DABBLING with the New Noumenon
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The Three Ages of D.F. Lewis
0. 1948-1985 — Poems / Zeroist Group (1960s), The Visitor (Novel) 1973, Agra Aska (novella) 1983.
1. 1986-2000 – Over 1000 fiction publications in magazines and anthologies, some selected for the Prime Books D.F. Lewis collection ‘Weirdmonger’ (2003).
He was awarded the BFS Karl Edward Wagner Award.
2. 2001-2010 – Publishing multi-authored ‘Nemonymous’.
3. 2008-
GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWING (www.nemonymous.com),
Plus one novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT (Chômu Press), a story collection and two novellas entitled THE LAST BALCONY (InkerMen Press), and a novella entitled Weirdtongue (InkerMen Press), and my reprint of Agra Aska that was originally published in 1998 by Scorpion Press,
Plus three originally created multi-authored anthologies that I published,
Plus two books from Mount Abraxas Press, and an Eibonvale chapbook called The Big Headed People. And a book collection from Eibonvale: DABBLING WITH DIABELLI,
Plus forthcoming in 2020 a past story selected for THE BIG BOOK OF MODERN FANTASY edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
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My review in May 2018 of Imogen Cooper’s performance of Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Opus 120 morphing into dark fantasy in the no man’s land between literature and outlier art… https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/dabbling-with-imogees/
Much more information within the comment stream below…
Three photos inspiring or echoing three stories in DABBLING…
Until stocks last, and Coronavirus circumstances permitting, there is a free THE LAST BALCONY (InkerMen Press 2012) collection (otherwise very rare) offered to anyone who writes to me privately and correctly links the three photographs shown above with the three DABBLING WITH DIABELLI stories that each photo echoes.
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This is my own competition and has no connection with the book’s publisher Eibonvale Press.
Contents:
9 Touch-Catch
15 They Crawl Over the Outside of Buildings More Than They Walk in the Streets Between
27 A Private Person Travels the World Home
41 Parcels
45 Fiction Happens
61 Empty Pyjamas
75 Water Hammer
85 The Dark Hem
95 Bedridden
99 The Doorbell Prince
109 However Close to Someone, You Are Never More Than Two Entities Separated by Head-Bone.
121 The Duke of Dusk or Dawn
125 The Anniversary Point
131 After You
141 Mitchell’s Manifold Kindnesses
155 Beneath the Cagoule
163 The Second Knock
173 A New Dream
179 The Fair of the Dog
187 Items of Faith
193 Jean’s Soirée
197 Crash Barrier
207 An Infusion of Stars
215 Splints
219 The Rich Maskery of Life
235 The House of Mr Moses
241 Dabbling with Diabelli
251 I Didn’t Mean to Make You Sad
261 Farmer Giles’ ‘Home Remidies’
267 The Last Story in the World
Re: A PRIVATE PERSON TRAVELS THE WORLD HOME above…
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“‘You tell the stories of the sea,’ she murmured, as though there was nothing strange about that.”
Read up to:
“….page after page of small texts flashed passed on the screen.
‘Each one is a separate story,’ he said. ‘And together they make up one . . . big . . . novel.’”
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Above from my review of FEATHER by David Rix here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/feather-tales-of-isolation-and-descent-david-rix/#comment-19410
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There is no duplication between the collections WEIRDMONGER, THE LAST BALCONY and DABBLING WITH DIABELLI.
My photos used by Eibonvale on the hardback Dabbling dust jacket:
DABBLING WITH DIABELLI, May 30 2018
Performed by a wonderful pianist: *Imogen Cooper*
Live! A privilege. A lifetime ambition inadvertently achieved. Her fingers were the Diabelli, and her facial expressions part of working with the music, a disarming spirituality. (Also intrigued by her tablet music score that she seemed to work with her foot.) But as you can see from the programme above, Schoenberg (for me, a rare live performance of another of my favourite styles of music), is shown with large detailed space, but lasted only a few minutes as an exquisite, distilled dream. But the Diabelli with one brief programme mention lasted a majestic 55 minutes!
My experience of the Diabelli was slightly disrupted by Arch-Brexiteer Bernard Jenkin suddenly intruding, just before it started, into the audience row in front of me, so that, as I understood it, he could see her hands. Perhaps he also wanted to feast upon those Diabelli…
There was another significant experience in the Schoenberg’s Six Little Pieces Op. 19, leading straight into Haydn’s Sonata No. 60, which I had not expected. In fact, the existence of the Diabelli performance in itself was a surprise to me, as my wife had arranged this visit and I had been unaware of the programme until I got there.
My previous classical music reviews: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/des-lewiss-classical-music-reviews/
WOOD METAL STONE
June 2018 to June 2019
Enormously heavy and spiritually contagious.
Near Cliff Rd, Holland on Sea
IMPORTANT PICTURES HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/03/18/of-wood-stone-metal/
SEPTEMBER 2018
Piano music for the left hand.
Bach arr. Wittgenstein – Ave Maria
Scriabin – Prelude and Nocturne Op.9
Piece arr. from Bellini’s ‘Norma’ (Fumagalli, Adolfo)
Bach arr Brahms – Chaconne in D Minor
Frank Bridge – Three Improvisations: At Dawn, A Vigil, A Revel
Rachmaninov arr Meinders – Springwater
Rachmaninov arr. Nicholas McCarthy himself – Prelude in G Minor Op.23 No.5
‘Morgen’ arr. from song – Richard Strauss
An inspiring afternoon just experienced. The fingers flew over the keys like lightsome avians, sometimes filling me with mellow darkness, on a strange heavily rainy day that ended sunny. I was particularly taken with the narrative of his voice between pieces, generous with information on the circumstances and names of those who had historically enhanced the musical left-hand, sinister not dexter, deep, stirring and strong as well as effervescent. Rapture and rhapsody. My only complaint was that he had cut some Scriabin from the original programme. Scriabin was the composer who had attracted me to this venue today. But I was lucky to arrive early to find the pianist limbering up with some Scriabin! All very fitting with the celestial backdrop to the piano, with Scriabin famous for such mysticism.
