Blue Lard

[Mark Kohut]

Preety ingenious shit (in a good way)

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:09 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to make sense of this scatter reality(?), hyper lurid-theretical,
> coozytail makes me feel like stroking my 1st and 3rd chakras!
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:27 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Howdy
> >
> > finally some fiction to look forward to (albeit an early novel now
> > translated). sounds a bit like Coover/Pynchon hybrid
> >
> > i am a bit biased, very much liking Sorokin's other works
> >
> > https://www.nyrb.com/products/blue-lard
> >
> > The book begins in a futuristic laboratory where genetic scientists speak
> > in a Joycean dialect of Russian mixed with Chinese—peppered with ample
> > neologisms—and work to clone famous Russian writers, who are then made to
> > produce texts in the style of their forebears. The goal of this
> > “script-process” is not the texts themselves, but the blue lard that
> > collects in the small of their backs as they write.
> >
> > This substance is to be used to power reactors on the moon—that is,
> until a
> > sect of devout nationalists breaks in to steal the blue lard, planning to
> > send it back in time to an alternate version of the Soviet Union, one
> that
> > exists on the margins of a Europe conquered by a long-haired Hitler with
> > the ability to shoot electricity from his hands. What will come of this
> > blue lard? Who will finally make use of its mysterious powers?
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> >
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