2024.08.30 Wrjtjng spelled w/ a "q" (volume 1: 1969-2002)
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by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - August 30, 2024
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This is my 21st bk. It's conjoined w/ my 22nd, the 2nd volume. Usually when I 'review' my bks I don't really say that much about them, I don't go to the great lengths that I do w/ many of my reviews of other people's bks. I don't even always give them 5 stars! However, in this case, if I cd give this bk / these bks 25 stars I wd. "Wrjtjng spelled w/ a "q"" is absolutely extraordinary, there's essentially nothing else like it that I know of. It display more ideas than you'd find in a pile of completely burnt encyclopedias. In the past, I've used James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" to set the bar for most complex & original writing. Now, something like 48 yrs after I finished reading the "Wake", I put my own Wrjtjng spelled w/ a "q" at the top. IMO, I spent the 55 yrs that went into it well. Here's the table of contents for this 1st volume:
Table with a knife balanced on it that doesn't move even though it's at sea
1956 Dream..................................................................................016
1969 Encoded Yearbook Self-Description...................................017
1973 Student Flowchart..............................................................021
1975 Briefcase.............................................................................022
1975 Briefcase: language such as this.......................................024
1975 Briefcase: T HE...................................................................025
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Book....................................................026
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing folder.................................034
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (f), (g)................................035
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (g).....................................036
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (t)......................................037
1976 Briefcase; Spiral Time Writing: (v).....................................038
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (z)......................................044
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (gg)...................................048
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (hh)...................................049
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (jj).....................................050
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (kk)...................................051
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (ll).....................................052
1976 Briefcase: Spiral Time Writing: (nn)...................................054
1976 Briefcase: tape transfer.....................................................056
1976 Briefcase: Transparency Book...........................................057
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 1: ethy 1. alcohol.....................066
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 1: nubdgertsyuogil...................067
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 1: sedentary.............................077
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 1: STUFFED HER MOUTH.........078
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 1: worst feces..........................080
1976 Briefcase: Untitled folder 1: yrhfiutm.................................081
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: ditto,rip,tape........................082
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: Letraset Rubbing.................083
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: saHarA.................................084
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: Selectric VisPo....................085
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: Mud Letter...........................086
1976 Briefcase: Untitled Folder 2: Smudges..............................087
1976: Briefcase: woe green.........................................................088
1976: Briefcase: zeta roti grid.....................................................089
1976/2024: Signing Mikey's Copy................................................090
1976 Briefcase: 1. 4 u..................................................................096
1976 Briefcase: I'm thinking that...............................................097
1976/1996.11 Stimulants/Depressants.......................................098
1977 Briefcase: Joyce used 17 yrs.............................................122
1977 Briefcase: Palindrome........................................................123
1977 Briefcase: perversion a magazine.....................................124
1977 Briefcase: Vocabulary Lesson #1......................................125
1977 Briefcase: Work(ing) from Models......................................126
1978 Briefcase: Connect-the-Letters: a thing involving audio tape, tape playing machine, 2 cushioned seat speaker cabinets, 2 paid book-ends, emptied pockets & pocket-books, books, a book-shelf, & an audience? advertisement................................127
1978 Briefcase: Connect-the-letters...........................................128
1978 Briefcase: nuclear brain physics surgery's cool lesion #1 cover............................................................................................135
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: Now, don't.....136
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: early idea.......137
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: I M SIC...........138
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: i refer 2 it.......141
1978/2021 EYE LEVEL.................................................................142
1978.06.28 Briefcase: 1st 2........................................................147
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: Inter Symbols.148
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: l dy ln.............149
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: PLEASURE ERASURE......................................................................................149
