Gunslinger by Edward Dorn

• The dismantling of I
• Break down of cartisan Liveral Human self
• The group supercedes the Original narration

BOOK ONE

• I= Humanist Persona
• Fixated with naming, Describing
• Naming makes one mortal
• Text of Lil differentiated by Italics
• Feminist perspective?
  
• to give the sense of conversation versus written?
• Bullets of Pure information
• "He's been described"
• Parellels with the internet and information theory/cyberntics
• Howard Huges
• Icon of capatlisim?
• Icon of the cult of the individual?
• Buys vegas and moves it, its all in the name
• Death Versus Mortality
• Gunslingers discussion on the difference between the two

BOOK II

• P . 48: "Perfection Can't be Known"
• Argument agianst idealized wholisim
• Oddly no bracket between c and T here
• P. 49: "Roots of the soul loosend and grow past the hardness of the future
• P. 51: Victory i found in opposites = The diversity of cyborg manifesto?
• p 56-57 : "I is dead"
• "I ain't Dead"
• I as Ego, argument about its death versus transmutation
• Necessity of death in this argument
• Necessity of drugs in this process
• P66. Becoming- The pure form of becoming
  
• OrganIzation
• P 69 "His Name is Missing! He must be a monster
• Decleration by the mob/masses
• monster =frankentstien? Cyborg?
• P 70: Identification -Word for Fear
• "So it is echoed everything" -play on sentence structure
• truth or consequences "They ordered truth and got the consequences" (awesome line)
• MOVIES metaphor
• P 73 OWNER in all caps
• p74 Guns and bullets intwined with speech, speech as weapon, as mechnization of war?
• P 75 Movies- Revolutionary type mdedium, medium of revolutionaries
• p 76- 35 MM film & .44 bullets
• A Whole new literature that was already there
• P 79 Universities as natural centers of double talk: Dorn in university setting himself

THE CYCLE

• P 89- (I)solation versus norm of ????
• Poem about howard hughes (kneelex boxes on his feet)
• Performative aspects of a poet performing a poem in a poem
• Line 49 Emit Time (that thing thats the same when its reversed..palindrome?)
  
• 100-16 Eye of the U, I of the You
• 101-24 (I)maginative oragan as the eye
• 102 THE ID, Identity and subsconcious aspect
• Atlantes (burroughs fish boy girls?)
• Typewriters
• Crosss dressing
• 9- lunch.....madness...naked lunch?
• 104- 14 Emit no Time (interesting reversable phrase)
  

WINTER SONG

• P 120 Never looked a t the camera -> Power Flexs
• p135 Turing machine

BOOK IIII

• Dr. Flamboyent as cyborg
• Disperate parts that arn't neccesairly in harmonious form
• slinger verus Zlinger...play on barthes S/Z?
• Slinger as possible sunshine machine (haraways manifesto