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FRACTAL NOVELS of NICHOLAS KATSAFANAS

PATRIOTISM RUNS COUNTER TO ORDINARY HUMAN MORALITY [2026]: Popular livestreamer and entirely fictional character Nikolaos Enrique Iglesias engages in a series of episodic "streams" that accurately act as his autobiography. He's now strongly considering transcribing his episodic "streams" into texts for an increasingly literate American public. (Section = >.75; Line = >.75)

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Concepts: Diagrammatic Subjectivity; Geometrical Expressionism; Sal Paradise

THE WORLD DIVIDES INTO FACTS [2025]: Reimi and Buddy share what can only be deemed God-given honest opinions that they have every right to express on their trip to East Asia. Then Reimi and her sister Nikke take in an anonymous French Mannerist's painting. Finally, Reimi shares with Buddy a particularly noteworthy month-long dip into insanity her sister Nikke recently endured. (Section = >.75; Line = >.667)

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Concepts: Trauma & Memory; Thomas Paine; Travel Memoirs

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KOREATOWN BOK CHOY [2025]: Jo Yu-Ri hires this well-endowed Greek demigod named Priapus to help cultivate her bok choy in Midtown Manhattan, but he's kind of promiscuous? Is that an issue? Or do her and her friend Araqi fundamentally misunderstand the nature of numbers? (Section = >.75; Line = n/a)

Concepts:: Greco-Druzian Metaphysics; Form Numbers;

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BODY HAIR AWARENESS MONTH: EXTENDED EDIT [2024]: Each stanza consists of 34-55 syllables. These 28 poems were the basis for the record of the same name (DJ Iambic Pentameter), where each piece was recited at approximately 377 syllables per minute (1.618x the 233 SPM of normal speech) with the voice memo used a piece of "musique concrete." The voice memos were then juxtaposed with 89 BPM electronic backdrops. More info here.

THE MADNESS OF A CLOUD [2025]: Cloud Strife spends a few days getting blackout drunk in 7th Heaven, vigorously discussing what he views as some of the central underpinnings of modern day Simulation Theory.

$14.28 IS MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN $14.00 [2023]: John Hawkes was absolutely correct in his assessment of plot, character, setting, and theme. And Symeon the New Theologian's Divine Eros is certainly a progenitor of the postmodern novel.

METROPOLIS + ISOSCELES [2021]: Two moderately opinionated Greek theologians discuss their views on the number 1.99999 repeating as well as various theories of the Western world.

BLOVIATING SOFTLY [2021]: A man relays his feelings about being ruthlessly sat next to a couple who despise him, a couple who he also abjectly despises, at a wedding of a mutual long-time friend.

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