In this fragment, Bean Newton is shown attempting to deal with a popular culture slipping quickly out of his grasp. By 1998, in his late twenties, Newton began feeling the irrelevancy of anyone over 25 in American culture.
His reaction is typical: philosophize, or at least link the dissolution he was feeling back to a real (or possibly imagined) mid-to-late 20th Century philosophical movement through the lens of a real (or possibly imagined) set of childhood experiences.
It is not known if he ever finished this poem. -- E.W. Wilder
A Phenomenology of Glue
- Remember when you were young and you'd coat your fingers in Elmer's then pull it off when it had become semi-dried, as if you were pulling off skin?
- The passage to Sinaloa is in the very hotel. For $40 I will show you.
- In my attempt to super-glue my car's dash back together, I accidentally created a vortex in the space-time continuum. Now my car radio only gets broadcasts of The Green Hornet from the 1940s.
- It's not that bad, really–sort of like a sourdough roll.
- Or maybe a Kaiser.
- Super-glue, according to recent legend, was originally designed as a quick and easy way to glue wounds back together during combat.