Criticism

Life is not the absence of decay, but its recursive integration—always bordering on its own putrefaction. Endling is alien not because it is unintelligible, but because it resists anthropocentric domestication.

“What are you two trying to prove?  You are MADE MEMBERS of the College of Cardinals. And what did you do to deserve such an honor?  Being related to me.  Don’t fo’get it!”

Graffiti magically appeared on the walls of the federal detention center: "FUCK ICE" and "DEATH TO ICE" and "FUCK DONALD TRUMP" but also farewell messages like "LOVE YOU DADDY."

Nietzsche: In fact, we philosophers and ‘free spirits’ feel ourselves irradiated as by a new dawn by the report that the ‘old God is dead’; our hearts overflow with gratitude, astonishment, presentiment and expectation.

It's one-part surrealism, one-part sci-fi social commentary, one-part philosophical/theological waxing and one-part dark and comedic literary fiction. And Goffman is our long-white-bearded, half-mad wizard-alchemist who mixes it all together and gives us the final product, the potion, in words and sentences expertly.

While Cole went through neighborhoods and places as an observer taking notes, and Vassilakis is reporting out from a new world he’s now in, Schumacher is making up worlds and characters as he goes along.

Enraged, I put the book away, likely throwing it dramatically, though I do not recall. It is March of 2025, and I think I’m finally ready to pick it up again.

These words kill fascists, I shall turn the gun of postmodernism they’ve been using and weaponize it upon them. These words kill fascists, “The one in front of the gun lives forever” (Lamar).