Saturday Link Dump

Some hypertext fiction / web art....
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"My Boyfriend Came Back From the War" by Olia Lialina

"Self-Portrait as Child with Father" by Edward Falco

"Girl Birth Water Death" by Martha Conway

"Reach" by Michael Joyce

"My body a wunderkammer" by Shelley Jackson

Transfigure (My favorite is "All is Full of Love" by Chris Cunningham)


These were taken from pomo lit course materials taught by Dr. Elias at University of TN in 2007.
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Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman):

Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.

Chuck Palahniuk (Rant, 2007)

The individual has...

always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Until a man is twenty-five...

he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to vengeance. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Hiro used to feel that way too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way this is liberating. The position is taken. Sometimes it's all right just to be a little bad.

Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, 1992)