Some songs come out of the ground just like a potato
I’ve finished up my “Waits vs. Lovecraft” guest-blogging stint at Jeff’s place, running only a little over my allotted time. Here’s all the installments, in order:
- A Change of Clothes: Sexuality, procreation, the human body, invertebrates, marine life in general, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments…
- Digression: the trick: Myths of the 20th century
- The Names of Towns: …caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats…
- Digression: the trick (pt. 2): Lateral thinking
- Something to Eat: …the New England countryside, New York City, fungi and molds, viscous substances, medical experiments, dreams, brittle textures, gelatinous textures…
- Some Weather: …the color gray, plant life of diverse sorts, memory lapses, old books, heredity, mists, gases, whistling, whispering…
- Digression: the trick (pt. 3): “You have to make them out of things you’ve found”
Probably I made it more work than it needed to be, but I think my brain needed the exercise.
For my next trick: Raymond Chandler vs. John dos Passos.