Wednesday, April 11, 2007

literal negations versus literary negations


A literary negation is to conceptualise with passages missing or, in "avant gard" work suddenly deleting some convention of the novel and why (modern life moving so quickly, etc; negating introduction; tanks negating eddie or andy; logic negating; charachter negating possibilities. Yesterday I looked up and old name Michael Dean who has self published a couple of novels (http://kittyfeet.com/) pretty useful guy with a hole do-it-yourself industry thus the plug; also recommends http://ww.lulu.com/ for the self publisher.

He is firmly in the post punk hall of fame (have to write and ask if he perceives himself as post punk or not; he has been in bands)

ok, literal, found these from the http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/pleasekillme1/
which, sort of an old timers clubs, all the old punks and, one link:
http://johnnyt13.tripod.com/id9.html
I am a big Johny Thunders fan; actually assumed he had died much earlier.
quite lurid. negation in both senses; negated the self the aethete would clame...

Finally, my own literary negation for the day:

WALDO SMITH NEGATED a surrealist murder mystery

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His cohort Jacques who he said played the guitar interjected: ”Don’t do that!” “I woke up Sunday with a dead body next to me man, check it out – he was dead, some old guy. I passed out after the party in one of the old studios and…when I woke…there was a dead body there.
It was a long, narrow bar, and still a good ten feet down to where Wayne was standing. ”Call the cops?” Shook his head no. “Still there?” Oh, I told someone.” “That’s a great relief.” I finished off my beer. ”I’m gonna leave now, anything else new?” “I think we got a loft, Babet here and a friend…gonna be great.” ”Keep me posted.” “Me too” his friend Jacques said- I’m out a here- he does this all the time!” ”Didn’t kill him for a drink did you?” “I told somebody…”

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