Cholmondeley: WITH A BOOK CO-WRITTEN WITH A FEMALE AUTHOR, VERY IMPORTANT THERE, AS THOUGH THE BOOK ITSELF IS SAYING, LOOK, THERE WAS SOME ILL SHIT THAT WENT DOWN IN THE PAST THAT EVERYONE SAW COMING BUT NO ONE, SOMEHOW, COULD BRING THEMSELVES TO FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGE OR CONFRONT FOR WHATEVER HORRIBLE DELUDED SELF-INTERESTED? REASONS, BUT NOW, HEY, TAO IS GREAT WITH WOMEN, HONEY! HE WRITES BOOKS WITH THEM AND CORRESPONDS, NON-PREDATORILY, WITH THEM ON TWITTER SOMETIMES WHO KNOWS? THIS BOOK.
Featherstonehaugh: THAT’S THE SUBTITLE OF THE BOOK ISN’T IT? A GOOD LOOK THERE FOR HOBART, WHO HAVE ZERO VESTED INTEREST IN RESURRECTING TAO AND MAKING SURE SOME PEOPLE ARE VINDICATED FOR WRITING REASONED AND RATIONAL AND EVEN-HANDED AND TOTALLY PITCH PERFECT DEFENSES OF LIN.
Cholmondeley: HOBART, THE PROUD HOME OF MICHELLE ORANGE’S GORGEOUS THE SICILY PAPERS, A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BOOK, FULL OF ACTUAL HUMAN INSIGHT AND WONDERFUL PROSE, NOW RELEASING A PAMPHLET OF PRINTED TWEETS.
Featherstonehaugh: I WOULD ARGUE THAT HOBART IS JUST CHASING LITERATURE, MY FRIEND, BECAUSE LITERATURE CAN COME FROM ANYONE AND ANYWHERE. FROM THE MIND OF A CREEP SUPREME ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM? YES. FROM A TOILET DEMON WHO HAS SCRIBED HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY ON ROLLS OF INSTITUTIONAL TP? YES. FROM A PACK OF DOGS GROUPED IN FRIGHTENING FORMATION AND BARKING ABOUT BENGHAZI? YES.
Cholmondeley: TWITTER LIT IS PRIME LIT FOR THIS TIME OUR TIME. SOME HATERS MIGHT SAY ABOUT THIS TAOMIRA BOOK HAH TWEETS ARE EPHEMERAL SHIT I COULD SCROLL BACK IN TIMELINES AND READ THE SAME BY FOLLOWING THE INTERACTIONS OF THE PSYCHOTROPIC ORGANIC KOMBUCHA COLLECTIVE.
Featherstonehaugh: BUT THOSE HATERS WOULD BE WRONG.
Cholmondeley: AS WRONG AS YOU CAN BE AND STILL BE A HUMAN. MAYBE WRONG ENOUGH TO SLIP BACK INTO APEHOOD ACTUALLY.
Featherstonehaugh: HATERS DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAGIC OF TAOMIRA COMES FROM WHAT TWEETS SAY ABOUT YOUTH NOW AND HOW AFFECTING BANALITY CAN BE. THIS IS REBELLION AGAINST BOURGEOIS NORMATIVE PERSONHOOD. THIS IS REBELLION AGAINST OLD INDUSTRIAL WAYS OF LIVING. THIS IS CASTING OFF THE SHACKLES OF THE WORLD’S PRECONCEPTIONS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES ART WRITING CONTENT OR BOOKS. ITS BASICALLY LIKE IF MARCEL DUCHAMP ON DRUGS AND DEPRESSED WROTE A LIST OF HOUSEHOLD NOUNS AND SMALL ANIMALS AND SENT TELEGRAMS OF SAME TO SYLVIA PLATH ON DRUGS LACED WITH DRUGS AND THEN HAD A SAD NEWSBOY TRANSCRIBE THE TELEGRAMS USING ONLY A BROKEN CRAYON IN HIS MOUTH AND A LARGE SCRAP OF FOOLSCAP THEN THE MANUSCRIPT IS GIVEN TO A PRINTER WHO IS DESPERATE AND MOTIVATED BY A SHOT AT REDEMPTION.
Cholmondeley: THAT’S A LITTLE OVERWROUGHT. I THINK ITS JUST SOME STUFF THAT BOTH PEOPLE HAD LYING AROUND AND THEY WERE LIKE OH MAYBE WE CAN PUT OUT A LOW KEY LITTLE THING THAT BENEFITS ALL PARTIES WHY NOT AND MAYBE SOME OF THE OLD LINTERNET WILL RECONVENE AROUND THIS AND BE LIKE HEY TAO’S NOT EVIL ANYMORE LOOK.
Featherstonehaugh: NEXT COMES THE PROFILE IN A MID-TIER MAGAZINE THAT’S LIKE WHERE’S TAO NOW→HE NEVER LEFT. HES ALWAYS BEEN HERE TWEETING HIS HEART OUT AND WRITING THE AVANTGARDIEST SHIT SO CONCRETE AND REAL AS FUCK. BROOKLYN. BIG PULL QUOTE: I THINK PEOPLE MADE UP THEIR MINDS BEFORE THEY HEARD MY REAL STORY WHICH WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND COURAGEOUS TRUE BOOK I WROTE ALL ABOUT THE ALLEGED INCIDENTS, THE REAL THING WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT AND NOT AT ALL HOW PEOPLE THINK NOW I’M BACK TO ART INSTEAD OF ABUSE, FIN.---TAO.
Cholmondeley: I THINK READERS HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT NARRATIVE CAN BE FRAGMENTED LIKE LIFE IS FRAGMENTED HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT? I BET YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT YOUNG AND FRAGMENTED LIKE THE AUTHORS OR PROBABLE AUDIENCE OF THIS BOOK. YOU LIVE A LIFE OF SMOOTH CONTINUITY LIKE SOME SORT OF PRE-GUTENBERG PEASANT UGH.
Featherstonehaugh: ITS TRUE THAT MY LIFE IS A SEAMLESS CONCATENATION BUT THAT’S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. WHATS IMPORTANT IS THIS: MODERN REAL LIFE = FRAGMENTATION = TWEETS = YOUTH = ONLINE = ‘POETRY’ = DEPRESSION AND LONELINESS = ALTERNATIVES TO MAINSTREAM SO-CALLED LITERATURE.
Cholmondeley: I DON’T THINK ANYONE’S EVER PUBLISHED A BOOK OF TWEETS HAVE THEY?
Featherstonehaugh: AT LEAST NOT KNOWLINGLY FROM AN ALLEGED STATUATOR—
Cholmondeley: WATCH IT. I THINK YOU MEAN FROM THE GODHEAD OF ALT-LIT. THE DUDE HIMSELF. HE WAITS IN HIS LAIR AND BIDES SOMETHING.
Featherstonehaugh: REFRESHING GOOGLE ALERTS ENDLESSLY. AND GMAIL. AND 10000 TABS.
Cholmondeley: TIGHTENING HIS GRIP PERHAPS ON SOMETHING FAR AWAY.
