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"The novel’s major theme, a world disenchanted of God (Delillo in Mao II: ‘when the Old God goes, they pray to flies and bottle tops’) is handled in such a heavy-handed manner it’s impossible to imagine how its hand could be heavier, short of restaging the whole novel on the surface of a white dwarf star."

“Farrago

The housings fall so low they graze the ground
And hide our human legs. False legs hang down
Outside. Dance in a horse’s hide for a punctured god.

We killed and roasted one. And now he haunts the air,
Invisible, creates the world again, lights the bright star
And hurls the thunderbolt. His body and his blood

Hurries the harvest. Through the tall grain,
Toward nightfall, these cold tears of his come down like rain,
Spotting and darkening.— I sit in a bar

On Tenth Street writing down these lies
In the worst winter of my life. A damp snow
Falls against the pane. When everything dies

The days all end alike. The sound
Of breaking goes on faintly all around
Outside and inside. Where I go,

The housings fall so low they graze the ground
And hide our human legs. False legs hang down
Outside. Dance in a horse’s hide. Dance in the snow."

—Weldon Kees

Demogorgan Theme (Upside Down).

"a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe" —@segyges.bsky.social

"Rooney said the ban on Palestine Action under terrorism laws also had far reaching consequences for her as an author and her right to free expression." (via @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social)