Featherstonehaugh: SOME HORRIBLE PART OF ME THINKS THEY HELD AUDITIONS FOR THIS BOOK AND BENNETT SIMS BECAME ITS AUTHOR AND LEADING MAN THROUGH HIS SHEER HANDSOMENESS WHICH IN ALL TRUTH IS VERY HANDSOME INDEED.
Cholmondeley: THAT IS A HORRIBLE AND CYNICAL PART OF YOU THE SAME PART OF YOU THAT TOLD ME ONCE THAT YOU WANTED TO GO BACK IN TIME TO MAKE INTENSE AND NON-CATHOLIC LOVE TO A PRE-LUPUS FLANNERY O’CONNOR.
Featherstonehaugh: THERE IS A LUSTFUL AND WEIRDLY LITERARY HOMUNCULUS IN MY HEAD WHAT CAN I SAY. SPEAKING OF HOMUNCULI WHICH APPEAR SOMETIMES IN PHILOSOPHY PARABLES THIS QUESTIONABLE SHAPE IS ALSO SUPPOSEDLY AN EXTENDED PHILOSOPHICAL RIFF.
Cholmondeley: I COULD TELL THAT FROM WORD FUCKING ONE SO I’M WAY AHEAD OF YOU ON THAT. A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE HAS BEEN FASHIONED BY BENNETT SIMS AS LIKE THE COOL SPIN-OFF OF THOUGHT-EPISODES BY HARDCORE DUDE PHILOSOPHERS LIKE DAVID CHALMERS. WITH MORE ACTION AND SEX AND POOLS OF LIGHT AND DFW.
Featherstonehaugh: DOES IT TAKE PLACE IN DALLAS FORT-WORTH OR I THOUGHT IT WAS IN LOUISIANA OR SOMETHING
Cholmondeley: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE DFW. WHO WAS THE TEACHER OF BENNETT SIMS. YOU CAN SEE THIS IN BENNETT’S USE OF THE WORD LORDOTIC IN INTERVIEWS. HE STUDIED UNDER THE HOLY BANDANA OF THE MAN HIMSELF. THEN WENT TO IOWA WHERE WRITING WAS FIRST BORN AND THEN QUICKLY PERFECTED. BUT REALLY PERFECTED NOW BY BENNETT.
Featherstonehaugh: OH RIGHT I GET IT ALL NOW. THESE ASPECTS OF BENNETT’S WRITING THAT I THOUGHT WERE NOT QUITE ORIGINAL OR THAT I FELT LIKE I HAD SEEN IN THE OTHER COPYRIGHTED BOOKS OF OTHER AUTHORS ARE ACTUALLY VERY SUBTLE AND POWERFULLY INTENSE HOMAGE AND REFERENCE JUST LIKE DFW (PBUH) WOULD HAVE WANTED.
Cholmondeley: CORRECT. A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE IS FICTION THAT QUESTIONS THE VERY IDEA OF FICTION AND THE CONCEPT OF AUTHORSHIP. WAS THIS BOOK WRITTEN OR MANUFACTURED OR MERELY STITCHED TOGETHER? YOU NOR I NOR GOD WILL EVER KNOW.
Featherstonehaugh: SO THE PART THAT SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PARTS IN COLSON WHITEHEAD’S COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK IS LIKE BENNETT SAYING I’VE READ THAT SHIT TOO PEOPLE WINK VIA A FOOTNOTE IN MY BOOK.
Cholmondeley: AND THEN BECAUSE HE’S CHALLENGING CONCEPTS OF ORIGINALITY WITH SUCH BRAVADO HE FEELS FREE AND AWESOME AND FULL OF SUGARY CONFIDENCE ENOUGH TO TALK SHIT ABOUT HOW HE WAS WRITING HIS BOOK WHEN HE WAS TWELVE AND COLSON WHITEHEAD WAS STILL WRITING CAT FOOD REVIEWS FOR VILLAGE VOICE AND HADN’T EVEN HEARD OF ZOMBIES YET AND DIDN’T KNOW WHAT BOOKS WERE.
