Olchar E. Lindsann is a writer, theorist, publisher, historian, teacher, performer, archivist, organiser, and translator, dedicated to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of marginal countercultures. A co-founder of the International Post-NeoAbsurdist Collective, he is also actively engaged with Fluxus, Neoism, the Eternal Network, and many other radical and avant-garde projects internationally. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, and of the print periodicals Rêvenance and The In-Appropriated Press. The author or co-author of 40 books of critical and social theory, verse, historiography, performance scores, visual poetry, polemic, and collage, Lindsann has performed and lectured extensively in the US and the United Kingdom. He maintains several archives of contemporary and historical countercultures. Lindsann teaches cross-disciplinary Humanities classes, writing and history at a progressive school in Roanoke, Virginia.
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Chattering o
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“liticts in the midst
of imaginary conc”
– Stendhal, The Red and the Black
“urgen from jargo”
– James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
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“Gentlemen with the use it, pray?”
put [the wrote a]
great
glittering shirt. “Yes, (Here
with words, would
writing as frivolous as words from the
Master)
“Politics,” replied the three commas
“and a
this.” the
months. “Politics in the sword,”
replied
“cannot remain upon a pistol shot in
ear-splitting indefinitely.”
with the sound (of from)
the
mortally offend palace
everybody other, who will
energetic in Arthur, [who with]
“If Nine Worthies of
Guenevere win for joined
is not”, the flung away.
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2
Tubes of Canthar
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“even chambers
there stalked, in fa . . .
se – the dreams – writhed in and about,
taking hue from the roo”
–E.A. Poe, 'The Masque of the Red Death'
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flumes
of revenge ,yea ,bite
wreathing
in poisoned points
of narrative foaming ,sleds
of almuninium-hock ,looms ,see
fastened
forceps upon the sap-
smeared armourial ,bannisters
sweating their bleary munchkins
: eeeeoouuoaaieieiaaouuooeeee :
hunting
mouldings backlog peak
ye
spindle fledgling to an arc, yo
nimble
forward at the hazmat ,aardvark
violet
as the second-person, folding
catnip
into cantharides; fork ,o ,sleek.ß
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3
Wading for
the Lick
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“arriage of the
wading rose a”
–Jim Leftwich, Doubt
“Jelly for
God's sake beans”
–Harlan Ellison, “Repent,
Harlequin!”
Said the
Ticktockman
“nife like the
cock of Chri”
–Jake Berry, 'The Confession of
Devi's
Lawnboy'
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e wading-pool is packed with pricks
et rustflecks f, licking holy
lap again, st reaming flanks
(long shaftedge long torso long)
rib-corrugate lick butterbean
factory
peeking through the skin-rifts, e
n sprays of verdure-clumps: thorn
at marsh-cash-salt,s licking
god at the chemical, bells, bat, bathe
tinctured in rosestem pustule hat
stroking hymnal in the archive jelly, teeth
a waiting a
,tatchments fro, licking
real estate of cherub microtonal vowels
clock-soil mesh tutelo eloi squish
buzzard-calisthenics fish, ye flag ye
paddle lump: et rosethorn feed chapeau
buzzards rocking silth à na, val val,ley
(sacred à gaseous nailed à my
shrivel)
pooling near un abacus of rosar, ovar,
ies – messy as any aquatic trigger caress
yo bride o toss the
boquet, out-bleed, out-squirm, &
gizzus
a kiss.
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sd rue stid
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plü fr chré
yu sd n' pp
a snivelling
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y fr giur ,sd
df fr pp in I
fgoße, u, re
eding ffla re
stious rue re
gho ,ére pp!
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5
Loon
Leader
by
Olchar Lindsann, Victor Hugo & Kilgore Trout
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“s commerce frightened at systems; it is
the merchant
who wants to sell; it is the tumult which
terrifies the
counting-house; it is the shopkeeper armed
to defend hi”
–Victor
Hugo, Preface to The King's Diversion (1832).
“artilaginous
stalk ran out from each
hole horizontally for a few inches and then
abr”
–Kilgore
Trout, Venus on a Half-Shell (1974)
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The period of political The natives
curious.
loon tires.
when all acts of despotism inflated skins with
part consisted of trated by ideas of
fast in July, 1830; which grew from
three great advances ered with a hard shell
contained
the brain Now in the march of
out
of breath, sexual systems.
these generous, was a round hole.
go
on. each hosle horizontally
abruptly curved straight, and give them
these of all that approximately two feet
tests,
in two eyes
comprehend, Halfway down each
afraid of new ideas. flash a light like a
firefly's
ruffled by theories. for illumination and
it
is the merchant turns.
fies
the counting-Simon thought they
leader
project himself.