Often, I register this simply by remembering where I was when I came to the conclusion. They've been using an interior shorthand for a long time, one that simply remembers having come to a conclusion about something without all the steps that got them there.
This is one of the reasons people have such a hard time arguing for conclusions they reached a long time ago. My brain will then simply quickly register the results of the previous conversation I had in my brain about that subject without recalling the entire process that led me to that conclusion. Often, I'll be chewing on some problem, and it leads me to an argument I've had in my head before. There are certainly times I think using a very abbreviated linguistic system. Sheree Renée Thomas, Nine Bar Blues & the World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies, Dark MatterĪ college professor of mine began a class once by asking a question: Can you think without language? I mulled it over for a bit.
Reminiscent of Percival, Harryette, Ishamel, and Ralph Ellison himself, this is an experimental novel you must read." "Part incantation, revelation, and elegy, Rone Shavers' Silverfish offers a surprising New World, Du Boisian source code. Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and water & power
You're in for a treat, Reader/Elegba/Hermes/Alternate Being." It has also left me with big questions that don't necessarily have answers, but requires an intense process of thought and being, in order to come close to some answers. "Silverfish has left me with big feelings that I need to sit with and explore. More than just a damning indictment of our contemporary moment, Silverfish is fiction written both for and after the end of history. Part prophecy, part literary collage, and part social justice remix, it's a wholly immersive, intertextual sojourn. Silverfish is a syncretic tour-de-force that recombines elements of Afrofuturism, sci-fi, and wartime fiction with linguistic and literary theories to issue a dire warning about what happens when we choose to pretend our past never happened, thereby ensuring that we stumble blindly into a future we've already lived. That's the premise of this experimental novel, a dark Borgesian romp into the labyrinthine depths of language. And in this America, citizens are "born to fail" - mainly because they lack the language and cognitive skills by which to identify their condition. What if the apocalypse already happened and you just didn't notice? That's one of the central questions of Silverfish, a novel that details a slice of life in the Incorporated States of America: a country much like our own, but one in which the corporatization of culture is so total and complete, so deeply ingrained so long ago that no one can remember an alternative.
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