My One Sided Chat to Kat as She Worked Really Really Really Late

JC — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:50:47 +0000

Sorry. There’s a free chapter for a book called Gargoyle on Amazon. It’s this literary fiction piece that I think got recommended to me because it involved reincarnation, but g’damn; I can’t stop reading it. And I don’t usually like modern literary fiction.

And, OK, this one does have the usual things that make me roll my eyes like a protagonist that had the shittiest life on planet Earth and then got burned almost to death in a car accident while he was high.

But I’m enjoying reading it anyway.

Go figure.

‘Cause, you know, modern people – at least modern people of any interest – all have dead/abusive/drug addict parents who hate them, and are brilliant but hate school, and then become alcoholics or some other kind of drug addicts.

Because happiness – even a little – just isn’t literary.

I think it’s because GenX is all in pain, but we all know that we have no reason to be in pain and are just big whiners, so we write protagonists that are in pain (like us) but we give them reasons so that they’re not just big whiners.

At least that’s my theory.

But regardless, this is fun to read!

Sent at 10:19 PM on Wednesday

And… now he’s a porn star.

Of course.

I can’t buy this crap until it’s in paperback.

Why is this literary fiction? Seriously?

I need to start a book after Strella sucks the life out of Geoff and have him pathetic in a hospital for the rest of his life. Now that sounds like real literature! No inclusion of any of the interesting stuff that y’all do before-hand, and barely a mention of how he got there – you have to “hint” at magic without actually using it. Then I can wax eloquent about how his mother abandoned him. And Chase can reinvent her life as a tantric nun and do yoga in his hospice room and they’ll have asexual mental bonding until through her born-again Buddhism, she learns to create a mental orgasm. Then there’s a new-found sense of religious bliss free from the confines of the dominant dead-white-male culture, and hope through personal sacrifice and meditation.

I’ll be a critical darling and spend YEARS on the New York Times hardback bestseller list.

Sorry. I’ll shut up now. But hopefully when you get a brief break, you’ll read the new literary adventures of Geoff and Chase and get a much needed mental break from coding hell.

Jax Garren » Gargoyle

My One Sided Chat to Kat as She Worked Really Really Really Late