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| The telltale feet |
I could have sworn seven years after Grapefruits appeared, that when I read in Baudelaire's "The
Martyr," "the head.../ On the night table, like a ranunculus, /
Rests," that the ranunculus was in this garden: but I couldn't find it. Maybe an alternate version read,
"the names are changed to protect ranunculus." However, as I looked
in the middle of the page there it was: "Our neighborhood holds the garden
principle:
A golden crocus
fills the cup
of ox law
and ranunculus."
These are buttercups. Of course all these legends of The
Severed Head rediscover the Acéphale of Bataille, but
in a Swiftian way. Bataille never dreamed to realize his society celebrating
the decapitation of Louis XVI
as joke, to be sure, and promising to venerate just like the NewBorns
of Old the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Sade, along with
discussions of human sacrifice so woderful to intellectuals of the absurd. Now
I speculate that in some alternate herbal there is a list of plants of
disembodied heads. No matter. The Abenaki cannibal giants in the blurb at
Red Rock Apocalypse
Training Video actually predated this story. Giants taking the form of
Professors was a new rip,
invisible before this, but suggested in the Remains
of Lit and Und on Shunt, to which morphed, "You ever visit your prof
at home? For dinner! It hurts to live and let live. I saw J. D. coming down the
drive, ominously named for body parts, for feet, turning in. He parked over by
the neighbors to not call attention, hedged up against the curb. Pretty soon
other characters began to appear in white socks. Where's it safe to live at in
these days of spare parts, Kidney
Lane?" here
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