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It is difficult to know when and where, one will have been monstrous, not least because the time of the monster is uncanny, and its location is heterotopic. Nevertheless, the monsters conjured in the book are likely to barge or slither into readers’ minds and bodies and mess with them, lurking, dividing and proliferating as we encounter other texts and other experiences.
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Don Marquis (1927/2012) invented a cockroach who was both author and comic hero, even if he could not operate the shift key on the old manual typewriter on which he wrote the ‘Archy and Mehitabel’ stories.
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I think this phrase may be more familiar in British than other Englishes; and it has a slightly archaic, mock-cockney tone. I like to use it against the grain of its customary usage, which is as a sarcastic dismissal of significance, to allude to the fact that what is obvious can still wound, and may be fleshy.
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MacLure, M. (2018). Afterword: Writing Monstrous. In: Riddle, S., Bright, D., Honan, E. (eds) Writing with Deleuze in the Academy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2065-1_14
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