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The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
by
James Tadd Adcox (Goodreads Author)
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge is a short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir, poetry and prose, realism and irrealism.
Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark future. Gift shops are burned down, rebuilt, burned down once again.
New forms of father...more
Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark future. Gift shops are burned down, rebuilt, burned down once again.
New forms of father...more
Published
May 2012
by Tiny Hardcore Press
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I never read books this fast. If someone were to ask me what I write about, I would tell them that I am interested in writing things that are about the existence of the truly mysterious and ineffable in everyday life. This is what I see these stories as being about as well. They push every one of my writing buttons and are consistently surprising and fascinating. I have not been this excited about a book since I first read Zachary Schomburg's Scary No Scary. This is a bit of a different feeling...more
I was surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed James Tadd Adcox's little book of little stories. Surprised because I tend to have an adversarial relationship to the type of fiction categorized variously as "flash fiction" or "short shorts" or "microfiction" or what have you; my principal point of objection being a sort of confusion as to what is properly "very short fiction" and what is properly "prose poetry". (I am no scholar of literary form, nor do I have any interest in being mistaken fo...more
Really loved:
(OK the titles/table of contents are A LITTLE clunky for my tastes, but)
* History / Sacred
* History / Civil
* History / Natural / Uniformity of Nature / History of Land & Sea
* Philosophy / General Metaphysics, Or Ontology, Or Science of Being In General, Of Possibility, Of Existence, Or Duration, Etc.
* Philosophy / Science of Man / Ethics / Particular / Science of the Laws of Jurisprudence / Economics
* Philosophy / Science of Nature / Particular Physics / Chemistry
(OK the titles/table of contents are A LITTLE clunky for my tastes, but)
* History / Sacred
* History / Civil
* History / Natural / Uniformity of Nature / History of Land & Sea
* Philosophy / General Metaphysics, Or Ontology, Or Science of Being In General, Of Possibility, Of Existence, Or Duration, Etc.
* Philosophy / Science of Man / Ethics / Particular / Science of the Laws of Jurisprudence / Economics
* Philosophy / Science of Nature / Particular Physics / Chemistry
Yo so this was a really fun quick read but then two days later I thought about it and realized that it's essentially the "Book" from The Golden Age and that totally blew my mind and was really cool. That is all!
The strong stories were REALLY strong, REALLY good. There were some stories that didn't feel like stories and didn't feel as fleshed out as some of the others, but the strength of the best more than made up for it. They HIT you.
Just because you figure out how to see what lies behind the curtains, it doesn't mean doing so provides you with a better grasp of why it is there in the first place.
More - http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2013/01...
More - http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2013/01...
Tiny Hardcore makes beautiful books. As an object this one, hot damn for sure. Colorful, that table of contents is WOW, and the rest of the layout is lovely. The stories themselves are all good too, and many really good. I'd be interested to see what Adcox's voice does in a confined single narrative in a longer work. I'll keep my eye out for that for sure.
Do not be deterred by the table of contents, which made me feel dumb as a ... I dunno, dumb as something that ius really stupid. But I overcame my fear. This book will bend your brain. James Tadd Adcox Adcox knows how to twist up those gray tubes that are already twisty.
I like it.
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