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d below what about them broke me on hirano s eclipse the long answer is that it just doesn t work i don t see it not in the mental visual sense but in the literal comprehension of what the narrator is describing it s some rocks that got a hermaphroditic angel in them with an ouroboros and a caduceus or something and some diamonds and circles and it goes on forever the economy of language is shot here for something that is theoretically cool but ultimately incoherent take the line it goes without saying that flowers are the last thing that one would expect to see inside a cave and these roses were blossoming unaccountably in this one spot only the buds all looked to be just on the point of bursting forth and they were the scarlet color of freshly cut meat the unexpected roses in a cave trope is something that certainly can work especially in the context of a story about a dominican friar a century before milton wrote paradise lost but the way the narrator undermines the image from the jump it goes without saying coupled with the also ran horror of roses the scarlet color of freshly cut meat takes what should be a sort of poetic moment of sublime revelation and renders it completely inert there is no poetry here in a moment that inherently cannot work in prose alone or to address the issue of the economy of language a longer quotation at the tip there was a knob about the size of a hen s egg on the knob s surface there was an emblem composed of a circle and diamond shape the interior of the circle was hollowed out in the shape of a vertically oriented ellipse and the diamond was positioned therein in contact with the ellipse at its four corners further the diamond itself was hollowed out in the shape of another diamond with its horizontal diagonal shortened and its corners truncated so that the remaining wood became wider as it approached the right and left corners of the outer diamond all these shapes were in contact only at their topmost and bottommost points and those two points were connected by a line extending from the shaft that ran through them to not mince words this is boring one can see the arguments that the premise affords this kind of excessive description of minutiae one might even argue that one of my generic frames the weird with all its lovecraftian detailed definitions of cyclopean etc and non euclidean blah which i do love requires this kind of attention to detail to achieve its ultimate ends i would not just be receptive to these arguments elaborated i would hope they would be compelling enough to rush me back into this novel further the diamond itself was hollowed out in the shape of another diamond with its horizontal diagonal shortened and its corners truncated so that the remaining wood became wider as it approached the right and left corners of the outer diamond though is a high bar to clear though the words have no rhythm they re inert maybe i m wrong i ve read it three times once in the course of things again when i realized it was likely my off ramp and a third when i transcribed it i d be happy to be wrong honestly and lacking the context of that which comes after maybe the structural importance of this bungled image is less than it appears from a genre standpoint maybe the genre signifiers themselves that i am reading into the book are the problem if genre is among other things a frame for reading there are likely things happening here that my frame obscures excludes there are to paraphrase a paraphrase of what is likely itself a paraphrase as many reasons to abandon a book as there are books that have been abandoned by readers but remember here we are talking about where i quit not why there are maybe a thousand books i ve read to completion that i could levy the same close readings against hundreds i m sure i enjoyed dozens i ve loved this long quote below is where i didn t finish this particular book and how it displays prose where only poetry could suffice the why fittingly is much more prosaic standing motionless in the background for a long moment i gazed not at the light s source but at its penumbra that is at the portion of it that managed to escape pierre s shadow and this is what i saw the stalagmite rose straight up from the floor and after narrowing slightly three quarters of the way to its tip swelled again and then came gradually to a point its paired stalactite had almost exactly the same shape they were each about three times as tall as a man the two dripstones were just on the point of touching and melting together and were separated by no more than about two fingerbreadths the gap between them glimmered with a premonition of existence approaching its time it was pregnant with a plenitudinous tension that surpassed even that of existence itself the platform supporting the stalagmite like melted wax had congealed into an undulating pattern its surface just manifesting itself above the water was entirely covered in roses from the stalagmite s root down to water level it goes without saying that flowers are the last thing that one would expect to see inside a cave and these roses were blossoming unaccountably in this one spot only the buds all looked to be just on the point of bursting forth and they were the scarlet color of freshly cut meat fragrance rose from around them as if to announce the coming instant of efflorescence and over them light hung faintly like a veil it was an indescribably strange light after a moment regaining somewhat my presence of mind i moved to one side and settled into a place in the rock wall in an attempt to see its source with my own eyes and then as my perspective shifted the source of the light gradually began to come into view concerning what i am about to describe and by extension everything in my account of the cave if people were to claim that it was nothing but a hallucination i would be unable to disprove their accusations there is no question but that i saw it yet when all is said and done if i were to be told you only saw it i would be at a loss for words or given that as the villagers say there are demons in the forest if it were to be alleged that i had been bewitched by one of them i would have no objections to meekly acknowledging the charge and doing penance before the lord for my weakness indeed how much more desirable that would be than to believe that what i saw actually existed in this world an arm was visible at the top of the giant stalagmite breasts could be seen a downcast face was visible and at the loins a membrum virile the figure wore not a shred of clothing but on its head it bore a crown of thorns intertwined with a snake the thorn flowers like those underfoot glowed scarlet and were on the verge of opening the snake described a circle on the figure s head and on its brow was biting its own tail from the elbows forward and from the knees downward the figure was embedded in the stone and the same appeared to be true of its back looking closely one could see as well that stone appeared to penetrate the gap between the arms and the belly and again the gap between the legs from behind the scrotum and presumably entering at the vulva piercing the flesh and emerging at the nape of the neck there was a richly decorated staff or pole here too could be seen the motif of the snake intertwined with thorns but on the staff there were two snakes and they were biting each other s tails the tip of the staff after it emerged from the nape presented