COLLAPSE VOLUME IV HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!

[Nemonymous]

It's already arrived!
What a marvellous looking book!
Just too easy to make dirty fingerprints on the cover.
Not looked through yet to see if it mentions Nemonymity. If it doesn't, it hasn't covered all the ground.
Seriously, this promises to be a read of a lifetime. Well my lifetime, anyway.

[Bleak&Icy]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

Seriously, this promises to be a read of a lifetime. Well my lifetime, anyway.

How do you feel about the dead monkeys? Personally I felt that the images worked beautifully in conjunction with TL's text. An inspired touch.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Bleak&Icy

How do you feel about the dead monkeys? Personally I felt that the images worked beautifully in conjunction with TL's text. An inspired touch.

Beautiful noxymorons.

[Nemonymous]

"The 'wavering Zero' is the generative core of being and slime."
--Iain Hamilton Grant from "Being and Slime: The Mathematics of Protoplasm in Lorenz Oken's 'Physio-Philosophy'"

"Ligotti's work as a fictional realisation of Metzinger's nemocentrism."
--James Trafford from "The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti and the illusion of Selfhood."

From COLLAPSE Vol IV (Urbanomic 2008)

[Nemonymous]

http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics...es/010426.html
I notice above review of COLLAPSE IV mentions:
the nemonymous horror of Ligotti’s fiction

???
I think that is the first general use of that word since I invented it in 2001.

[Nemonymous]

BTW, I discovered the following John Fowles quote in 2002 after I had used the word 'nemonymous' in 2001 (when, incidentally, there were no Google hits for the word 'nemonymous' at all):

"The nemo is an evolutionary force, as necessary as the ego. The ego is certainty, what I am; the nemo is potentiality, what I am not. But instead of utilizing the nemo as we would utilize any other force, we allow ourselves to be terrified by it, as primitive man was terrified by lightning. We run screaming from this mysterious shape in the middle of our town, even though the real terror is not in itself, but in our terror at it."
-- John Fowles 1964 (from 'The Necessity of Nemo' in 'The Aristos')

The quote was then printed in Nemonymous Four (Glass Onion).

[candy]

Wow, congrats on getting your word out there!!! I think it is a great word. Next step getting it into Webster's dictionary. lol

[Nemonymous]

Thanks, Candy.

While writing, here is another interesting article:
The Horror of Something: commentaries on the littered universe and the weird

[Jezetha]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

BTW, I discovered the following John Fowles quote in 2002 after I had used the word 'nemonymous' in 2001 (when, incidentally, there were no Google hits for the word 'nemonymous' at all): "The nemo is an evolutionary force, as necessary as the ego. The ego is certainty, what I am; the nemo is potentiality, what I am not. But instead of utilizing the nemo as we would utilize any other force, we allow ourselves to be terrified by it, as primitive man was terrified by lightning. We run screaming from this mysterious shape in the middle of our town, even though the real terror is not in itself, but in our terror at it." -- John Fowles 1964 (from 'The Necessity of Nemo' in 'The Aristos') The quote was then printed in Nemonymous Four (Glass Onion).

Great quote, Des. I am strongly reminded of 1) John Keats, and his concept of 'negative capability', the ability of the poet to be nobody and become everything and everybody, and 2) D.H. Lawrence's famous remark about the 'old, stable ego' being dead.

The word 'nemonymous' is great, btw. Why didn't I think of that before (I am always making neologisms in my own work)...

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Jezetha

The word 'nemonymous' is great, btw. Why didn't I think of that before (I am always making neologisms in my own work)...

Thanks, Jezetha.

Here are some more of my nemologicals:

'zeroism, egnisomicon, egnisism' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1967), 'whofage' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1973), 'agra aska' (1984), 'weirdmonger' (1988), use of 'brainwright' in modern times (1990), use of 'yesterfang' in modern times (1997), 'wordhunger' (1999), 'nemonymous, 'nemonymity', late-labelling, veils-&-piques' (2001), 'denemonise' (2002), 'megazanthus', 'weirdonymous', 'chasing the noumenon' (2003), 'wordonymous', 'wordominous', 'the-ominous-imagination', revelling in vulnerability (2004), 'a woven fire-wall of words', 'nemoguity', 'vexed texture of text', 'fictipathy', 'nemotion', 'the hawler', 'the angel megazanthus', 'klaxon city', 'horrorism' when used as a word for the philosophy of horror fiction (2005), 'publication-on-reading', 'antipodal angst', 'the tenacity of feathers', 'a writer's mandala', 'wordy weird', 'nemophilia / nemophobia', 'magic fiction' as the obverse of the more common expression 'magic realism', 'weirdtongue' as the 'name' of a language, 'Glistenberry' as an alternative name for 'Glastonbury', 'tonguage' as a 'conscious' language, 'yester-eggs' as a term for Proustian 'selves', 'the parthenogenesis of reality from artifice', 'all is for the pest in the pest of all worlds', 'Baffles' as fables with muffled morals (2006), 'abutting the if', 'word clones / word clowns', 'bumps for books', 'rite of review', 'cone zero', 'a basket of coinages' (2007), 'small press cover ark(ive), the baser pulps' 'orrorfaces', 'the wheel culture', 'netogenic', the first fiction about a 'drogulus', 'Innerskull'. (2008).