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- Excerpts from a Work In Progress
Unpublished fragment written for Walter Abish's Class by Eli Gottlieb in 1981
"The gun, when he pointed it, seemed to summon himself to its contours. His fled being regathered on the smooth stock and barrel of the gun. It was a BB gun. It spit a tiny ball a long distance. The metaphysics thrilled him…"
- Casanova
Unpublished fragment on Casanova, written 2001
"Over the previous weeks, he’d already gotten off to a running start. Having
digested about three quarters of the extant biographical material on the man, he had
corresponded with learned members of the Casanova society, and had boiled down the
watery broth of legend and hearsay to establish, as best he could, the facts…"
- Sculpture for Spoken Voice
A tone poem recited with Martin Guttman in the Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria, 2003
"This is language. Inside the ear of readerly habit, you’re hearing language being spoken.
I’m making statements, in English. English is particularly good at the following things:
speed, aggression, numbering, listing, and naming objects with the littlest possible
commitment to their ends…"
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