2024.05.29 footnotes (2nd greatly expanded edition)
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review of
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's "footnotes (2nd greatly expanded edition)"
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - April 15, 2024
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6430153084
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210485307-footnotes
I've been writing seriously since I was 13. The only juvenilia that's survived my early purges are my high school yrbk entries. Those are written about in the earliest section of this bk. Taking those into consideration that means that writing from 1968 to 2024 is presented here, 56 yrs' worth. This is my Magnum Opus. While I may live long enuf to write many more bks that's far from assured, I'm 70. This bk is expensive, it's 907pp, there's some color. I don't know of any other bk like it. The diversity of the content is enormous, it's full of ideas & deliberately void of almost everything that I find shallow & manipulative (&, therefore, popular w/ people who prefer being led around by the nose). If you have an open mind, an inquiring intellect, & a hunger for original ideas presented in detail & w/ skill then this bk is probably for you. Chances are, both liberals AND conservatives will dislike it, anyone who doesn't think for themself. Free Thinkers, on the other archibras, will probably love it & garner some hope from a life spent in resistance to oversimplification, to normalized stupidity. YOU ARE NOT AN ALGORITHM, please don't act like one - the human algorithms are major contributors to the death of human intelligence. AU, Artificial Unintelligence, is just that: it's driven by big business & little humans just get in the way.
This is my 20th bk (not including chapbks). You probably won't find it here on my Goodreads author's page b/c Goodreads refuses to allow my name, "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE", to be not steam-rollered over by stupidity. Hence, there's a "Tentatively A Convenience" author on Goodreads now associated w/ 5 of my bks.
My 1st bk, "t he bk / t he referent 4 wch consists of / t he non-materialized transparent punch-out from a letter/ whatever stencil", is the 1st bk addressed in "footnotes (2nd". Elements of it are explained in detail that no-one wd've been likely to figure out on their own. That bk, written roughly from ages 21-23, is unlike any other bk by anyone that I've ever seen. It doesn't have a cover image or the title on it anywhere. That's perverse. I was once told by a bkstore manager that he preferred buying bks w/ fixed prices. That was a no, that was long ago. Recently, a bkstore owner just told me he wasn't "interested". That was also a no but one rife w/ undercurrents of hostility. Why? B/c it's possible to be too different, to have ideas & modes of presentation that just. don't. conform. We're not talking about proposing selling babies into sexual slavery here, we're talking about not having an image or title on the cover, formal things, things that make the object seem not quite (commercially) real.
A later bk, "Telepathy Receptivity Training", consists entirely of phrases thought of while awakening, phrases collected over decades. This presentation of that bk presents all the phrases (& images) from the 1st incarnation of the bk + other phrases harvested after that bk's presentation.
Another very important section of the bk is the new version of "Reactionary Muddle America". This is a detailed analysis of what I almost call the "minutes to a lynch mob meeting", a reaction to hate expressed against me that, for me, shows just how hopelessly brainwashed people usually are.
The more recently released bks excerpted from in the compilation have some slight addenda added to them to enable me to include things I neglected to include in the original bk(s). That includes, e.g., a rubber stamp that I left out of "Rubber Stamps vs World Dominators!!!!!". There's always more work.
While the formal nature of the work varies dramatically, the overall motivation of challenging stultifying aspects of societal norms & subverting them stays fairly constant. I have an imagination, it's very important to me, I intend to use it. I'll die sooner rather than later but in the meantime I'm leaving behind as much of my personal revolution as I have the energy for. When I die, if my work isn't completely made to disappear as much as possible, the THOUSANDS or TENS OF THOUSANDS of intricate & original works, then someone who doesn't deserve it might possibly benefit where I failed to do so. However, it just might be possible that these hypothetical beneficiaries will be those I've designated as such. I hope so.
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Here're some sample pages:
idioideo at gmail dot com
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Anti-Neoism page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Audiography page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Bibliography page
to my "Blaster" Al Ackerman index
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE BYOC page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Censored or Rejected page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Collaborations page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (d) compositions page
to Amir-ul Kafirs' Facebook page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's GoodReads profile
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Haircuts page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Home Tapers page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE index page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Instagram Poetry page
to a listing of tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's manifestations on the Internet Archive
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as Interviewee index
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as Interviewer index
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE'S Linked-In profile
to the mm index
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Neoism page
to the DEFINITIVE Neoism/Anti-Neoism website
to the Philosopher's Union website
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Score Movies
to SMILEs
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to Psychic Weed's Twitter page
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Vimeo index
to Vine movies relevant to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE made by Ryan Broughman
to tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's presence in the Visual Music Village
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to a very small selection of tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Writing