Archaic Torso of Gumby
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Archaic Torso of Gumby

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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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Information

Publisher
Gordon Hill Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781928171911
eBook ISBN
9781928171935
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. First Words
  6. A Drop of Milk Frozen
  7. Shoals of Herring
  8. The Sad Creature: A Bestiary of Melancholy
  9. The Lourdes Cyberpilgrimage™
  10. Archaic Torso of Gumby
  11. Gumby Unsettled
  12. Unreal Upchuck
  13. Vomitorium
  14. Driving Mister Lenin
  15. Zouaves
  16. The Morlock Algorithms
  17. Rosetta
  18. Loplop, the Swallow, Passes By
  19. I Remember the Andirons, Caryatids and Telamons
  20. The Cephalophores
  21. Red Rocks I
  22. Sheet Dance: Piers
  23. The Hippocrene
  24. Horse Man
  25. Gigantic Jones
  26. Emma Bovary’s Dog
  27. Sepulchral Archive of Bums
  28. Odyssey of the Wallet
  29. See This Odd Wallet?
  30. She Contemplates Her Symbol
  31. Allegory of The Long Fork
  32. Tropic of Almanacs
  33. The King of All Injuries: An Extravaganza
  34. Red Rocks II
  35. The Plastic Arts
  36. The Spineless Ones
  37. Little Green Men
  38. Domino Theory
  39. One Meaningful Deed
  40. Candies from Andy
  41. A Rock of Prodigious Smoothness
  42. An Exercise
  43. Red Rocks III
  44. A Rough History of the Stairway to Heaven in Several Stressful Artefacts
  45. Balfour to Bowles
  46. Holes in My Memory (1994-2018)
  47. Vaster Than Empires, and More Slow
  48. Ten Di(Re)Ctions
  49. Top Ten Bird Freakouts
  50. Red Rocks IV
  51. The Great Clay
  52. Cautiously Egon Humfrey
  53. Last Words
  54. Notes
  55. About The Authors

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