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Originally only available in a very diverse mix of literary periodicals, from Strange Faeces to The Antigonish Review,These Proses A Problem Or Two brings together as coherent unit a dozen entertaining experiments with language and narrative -- sometimes erotic, sometimes satirical, sometimes serious, sometime quasi-scientific.
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Prose takes a beating in these These's experiments. Sometimes hammered into poetry, sometimes just hammered into submission, these assaults on prose by These are consistently interesting experiments."
--Anonymous reviewer in the now defunct Journal of Prosaic Findings.
"These's thesis is prose can be poetry. Yet poetry with a thesis is prose. These begs the question. In reply, the question begs These answers. It's all to confusing for this reviewer."
--Anonymous reviewer in the now defunct Illiterary Review
Excerpt from "First Prose: Old Theodore These Is Wont To Wheeze (A Memoir)":
My name is Theodore These. An odd name, you say? Well, don t think it hasn t caused me my share of trouble. I suppose all those marked with somewhat unusual names are doomed to live a childhood of mockery, and I m sure my suffering was not unique -- but that is little comfort. My suffering was intense. Not only was my name odd, my personality non-normative, but I was also cursed with asthma. The coupling of my difficult breathing with my nob girder of a name was the insipid inspiration for some very unfortun¬ate rhymes, rhymes that followed me through many years of school. As if, in God s vicious wisdom, that wasn t enough of a burden for a sensitive young child, I also had a tendency to lisp when I became angry or excited -- something that happened far too often. Thank heaven I was not also small, or my childhood surely would have been a playground in hell. Daily I saw what the smart¬asses and bullies did to the little kids in our class. I saw the bruising and...
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