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I became particularly interested in breaking through the clichés that are most frequently applied to violence, masks that make it palatable to movie or television viewers. I wanted instead to depict murder, violence, and absence of human response in a way that allowed readers, if they were willing to keep their eyes open, to perceive violence not as symbolic, not as meaningful, but as a basic and irrecoverable act-using violence that overflows the boundaries of expectation, violence as a kind of
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― Altmann's Tongue
― Altmann's Tongue
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Hey Boy' [by A. W. W. Bremont] is a fever dream of a novel of a sentence. Loopy, depraved, literate in its illiteracies, fiercely cruel and facile, wonderfully unhinged. Reads like Andrew Cunanan's lobotomized nightmares filtered through Delany's 'Hogg'.
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