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Sewing Shut My Eyes (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Sewing Shut My Eyes (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Loot Price R460
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A tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle Sewing Shut My Eyes is a
tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle--nine darkly satiric
out-takes of America tubing. Visions of mid-air synchronicities,
robotic cockroaches, cyborg poets and one monstrous HDTV, all
rendered in a hypo-manic style of electrified clauses and
full-throttle patter. Here's Mona Sausalito, self-proclaimed
"fricking gorgeous" bad-little-girl for Escort a la Mode and, on
the side, Neogoth lyricist in the band of her boyfriend Mosh ("His
real name is Marvin Goldstein"). Mona wants to be a poet. "I write
about human sacrifices, cannibalism, vampires, and stuff. Mosh
loves my work. He says we're all going to be famous some day. Only
right now we're not, which bites, cuz I've been writing for like
almost ten months. These things take time, I guess." Olsen
hallucinates a turned-on, channel-surfing nation where pain has
become home theater and given enough channels, watching would beat
sex. A nameless agent of the ultimate phantom bureaucracy holds his
Yeltsin-70 at the ready and recalls O.J. on trial, supermodels and
styrofoam landscapes, America screening fast and addictive. In the
title story, Kerwin Penumbro wakes on his birthday to the ultimate
tv, the renowned Mitsubishi Stealth, and at a point thirty-three
thousand feet above the triangulation of Iron Lightning, Faith, and
Thunder Butte, SD, Itty Snibb, supremely confident dwarf and
prosperous entrepreneur, prepares to meet God. These are fictions
for minds lit with cathode-ray tubes, hands pixilated with static,
for bodies that have become switching stations for the Society of
the Spectacle. The only thing left to do is start sewing shut our
eyes.
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