ME ME ME!

Insight into the work of Vijay Anand Pattisapu:

I am this - I am that - don't try to pin me down because I'm ssssuuuuchh a
rebel too - I studied comics at Oxford while having tea with all sorts of
dignitaries this is where I really got my start in comics - one day Michael
Jackson sucked my dick - how distasteful - anyway I studied the
ontological /epistemological architecture of sequential art networking and its
correlate psyche-substrate theory modulo a poststructural apparatus of critique
whereupon I was called upon by various Ivory Towers to give them blessings
various deans have sucked my dick how distasteful - I use consciousness-
shifting techniques in my everyday life because I can I mean just looking at me
asserting myself now you should be able to tell [that I'm using hypervalent
masking-effect methods you see]

"Vijay Pattisapu is a genius!" -Jon Johnson Jones
"I love Vijay even more than his comics…what a profound individual." -Dort
Dort
<how distasteful>: "Only thing better than a 2Moksha comic is taking a
spraypaint can up the ass" -Roy Achebe
"I hate my child. I didn't want him but it saved my arranged marriage for a few
more months, until the police came and took away my husband because he beat
me." -Mom

Oh yeah more about me. Okay here we go. Indeed I have been published in several
esteemed literary magazines since the age of 12. I have also published award-
winning projects in mathematics, economics, biology, psychology, archaeology,
and gynecology; I have been awarded honorary degrees from almost every
university on the planet. I. Am. A. Cartoonist. Look. At. Me.



Quoting August Highland <[email protected]>:

> 1. Insights into August Highland's work
>
> i am a classicist - this was my education - all the languages including
> hebrew and aramaic - i am jewish and studied with ultra-orthodox
> chassidic
> rabbis in new york which introduced me to the extremely
> consciousness-shifting teaching that when moses received the 5 books of
> the
> old testament on mt sinai he transcribed them in code (shorthand) while
> the
> full text was transmitted to him directly by the divine archetype which
> moses was able to remember - so the old testament is code (the written
> tradition) and the talmud is what was transmitted to moses directly and
> has
> been passed down through the rabbinic lineages from generation to
> generation
> (the oral tradition) - i also attended naropa (but not in the writing
> department) - and there i was taught similar teachings and principles
> with
> the additional introduction to empty space - i also was in jungian
> therapy
> for 10 years with a jungian analyst who studied in switzerland and
> whose
> teachers were students of jung - here i was introduced to the archetypes
> and
> the decentralization of the ego/author - so these four influences (the
> classics/languages, the mystical sephardic judaic tradition/compressed
> encoded text, tibetan buddhism/mindfulness and empty space, and
> jung/archetypal energetics and the multiplicity of the self) combined in
> me
> in such a way as to lead me to originate a literary form that
> encapsulates
> all these ideas of ontology and epistemology - i created hyper-literary
> fiction and founded the worldwide literati mobilization network to
> exemplify
> my world experience and fundamental belief system(s)
>
> the meter i am now exploring is a new interest for me - it first
> surfaced by
> accident in www.wired-paris-review.com in which the forward momentum
> and
> divisiveness of the novel punctuation created rhythm
>
> after wired paris review i explore looping (www.the-hyper-age.com) -
> then
> repetition (www.club-bibliotech.com) - and now meter (this project will
> come
> out after i assemble the spring issue of the muse apprentice guild)
>
>
>
>
> 2. About Culture Animal:
>
> all the projects by culture animal are designed for internet explorer
> 5.5 or
> higher at a resolution of 1024x768
>
>
> "August Highland is a one-man literary giant!" - Ray Federman
>
>
> dear reader,
>
> my name is gazelle friedman - i would like to welcome you to the work
> of
> august highland, orginator of hyper-literary fiction and founder of
> culture
> animal
>
> EXPLANATION: august highland has created 80 different personas whose
> work
> can be found in over 20 projects - the personas are august highland's
> multiple voices - each persona produces his or her own style of
> hyper-literary fiction - all the personas together make up a collective
> or a
> literary movement called the "worldwide literati mobilization network"
> (wlmn) - collectively the members of the wlmn have produced nearly
> 100,000
> volumes of hyper-literary fiction - each volume ranges in length
> between
> 250-1,000 pages with the exception of club bibliotech the members of
> which
> have produced shorter works (70-100 pages) - the work of august highland
> is
> not yet for sale - it will be very soon - if you would like more
> insight
> into august's work you can read the interview between august and andrew
> shelley here
>
> NAVIGATION: navigating the projects by august highland is easy - first
> click
> on the picture of the writer whose work you would like to read - now
> scroll
> down - on the left side of the screen you will find the first excerpt in
> the
> collection by that writer or links to that writer's work if there are
> more
> than one series in the writer's collection - below each excerpt are two
> links - one is for emailing the writer - the other is for statistics on
> the
> literary work (number of pages etc.) - scroll down again until you see
> the
> cover artwork for the volume of work from which you have just read an
> excerpt - august highland also creates all the cover artwork - below
> the
> cover artwork are links to all the other volumes in that series
>
> PRESENTATION: august's work has been presented at universities and
> published
> in literary, new media and academic online/print journals - you can
> contact
> august highland at his email address if you would like to invite him to
> be a
> guest speaker in either the classroom or at an academic panel
>
> LITERARY PUBLICATION: august highland is also the publisher and editor
> of an
> international online literary quarterly - the "muse apprentice guild"
> (m.a.g.) has 16 international m.a.g. liaisons who help august to
> present
> literary work from all over the world in both the original language and
> english translation - the spring 2003 issue features nearly 600 writers
> with
> special features presenting writers from iran and writers from iceland -
> the
> mission of the muse apprentice guild is to bring the WORLD of letters
> to
> readers
>
> SUMMATION: the literary/cultural phenomena that august highland has
> created
> through the monumental literary project of the worldwide literati
> mobilization network and through the monumental literary publication of
> the
> muse apprentice guild are unprecedented - the summation of august
> highland
> as a one-man literary giant as expressed by ray federman in the quote at
> the
> head of my introduction has been voiced by readers, writers, editors,
> publishers, critics and journalists worldwide - this international
> concensus
> is an inspiration to august highland himself, to everyone who is
> associated
> with him personally and professionally and to the world of letters
>
> - gazelle friedman, biographer/curator
>
>
>
>
>
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