Some guy just added me on Twitter - seems to be some sort of religious oddball - but he's written a completely insane 600-page avant-garde novel

oh yeah: louis, are you familiar with this?

http://marienbadmylove.com/default.aspx

holy christ, I don't think my head can cope with that

I was ready to be a believer until I noticed this:

In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye.

“The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.”

My thesis: the era of online text and search engines, the value of indiscriminate writing has dropped to zero. Google killed collage, cutups and "spontaneous bop prosody" forever. If your text hasn't passed through your own Wernicke's area, you're spamming.

"in" the era...

[Typos will always be with us.]

Turns out he did want to be a cult leader. By August of last year he was Christ Himself, then the Twitter entries break off. He died the following month.