22nd
Alice is camp
I have no idea what is going on here, but she looks like I did before I got my braces off.
“Reed does close readings of several of [Neil] Gaiman’s allusions to {Tori] Amos, arguing that the reference to Amos happens as the texts expand and broaden their focus, and that Amos serves to disrupt the linear flow of the narrative. He reads this disruption in terms of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s idea of the mirror stage, arguing that the mutual referentiality serves to create an ideal vision of the reader-as-fan that the actual reader encounters and misrecognizes as themselves.”
Also, incidentally, why I didn’t major in literature.
“There is still a doctoral thesis to be written about the image of Neal Cassady’s penis as an organizing trope of post-war artistic production…Cassady, big-dicked Huck Finn of the 1950s.”
- John Wier, TriQuarterly