THOUGHTS ON BEHEAD ALL SATANS
Started on Sunday February 23rd 2025 and finished on Sunday March 2nd 2025
The diary entries of a stalker’s manifesto devolves into schizophrenic fantasy
He carries a determined universal hatred for all people
Succumbs to intrusive murderous thoughts and conceits for imagined worlds
Conspiratorial delusional thinking from the opening lines
He is voyeuristically observing a woman’s life through internet sleuthing
He becomes a vicarious passenger that can’t let go of her
Begins to believe the minutia in his life is a result of social engineering orchestrated by government agencies
The book is propelled by bold formal choices
Apocalyptic mass execution fantasies
Allusions to a final solution
Hilarious banger one liners that roll off the tongue like creative lightning bolts.
Limericks
Declarative font styling and placement
Incredibly detail oriented cataloguing of progress
Spans an enormous amount of time
Dated diary entries will go several days consecutively then jump ahead several months down the line to full years
Sections of straight prose
Addresses the reader and asks them how they are handling certain stylistic transitions
The book guides you through the creation of a kill list one person at a time
Spends enough time to establish reasoning in the narrative for the placement of each person on the list
Gigantic volcano sized descriptions of murder and chaos
Pre-George Floyd riots imagery
Insectoid transmogrification
Pregnancies, true love, excessive murder, rape, and torture all up for conjecture
Nearly 100 pages of uncomfortable drawings
Very meta boundary crossing as the author’s accountability comes into question
Big mindfuck type stuff
By making the author and the central character the same there is a blurring of form and reality so that the object feels more pure like an actual document with physical consequences
I feel like if there was a novel released by this author that wasn’t from this series it would be under a different pseudonym
Singular
Playful and impish
Without shame
Feel the anger steaming off the book
Dirt under the fingernails the literal manifestation of emotional shit in our lives
It’s about obsessive unrequited love
You know it’s actually just a really sweet romance
King Cringe and I recorded an episode of Subversive Subversions where we discuss the book in detail and I summarize/expand on these thoughts
Listen to it here:
THOUGHTS ON THE RAFT COMING SOON…
btw where did you buy this???
I can’t find this book anywhere and I really want to read it !