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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