“If someone tells you writing is easy, he is either lying or I hate him.” —Farley Mowat

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Time, the afterlife, the future, spooneristic spacetime manipulation

bpNichol: Fictive Funnies











Spacetime Trousers



1. Sheila Heti: "My Life is a Joke."





2. David Byrne: In the Future

Writing: Write "In the future..." piece after Byrne.




3. Steve Venright: Manta Ray Jack and the Crew of Spooner

How does the structure of this text (i.e. spoonerisms) subvert the linear flow of the narrative, insisting that time (and reading) cannot proceed in a straightforward line? How this also affect the construction of meaning?








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