RE: [microsound] ot: info on suicide

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:11 PM +0000 5/25/04, ian stewart wrote:
> not completely related, but david markson's 'reader's block' and 
> 'this is not a novel' might make for interesting reading. written 
> from the p-o-v of a narrator in his final days, they're both full of 
> anecdotes about the deaths and suicides of well-known artists, 
> writers, composers, etc. going back to a thread from many moons ago, 
> i also would consider markson's recent books very 'micro', in the 
> sense that they're assembled from short fragments and paragraphs of 
> text, rather than as a flowing narrative. brilliant work, especially 
> 'wittgenstein's mistress'.

Well - first Kim's well timed reference to Max Headroom's blipverts 
(no longer twenty minutes into the future), now Markson's 
"Wittgenstein's Mistress" - and in a single week.  Perhaps somewhere 
in this microscopy fits Ernst-Wilhelm Handler's "City With Houses," 
but where?  For self made ends - and means to achieve them if not to 
justify them - a search for the Hemlock Society on line would seem a 
promising start.

np - Piano Magic "Low Birth Weight"
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Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/

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