The eagle-eyed among you will notice that the image on the video is the cover of #BSJohnson 's singular avant-garde nihilistic novel Christie Malry's Own Double-entry, the not-entirely successful film of which I've been meaning to watch for some time now: 2/4
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It's all very well trying to escape the tyranny of narrative, but what to do when the only way out seems to be to try & emulate #BSJohnson & 'The Unfortunates'?
"It is so easy to invent, by mistake, not remember what was there, what is truly remembered?"
✒️ #BSJohnson, English author, poet, and critic, was #BOTD 5 February 1933. #Literature
No gambling required.
Or beer tokens now.
Nor in the #f #future
#b BRAVE
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Edward Gorey’s The Helpless Doorknob
BS Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch are famous examples of books with chapters to be read in any order. Here’s Edward Gorey’s The Helpless Doorknob, a story printed on 20 cards which are shuffled before reading. It’s gorgeous. #edwardgorey #fiction #bsjohnson
Finished #TheUnfortunates
#BSJohnson
The difficulty is to understand without generalization...
generalization is to lie, to tell lies….
Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us.
#TheUnfortunates
#BSJohnson
…she phoned me to say that Tony was very low, needed taking out of himself…how a common expression can become so like a philosophical statement…in this case,he himself wanted to be taken out of that now alien body…the cells multiplying…destroying him and themselves.
"It is so easy to invent, by mistake, not remember what was there, what is truly remembered?"
✒️ #BSJohnson, English author, poet, and critic, was #BOTD 5 February 1933. #Literature
The difficulty is to understand without generalization,to see each piece of received truth,or generalization,as true only if it is true for me,solipsism again,I come back to it again, and for no other reason. In general, generalization is to lie,to tell lies.
#TheUnfortunates
#BSJohnson
We fondly believe that there is going to be a reckoning,a day upon which all injustices are evened out…But we shall die untidily…Even if we understand that all is chaos, the understanding itself represents a denial of chaos,and must therefore be an illusion.
#ChristieMalrysOwnDoubleEntry
#BSJohnson