the form of a spear as if a stalagmite had been narrowed and sharpened at the other end on the tail of the shaft emerging from the vulva more detailed craftsmanship was in evidence at the tip there was a knob about the size of a hen s egg on the knob s surface there was an emblem composed of a circle and diamond shape the interior of the circle was hollowed out in the shape of a vertically oriented ellipse and the diamond was positioned therein in contact with the ellipse at its four corners further the diamond itself was hollowed out in the shape of another diamond with its horizontal diagonal shortened and its corners truncated so that the remaining wood became wider as it approached the right and left corners of the outer diamond all these shapes were in contact only at their topmost and bottommost points and those two points were connected by a line extending from the shaft that ran through them the figure s flesh was possessed both of a grace that could be seen most clearly in its ample breasts and of a strength that was most conspicuously apparent in its abdomen and shoulders and the ever so delicate balance between these two conflicting qualities was maintained and secured only by the staff the musculature was fiercely tensed the whole body seemed to be just on the point of being born out of the stone and to be fighting against the forces that threatened to reabsorb it at the same time this aspiration toward motion was being restrained by the resistance of the fatty tissue centered on the breasts the furious muscle embraced by the fat had been brought up short one step away from action in accordance with fat s tendency to seek stillness and stasis this opposition could be seen in the figure s countenance as well the eyelids were closed whether from anguish or from sleep it was impossible to judge the fine lines that could be seen faintly between the brows hinted both at distress and at pleasure and they had entrusted that riddle to the region behind the straight line of the prominent nose hiding it from view forever the area under the eyes was taut and the jaw line like that of an unripe fruit showed no slack the hair that threatened to spread out over the face was like a throng of reptiles or like pure water spilling out of a jug and all of it was bathed in a golden light pp 81 4 labels buzzing off friday january 19 2024 valentine s compilation 9 end the theme of this year s valentine s day compilation is end as always the theme is unimportant use it as inspiration if it works that way or ignore it if it doesn t this might be the last one it might not but that s less likely some background since 2016 fuck the polis have been organizing a compilation released on valentine s day you can find them here pop solidarity extra digging in smash b w pushing through chorus set s and cute these compilations have been home to anything that can be put on audio but music is cool too to be on the comp all you have to do is email me uninterpretative at gmail an audio file preferably wav or aiff but i can make anything work before february 14th and i can probably include it if you have any questions hit up that email or beegabberel or wherever you talk to me wednesday october 4 2023 a war a myth and a genre on more perfect two of the best sf novels i read in 2023 happened to revolve around the orpheus myth in temi oh s more perfect her sophomore after 2019 s nearly perfect do you dream of terra two a young man named orpheus and a young woman named moremi trade point of view chapters in a near future britain where a semi voluntary implant the pulse allows users direct cortex access to the internet the panopticon in the novel s language born to an off the grid freedom fighter of a father orpheus has a decidedly ambivalent relation to the technology moremi s lightly luddite leaning mother drives her to its wholehearted embrace the two navigate their relationships to the tech and the surveillance state it enables to their families or lack thereof to their labor to their bodies and dependencies to their traumas and this is a dual pov novel you have to see this coming to each other in ways that are often profound and always propulsive i read oh s debut three times in fewer years the first time i ve reread a book that avidly since well her work was bound to come up eventually here s to ripping the bandaid off the first three novels in the school saga of the boy who lived the potter septology s influence is worn fairly openly with both of oh s books referencing it explicitly in terra two it is a dogeared latin translation of the first book in more perfect orpheus sees a gorgeous gothic revival hotel that reminds him of it as he s going through withdrawals in a post flood london across the road from st pancras station this reference to the harry potter shop at station 9 3 4s from their website the first ever harry potter shop to open anywhere in the world outside of a themed visitor attraction calls out the souvenir shop aspects of rowling s writing without attributing to temi oh any position whatsoever this reference is in my reading clarifying specifically on the question of inheritance or if you like on the question of anxiety of influence since i can t imagine who would want to be in rowling s line of succession at this point without belaboring the point oh is the better worldbuilder and that s not her primary focus as masterfully demonstrated in terra two and as repeated in more perfect she writes primarily from and for character psychology every character in her novels from the point of view to the supporting cast down to one scene plot movers walks that fine line between being relatable and robust none of them not even the shitty ex boyfriends who don t show up once in a scene feel like anything less than plausible people but they also still function as characters in a story since modernism character and plot have been at war and i think that war still wages but before we get to that war a final note on succession i joked earlier that i couldn t imagine who would want to be rowling s inheritor the joke is that there isn t one like the demon they are legion rowling s inheritance is dead labor witnessed in the style guides of every major publisher s young adult imprint unlike her blockbuster forebear stephen king who racked up so many hits so quickly in a wildly different publishing landscape that he famously became uneditable see the stand complete and uncut rowling became editing itself if you feel inclined to test this hypothesis here is an experiment grab any book by a competent author who has written fiction and young adult since say the turn of the millennium i have a couple authors in mind and i suspect that some others would bear this out as well choose any chapter number read that same chapter in both of the books what you ll find i posit is that the latter are never more developmentally appropriate it will always express the same themes or the ones on the authors mind it will bear the same cultural and literary assumptions the author requires of any reader of their fiction and will though it may require squinting sometimes to blur the sanded down edges still be solidly paced writing with some standout sentences what you will also find across the author function is a thumb on the scale when i read young adult fiction that thumb has a very defined affect it is condescension no matter the author no matter the publisher but mattering very much the genre the young adult novel treats its r...