A Goth art-car. (via memepool)

"If in the future we have the development
of a fairly broad counter-sphere of
heteronymous practices that begin to freely
circulate alongside the habitual province of
'empirical' and genetic ascription --a kind
of parallel poetic economy, if you will, one
not beholden to the relations of production
and exchange of the official literary culture--
then I think Motokiyu's work* will be seen as
having made an important contribution." --Kent
Johnson
[I tend to agree; there is a very interesting
dialectic possible between the poetry of "identity"/
"authenticity" & poetries of "mask" & "hoax"...If
one wishes to give a name to this dialectic, i
suggest that "Baconian Shakespeare" sums up
its challenges & rewards.] [More.]

Listening to: Gliere-"Russian Sailors' Dance", from
The Red Poppy [One of the most haunting
melodies in classical music, this had been familiar
to me from cartoon childhood, but i never knew
its composer or the name of it until recently.]

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*referring to the hoax-book Doubled Flowering:
From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada