Star Milk/The Pool

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Two theory-fiction novellas of geotrauma, biopsychology, regression, and longing. A disturbed young woman in therapy reveals her intimate encounters with a seaborn entity; a rogue scholar' s lost notebooks record his obsession with the cultural, biological, and etymological genealogies of the female breast. Two theory-fiction novellas of geotrauma, biopsychology, regression, and longing unveil disconcerting visions of the continuity of human life, thought, and desire with forces that exceed them. In Elaine Tam' s The Pool, sanity expands and withdraws in waves as the unidentified narrator tentatively discloses details of her shoreline tryst with a nonhuman lover, and the strange affair that ensued. With each session, her surreal monologue draws closer to the dream' s navel. Regression, recapitulation, oceanic bliss, origin and otherness, Yoruba myth, Irigarayan appropriation, thalassic erotica, and briny Lovecraftian body-horror meet in a love story unlike any other. "No, no. I will not leave Thalassa. . . "The posthumously recovered journals of Yorgos Mammakythos, collected in Star Milk, chart his increasingly urgent meditations on the importance of mother' s milk to the nourishment of spirit- "lactation is intellection; origin of memory equals origin of mammary!" David Farrell Krell, author of Daimon Life and Infectious Nietzsche, traces Yorgos' s path from the impasses of Freud' s account of libido to the marvelous discovery of a Via Lactea only hinted at in cryptic remarks by Novalis and Hegel, but which led the unfortunate archaeologist into cosmic delirium-from which he did not return. An Urbanomic K-Pulp Switch- singular texts by two different authors in a classic pulp format.