Flightsim deerhunt with Kathy Acker

Eno once said that art was "where you can crash the plane and walk away". Art -- and computer simulation -- is also where you can walk away from the plane without even bothering to crash it.

This is me on a flightsim deerhunt with the writer Kathy Acker, whose Blood and Guts In High School I bought not long after leaving high school myself. Kathy and I are in Nikolsdorf, Lienz, Austria, or X-Plane's representation of it. We're not far from the Italian border. The alpine scenery is lovely. Instead of flying the plane we're stalking deer, which X-Plane allows you to do if you abuse the angle-of-view controls.

Kathy talks constantly. She's improvising a new novel called Pussy, King of the Pirates. Later we do some birdwatching and jog a bit. Kathy brings an intelligent, urban, radical energy to these activities. This bucolic world -- like the internet, and like the real world -- would be a lot more boring without her.

Unfortunately Kathy Acker herself is just ubu.com's representation of her, reading in 1994. She died two years later of breast cancer. Although this time it's "Kathy-Sim", I did actually meet the real Kathy Acker in the early 1990s at a wedding. We didn't stalk deer, or birdwatch, or jog. I remember her eyes. They were a thousand years deep.

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[amarildovila]

Aqui no Brasil esta palavra buceta, significa a vagina da mulher.

É isto que você quis dizer ou não.

[faunflynn]

Meh...

I Never much rated Miss Acker.

What she says is just too gnomic, obscure. Meaningless.