THE HANDSOME EXCURSIONS DREAM Nick Land Oversees 'Exit' Camp Community. Someone's Phone Is DeadNick Land / text
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THE HANDSOME EXCURSIONS
The End of the Swiss Connection. The Continuation of The Prick Room.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Dear Patrick,
DREAM: Nick Land Oversees 'Exit' Camp/Community. Someone's Phone Is
Dead
I did indeed get the package of
books -- thank you so much for
sending. It is really quite a trilogy
and a wonderful collection. I loved
all the Suzanne Farrell references
and your dedication to Graham. A
very original and beautiful book,
the big one.
Nick Land was in Army fatigues and was going about busily putting together some sort of
high-tech place in some country like Vietnam or the DMZ of Korea. There was a 'subtext' of
tropical ferns and waterfalls. It was highly complicated but not terribly dirt-excavation,
etc. There were all these titanium containers that weren't used for anything in particular
yet but kept appearing and they were of finest quality, some were lined with small
diamonds; later I thought they might be coffins, but it didn't seem like a war was going on,
and if there were, there wouldn't be any diamonds on the coffins (and never are anyway.) I
was working with him on some of this, but don't remember what I was doing. He was
moved around mostly, but also didn't do anything except oversee new things coming in for
the various constructions. There wasn't that much of a business park atmosphere to it, but
there were odd feminine things: His wife was teaching a dance class with about 15 little
girls in it, and she was wearing a dress. There was a picture of Angie Dickinson in a 1954
Broadway debut starring role, but this never existed anymore than Nick Land actually
working on outdoor construction of a large metallic community existed. Outside the
dream, it should be noted that he recently told someone that an 'inner circle' of NRx people
could never number more than 9, that every person who leaves NRx causes much more joy
than the 'recruit' of any single top-tier genius. This would indicate that either no power is
wielded or power that is understood in the usual sense is considered unimportant and not
worth all the intense concentrated power that this inner circle of sub-double-digits would
wield. The point is to keep blogging and hold a permanent philosophy round-table, which
they've already been doing for 4 years, but now there are new people and there is constant
talk of 'lowering the tone'
I looked for him after awhile to tell him I was finished with whatever it was I was doing in
this metallic park, but he wasn't to be found. Lots of heavy equipment was being installed,
including glittering titanium boxes shaped into hexagons, and a few pentagons. And still
the 'subtexts' of ferns and waterfalls, half-jungle but definitely in South Asia, probably
Southeast Asia.
*
Later, there weren't calls made but rather implied to someone else, but the blockage was
now even worse than I thought. I couldn't remove my email address if I wanted to, but it
didn't matter whether I did or not. This had a blood-coloured quality to it, due to the hard
yogas, but they'd been finished, and I would have to go to the place on First Avenue which I
couldn't locate on foot last year. I would have to go there when the showers let up,
because that wasn't far from where the girl once cavorted, but she's long dead. This one
indicated a married name, to imply that a marriage still existed even with divorce. I saw a
picture of his girlfriend, or the girl who wants to be his girlfriend. She's about an 8, he's
about a 9 now. That's pretty high still, but he used to be a definite 10. The 'superstar
robot musician asshole' he used to accompany and gave him a following was a 10 about 20
years ago, when he was this prodigy of the violin. He's now about a 7, and I never realized
until now that playing too often is not beneficial: He does all the 19th c. violinist Paganini-
--TONI BENTLEY, former New York
City Ballet dancer, author of
'Holding on to the Air' (with
Suzanne Farrell), 'The Surrender',
an 'erotic memoire', and frequent
contributor to the New York Times
Book Review and the New York
Review of Books, among many
others.
UPDATE: Third Batch of copies of
ILLEGAL DANCES OF NEW YORK
CITY supplied December 22. You
will please purchase this item by
the website listed here, by email
or phone, or by appearing in
person.
Online Orders at St. Mark's
Bookshop for the U.S. and
Canada $29.95
http://www.stmarksbookshop.com
/search/apachesolr_search/illegal
%20dances%20of%20new%20york
%20city
For international orders from St.
Mark's Bookstore, you must email
or phone:
stmarksbooks@mindspring.com
31 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-260-7853
Fax: 212-598-4950
Dominic Fox on Illegal Dances
(from old Poetix bleug)
'Notes and Comment'
"...it should be understood as a