To read One Hour of Television is to flip channels between a 50’s science film on the joys of nuclear prowess and a heist-driven road movie set in ...
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Nov 28, 2009
jordaan
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THEY SAID I WOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS BUT EVERYTHING I HAVE SEEN IS REAL
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Mar 01, 2010
M.
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"In my depression my favorite movie was Erin Brockovich. When watching Erin Brockovich I would sit on the floor, very close to the television. I would wait for a scene in which Julia Roberts was speaking. Julia Roberts spoke and I would press my forehead against the image of her mouth and pray for her to eat me." (p72)
This is not precisely what I expected. Formally it is set up like Rene Char's Leaves of Hypnos, which I read the first half of before reading this, and the More...
This is not precisely what I expected. Formally it is set up like Rene Char's Leaves of Hypnos, which I read the first half of before reading this, and the More...
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Jan 05, 2011
Mark
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Really liked this.
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"Prior to the discovery of radiation, an arms race looked much different: we all stood back and let the other guy have a go. SO now today when every little nation wants a turn we have to sit it down and explain exactly why it doesn't get one. We have to squat with out hands on our knees so that our face is level with its face and say, This is grown-up talk, sweetie. Mommy and Daddy are having a disagreement but they still love each other very much."
A quote:
"Prior to the discovery of radiation, an arms race looked much different: we all stood back and let the other guy have a go. SO now today when every little nation wants a turn we have to sit it down and explain exactly why it doesn't get one. We have to squat with out hands on our knees so that our face is level with its face and say, This is grown-up talk, sweetie. Mommy and Daddy are having a disagreement but they still love each other very much."
Feb 19, 2010
Sabra
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Born's debut of seemingly non-sensical Americana is a unique trip into a collection of musings that provoke nostalgia, candy-coated with multicolored balls of sweet hilarity. Here is an excerpt from page 38 of the lovely little book:
"A nation's relationship with its bird has no known biological role. You may love the bird very dearly but in the end you are eating a cow. What, then, is to prevent a nation from plastering a lizard on its face? A minotaur? Well, the people. The peo More...
"A nation's relationship with its bird has no known biological role. You may love the bird very dearly but in the end you are eating a cow. What, then, is to prevent a nation from plastering a lizard on its face? A minotaur? Well, the people. The peo More...
Oct 06, 2009
Shane
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I'm publishing this with my friend Blake Butler but I wouldn't be doing so if I didn't think it was really really good.
Nov 21, 2009
Amelia
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One Hour of Television's recurring headwounds make an apt symbol for the work as a whole; urgent and insistent, the oozing gauze on an otherwise lovely skull. Would that all flash fiction be this deadly.
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