You should have gone to Mexico to dance the dance of death with Bolano’s Savage Detectives . . . have you seen that Dennis Potter’s wonderful The Singing Detective is currently being shown on BBC4. What was it, 1986? I caught the second episode on iplayer and found it just as wonderful when I saw…
Roberto Bolaño, Los Detectives Salvages (1998) …With its front piece quote from near the end of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: “Do you want Mexico to be saved? Do you want Christ to be our King?” “No” …And transcriptions of the accounts of the crowd of witness, painstakingly reconstructing the scene (‘pay attention’).…
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Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.