Quillmatic is a 10-piece prose composition, ballsy in its aim to get people looking at words from left to right, one after the other in fluid succession, until a very strange and curious act called "reading" is performed.
Grave, satirical, existential, atheistic, capitalistic, anti-hipster but pro-art and pro-Trump, this 23,000-word literary effort has a little something for everyone.
EXPLORED IN QUILLMATIC:
What if kids could really choose their own faiths? What if an M.C. Escher sketch met The Exterminating Angel inside Grand Central? Is there a deeper meaning behind Einstein's "God does not play dice"? Is feminism good? Is patriarchy bad? Do your Facebook likes accrue when making a Timeline Photo your Profile Picture?! These are the very important questions Quillmatic seeks to answer.
EXCERPTS FROM QUILLMATIC:
"It's a story you've heard a million times: girls do not go for the nice guy. I knew that like the back of my hand, and yet I was powerless to change. To be clear, I didn't care to change my beliefs, my worldview. I legitimately thought gender was a social construct, and I wanted everyone around me to understand this as well as I did. Rather, what I wished to have transformed was my ability to do well with women. That's it. In the end, that's all I ever cared about. Henry Chinaski, women, women, women. Henry Miller, cunt, cunt, cunt."
--from "Inappropriate" Is A Vaginal Word Part 3: Biology Wins Out
"Perhaps this is the most groundbreaking result of our findings in the lab: that Jesus was not who or what he's been touted to be for the thousands of years since his 'crucifixion.' And that's really the risk one runs in propagating sensitive information to just anyone without duly screening first. The evidence suggests that Jesus fits this 'just anyone' description to a T; that, contrary to popular belief, he was not the Son of God, but rather an institutionalized lunatic with a knack for escaping psychiatric wards, and who suffered from being self-important, extremely hard of hearing, and not Jewish but jew-y."
--from God Really Does Not Play Dice
"We cannot give [Social Justice Warriors] the ball in crunch time. The stakes are just too high. Witch hunts at this level impact not only livelihood; through the dirt they seep into the casket of posterity."
--from The Problem With Democracy
"'But, my fellow Muslim brethren ... it is now time to look forward. "Islam," "peace," and "love" are one and the same word. We must teach those soaked in the poison of ignorance this truth in a friendly way, and if they fail to comply, we shall of course decapitate them.'"
--from After Weighing Options, Bangladeshi Baby Chooses Islam; 99 Percent Muslim Population Shocked, Elated
QUILLMATIC TRACKLIST:
01. Ten Thousand Hours
02. After Weighing Options, Bangladeshi Baby Chooses Islam; 99 Percent Muslim Population Shocked, Elated
03. The Train
04. "Inappropriate" Is A Vaginal Word Part 1: The Male Feminist
05: "Inappropriate" Is A Vaginal Word Part 2: No Water, No Gas
06: "Inappropriate" Is A Vaginal Word Part 3: Biology Wins Out
07: God Really Does Not Play Dice
08: Urgent Request To The Facebook Team
09: The Problem With Democracy
10: Best Wrapper Alive
