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Double Penetration

When her great-grandmother asked who the father was, María Expósito remembered a kind of delicious abyss and had a very clear vision: She saw herself, small but mysteriously strong, able to take three men at once. They hurl themselves on me panting like dogs, she thought, from in front and behind so that I can hardly breathe and their cocks are enormous, they're the cocks of Mexico's peasant revolution, but inside I'm bigger than them all and they'll never conquer me. -Roberto Bolaño, Woes of the True Policeman, 182

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Mirrors of the True Policeman

The shirt was green with swaying palm trees and blue waves tipped with the purest white foam and red convertibles and white hotels and yellow cake and tourists dressed in Hawaiian shirts identical to the Great Hawaiian Shirt with swaying palm trees and blue waves and red convertibles as if infinitely repeated in a pair of facing mirrors. No, not infinitely, thought Amalfitano. In one of the reflections, one of the layers, the tourists would be unsmiling, their shirts black. -Roberto Bolaño, Woes of the True Policeman, 79

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Parallels

We had slipped into a strange kind of time: a kind that, instead of passing, accumulated. -Sam Thompson, Communion Town, 14 (2012)

Έτσι ο χρόνος δεν κυλούσε, αλλά συσσωρευόταν μέρα με την ημέρα, νεκρός και αποσυντεθειμένος όπως οι μυρωδιές των αλλαντικών σ' ένα υπόγειο κελάρι. -Ευγένιος Αρανίτσης, Λεπτομέρειες για το Τέλος του Κόσμου, 45 (1993)

Time did not seem to pass as much as build, slowly gathering weight.

-Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street, 126 (1973)

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Watch this entity closely. There are things to come.

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Polite Social Conversation

I make it a rule never to give people favorable opinions of their work – not even those exceptional, open-minded people who admire my theories concerning reality and its dissolution through polite social conversation.

―Donald Antrim, The Verificationist, 7

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Audience

“Which is to say, Laney, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan’s audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old  boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”

―William Gibson, Idoru, 28

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Dubrovnik, 1991

"You can always see an ancient city better when it’s been bombed." -William Gaddis, The Recognitions, 910

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Bedtime

5. Poets go to bed earliest, followed by short story writers, then novelists. The habits of playwrights are unknown. source

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Perpetual Machines

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -Alfréd Rényi

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Forward the Panopticon!

"There are no secrets here in the Panopticon."

-Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon, 21

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"Sold it all on eBay, dahlin, movin with the times." "For 1.98, come on." "For more than you would ever dream. Nothing dies anymore, the collectors' market, it's the afterlife, and yups are its angels." -Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, 435

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"Steak tartare arrives; when I ask him how it is, he says, 'It's the next best thing to cunnilingus.'" source

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"Everybody is still walking around stunned, having spent the previous day sitting or standing in front of television screens, at home, in bars, at work, staring like zombies, unable in any case to process what they were seeing. A viewing population brought back to its default state, dumbstruck, undefended, scared shitless." -Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, 321

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To be men not destroyers. -Ezra Pound, former last line of the Cantos (fragment)

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Video loop made by the Flight Mechanic for the launch party of Pilotless Press' second release, This Coming Fall, by Matthew Winston. Order yours today here.

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This Coming Fall (Excerpt)

So let’s turn our attention to the wonderful world of television. The fall season may be starting next week, but the battle of the buzz is already hot hot hot! Which reality shows are going to have us all talking, and which are going to have us all snoring? Well, new on The Coyote Network for Thursday nights at 21:00, we have Plantation, in which contestants will be competing to last the longest living like real old-time slaves on a traditional Georgia cotton plantation. Last man standing will receive “40 acres and a mule” – one luxurious mansion set on a 40 acre estate, and “The Mule”, a special, limited edition black-on-black Hummer. The hype for this show has been intense, with the promise of live broadcasts of whipping, hot-boxing and sexual abuse sure to make this format an even bigger hit than last season’s controversial smash, The Camp, which is also set to make a return to Coyote. QBS, not to be outdone, offers a novel twist on the job-application reality show with Who Wants to Clean up after a Millionaire? This new approach to a beloved format will see contestants compete to become multi-millionaire businessman Enron Hubbard’s personal valet. The network also claims to have completely revamped the aspirational talent show, Superstar Academy, following disappointing ratings last year. The new and improved format, which industry insiders are saying will make this the music show to watch, will place greater emphasis on fashion, style, and on the contestants’ ability to keep the media’s attention, no matter what it takes. Expect substance abuse, controversial rants and violent, reckless behaviour, and that’s not even counting that this year, every contestant will have to star in a high-quality sex tape as they all fight to stay in the spotlight. I don’t know about you, but I can hardly wait…

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The Mundane History of Lockwood Heights, second printing. Available October 9th.