Thursday, December 19, 2024

A Torn T-Shirt



I collect photographs of torn posters on walls. You’d be surprised how many there are these days. Some so very torn they are just a few scraps of paper still clinging to the wall with grim death. Equally, even a poster with a small nick in the corner could count as a torn poster. I never cheated by tearing a poster myself before photographing it and posting it as a torn poster. I also never tell lies, do rest assured. Belonging to an online group specialising in photographing torn posters, I thought I would start a group for torn T-shirts, but I hated taking photos of people so these T-shirts needed to be found in the wild without a wearer within them. You can imagine I rarely found such a thing and it would need to be found naturally, never planted, never staged, otherwise it didn’t count. I spent years finding a torn T-shirt without a wearer within it. And then, lo and behold, there was a poster with a T-shirt upon it! The wearer of it was not real of course being an image on a poster — so this would thus be valid. All I had to do was tear the poster where the T-shirt was situated and I could be the first member on my online group to post a photo. But I did not cheat as I have told you already so I depended on mind-over-matter, as I stared at the intact poster of an intact T-shirt. I remained there forever stuck in position like a photograph frozen in time not wearing a strait jacket, not a time shift as such but a time shirt for which the expression T-shirt was short for a poster of photographs frozen as a photograph thus posted online, the wear and tear making the image of the T-shirt valid without the need of cheating or clinging in grim death. Don’t go there.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer (1)

 

While meandering in my mind, I shall try to seek means to write a diary of my experience of Absolution as a meaning after it is delivered to me on 22 October 2024. Any entries will be in the comment stream below….

My previous reviews of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/index-to-reviews-of-vandermeers-th/

27 thoughts on “Absolution — Jeff VanderMeer

  1. 003

    Engagingly, as reader, I felt like a drone in the 2022 TV series ‘Mysteries From Above’ being chivvied by pushy scientific spokespeople — and their rhetorical questions galore — to gradually objectify my view of the ‘dead town’ in interface with the biologists at ground level.

  2. 007

    “…too concerned about storms becoming hurricanes—“

    As if narrative structures have been recorded or filmed from houses OF LEAVES?

    I remain captivated by this book, enough to look forward each time to its manoeuvres.

  3. 012

    I was all set to add a diary note here yesterday but someone or something seemed to shout STOP!
    Today, I am throwing all caution to the wind. I am still very much interested in Absolution.

  4. 006

    “Okay, then, come into the damn house.”

    Instead of him who otherwise leaves it?

    The new concept, for me, of the ‘house centipede’ is so far enticing.

    Ancient image that risks my own absolution:-