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Ravens are all watching from a painting by Dalí

from Cold grey void electrically operated by mantis​-​eyed humans (2022) by Escupemetralla

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This track is based on "Cymbaline" and "Wot’s… uh the deal".

Are ravens really watching you from a painting by Dalí? Did you have your morning cymbaline today? How about your evening cyanide? Are you aware of the number of surrealists who have died in fires, decapitated, or underwater? Is that a mole on your cheek? Is that a Burroughs on your neck? Probably you had read the first half of this paragraph at least ten times and had no idea what was going on. But then you’ve read it five times more, and you've decided that you like it. It's the perfect example of a sentence that is going to make you read the rest of the paragraph even if you hate it, because you want to figure out what the hell is going on in it. That’s exactly what happens with Cărtărescu’s prose.

You’lI also like the way the paragraph switches from present tense to past tense. These sentences are not for the faint of heart. They are strange and creepy in a way that you can't remember ever encountering in a text before. It's like the difference between reading a book about serial killers and actually meeting a serial killer. Now you find yourself reading very quickly, and you are definitely not comfortable numb with that. The writing is at times very beautiful, and at other times very incongruous. The writing is like an alien landscape, full of bizarre and fascinating detail, but it's also a place that we all feel very unsafe in, something like being watched by ravens from a painting by Dalí.

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from Cold grey void electrically operated by mantis​-​eyed humans (2022), released November 4, 2022

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Escupemetralla are the result of a series of retro-transmissions to be carried out in the mid-twentyfirst century at the "Thorne's Cone Light Reversion Laboratory for Children", Los Alamos, Texas (Federal States of Mexico and Puerto Rico). In a certain way, Escupemetralla are just virtual entities that will actually exist in several years' time. Escupemetralla means "Spitshrapnel" in Spanish. ... more

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