Empire of the Senseless

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Кэти Акер. Empire of the Senseless

EMPIREof theSENSELESS_____________. Kathy Acker

Table of Contents

Introduction

Elegy for the World of the Fathers

I Rape by the Father

II Raise Us From The Dead

1. The Psychosis Which Resulted From Gonorrhoea

2. Suicide

3. Beyond The Extinction of Human Life

III In Honour of The Arabs

1. Algeria

2. Algeria’s Cock

3. The Memory Of Childhood

4. Personal History Or Memory

5. Primitive/Before

6 A Memory of Pleasure

1. A Degenerating Language

2. A Degenerating Heart

3. Heart Of Hearts

IV Romanticism

V Let the Algerians Take Over Paris

Alone

I Child Sex

II The Beginning of Criminality/The Beginning of Morning

III On Becoming Algerian

Death

Freedom

Demolition

Pirate Night

I I Realize Something

II Black Heat

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WORKS BY KATHY ACKER PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS

Blood and Guts in High School

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I told my father my dream. Even though he despised her, he cared so much for me, he determined to find her a lover.

My father went to Greece. One night he was sitting on his yacht off the coast of the island of Ithaca, from where Ulysses had set off on his own to find out the truth. At night the water, the sky and the few buildings of the nearest town were many different colors of black. There was only black. My father saw a shadow on the other side of his yacht, took out his pistol, and shot. The shadow fell, dead, down to the deck. In the law court, my father declared that he hadn’t recognized the young man who he had killed.

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