VOYANT EDITION (May 11, 2002, Updated August 5, 2002; three more corrections added August 31;
Updated again September 26, 2002. Updated once more, November 22, 2002. Most recent update, May 2, 2008; and again on September 6, 2008.)
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say that, since 1981, 774,467 AIDS cases have been reported
in the United
[Remove “s” from the end of “say”. Justify the line toward
the right-hand margin.]
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ty started in the early-middle ’seventies, in the men’s room
of the terminal
[Insert a left-curving apostrophe before “seventies”.]
5 / 1 / 13:
very tired man. “Okay, kid. You get out of here, too.”
[Insert “Okay, kid.”]
5 / 2 / 7:
cation. But I hope you understand the miseries and
maladjustments
[Drop “just” between “I” and ‘hope”.]
5 / 2 / 10 [last]:
or even Brooklyn—probably wouldn’t have allowed it: not in
the ’sixties.
[Insert a left-curving apostrophe before “sixties”.]
7 / 1 / 4:
up hawkishly. Lifting it, he swiveled in his office chair.
The silvery plastic
[Before “office” change “the” to “his”.]
7 / 1 / 5:
overlay was rumpled, as usual, across the Olympic Selectric.
Scissors lay
[Before “Olympic” change “his” to “the”.]
8 / 1 / 4:
my senior year, two fluke seminars on Hegel—one on The
Philosophy of
[Italicize “The” before “Philosophy”.]
8 / 1 / 5:
History and one on The Phenomenology of Spirit—had
pushed me on into
[Italicize “The” before “Phenomenology”.]
14 / 1 / 9:
must look quite different to him, now that they were
pictures of two
[Omit “a” and put “s” at the end of “picture”.]
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had was the imponderable wreckage of a project, over which
[Omit “, at any rate,”.]
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down the block to the east, that is the address Timothy Hasler at in
[Replace “street” with “block”.]
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sucker—!” and, as my fingers slid into my mouth, began to
laugh. “And
[Remove hyphen from “sucker”.]
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all over them. The other was a carton, which he lugged up with
fingers black
as gunmetal and shiny with his labor, hooked under the
binding twine.
[In line three, replace “that” with “which” and drop “by the
twine” and in line four drop “it was tied with.” Substitute for both “with
fingers black as gunmetal and shiny with his labor, hooked under the binding
twine.”]
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shoes off. Running shoes, old loafers, sneakers sat on the
ground beside
[Insert comma after “loafers”. Make “sneakers” lower case
and move it to fall after “loafers”. Make “Running” upper case.]
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is pretty much bad news too—they just take a little longer
to drop it in your
[Insert “in” after “it”.]
51 / 5 / 2:
bench. “That slanty-eyed cocksucker was between my knees—got
a
[Omit “little” from between “That” and “slanty-eyed”.]
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alone. Let him sleep, not knowing how close he came to
getting hurt.
[Insert period at line’s end.]
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shooting off his sixty-six year old juice.
[Change “sixty-nine” to “sixty-six”.]
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ten—if not on the page, then in the mind, or in the
after-image on the
[Insert “the” at the line’s end.]
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So that’s where that came from, I
thought. Its familiarity made me
[Omit apostrophe from “its”.]
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entirely distorted view of both “everything / eternity”
and “nothing / in-
[Replace “infinity” with “eternity” and replace “no-” with
“in-”.]
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stant” . . .
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in gays. (Three months later people would start calling it
Acquired
[Replace question mark with period after “gays”.]
66 / 3 / 5 & 6:
leafy stones steps between narrow rock walls, unsure whether
I
ascended or descended.
[At the end of line five, drop “was”. Replace line six with
“ascended and descended.”]
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He let go my arm—and sighed. “Hey, nigger, don’t lose me,
now.”
[Insert period after “now” and before the closing quotation
mark.]
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“toxoplasmosis” (so often misprinted “toxic plasmosis,” you
had to know someone with it in order to know how to spell it); and, as
statistics mounted from three thousand to six
[Correct spelling of “toxoplasmosis” and add parenthetical
phrase after it.]
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And working on Pascal, Nietzsche, Peirce (O, blissfully remem-
[Correct spelling of Nietzsche.]
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was the central tragedy of Pete’s life. It’s what had
originally sent him,
[Change “Flame’s” to “Pete’s”.]
90 / 3 / 1:
Diamonda was sharp, witty, and gave Flame some
pretty good advice
[Change “Pete” to “Flame”.]
105 / 12 / 1:
I was startled. But I didn’t even pull away.
“Hey, I’m sorry.” I smiled.
[Insert period after “sorry” and before close quote.]
