{"id":1417,"date":"2006-06-15T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/06\/asymmetric_bookfare\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:40:14","slug":"asymmetric_bookfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/06\/asymmetric_bookfare.html","title":{"rendered":"ASYMMETRIC BOOKFARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/criticism\/jan_herman.roundup_at_the_op_corral\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Published by Doubleday &#038; Co., Inc. in 1949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/COSMIC%20MAN-thumb.jpg\" width=120 align=right border=0 \/><\/a>For all you bibliophiles, a few granular thoughts about Brion Gysin and Wyndham Lewis, written so long ago they qualify\u00a0as pre-historic: <a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/criticism\/roundup-at-the-op-corral\/\"><strong>&#8220;Roundup at the O.P. Corral.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> Topic: &#8220;To Master, A Long Goodnight&#8221; vs. &#8220;America and Cosmic Man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for all you pervs out there, here&#8217;s the opening of a literary monograph by Supervert, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0970497113\/qid=1150552751\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1575367-2715942?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Necrophilia Variations&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/sitbv3\/reader\/ref=sib_dp_pt\/104-1575367-2715942?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;asin=0970497113\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A literary monograph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/Necro%20Variations%20150.gif\" width=150 align=left border=0 \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Inevitably there came a point at which I had to pause and ask myself: How would you like it? How would you like to be lying there on the autopsy table having the coroner slice you up into a variety of sexual aids? The femur bone makes a fine dildo. Intestines are natural prophylactics. The heart, that organ of romance, can be used as a four-chambered pocket pussy. Whatever remains of your body afterward can be filled with KY instead of embalming fluid &#8212; or vice versa, perhaps a horny little necro nymph will come along and leech the embalming fluid from your body to use as a &#8220;personal lubricant.&#8221; Who knows? The possibilities are endless. Do you prefer your corpse to be a waste produce or a sex object?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houellebecq.info\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Mikey Houellebecq<\/strong><\/font><\/a> would be jealous &#8230; heh?<br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> And <a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/bibliographic_bunker\/jan_herman \" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>from my earlier life:<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jed Birmingham surveys the avant-garde publications of Jan Herman: the Nova Broadcasts, the San Francisco Earthquake, and his collaborations with William S. Burroughs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necrophilia Variations&#8221;: Mikey Houellebecq would be jealous &#8230; heh? 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