TY - ART
TI - This is how you will die
AU - Jason Nelson
AB - "<em>This is how you will die</em> invokes the many plot points that individuals influenced by movies and novels insert into their lives to give it shape, but applies to them an over-the-top satirical whimsy typical of Nelson's absurdist worldview. Rather than providing the reader with innocuous, ambivalent fortune cookie-like predictions, Nelson takes the protagonist, you, and subjects him/her to fortunes and misfortunes that would frighten a test-crash dummy, and tops it off with a coda in the form of an important 'post-death' event. As in other Nelson works, the interface is a familiar one, in this case the slot machine and the aesthetic is one of scrawls, gaudy noises and psychotic humming. However, the central focus of this biographical Mad Lib is the slippery hand of chance in a world characterized by Hanna Barbara changes of fate." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2</em>
C3 - Web
PY - 2005
LA - English
M3 - Animated, Combinatory, Generative, Fiction, Game, Poetry
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/717/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-02
ER -