making unapologetic nods

"Making Unapologetic Nods," March 15, 2022 (#74)

title from "Trenton Doyle Hancock Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass" (2019)

first line from Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger (2019)

Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth (1968)

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy (1983)

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (1965)

Self-Help by Lorrie Moore (1985)

last line from The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood (2004)

Making Unapologetic Nods

There was no reason to assume it belonged to the dying


or it may cast further and subtler lights upon the things it describes;


he will repeat it; his lips will move silently while he frowns and


then there was the silence: no use shouting! Without any air to


make attempts at a less restrictive arrangement,


it was of course imaginable that much goes on in the mind of


the magnetic field of the earth and the gravitational attraction of


the interminable series of events that followed, even down to the


stark cemented lines, startling as the curves in a mountain road


still in some pain, not from the venom but from superfluous


nuclear disarmament, and so on. You are both aware that


I was in a position to explain everything that had happened, and


wonder how the hell you ended up here. The computer, apparently,


meant for the rough-and-tumble of the swim; not impossibly I


skip back into space, out of singular self in a singular place back into


a meager satisfaction, this time—of being the first to be aware of it:


come here please and take care of


a bit of autobiographical justification.


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