![]() ![]() Lunch is brazenly adamant about her lack of regrets over almost anything she’s remembered and written down here. This was proven by the fact that I rocketed through it in about a day of subway travels and almost missed my stop going to work that morning. While aspects of this book did tend to bore me (more precisely, what appeared to be switches between an almost standard narrative biopic attempt and the more abstract and flowing documentation of every visceral and lubricated moment she can recall and the impacts they’ve had on the wall that’s been her life), all in all, I dug it quite a bit. It’s something not all of us can easily bear, but for those of us who do, it’s often an interesting experience. Imagine every dirty aspect of human existence, both the good and bad part of it, the moments that not only disgust you but also make you feel alive, laid out in stark detail. She describes herself as confrontational by nature, and in Paradoxia, it shows. Regardless, she’s still a name that almost anyone who bothers to look beyond the initial pale of socially “acceptable” arts will know, one way or another. Even though this is my first direct exposure to Lunch’s work, she’s a name I’ve always heard bandied around and recommended. ![]() Many know Lydia Lunch from somewhere, from her work as a solo musician, an influential member of the “no-wave” movement, a spoken-word artist, or her film work (which was the case with me). Lunch revels in stream-of-consciousness, allowing the current to almost take her with it, as it sweeps a river of memories and sexual escapades out to the big sea of a Jungian collective conscious (if you’re a Jungian, that is). From what I remember, it’s basically allowing for a non-linear sense of time and narrative in the story you tell, and when you write it down, it also allows for fragments because, well, that’s what it is: a literal documentation of fragments of memory and story, put down on paper as they come out. So I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of “stream-of-consciousness” literature, and a basic understanding of how it worked. ![]()
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