J. H. Prynne

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@Linebaugh

 

[luka]

@Corpsey

 

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My copy smells a bit like fish.

 

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I think it's the glue.

 

[luka]

 

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"A vampiric, right-wing, gown-wearing English don": I found this in a copy of Harpers & Queen from 1982.

 

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You will fall deeply in love with his book. Tell Limburger and your other Amercian friends to get one so wpthey can join in

which book?

 

[luka]

which book?

Poems: [third edition]: Prynne, J.H.: 9781780371542: Amazon.com: Books

Poems: [third edition] [Prynne, J.H.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Poems: [third edition]

www.amazon.com

 

[luka]

version has just got his copy. he's absolutely bowled over by it. can't stop touching it.

 

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I read A Note on Metal on the toilet.

 

[luka]

I read A Note on Metal on the toilet.

infinitely suggestive yet also incomprehensible

 

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The poem or that I read it on the toilet?

 

[luka]

essay really isnt it

 

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I don't understand how he can write so clearly whilst making so little sense. It isn't the incomprehensibility of theory where handfuls of jargon are thrown at you or poetry or fiction. It's like reading a history paper written by a dodgy AI.

 

[luka]

I don't understand how he can write so clearly whilst making so little sense. It isn't the incomprehensibility of theory where handfuls of jargon are thrown at you or poetry or fiction. It's like reading a history paper written by a dodgy AI.

the more you look at that essay the less sense it makes.

 

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I think what makes it so difficult is that they're real words, they read like actual sentences, but they're just not in any order I've ever seen before. I feel like I'm being simultaneously pushed and pulled because it's encouraging me to read them as I would anything else, but they don't conform to a pattern that allows me to. With Finnegans Wake, there's a sort of musicality to it. With this, it's almost like reading an academic paper where all the words fell off the page and someone hurriedly stuck them back on wherever they could.

 

[Corpsey]

A perfect example of Anyone who takes up this book will, we expect, have done so because at the back of the mind he has a half formed belief that there is something in it.

Especially when you've got luka standing over you with a cattleprod

 

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The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts is another strange one. Professor Lichen.

 

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What are the essential poems?

 

[luka]

what is quality?

The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts is another strange one. Professor Lichen.

that's heavily involved with his friend of the time Rupert Sheldrake