fluid sophistication of the text than from its venting of authorial ire…Major deftly adapts his improvisatory voice to the exigencies of the narrative moment…My Amputations should easily win Major renown as a prose prestidigitator of the first rank. He handles an encyclopedic range of voices, sensibilities, and zeitgeists (Afro American, American Jewish, African, Italian, German, English, French) so skillfully that they seem authentic rather than satirical…In flight from the black writer pigeonhole, Major has become the mythographer of a host of imaginary selves. Yet the confident byplay of folkloric and literary citations in My Amputations suggests that major’s alienation from the social fictions about black writers hasn’t alienated him from his roots…Taking his inspiration from all five senses, a multicultural intellectual curiosity, and a polymorphous tongue, Clarence Major has given American fiction its Hopscotch, a cosmopolitan Third World man’s guide to ruminating tongues.’ — Greg Tate

‘My Amputations is a dense and complex work, as readers familiar with Clarence Major’s four previous novels…might expect. A book in which the question of identity throbs like an infected tooth, My Amputations is a picaresque wailing out of the blues tradition; it is ironic, irreverent, sexy, on a first-name basis with the human condition, and defined in part by exaggeration and laughter…My Amputations is distinguished by a rich and imaginative prose poetry of evocative power…the effect is spectacular, like the eruption of fireworks against a dark, featureless sky…Street-smart, versed in the blues, jazz, literature, art, European classical music and philosophy, this narrator is familiar with the cultural signposts of Western civilization.’ — Richard Perry, The New York Times Book Review

‘Mere description cannot convey the wild humor and audacity to be found here, nor the anxiety and cunning. The virtues of My Amputations are all active ones, best summarized, perhaps, as jumpiness…[Major] has fashioned a novel that is simultaneously a deception and one great, roaring self-revelation…It’s tone should be recognizable to anybody who’s ever gotten nervous looking into the mirror.” — The Nation

 

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Mm, no, I don’t believe I know that Paul Vecchiali film. I’ll hunt it. I know the Visconti, of course. Thanks! ** Jamie, Ha. Hey, pal. Thank you, sir, re: the post. On the ARTE thing, Gisele and Zac (both of whom are out of Paris) and I will have a Skype meeting on Thursday to make a game plan and then we’ll jump back into the work. The Business of Film course: huh. Interesting, obviously. Share some wisdom if it gives you some. Film funding, or the seeking of it, is now back on Zac’s and my immediate agenda, unfortunately. Yesterday kind of sucked. Well, I saw my friend Torbjorn before he split town, and that was good. Otherwise, Zac and I had a meeting with our producer. It was productive and had good aspects — we finalised a distributor for the film in France — but also involved some bits of discouraging news that left me down in the dumps. When I first started publishing novels, my work had to fight through all these publishers, critics, and other self-styled taste arbiters in positions of power who were severely conventionally minded and so entrenched in their limited viewpoints that they wouldn’t question their conservatism. I was so relieved when my work proved itself and those people finally backed off. Now with film and being new to the field, Zac’s and my work is facing some of these same kinds of small-minded gate-keepers who knee-jerk decide that if a film doesn’t do everything by the usual book, it must be mistaken and naive and flawed or something. It’s very disappointing to be back to making work that has to fight through the opinions of those types who think their own lazy thinking and fear of the new constitutes some kind of higher standard. It’s familiar, and I know the obstacles they’re putting in the way of our film’s progress will pass and become unimportant in time, but it’s very frustrating to have our work’s birth hampered by the transparently clueless judgements of myopic cretins, basically. So, yeah. I hope your Tuesday is a googolplex better than my Monday was. Halloween in July love, Dennis. ** Bill, Ha ha, I must admit that I had a stinking suspicion you might like the post. Cool. I need to read ‘Paradise Park’. I adore Milhauser, obviously. I hope perkiness has found you. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. How weird: I put together a Gerard Blain blog post just the day before yesterday. Something’s in the air. Blain’s work is quite Bressonian, but not anywhere as radical. It’s quite interesting work, uneven, but very beautiful at most times. Blain acted in at least a couple of Assayas’ films, so I assume that’s why he came up. Mm, I think those program notes are really overstating the amount of younger guy/older guy hooking up, etc. to say it runs though his work. His first film has something sort of like that, and another one too in a different way. No, Blain was not gay. He was pretty famously straight. Anyway, that Blain post will up here, uh, next week, I think. Thank you about the post. ** Sypha, You’re such a delicate creature, James. Uh, not across the board. I mean re: your question about long books. But then it’s the very, very rare long book I actually read to the end. I usually read to books to figure out how they’re written and then I start losing interest whether the books are long or short. ** Dominik, Hi! Thank you for becoming who you’re most comfortable being here. Of course that’s great! And thank you getting so into the post. Huh, I think I’ve seen that doll you linked to. I mean seen it online somewhere. Yeah, it’s amazing. Maybe you should drop some Xmas gift hints to potential gift-givers. Yeah, the ARTE notes are very daunting, but I’m determined that we’ll figure out a way to satisfy them interestingly. The other option, i.e. giving up, is too gruesome after three years of working on this project. Fingers crossed. Thank you about my week ahead. I need a good week, and it’ll be scorching hot here, so I especially need one. And you too! Make the week ahead into your pliable slave! Take care, and see you on Friday! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, I’ll spin that fleshy track in a bit, thanks. Well, I’m excited to hear what that great mind of your finds suitable for your writing. Good luck with the heatwave escape. I need some of that too. And with getting some non-Tour de France background noise asap. ** Corey Heiferman, Hi, Corey. Oh, that’s okay. The response you gave to the post was quite, quite interesting. Oh, hm, interesting question too about what was going on in the curators’ heads. Which would include me, I guess, since I curated the post. And I don’t know what was going on in my head, but then I guess my written work shows that things like that are not foreigners to my head. I don’t get a visceral reaction to that work really. I just look and think about how successfully and oddly I think the work has been realised. Maybe curators are like me. Probably not. I don’t know. Yes, I read about the 3D guns thing, Jesus. Cocteau: I don’t have the feeling that anyone here really thinks much about his stuff these days. Apart from maybe his films. I think maybe he’s mostly a thing that the French know tourists have heard of and are interested in? No one in my circles is interested in him at all, as far as I can tell. Why do you ask? ** JM, Nice, you comparing that to the Benning thing. That was cool and sharp. Yeah, ask around. ‘Cos now I’m kind of curious how that dress alike project ended up. No, the Godard hasn’t opened here. I don’t know why. It’s weird and maddening. I’ll check again. I’m almost literally dying, like for real, to see it. I will at the very least skim and hopefully much more that Wolgamot thing on Ubu. Thank you very much! I’m sort of well. My flesh is well. Yeah, the flesh is well. The rest … time will tell. Dig into almost everything. ** Misanthrope, But if the dialogue is about’s said and not said, then it’s interesting, isn’t it? You mean it’s not pretty/literary? Paul Russell’s thing is not my thing, as you can already guess. I like that line you wrote. The ass/face one. It’s like the beginning of a detective novel, but the good kind like … what’s his name … James Cain. Use it wisely. ** Okay. Today features a really excellent novel that hasn’t gotten its due, if you ask me, so I’m passing it along. See you tomorrow.