I have been reading this:
Body Language, by Mark Cunningham
It’s the kind of language play that I like to make Lady Z read for voiceover practice, or to look at on airplanes, or to read out loud to unsuspecting visitors over tea and psychedelic music. I think stuff like this is a hoot, though the humor that I see is often not so much in what is being said as it is in the way it is being said.
In this case, the language is organized according to body parts on the one hand and, I believe, letters and numbers on the other. (It’s a 2-sided book, y’unnerstand.)
I’m not sure I always agree with the perspective being expressed - in that I’m often not entirely sure what the perspective is that is being expressed - but the use of words is really delicious (the way it is being said, again). I’m taking it slow, about 40 pages into the BODY half (and it’s taken me a month or more to get there) but I’m already enjoying revisiting certain bits as I flip through looking for the place where I left off, or trying to determine which half of the book is which.
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information about Mark Cunningham’s Body Language
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which is to say:
Tarpaulin Sky Press
dig it,
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** NOTE: I am so far enjoying the LANGUAGE or “Primer” half of this book somewhat more than I did the BODY half … perhaps it is the subject matter? The style is equally compelling, but the content is less gooshy and somewhat less fatalistic (or so it seems to me … perhaps it is merely less inspiring of fatalism in my particular psyche? a question best left to the experts …) Whatever, “Primer” rocks.