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the awning to the left, in just his jeans and boots Tex was waiting on the
[Omit comma after “boots”]
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trucker’s truck? It’s all mine, too—all paid up over three years, now.
[Insert “up”. Omit “ago”.]
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particularly missed him—though, I suppose, I did, some. If I
had gotten
[Omit “a little” and replace with “some”.]
158 / 9 / 4:
guy to be scared of.
[Omit “little” at the start of the line.]
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AIDS. It occurs to me, reading it over, that it may seem
only a
[Transpose “only” and “seem”. Omit second “that”.]
174 / 11 / 1:
I’d sent Sam that letter in the last week in
December. I didn’t expect
[Before “week”, change “first” to “last”.]
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you and your friends moved him from East Howard to South Rushdale?
[Change “Last” to “East”.]
195 / 1 / 1:
“Some guys see ’em, and they just take off—think
they’re gonna catch
[Insert 1/m dash between “off” and “think”.]
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his way the becoming the quintessential gay philosopher after Wittgen-
[Italicize “the”.]
219 / 1 / 6 & 7:
ty-two: three years older than Hasler had ever been.
[In line six, drop “Surely I was beyond”. Drop all of line
seven; and close up.]
221 / 1 / 1:
myself. Do you do anything interesting?”
[Insert “Do you do anything interesting?” before close
quote.]
221 / 5 / 2:
hand clawed at his crotch.
[Omit “down”.]
221 / 7 / 1:
“I wasn’t doin’ nothin’, man.” He kept clawing. “I was
scratchin’
[Replacing “scratching” with “clawing”.]
223 / 7 / 1:
“Yeah,” he said. “But I wasn’t sure you were
gonna do it.”
[Omit “really”.]
223 / 8 / 2:
lucked out!” The sack went to his far arm, and, for the
third time,
[Omit “today”.]
223 / 8 / 4:
don’t usually go with most cocksuckers. Not that I got any-
[Omit “,” he explained. “” after “cocksuckers” and replace
with a period.]
223 / 8 / 6:
about anything! But most cocksuckers, they suck you once,
maybe
[Omit “man,”.]
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ured today I lucked out. You know—” as we reached the
corner, he lowered his
[Insert “today” before “I”.]
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next time—” the kid had his hand in his lap, working it
again—“when he
[Between “working” and “again” insert “it”.]
230 / 2 / 12 & 13:
face for that one—that’s cool, too.” I glanced down: once
more his dick was
out of his pants! He sat there, lifting his fist up his
towering meat—drop-
[In line twelve, insert “once more” before “his.” In line
thirteen, omit “again” after “pants”.]
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Almira Adler or anyone else? Surely I was beyond whatever
had been so dangerous as to bring about Hasler’s
destruction.
[Insert “Surely I was beyond whatever had been so dangerous
as to bring about Hasler’s destruction.”]
273 / 6 / 1 & 2:
Still, I thought about it on my trip out to the store
for a quart of milk. I thought about it when I came back and decided to
take a nap.
[Insert “Still,” at the beginning of first line. Omit “some
more” from second line.]
273 / 6 / 7:
ing my decision. I thought about it an hour later when I
went out again
[Replace “was thinking” with “thought”.]
273 / 7 / 3:
thing I thought), lightening streaks with gray. Ahead of me,
a couple of
[Replace “in it to” with “with”.]
275 / 1 / 3:
how it’s all changed. That kids’ bookstore—it ain’t there no
more, either.”
[Insert apostrophe in “it’s”.]
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fellow, that philosopher you was researching—who used to
live downstairs
[Replace first word, “guy”, with “fellow”.]
276 / 1 / 1:
Tony nodded.
[Replace first word “He” with “Tony”.]
276 / 2 /2:
point, when he had come up and we’d been rolling around on the rug
[Change “Tony” to “he”.]
276 / 3 / 7:
[Stet]
276 / 3 / 9;
below the four wide knuckles of his left hand, S H I T.
Across the right
[Replace the first word “across” with “below”.]
276 / 3 / 10:
was P I S S. Holding them up in front of me, he said: “You
know how
[Replace “before my face” with “in front of me”.]
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Truth in Semantics. But I stopped, thinking: There were some people I
could talk to about this. (That made me feel better.) Just
not Pheldon—
[After the colon in line six omit “But.” Capitalize “There.”
Replace italic “are” with italic “were”. In line seven replace “can” with
“could”. After the parenthesis, omit “But” and capitalize “Just”.]
293 / 2 / 11:
land where Light is housed in eternal unrest.]
[Insert closing square bracket at the end of the line.]
