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"A SYMMYST is someone with whom you are embroiled in a mystery or secret." --@HaggardHawks

Ice. Somehow i think of this as a Vaporwave book*...Then the question arises: can there be Vaporwave by anticipation? Once i start thinking, other titles flow. The City in the Middle of the Night (for its theme of a trapped-rotation world). Gray & its sequel Yarn, by the inimitable Jon Armstrong (for the Fashionpunk). Moderan, of course (who anticipated much of the 21c). Perhaps among poets: Herrera y Reissig, Adelaide Crapsey (who only wore gray). Definitely the TV show UFO (1970)--& thus the star 70 Ophiuchi as well. Of Being Numerous. Musicians like YMO, Gary Numan, Lene Lovich (wherever New Wave gets most spacey). Bill Knott who most resembles our Vallejo. Not Vallejo himself. Ysabeau Wilce is pretty far out there (i'll let the pirates pass). Catherynne Valente's Radiance with its delicious silent-film evocation of Pluto. Lyssa Wolsak, Kristin Ryling among contemporary poets... I suppose Hell of the Cyr & all that project. Allison Parrish's Articulations. The Lojban language.

"So what about the poetry that continues to be written by humans? Parrish calls it ‘intention-typical poetry’."

piebald pavement mockingbird
doorbell still though left behind
a wisp on the wind
you brandish gray ash from sticks
of myrrh & crop circle snaps

the dawn likewise proffers nil
but debt paper blessings torn
you whisper doorbell ring
the antique turquoise cathode screen
has surf-harrowed burbclave vibes

Speaking of Lojban, i see that la sutysisku now automatically generates the zbalermorna spellings of words. Are people really using that? When you can also do Featural Lojban Abjad?

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* i haven't read Code Beast yet