tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389998901432761549.post4395835705806119496..comments2023-11-07T05:30:15.573-05:00Comments on experiential-experimental-literature: novel excerpt || John PurschPeter Ganickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11676556219845102578noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389998901432761549.post-53094936589753959812013-01-26T15:18:47.197-05:002013-01-26T15:18:47.197-05:00Our beloved creator and novelist, John Pursch (Mom...Our beloved creator and novelist, John Pursch (Momo is his stand-in until her creations take over) has created his version of a cybernetic Frankenstein: remixing and rebooting Marilyn Monroe and JFK and Ronald Reagan and Martin Luther King (aka MLK, aka Marty) for our reading pleasure. It is a composite world of hologrammatic fun and . . . well . . . er . . . more fun. Fun creating symbiotic-robot-media clones of clones. LANGUAGE remixing and cloning!<br /><br />It is like the movie “The Fly” – where everything gets all mixed up. In the case of the movie, a man and a fly. In the case of this prose-poetry novel excerpt, Momo is creating something monstrously entertaining: an arbitrary celebrity hologram of MM, JFK, RR, and MLK. Identity is a computerized media invention. But no anguish or judgment involved. It is FUN, and gets lots of MEDIA attention.<br /><br />But the novel does get serious: “ . . . hip-deep in hypocrisy and halitosis . . . The uhh current global situation is an incredibly profligate mess, a wildly inefficient, sprawling debacle, taking down continental jungles, ice caps, planets of neglect, barren moons yawning and winking, admiring the incessant, insatiable repetition of creative destruction, of deadly reproduction, of mindless lunacy.”<br /><br />Just kidding. Not serious. Not a care in the world. That’s ‘cuz we are “Hip-Deep” in symbiotic, cybernetic, composite fun.<br /><br />Even better: In the end, the creations, MM and JFK, are running the show!<br /><br />The writing of William Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch” comes to mind – wild satire that helps us see the world we live in more clearly. This is a brilliant piece of writing! <br /><br />Raymond Keen<br />http://raymondkeen.com/<br />Raymond Keenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10625444145867748278noreply@blogger.com