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Archaic Torso of Gumby
About this book
Archaic Torso of Gumby is a series of interlinked stories and essays by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson that explore the gooey, prickly, sticky materials of late-capitalist pop culture, from video games to claymation to children's picture-books commissioned by oil and gas companies. Here lyric essay, personal memoir, fable, pseudohistory, and science fiction all coexist alongside more conventional short story forms. Each part reveals unlikely connections between subjects as different as a sentient wallet, a gathering of headless saints, abject descriptions of 3D-printed food, a sixteenth-century courtier who thinks he's a horse, a virtual reality religious experience, and a couple with a fetish involving crustaceans. By turns cerebral, goofy, and heartfelt, Archaic Torso of Gumby is a delirious rabbit hole for the adventurous reader.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- First Words
- A Drop of Milk Frozen
- Shoals of Herring
- The Sad Creature: A Bestiary of Melancholy
- The Lourdes Cyberpilgrimage™
- Archaic Torso of Gumby
- Gumby Unsettled
- Unreal Upchuck
- Vomitorium
- Driving Mister Lenin
- Zouaves
- The Morlock Algorithms
- Rosetta
- Loplop, the Swallow, Passes By
- I Remember the Andirons, Caryatids and Telamons
- The Cephalophores
- Red Rocks I
- Sheet Dance: Piers
- The Hippocrene
- Horse Man
- Gigantic Jones
- Emma Bovary’s Dog
- Sepulchral Archive of Bums
- Odyssey of the Wallet
- See This Odd Wallet?
- She Contemplates Her Symbol
- Allegory of The Long Fork
- Tropic of Almanacs
- The King of All Injuries: An Extravaganza
- Red Rocks II
- The Plastic Arts
- The Spineless Ones
- Little Green Men
- Domino Theory
- One Meaningful Deed
- Candies from Andy
- A Rock of Prodigious Smoothness
- An Exercise
- Red Rocks III
- A Rough History of the Stairway to Heaven in Several Stressful Artefacts
- Balfour to Bowles
- Holes in My Memory (1994-2018)
- Vaster Than Empires, and More Slow
- Ten Di(Re)Ctions
- Top Ten Bird Freakouts
- Red Rocks IV
- The Great Clay
- Cautiously Egon Humfrey
- Last Words
- Notes
- About The Authors