Threnody for Abraxas

[cpressey]

A phantasmagoric Surrealist word/concept-painting.

Like many paintings, it contains much vivid imagery, but has no narrative (beyond whatever the reader/viewer chooses to burden it with.)

The work was inspired by various sources, including:

• Salvador Dalí (his few writings as much as his many pictures)
• Max Ernst (e.g. Une semaine de bonté)
• Hieronymus Bosch (e.g. The Garden of Earthly Delights)
• William S. Burroughs (e.g. Naked Lunch)
• David Britton (e.g. Lord Horror)
• Noam Chomsky ("Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.")

The enjoyment of reading this work may possibly be enhanced if one imagines it narrated in the voice of, say, David Attenborough or James Earl Jones. But heaven help you if you actually try visualizing any of it.

Novel and Code: Threnody for Abraxas (scroll down for code)

[aparrish]

A catholic cult is the junkie, while the verbal apparatchik is confessing to a bonbon outside a mandolin and the perforated star. A pillbox is congratulating the bouillabaise. The rabbit is creeping swollenly towards the delectable microwave and a guardedly irascible stick and the gigantic hairbrush. An egg-beater is gesticulating curiously under the canyon and the eagle. The presciently axiomatic corset is hiding exquisitely.

sounds delicious!

[MichaelPaulukonis]

That's a hell of a landscape.