Roman River Music Festival.
My previous reviews of local concerts HERE.
24 September 2018 – Facebook
just had to record this amazing synchronicity straightaway!
When reading Lee Rourke’s The Canal today, the narrator sits at his normal bench by the canal, next to a man **humming what sounded to be classical music**
Then there is this description by the narrator of him:
“It didn’t take me long to notice he was missing an arm. His right arm, above the elbow.”
Yesterday, I happened to attend a piano recital as I reviewed straight afterwards here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/scriabin-bach-rachmaninov-frank-bridge-with-the-left-hand/ – Classical piano music for the left hand alone, as played by someone in the same state of disablement. A wonderful pianist, to boot!
I just told my wife about this and she accused me of joking her! And it is indeed my most striking synchronicity so far in my ten years of Gestalt Real-Time Reviewing and it is hard to imagine a more striking one.
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/the-canal-lee-rourke/#comment-13709
DABBLING with the New Normal…
‘Nemonymous Night’ was SF in 2011 when it was published after being written in 2005. Nothing more, nothing less. Dabbling, ever dabbling, but now reaching towards a New Noumenon.
‘Nemonymous Night’ is associated merely by dint of DABBLING’s two-way filter with it.
Touch Catch – previously ‘Anonymous Tale’
They crawl over the outside of buildings more than they walk in the streets between – previously ‘Diptych’
A Private Person Travels The World Home
Parcels
Fiction Happens – previously ‘A Multitude of Sins’
Empty Pyjamas – previously ‘A Gentle Touch of Bare Hands’
Water Hammer
The Dark Hem
Bedridden – previously ‘A Disowned Spontaneity’
The Doorbell Prince
However close to someone, you are never more than two entities separated by head-bone. – previously ‘Breakfast at Noon’
The Duke of Dusk or Dawn – previously ‘No Circumstances’
The Anniversary Point – previously ‘The Builder-Dragons of Planet Ishgilia’
After You – previously ‘Gentleman George’
Mitchell’s Manifold Kindnesses – previously ‘The Manifold Kindnesses of Mitchell Much’
Beneath the Cagoule – previously ‘Clumsy Nirvana’
The Second Knock – previously ‘Cabin Fever’
A New Dream – incorporating ‘Raw Dream’
Fair of the Dog
Items of Faith
Jean’s Soirée
Crash Barrier – previously ‘Let Me Whisper In Your Ear’
An Infusion of Stars
Splints
The Rich Maskery of Life – previously ‘Hide and Seek’, ‘Billy Belly’ and ‘Ertz’.
The House of Mr Moses
Dabbling with Diabelli – and ‘An Ounce of Three Castles and a Packet of Blue Rizla’.
I Didn’t Mean To Make You Sad – previously ‘Living on the Corner’ and ‘Trooping the Colour’.
Farmer Giles’ “Home Remidies” – previously ‘Gardening Tips’.
The Last Story In The World – previously ‘Woodland Without Trees’.
See my reference yesterday to a story in DABBLING entitled AFTER YOU in one of the synchronies here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/3-gestalt-synchronies-today/
‘The Rich Maskery of Life’ – entitled thus when revised wholesale in 2013.
Today, but rich?!
You can actually seem to touch the tactile sand upon the blend of stone, wood and metal of the mysterious ULO.
A physical book with its own autonomous soul that will grow on the readers the more they handle it.
Further story revisions excluded from DABBLING WITH DIABELLI:
https://etepsed.wordpress.com/512-2/ — SHE LOVES YOU (previously ‘The Monkey Who Did Not Like Its Hat’
https://etepsed.wordpress.com/521-2/ – OMINOUS CLOUDS (previously ‘Numbskull’)
https://etepsed.wordpress.com/529-2/ – A SHY VAMPIRE (previously ‘The Vampire of the Sun’)
http://howivi.wordpress.com/do-you-know-suzie-suzies-were-the-best-parties-going-and-the-ones-with-the-least-hangover-in-fact-i-always-felt-that-there-was-someone-invisible-forever-tidying-up-behind-the-celebrants/ – DO YOU KNOW SUZIE? (Previously: Suzie’s Shindigs)
http://howivi.wordpress.com/279-2/: Eminently Forgotten (previously: Eminently Forgettable)
http://howivi.wordpress.com/287-2/: Fire-Earth (previously: Boot Heels)
Just realised you can ADD shadows to this book…
Very exciting!
Look at what just arrived!
(Placed very carefully on a newly cleaned floor).
A taster story from the new DFL collection ‘Dabbling With Diabelli’ entitled
THE RICH MASKERY OF LIFE (a revision completed in 2013):
http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=7541
If there are any reviews of this book, they will be linked from here: https://etepsed.wordpress.com/dabbling-reviews/
Until stocks last, and Coronavirus circumstances permitting, there is a free THE LAST BALCONY (InkerMen Press) collection (otherwise very rare) offered to anyone who writes to me privately and correctly links the three photographs above here: https://etepsed.wordpress.com/dabbling-with-diabelli/#comment-2041 with the three DABBLING stories that each photo echoes.
This is DFL’s own competition and has no connection with the book’s publisher Eibonvale Press.
Regarding the statue above, under which I am standing…
https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-zencore-statue/
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/zencore-cern-zoo-cone-zero/