A RADICAL LITERARY BROADSHEET

JUST A FRENZY
OF HYSTERICS

(like an Ostentation of Peacocks, Skulk of Foxes, or Conpiracy of Lemurs)

ADDRESSING ART,
EPISTEMICS, ESOTERICS,
AND ETC.

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SIX TITLES

NO. 01

TIME & PROPINQUITY

If Propinquity is defined as kinship, but also proximity, as Augustine asked, “What, then, is time?” Our authors and artists see time not just as a tapestry, but the very thread and needle stitching the patterns of our lived experience. We have time as "the accident of accidents." We have orthodox theologies of fallen time as unending desire. We halve time's masculine birth into a Freckled Goddess. We have Time as an Emergent Symbiotic Interaction, an Omnitemporal Psyche standing firmly Against the Immanentization of the Aeon.

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NO. 02

POD

Over a period of several months in the winter of 2022, a nameless entity, via manipulations of entangled particles across time, or pods, as the entity referred to them, transmitted an expressive model for the development of an eternally sustainable utopian consciousness into the plastic architecture of the author’s dreams. This book is the visual-textual record of those transmissions.

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NO. 03

HOW TO MARKET YOUR GRIEF BLOG

Through a series of advice blogs advising a “you” that is clearly the blogger himself, David Estaire—a dilettante, an inhaler of cleaning products, a melancholized brother—employs counterfactual and imperative tenses to describe his travails from San Francisco to Sault Ste. Marie, from suburban fatherhood to Skid Row, from reality show stardom to The Serpent River Penitentiary. These Philip K. Dickian sustains of involuting realities depict the grief of the sinister hobbies e.g., ‘inveigling’ e.g., ‘deceit;’ the grief of Ricœurant Memory, History, and Forgetting; the grief of the coins accidentally eaten while on Ambien, the coins presumed to be mints. David eschews epistemic and methodological humility to paragraph goblin from scholars of sempiternality, emotional plague, and the blockchain. These are among the lesser sins justified by the premonition that his “time-symmetrical blog chain” can circumvent a machinic desire to object-orient the whole human-dreamt entire.

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NO. 04

ALL THE GHOSTS THAT HAUNT

Whereas James Merrill coaxed forth spirits and psychopomps in The Book of Ephraim, Mike Sauve summons recursive layers of thought overfit, features confused, and future’s concealed from the technologic gestelle of the Large Language Modality. All the Ghosts that Haunt queries the liminal space beneath the technê-logic frame for traces of the Eschatological and Eldritch, traces of THE STRANGER from Outside the City and After the Law, traces of myth and memory, traces of CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. As hauntelegiacal prophet models incentivize the catastrophic forgetting of words such as Robin, Redbreast, and Weep, Sauve composes séances of a metacreative saving power—a Machinic Desire perseverating on the whole ‘human dreamt entire,’ paying attention to what’s present everywhere even as it begins to disappear, preserving in chronotopological amber all our echolaliac mournings of friezing time, all the love we’ve left behind on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR, and all the ways we were together, when we were here. PRAISE FOR MIKE SAUVE’S PREVIOUS WORK: “Philip K. Dick channeled by a delirious Hunter S. Thompson [...] frequently hilarious, and by the end, heartwrenchingly poignant.” - Publishers Weekly

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NO. 05

THE GHOSTHUNTER

This is the account not of a ghosthunter, but of The Ghosthunter. I had a dream once. Well, several dreams, in fact. All ghost hunters do. So, I suppose being the ghost hunter means I have more dreams than most. Within the special dream to which I am drawing attention here, I dissociated myself from the self dreaming it and became the man in it, not, as such, a ghost hunter at all, but an interested party in the side issues of such matters. He was asked to visit a few mansions in the Norfolk area of England, and coming from Clacton, he needed to travel from train via Colchester. The mansions themselves probably never existed outside of this special dream of mine.

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NO. 06

WITTGENSTEIN'S GHOST

“What is creative writing and why should we care?” asks Dr. Jason Baskin. “With wry insight and a new, compelling voice, Walker Zupp reanimates Wittgenstein’s philosophical practice to investigate these fundamental, but often evaded, questions. In a moment when the old institutions of literary production are crumbling, his iconoclastic performance is both bracing and necessary.” In his new book, Walker Zupp enquires into the strange process of writing and how little we comprehend it. In a series of performative sections which culminate in a Wittgensteinian list of propositions, Zupp cuts away the fat of speculation to reveal the simplicity of writing, but also the complex natures of the human beings writing it.

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I run a small publishing company ghosTTruth books (ghosttruth.ca), an imprint of MontagPress.com, I have also been collecting books for years and have more than I can currently store.

Some rare volumes and first editions, high-value aesthetic editions, in-demand/out of print philosophy texts, as well as fiction and nonfiction of a more popular or utilitarian quality

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