The Tapeworm Foundry [excerpt]
insinuate that much can be learned from the fact that jackson pollock is known to have held a job cleaning bird shit off of statues in the parks of new york state andor floccinaucinihilipilificate andor shut up and die like an aviator andor do a thelma and louise ending andor work out your own salvation with diligence andor begin to be sure that if you could only go on long enough and talk and hear and look and see and feel enough and long enough you could finally describe really describe every kind of human being that ever was or is or would be living andor work not on the spectacle of the end but on the end of the spectacle andor be okay with an umlaut andor duplicate the eventual financial success of duddy kravitz by marketing diet pills which contain nothing save for a tiny tapeworm andor refuse to go off into a possible future but instead arrive out of that future so as to make the future present in the arrival of your words andor see yourself as nothing more than a very simple vicious circle andor write a book of portmanteaus about an embalmed irishman in which the last sentence ending in midphrase loops back to link up with the first sentence beginning in midphrase so that the book completes a cycle with itself restarting with the words riverrun past eve and adams but leaving in their wake all of the fragments of a language yet to be combined like so much flotsam and
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