Divastigations
Subtitle: Towards a Schizomythology of Ritual, Volume Two: Ouida Willoughby Johnson’s Ludicts
Edition: First print edition
Series: Towards a Schizomythology of Ritual
Publisher: Editions MSS
Published: June 2018
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 5800127779613
Copyright date: 2018
First sentence: § 1. Virtual philosophy of miraculous origins. — And should I mourn that child I was? I’m constantly losing my virginity. Autumn’s crimson sin.
Description: As part two of M. S. Strickland’s work-in-prog., Towards a Schizomythology of Ritual, Divastigations functions as a sort of distaff companion to that opus cursorium’s first part, Compass (2001). In Compass, Dado Udidi’s pugnacious, subsultory rants of diurnally solipsistic masculinity ramify into a lugubrious, palilalic rhapsody of discordant, traumatic illuminations. In Divastigations, by contrast, Ouida Willoughby Johnson’s lucubratory praxis of prosocial womaninity unspools dithyrambic axiomata of oracular carnality such that a “lucid flow of fact and fabulation,” as Ouida says, brings about a flippantly haptic, insouciantly pornocratic “ductility of glyph and word” — that is, ludict — which “molds form from form’s omission.”