20051021 – production

Shelley Jackson

• exclusivity of writing practice, narrowly defined as certain kind of text.
• Patchwork Girl – hypertext novel in program Storyspace
• thinks of hypertext as old, retrospective
• PG became big in academic discussion of eLit
• altx.com/thebody/ – 1997
  • offered to sell vials of her body to people, which no one has taken her up on
• career as children’s book illustrator
• The Melancholy of Anatomy – short storie collection
  • body parts get big, leave the body and menace humanity
  • messy boundaries between self and world
  • sections named after humours
• humours were mapped to the seasons – connection between world and body, circularity -upcoming novel Half-Life – siamese twins
• the doll games –
• you don’t own language, the words you use, so the focus on originality is bullshit, because language is (my words) borrowed — we’re all collagists.

• the Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost-Speakers and Mouth-Hearing Children

  • mouth scourge
  • map of the mouthlands – awesome drawing

• Interstitial Library of the Interstitial States of America

  • where do books live?

• the Skin story – hopes that the story will disappear from the world, not have the ‘zombie life’ of other texts -

• ‘see water words falling’