Sunday, June 22, 2008
Parasitic Lit
This was a fun project that Steve Finbow invited me to be part of: Parasitic Lit. The entire Joycean text is comprised of first sentences from abandoned stories. My line, "the air and the winds are the sea-goddess's dreams" was from a project that never got beyond that first line and some notes. I had ambitiously intended to write a whole mythology of Taiwan. (One can guess why that didn't work out. How does one set out to write an entire mythology? Transcribe one, or finish reading one, maybe...)
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You should totally write the mythology!
ReplyDeleteSeconded. As a series of short stories, perhaps: the sea-goddess, the mountain god, the patron saint of tea leaves. Little provincial gods toying with the aboriginal people, terrorized into extinction by the mainland newcomers. etc.
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