Mea
Tulpa:
My
Multiple Mistakes at Singularity
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Funny Stuff from the no-comma
Four Walls Eight Windows small press
publishers of New York, New York, USA.
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"When Alexandra David-Neel journeyed through
Tibet, one of the many mystical techniques she
studied was that of tulpa
creation. A tulpa,
according to traditional Tibetan doctrines, is
an entity created by an act of imagination,
rather like the fictional characters of a
novelist, except that tulpas are not written
down."
from
www.tulpa.com
Readers have on occasion
remarked as to the not-so uncommon grammatical
error and typos that haunt these pages. I wish I
could afford a good proofreader, but I can't --
I'm it, and that gets me into trouble. Most
recently, I made two rather egregious errors in
an article posted over at Singularity.
First and worst, I got the name of a publisher
wrong, accidentally creating a comma to go where
I thought a comma should go. I now know that
it's Four Walls Eight Windows that publishes the
delightful collection 'Witpunk'. Here's
something that should be required reading for
all genre fiction fans, because it's going to
force them to have some damn fun. I've said it
before and I'll say it again, we need fun,
especially in the form of an anthology of short
fiction by such luminaries as James Morrow, Cory
Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford and Pat Cadigan.
I also took time to get a bit
tweaked by the title, which I considered yet
another egregious use of the suffix -punk
to pump up a book and make it seem youthful when
in fact, many of the contributors have been
writing humor long enough to have grand kids. So
it should have come as no surprise when Marty
Halpern wrote to cure me of this notion. Halpern
& Lalumiere were having their own bit of fun
tweaking the endless process of punks before
them.
And finally, to top my streak
of fact creation, I called Four Walls Eight
Windows a Canadian publisher (now I know I was
thinking of Tesseract), when in fact they are
located in New York. So that's my tulpa of the
week. Your job is to buy the book, preferably
having it speed shipped from Ziesing as I
did.