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The Proverbs of Ashendon
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ISBN10: 1544126328
ISBN13: 9781544126326
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 24 2017
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781544126326
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 24 2017
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The litany of a parallel, venomous wisdom, The Proverbs of Ashendon veer from the broken narrative of their initial occlusion, to the lucidity of theologico-literary madness as a new topography of knowledge. As an inverted deity, Ashendon comes bearing gifts.
The Proverbs of Ashendon are ... spelled-out, spilled-forth and spoiled to the point of putrefaction, petrification, and pulverized carbonation: a return to, and/or turn into ash. In the end, to quote Beckett's Endon (morphic mirror of Beckett's Murphy) or better yet--worse still--to quote the unnamed/unnameable Endon of Beckett's Endgame, all that the reader will have seen in proceeding through The Proverbs will have been ashes, naught but ashes ... All is here/herewith Ashendone. -- Dan Mellamphy
The Proverbs of Ashendon are ... spelled-out, spilled-forth and spoiled to the point of putrefaction, petrification, and pulverized carbonation: a return to, and/or turn into ash. In the end, to quote Beckett's Endon (morphic mirror of Beckett's Murphy) or better yet--worse still--to quote the unnamed/unnameable Endon of Beckett's Endgame, all that the reader will have seen in proceeding through The Proverbs will have been ashes, naught but ashes ... All is here/herewith Ashendone. -- Dan Mellamphy
There is a story of an old wise man who, on a trip to Mount Shasta, wandered into Pluto Cave, a giant lava tube that extends over a mile below ground. He walked deep into the cave, gingerly gliding his fingers against its ashen walls of andesitic lava, his left hand not knowing what his right hand was doing. In a moment of pure perplexity, he soon discovered the small, raised remnants of what felt like braille against his fingers. Upon further inspection, he noticed that they were inverted carvings (like the ones lovers might etch into a tree) from someone writing from the other side of the wall, that is, from inside the ancient rock. The wise man could not read it, so he put his nose up to it and smelled it. It whispered back: '205.' Is that not an odd story? I don't understand it at all. -- Liesl Ketum, Humbert Divinity School
The pages of these Proverbs reverberate with hypomnemata cum anathemata, vague undercurrents, and void-echoed self-suggestions that the current timeline of history is one in which certain eventual discoveries about the human species will reveal some ultimate, true nature or aspect of reality, or some reason or purpose for the existence of everything, an unnamed key to life itself that is given to all humans to understand, but a key that takes the form of a door, to a vast, cryptal librarium of portmanteau coinages and oscillating meanings, of luxuriously worded juxtapositions where the gothic mind and hell-spawned modern thoughts mix, of poetic musings and chaotically pointing typographic arrows. Dually displaying total presence of mind and oracular dementia, The Proverbs of Ashendon manifests as a backwards/oblivionwards book of hypomnemata, one that implicitly recognizes-slash-solemnizes the protean realities of language, symbols, pictures, and their lost origins in early human history. At the same time, objectivity, cynicism and language all triangulate into words and symbols that are hostilely left to the reader to impart meaning to. All categories, all states of human behavior, sciences, sociolinguistics, events both historic and prehistoric, religions, beliefs, and origins, all are subjects here, as are absence and void. The Proverbs of Ashendon leaves no stone unshattered. - oudeÃs
The pages of these Proverbs reverberate with hypomnemata cum anathemata, vague undercurrents, and void-echoed self-suggestions that the current timeline of history is one in which certain eventual discoveries about the human species will reveal some ultimate, true nature or aspect of reality, or some reason or purpose for the existence of everything, an unnamed key to life itself that is given to all humans to understand, but a key that takes the form of a door, to a vast, cryptal librarium of portmanteau coinages and oscillating meanings, of luxuriously worded juxtapositions where the gothic mind and hell-spawned modern thoughts mix, of poetic musings and chaotically pointing typographic arrows. Dually displaying total presence of mind and oracular dementia, The Proverbs of Ashendon manifests as a backwards/oblivionwards book of hypomnemata, one that implicitly recognizes-slash-solemnizes the protean realities of language, symbols, pictures, and their lost origins in early human history. At the same time, objectivity, cynicism and language all triangulate into words and symbols that are hostilely left to the reader to impart meaning to. All categories, all states of human behavior, sciences, sociolinguistics, events both historic and prehistoric, religions, beliefs, and origins, all are subjects here, as are absence and void. The Proverbs of Ashendon leaves no stone unshattered. - oudeÃs
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