How long did it take you to get it published? That always reminds me of Beckett's Murphy and those 40 refusals by publishers (at least we know what Waiting for Godot is about). Documentary is a great choice of format. Cyclonopedia feels like one (and de facto is one).
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Replying to @ekscest
I finished it in 2005. The first publisher who wanted to publish it was Creation Books which went bankrupt, and then friends like China and others tried to get it published, but not one wanted it from semio-text(e) who was interested initially to small presses.
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Their loss. Btw, this is my peak oil selection. Cyclonopedia has, of course, a clear advantage of being shot from the oil’s POV, although Herzog and Queneau/Resnais come pretty close to that.pic.twitter.com/2cSYHwT3Av
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest
My choices would be: Lieber's The Black Gondolier Calvino's The Petrol Pump Koontz's Phantoms Voiskunsky's The Crew of the Mekong Ibn Hamedani's Ajaib al-makhluqat wa ghara'ib al-mawjudat
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest
I didn't know I knew Arabic. Thanks for the list whilst giving with Hawkind's Hasan I Sabbah
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Replying to @bopvangnon @ekscest
You know Arabic? ha now you are flagged!
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest
well, I used to diss the community hodja in Quran. Yet, I know a lil'Ottoman Turkish, ie that collage.
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You will never get a US visa now after this confession.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest
I might pretend to be an Ajam, is that worse?
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Replying to @bopvangnon @ekscest
Yes. Shift all your cognitive resources to Aramaic and Hebrew now.
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