"Some nights are just dark spots in space." So begins The Case, a surreal journey into the mind and ornate miscalculations of Brock Meirski.
For years, Brock has been trying to make
sense of a persistent, ubiquitous mystery he calls
The Case. But his "investigation" is
repeatedly undermined by the wild, combinatorial
exuberance of his own mind's symbolic processes.
Daily life, for Meirski, is a kind of interpretive
nightmare, in which he can never quite see the forest
for the trees. When he begins to glimpse a solution,
he also begins to understand that his idea of solving
The Case was also a kind of miscalculation.
The Case is both forest and trees.
"I read it with interest, and was very amused by your often extravagant and highly
unpredictable prose...It has plenty of style and flair and is filled with wit as well...
'The Case' was entertaining and most unusual."
-- Douglas Hofstadter / Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of:
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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Metamagical Themas
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
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I Am A Strange Loop
THE CASE - Pattern-recognition On Overload
A day or two in the life of a pattern-recognizer of such heightened perception he has to push
hundreds of meanings out of the way just to walk across a room. He might even give Taffy Atom
a run for his money - and not a shot fired.
-- Steve Aylett / Author of:
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The Crime Studio
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Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood
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Slaughtermatic
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Toxicology
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Shamanspace
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Only An Alligator
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The Velocity Gospel
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Dummyland
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Karloff's Circus
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LINT
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And Your Point Is?
This is a book as designed by Mandelbrot, fed through The Matrix and, well,
I don't know yet... I am enthralled. It reminds me of Max Barry's 'Syrup',
another exercise in the crazed royalty of hip that kept me smiling and
grabbing the pages...
-- Tim Roux / Author of:
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The Ghoul Who Once
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The Dance of the Pheasodile
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Little Fingers!
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Fishing, for Christians
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Shade+Shadows
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Blood & Marriage
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Girl on a Bar Stool