Featherstonehaugh: THAT’S JUST GOOD MARKETING. MAKING MOVES ETC. DUDE HAS GOT TO HUSTLE TO SHOW PEOPLE HE’S SERIOUS WHICH MIGHT BE THE REASON BEHIND THE TRASH-TALKING BACKED WITH FRIGHTENINGLY AGGRESSIVE SELF-DEPRECATION.
Cholmondeley: WELLS TOWER WHO HAS NOT COMPLETED A NOVEL HAS CALLED BENNETT SIMS A NEW VOICE OF SOMETHING WHO WRITES LIKE A GIANT WITH THE PENIS OF A DINOSAUR READY TO FUCK THE WORLD TO DEATH PLUS NABOKOV.
Featherstonehaugh: THAT WAS HIS BLURB VERBATIM WAS IT NOT?
Cholmondeley: I THINK WELLS HAS BROKEN THE EMPIRICAL LIMITS OF NARCOTICS CONSUMPTION.
Featherstonehaugh: I HOPE THIS QUESTIONABLE SHAPE IS TURNED INTO A NETFLIX SERIES LIKE HEMLOCK GROVE!
Cholmondeley: IF THERE IS ANY JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD IT WILL BE. SO IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL THAT IN THAT EXCERPT ON WHAT USED TO BE ELECTRIC LITERATURE BUT WHICH IS NOW I GUESS THE PREMIER OUTLET FOR WHIMSICAL FLASKS RECOMMENDED READING I THINK ITS CALLED THERE WAS AN IDEA THAT SEEMED STRAIGHT LIFTED FROM WHITEHEAD’S WORK BUT MAYBE THAT’S BECAUSE HIS STUFF IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN NOW.
Featherstonehaugh: EVEN ELECTRIC LITERATURE’S OTHER OTHER OTHER THING SAID THIS BOOK IS COOL BUT ALSO LIKE A THOUSAND OTHER BOOKS I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHY PUBLISH IT THEN?
Cholmondeley: DUMB QUESTION WHEN THIS BOOK WAS BEING PRODUCED THE PRODUCERS WERE LIKE HERE WE GO WE HAVE GOT THIS BOOK DON’T ASK WHERE IT CAME FROM BECAUSE ITS HERE ALREADY AND ITS INFINITE JEST PLUS WALKING DEAD PLUS SOME BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF OTHER BULLSHIT LIKE FOOTNOTES AND HEADNOTES WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW START PRINTING WE’LL CAST THE AUTHOR LATER IN POST.
Featherstonehaugh: THAT SOUNDS LIKELY. SO PITCHING HUH. SO NEXT TIME I’LL SELL MY MANUSCRIPT BY SAYING ITS KAREN RUSSELL BUT WITH A SHITLOAD OF HARDCORE SEX AND THE TWEENESS TURNED DOWN FROM ‘EARLY BELLE & SEBASTIAN’ TO ‘JUNO’ AND WITH MUMMIES. ITS CALLED DUSTFUCKER.
Cholmondeley: SOLD!
Featherstonehaugh: PICTURE THIS WE OPEN THE PARAGRAPH ON THE WORD BALLS. ITS NOT WHAT YOU'RE THINKING. ITS VERY ZEN. ITS CHAD HARBACH WITH A TMZ FILTER AND A HINT OF TAO LIN. TITLE: SIDDHARTHA 2: BACK TO THE MINORS.
Cholmondeley: I WOULD READ THAT I WOULD READ THAT A HUNDRED TIMES. MINE WOULD JUST BE SOMETHING LIKE, HEY YOU BIPED, YOU ENJOY STORIES ABOUT OTHER BIPEDS, WHAT ABOUT THE BEST STORY?
Featherstonehaugh: MY INTEREST IS PIQUED.
Cholmondeley: GATSBY AS PLAYED BY INSECTS WHO HAVE 3DPRINTERS WHICH JAY INSECT USES TO REPRODUCE DAISY INSECT EVERY WEEK. THEN THINGS GO WRONG BOTH SEXUALLY AND TECHNICALLY. TOLD IN THE COLD DUDE-PROSE OF A CHAD KULTGEN. ITS CALLED GNATSBY.
Featherstonehaugh: FSG ARE YOU READING THIS? KNOPF WILL PIP YOU TO THIS ONE UNLESS YOU ACT SWIFTLY AND RUTHLESSLY.
Cholmondeley: CHEERS FRIEND.
