Imagination Translation
If Facebook is chiefly a way to track events and adventures, and Instagram is mainly for keeping tabs on what Brian Andreas is currently drawing, then Twitter is as much about watching the fever dreams of Jeff Noon spill out into the world as anything else.
I haven't read his newest novel yet, but I enjoyed it's predecessor, A Man of Shadows, and the short story collection Pixel Juice even more.
On the Twitters he's recently been doing bits with the tag #speedlit which adhere to the following rules:
"20 words or less
no punctuation
lower case
one line break"
I've been trying my hand at it through out the day and found it a fun exercise.
gathering the fuel of fear
from birds
mice
quantum existence engines
revving with each purr
schrodinger had no idea
wherewolves
in teflon and night vision
hunting
through the shadow of crowds
hunger imperceivable
until
unhappy
with spotify ranking
orpheus
packs lyre
coins
dog biscuits
perilous road to contract
renegotiation
do
not
turn
around
transistor cherub
dreaming of flight
bright filament arrays
unfolding
ding
honeysuckle on the cemetery wall
long yellow throats
cooing softly
let us taste
the nectar of you
neural arcing
welding
one lost memory
to another
she remembers
the fall to pandemonium
the rise