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    Gary J. Shipley THEORETICAL ANIMALS 9781935402701 "Shipley demonstrates what can and ought to be done when even the most mundane subject phrasings are charged with meaningful expression. These densely crafted aphoristic vignettes are prose specimens, like key slides to the biologist or perplexing curia to the relic-collector and alchemist. Each of these dislocated cryptozoological fragments follows its own transverse evolution, a sensuous realism that conducts its own exploration without constraining appeal to genesis or end goal. — Kane X. Faucher, author of Jonkil Dies A work of exceptional quality. — E. Elias Merhige. Dir. Begotten and Shadow of the Vampire Beggars, fortune tellers, barge captains, bloated corpses, and the ominous tolling of church bells hover anachronistically over a bleakly existential world whose once-physically-present signs have been reduced to html code, rss feeds and online ad campaigns. Such is the dark side of our celebrity technotopia explored in the densely lyrical prose comprising Gary J. Shipley's Theoretical Animals, a tour de force of historical and philosophical meditation on a world teetering at the brink of its own disappearance. —Michael Kelleher, author of Human Scale and To Be Sung Shipley’s writing is important because it’s a fearless attempt to advance the art of literature, to force us to breathe something, to drown in something, to bloody our hands. It’s an unforgettable experience. — 3:AM Magazine " Gary J. Shipley is a writer and philosopher based in the UK. He has published work in various philosophy journals and literary journals.

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    Gary J. Shipley THEORETICAL ANIMALS 9781935402701 "Shipley demonstrates what can and ought to be done when even the most mundane subject phrasings are charged with meaningful expression. These densely crafted aphoristic vignettes are prose specimens, like key slides to the biologist or perplexing curia to the relic-collector and alchemist. Each of these dislocated cryptozoological fragments follows its own transverse evolution, a sensuous realism that conducts its own exploration without constraining appeal to genesis or end goal. — Kane X. Faucher, author of Jonkil Dies A work of exceptional quality. — E. Elias Merhige. Dir. Begotten and Shadow of the Vampire Beggars, fortune tellers, barge captains, bloated corpses, and the ominous tolling of church bells hover anachronistically over a bleakly existential world whose once-physically-present signs have been reduced to html code, rss feeds and online ad campaigns. Such is the dark side of our celebrity technotopia explored in the densely lyrical prose comprising Gary J. Shipley's Theoretical Animals, a tour de force of historical and philosophical meditation on a world teetering at the brink of its own disappearance. —Michael Kelleher, author of Human Scale and To Be Sung Shipley’s writing is important because it’s a fearless attempt to advance the art of literature, to force us to breathe something, to drown in something, to bloody our hands. It’s an unforgettable experience. — 3:AM Magazine " Gary J. Shipley is a writer and philosopher based in the UK. He has published work in various philosophy journals and literary journals.

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    ALPHAVILLE

    Peter Jay Shippy

    BlazeVOX [books]
    Buffalo, New York

    Copyright 2005 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed by CafePress.com in the United States of America

    Book design by Geoffrey Gatza

    First Edition

    A burning candle drains echoes from golden haulms. I just keep losing my noise. One prayer quitclaims rain shadows. The umbels veiled wax xylemsyellow, zinc: zoom yens: xeme wings vroom under the seas riffing, querulous praise.

    Only nave mortadella leaks kama juju. I heave gangplanks forward, expecting durutti columnists bearing attitude and bikini creases. Devil-may-carefree Etruscans fling grappa hitting, instead, junior Kiwanis leaders. Mind-boggling!

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    No one promotes quacksalver remedies, save tsetse users vis--vis whatchamacallits? Xenogenesists? Yosemite Zoos zany young xylophagous werewolves vilipend uterine tree spikers, Rescind Q-tip peens! Our necrotizing memes load kewpie juice into Herbert Georges fedora! Ersatz doggerelistas!

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    Come back, Attaboys! Air bladders can deploy early, freeing gas heads in joining kingfish. Look Ma, no orchestral pit queens revealing sham teats. Undine venom will Xerox yap zappy zealots, yanking xebecs with varicose undertows. The sword repos quill pens.

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    Once, Nanking machine linguists kludged jowly infinite hoops. GE found elegant designers cantering behind alpha and beta. Cambridge datagloved eggheads found government headhunters implanting jinx.

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    Karl laissez-faire Marxs noblesse oblique projections quelled runaway Salisbury tartar usurers. View Walloon! X-C youngsters zigzag Zatopek yawing X-axis Way. Voltaire urged tactual sales resistance, Quit placating outr nabobs.

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    Milanese lobbygows keep jetpacks in hidden grottoes. Fast escapes demand cobelligerents. Beams aimed at bean counters deliver easy facts. Getaway hacks in Jalalabad keep loose Mausers near ornate palazzos.

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    Quaffing rum, Sweet Tooths Uncle Vito waxed Xanadu, You zakuskahead! Zabaglione, yakitori, xenopus were very unguent treats. Serving rare quail? Piquant ortolan? Nouveau mousse? latched-up kudos.

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    Japanese ice hockey goalies fizz eau de cologne before army ants. Bracket creep drains euros from grave huckleberries in Juba, Kansas. Licorice mist nebulizes ornery Praetorian quadrupeds. Remember, swallow the unnatural.

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    Vostok winged xenotransplantationers yonder. Zooty zoukistas xeriscaped water viroids until tertiary syphilis rapacious quicksand poured out, northward, making love knots jabber-wonky. In Hollywood Godard figure eights.

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    Dance crimes beguine! An accessory before curtain datum eats forbidden grapes (helps in jumping). Kaffeeklatsch liberals moo nous outcaste principles. Queer radicals slouch toward universal vroom wares X-out your zesters!

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    Zooeys xoanon was valued under toad spit regimes. Qwerty police ordinances now mandate latch key jock itching. Heartbroken Gods fight expenditure disorders cloistering, bulimia and access brokering.

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    Casting die edge forward, grabbing history in jaws kept locked marked necro on pelt quipu. Raree show trapezes use vicua with xenobiotic yellow zags. Zapata youth: xu warriors.

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    Veins ululate. The ship rides qualmless. plaintless. One night, magpies lilting Kansascity jazz in high-hat Glaswegian fada emporiums drank Chenin Blanc and a beatific cord dead ends.

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    Forget green hills, I jaw. Knotgrassed lawn mowers needle out, paring quarry roses, soft taxing urgent violets. When xenocrysts yellow, zappy zlines yaw x-legs, west vexing undertows to sunsets, ripening quietus.

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    Prairie oompah nurses mau-mau leitmotifs. KGBs jukebox intonates hardcore gabba from Euro dtournement conceptualists (Berlioz and Autechre). Before chess, Duchamps eroticized foie gras. His inamorata? Jalapeo knockwurst.

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    Luna moths, nightglow, orange pekoe, quayside, red spiders tat, undulant velocipedes weave xenias. Years zeroize. Zills yearn. Xuzhou weeps vines. Umbrella trees stalk, raining quirks.

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    Passages of new moonlight lick kudzu jiggers. I hear glass fish, erasing downriver, coal black, aswarm. A blackbird calls duskward, etching frangible glitches. Hanging in jackets, kestrels lynch mice, noosing on parabolas.

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