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Hank Kirton

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Born

in Fayetteville, The United States

Website

https://psilocybinmosquitobites.wordpress.com/

Genre

Fiction, Psychedelic Deathpunk, Criminal Hallucination

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Alcohol, nightmares, bright shag rugs that test positive for Peruvian ...more

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May 2008

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	The Membranous Lounge by Hank Kirton (Goodreads Author), Jim Rose (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Dissolves by Hank Kirton (Goodreads Author), Arthur Graham (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bleak Holiday 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaves from the Smorgasbord it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conservatory of Death 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Famous Well-Equipped Twins it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Pancreatic Carburetor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sounds of a Warped Xylophone

Here I sit in my vinyl easychair, secluded in the private bunker I’ve named Castle Bravo, smoking black hash from Afghanistan and listening to an old album of xylophone music.

The record was recorded in 1959, the year Hawaii became a United State. The music is supposed to be “exotic” but it’s essentially flavorless. They added minimal bird calls over the xylophone notes but the stock sound-effect

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Mystery Cults in the Ancient World

by Hugh Bowden

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Solenoid

by Mircea Cărtărescu

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Candy

by Maxwell Kenton

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“Everything is all the same all the time forever.”
― Hank Kirton, Conservatory of Death

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Hank’s Quotes

“In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.”
― David Kerekes

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“Everything is all the same all the time forever.”
― Hank Kirton, Conservatory of Death

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“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.”
― Max Nordau, Degeneration

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“A labyrinth -- that's Joyce's metaphor, too. Somebody could write a good Ph.D. dissertation on the metaphor of the labyrinth in James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson. We all regard the universe as a maze that we're running around in and trying to figure out.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

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“This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: james-joyce, katherine-mansfield, sarcasm, tuberculosis, ulysses

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