This Is Memorial Device

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Keenan, D. (2018). This Is Memorial Device. Faber & Faber Social.

Faber & Faber Social, 2018. 304 pages. Paperback. 9780571340170

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the primordial soup of everyone else

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It was like a walking frame or a wheelchair, a cr…

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before you slide a ring onto my finger

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I began to think of people not as individuals but…

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the most beautiful woman I had ever seen

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[...] There was a pair of thick floor-length brow…

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made me melancholy for the first time

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[...] What the hell (I was in Paris). Afterwards …

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you genuinely can’t be arsed

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SH: I worked in a shoe shop in Coatbridge for one…

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This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan March 18, 2023 - March 25, 2023 (read/fiction)

1. Hidden Occluded by Chemistry by Water

2. This Is So Pointlessly Wrong

3. Daytime Hangovers That Can Only Be Remedied by a Session of Furious Masturbation

4. The Next Thing I Knew Remy and Regina Were Dating (If You Can Believe That)

5. Rimbaud Was Desperate or Iggy Lived It

6. Everyone Was Looking for That Mythical Ménage à Trois

7. Wisps of Blonde Sawdust (Blonde Stardust)

8. A Beautiful Form of Self-Scarification and Of Course Endlessly Attractive

9. He Had Tried to Have His Testicles Removed on the NHS

10. The Golden Light Coming From the Window and Spilling Over the Pavement Like a Perfect Dream

11. Poor Condition With Promo Stickers

12. A Likely Candidate for Sex for Marriage for Kidnap for Another Kind of Future Altogether

13. Kitty-Catting into the Night Burglarising My Dreams

14. Scatman and Bobbin the Dynamic Duo

15. The Day of the Frozen Vampires

16. Holdin Cells fur Oerweight Ballerinas

17. Chasing a Twenty-Year-Old Girl Halfway Round the World and Setting Up Shop in a War Zone

18. This Is Where I’m Gonna Sit It Out and Then Impregnate the Future

19. A Minor Cog a Small Life a Little Bird

20. I Thought They Had Cut the Top of His Head Off and Were Spooning Out His Brains

21. Every Disappointment Was Like Something Awarded You in Heaven

22. Ships Rising Up and Passing Through the Water Full of Sunlight and Memory the Tricks That It Plays

23. An Inoculation Against Spirit-Devouring Life as Practised in the West Coast of Scotland

24. Blood and Water Inside Me That Needs an Example

25. My Dream Bride Which Is Of Course My Mother but Not With a Vagina Please

26. I Saw All These Dead Moons Circling a Star

This Is Memorial Device
by David Keenan

March 18, 2023 - March 25, 2023 (read/fiction)