A Catalogue of Limit Objects

John Ohno on 2019-11-22

The following is a novel-length text generated for NaNoGenMo 2019, inspired by Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie.

Object #777324

Within basements of steel, a Gemini replica of elazig cherry marble beckons. Within salons of chyme, mad long-forgotten a copy of a brow of squirm, whose Venuses whose vast huge equal silently judges, silently judge, waits.

Object #187563

Within pits of kraft paper, dateless reproduction ONIs of retch, unknowable, incredible, beckon.

Object #469358

Miles above Logan miles below Salem within an evanescent tunnel of snapdragon, arcane a mock up twin of a Hydra of molded pulp chuckles, but within a mad bathroom of honk, a scale model of a groundwork of rock, whose unimaginable terrible purpose remains incomprehensible to man, judges, but fathoms below Longview within studios of adobe, a replica of a bagful of skiddaw slate, whose mad unknowable origins are lost in the fog of time, whose nameless ladders of adobe mouldy a model whispers your name, waits, however deep below Desborough within massive panic rooms of electrum, unnumberable good example chaoses of orange blossom weep.

Downwind of Conroe within mailrooms of knee, countless vixens of take flight, watching, judging, vast, terrible, purposeless, whose incredible mouldy phellem, miniscule, sitting in judgement, whose box seats…