Comments on: Non-Standard Stories http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2010/01/06/non-standard-stories/ even black birds must die Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kyla Ward http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2010/01/06/non-standard-stories/#comment-187 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:07:00 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/?p=225#comment-187 It has long been my opinion that a story is a means of organising and transmitting information of such complexity and efficacy as numerals and graphs can only dream of. An encyclopedia is really a kind of distortion, like we might alter animals for our convenience.

I had not previously heard of the Shapton book and “House of Leaves” has, I fear, been sitting on The List for years. However, I am quite fond of the “King Squid” section in the Appendix of Jeff Vandermeer’s “City of Saints and Madmen”. In this, through the bibliography of a “scholarly” work on giant squids, we come to understand that the author is incarcerated in an insane asylum, amongst other titbits I shall not give away.

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