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: relaxation.......150
1978 Briefcase; Formally Experimental Writing: ST ART...........151
1978 Briefcase: Formally Experimental Writing: Wri! ti, ng.152
1978 Briefcase: frankly, frankly..................................................153
1978 Briefcase: His Heroin Eyes.................................................154
1978 Briefcase: International Symbols Book..............................155
1978-1979 Briefcase: Ripley's Believe It Ot Not!........................175
1979 Briefcase: Chain Letter.......................................................184
1979 Briefcase: cover all signs...................................................185
1979 Briefcase: especially so that..............................................185
1979 Briefcase: heat transfer FoRs............................................186
1979: Play Out Regress...............................................................187
1979? Briefcase: Medical Records..............................................201
1979.01 duoOaccident review.....................................................209
1979.02.10 Briefcase: NEA Grant Application............................210
1979.04 Rawz cover....................................................................231
1979.12 MD Arts Council Grant Application...............................232
1980 ADVICE................................................................................247
1980 Wrench Wrench...................................................................248
1981 Fan Clubs envelope............................................................249
1981 plenial wer..........................................................................250
1981.01/2024.06.29 Conversation Piece....................................254
1981 prikalkulilo ktp....................................................................260
1981 rare idea money..................................................................266
1981? ERASURE..........................................................................267
1982 abbr in plaintext.................................................................268
1982 A DOUBLE NEGATIVE AS NOT A POSITIVE.......................269
1982 P@........................................................................................273
1982 19 Carney............................................................................274
1982.01.09 FoR Cards for EAR INN Reading..............................275
1982.07 Bisected Picture............................................................287
1983 "Bob" = brain over brawn...................................................288
1983 "Sound Along w/ t he Bounding Ball(s)" title scroll........289
1983.04 Japan Blood................................................................291
1984 Form Love Letter (English)..............................................292
1984 Form Love Letter (Spanish).............................................293
1985 SEE-SAW..........................................................................294
1986 Deaf Education SMILE.....................................................300
1988 COGS................................................................................304
1988 Compliance Technologies...............................................305
1988 Corrected Dyslexia (w/ John Sheehan)...........................306
1989 Art Strike (w/ John Sheehan)...........................................308
1991.01 Gulf Honkies...............................................................313
1991 Your Horoscope...............................................................314
1992 Puzzle Writing..................................................................317
1992.10 batswan waystar........................................................326
1992 Gold Flag of Near Neologisms.........................................327
1996.03.10 Upping the Anti-School of Up, Up & Away............328
1996.07 The Postman Always Rings the Homunculous of Woody Allen & Hollis Frampton Twice.................................................330
1997 Egy Gyümölcsérlö.............................................................338
1997.02.16 letter to Doug Skinner re Outsider Writing...........346
1997 Poesie Totale......................................................................350
1997 Lost in Translation..............................................................352
1997.09.04 Air Drop #1................................................................366
1997.10 Stale Urine review.........................................................369
1998 In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist 1.......375
1998 Last Word for Edge Wise.....................................................389
1998.02.24 A Homance Novel.....................................................390
1998.08.27 Reading at Fuel & Fuddle.........................................391
1998.09.04 Air Drop #2................................................................394
1999 Shuffle Mode.......................................................................398
1999 Street Rat stickers.............................................................412
2002.12.05 Courtney & Babs discuss "Cuntralia"......................414
Many of these works have appeared in other bks & magazines. Chances are, however, that none of the readers of "Wrjtjng" will have ever seen any of those publications. As such, these will all be fresh to you.
As I write in the introduction:
"As will be obvious in this book, I think about language in a very broad sense. For one thing, I write in at least 40 languages, not just English. I don't do this because I speak or read these languages, I do this because I think languages in general are interesting and I try to pursue that interest with an imagination."
One might ask: What languages? I've never listed them before so I'll try to do so here:
volume 1:
01. American Sign Language
02. Arabic
03. bar codes
04. Czech
05. Danish
06. Dutch
07. English
08. Esperanto
09. Finnish
10. French
11. German
12. Greek
13. Hungarian
14. Hebrew
15. Indonesian
16. International Symbols
17. Italian
18. Japanese
19. Norwegian
20. Polish
21. Portuguese
22. Rumanian
23. Russian
24. Serbo-Croatian
25. Spanish
26. Swahili
27. Swedish
28. Turkish
29. Yiddish
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