phanero wrote:
well, i just went through the stacks, and i guess i sold it. the
closest thing i could find
was Ballantine paperback 23894, a novelisation of Sol Fried's 'film'
_Super ManChu: Master of Kung Fu_
by Sean Mei Sullivan with an introduction by Bong Soo Han..
you're welcome to it, if'n ya want. it's mebbe kind of a proto-flarf
ancestor, maybe like Lautreamont was to the surrealists.
the complete title is
SUPER COOL
SUPER QUICK
SUPER DEADLY
Super ManChu: Master of Kung Fu.
I like the idea of incorporating Sax Rohmer. Burroughs makes a passing
snipe in one of his spoken texts.
the insidious racist trash of Sax Rohmer or some such, but i think
there was a context there that's gone.
almost seems like a form of 'irenics' to juice these old exploitave
wards, a form of forgiving maybe like in South Africa.
I'm not sure everyone would agree. At any rate, I thought you'd get a
kick out of the authors' names on this one.
A Sullivan. Sol Fried? what a name! and Bong Soo Han! got to be the
best writer name ever.
great poem Allen..
lq
interesting point about Rohmer's racism. it kinda taps into the British
opium mercantilism, insidious underworld running things. politically
motivated, rather than the personal craziness of Howard or Lovecraft or
Poe. not to praise it. it's never the twain plus an inferiourity that
desperately holds onto British Empire for strength. Rohmer essentially
took Sherlock Holmes and keyed it all up. and you could say it is Fu
Manchu = Holmes and not just Moriarty. if nothing else, the stories have
a careering momentum.
