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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #80

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Pulsating Portal to Punk Paradise… – Puke, Pills & Pussy: On the Road with America’s Wildest Punk-Rock Performers, Olga Trebor (2025)

• Stains for Brains – The Secret Lives of Stones, Hettie Judah (2022)

• Mysterious Chess – Selected Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, edited Alexander Coleman (1999)

• Bees Please Me – The Bee Bible: 50 Ways to Keep Bees Buzzing, Sally Coulthard (2019)

• N.N-K.P-T.L.Q.P.w.P.M.a.A. – Noxious N*gg*r-Killer Pre-Teen Lactation Queens Party with Pope Muhammad at Auschwitz, Simon Whitechapel (2023)

• Absorbing Absinthesis – The Dedalus Book of Absinthe, Phil Baker (2001; 2006)

• Benny Bowden – Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden, Edward Dutton (2025)

• Kyle Away the Powers – A Year in Numbers: 365 Astonishing Maths Facts, Kyle D. Evans (2023)

• Warriors, Come Out to SLAY… – Encyclopedia Psychopathica: Top Tips, Tactics, and Targetting Techniques for Successful Serial Slayers, Dr Samuel P. Salatta (2025)

• Sinister Slooooow Slayer… – Slo-Mo Psycho: The Sinister Story of the Stockport Slayer, Dr Zachariah Zialli (2021)

• Maximal Munch Meisterwerk – Crunch: An Ode to Crisps, Natalie Whittle (2024)

• Northanger Abyss… – Jane in Blood: Castration, Clitoridolatry and Communal Cannibalism in the Novels of Jane Austen, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (2025)

Or simply…

• Read a Review at Random

Ted Said

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I thought I knew how depraved and despicable core serial-slayer Ted Bundy was when I began The Only Living Witness (1983) for the first time earlier this month.

I was wrong.

Keyly, corely wrong.

As I discovered when I reached this putrefactively performative passage:

I wanted to know how Lynda Healy had been taken from her bedroom. “I guess you would have had to dress her?” I ventured.

Ted ignored my use of “you”.

“In that kind of situation,” he replied mechanically, “a person who was alert enough to be able to dress would not be afraid in terms of struggling or crying out. So it would be unlikely that any attempt was made to clothe the girl.” — from chapter 5 of The Only Living Witness, Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth (revised edition 1989)

It’s always possible to go lower and get worse, it seems. Bundy trained as a lawyer. That’s bad. Bundy used “in terms of”. That’s worse. (dot dot dot)

Ted should of course have said: “afraid to struggle…” or “afraid about struggling…”

Elsewhere other-engageable:

• Ex-term-in-ate!
• All Posts interrogating issues around “in terms of”
• Don’t Do Dot… (also interrogates issues around “core” and “spike”)…
• Heresy, Homotextuality, Hive-Mind…