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rim, broad nails picked back about as far as I remembered—as he took one
[Omit comma and replace with 1/M dash, tied up before and afterwqrds.]
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[Omit the one line paragraph “Baseball players.” and close up.]
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of thing, I wondered, that made Hasler happy), and fade, even as I tried
[Insert comma after closing-parenthesis and before “and”.]
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smelled and felt him fart: the wrinkled bud of flesh
centered in the hair suddenly puckered, relaxed—and honked. “There. Now
that felt
[Replace 1/m dash in line 3 with colon. Transpose “relaxed”
and “puckered” in line 4. Omit “his hairy crevice” and replace with “the
hair”.]
359 / 9 / 4:
some of the guys from the park—bringin’ ’em back here, and really let-
[Drop the “m” from “them guys” to make it “the guys”.]
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not doing so.) “And your friend Tony’s gonna be up soon, too. You just
[Replace “it” with “so”.]
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him! But big, bearded Leaky pushed up against me on my right and said:
[Insert “n” in “against”.]
427 / 1 /6:
the light coming up from the street through the two living
room windows.
[Insert “up” after “coming”.]
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where he was sleeping. Irving,” I said, “Tim died saving the
life of his
[Remove both 1/m dashes and replace with commas.]
438 / 2 / 2:
the twenty-fifth anniversary of Stonewall, and on Gay Pride
Day Leaky
[Replace “Priday” with “Pride”.]
443 / 4 / 2:
city pigeon teetered on the black bar, head turned one way
on its
[Insert “l” into “back,” making it “black”. Replace “above”
with “on”.]
443/ 4 / 4:
coin in Leaky’s big fingers was a tidbit to dive-bomb.
[Drop “be”. Omit the “ed” at the end of “dive-bomb”.]
443 / 5 / 4:
owner.”
[Drop “God damn’”.]
443 / 8&9:
[Insert one line # after paragraph 8 (“led him. The pigeon flew off.”) and paragraph 9 ( “Twenty yards up, a grill dropped light in stripes across our shoulders,”) No indentation before paragraph 9, first line.]
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lined up all the way out to here. We was doin’ that
bitch in twos and threes—”
[Put “s” on “two”.]
445 / 4 / 2:
and Buck’s, Leaky’s laughter became part of the tunnel’s
[Omit “momentarily” after “laughter”.]
445/ 5 / 1:
“Yeah—” Leaky leaned forward above me, two
fingers
[Omit “momentarily” from the end of the line.]
449 / 6 / 3:
flicker with leaves, from the surface world. “Years ago,
Mike, with your
[Change “to” to “from”.]
450 / 4 / 1:
Standing straighter, Mad Man Mike called out: “You know, I can buy
[Replace “Drawing himself up,” with “Standing straighter,”.]
451 / 1 / 3:
it . . .), and what in it that was meaningful had meant.
[Omit first “that”. Change second “what” to “that”. Change
“that had been” to “that was”.]
451 / 4 / 1:
As I climbed the incline after Leaky, for
moments I wondered
[Omit “narrow”.]
456 / 3 / 3:
then my degree (eight months into ’91), and finally (in ’92:
I didn’t
believe it either) a tenure track job in the SUNY/City
Philosophy Department,
[Replace “an adjuct job” with “(in ’92: I didn’t believe it
either) a tenure track job in the SUNY/City Philosophy Department,”]
464 / 6 / 19 [last]:
sitting there, listening to the crickets, drinking beer, and
yawing.
[Omit “n” in “yawning.” (“Yawing” is a black country version
of “jawing”.)]
465 / 5 / 7:
half ago, they’d shared with Blacky’s brother. But whether
what went
[Omit “of” after “But” and before “whether”.]
466 / 7 / 16:
bet your scrawny black ass.” Billy chuckled, turning from me
to Blacky. “He
469 / 2 / 2&3:
mustard foliage enough, scorching the mountainside throughout that
Columbus Day weekend, we piled into the pickup for the ride back to
[Move “enough,” to line 2 after “foliage”. Replace “enough,” with comma
in line 3.]
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black rollaway, naked upper gum and redder tongue showing.
Blacky grinned
[Replace “bag” with “rollaway”.]
476 /2 / 1&2:
“Leaky, you know, a couple of minutes in the truck there I
actually thought you dad might have had it in the back of his
[Omit “there were”. Omit “when”. Omit “just”.]
476 / 9:
“. . . There will be no smoking on this bus—and
that includes the rest room.” His voice came on the crackling PA, as low
October branches swatted and swished over the bus roof, and leaf shadow
flittered along the windows. “Only soft drinks may be drunk on this trip. There
will be no drinking of alcoholic beverages . . .”
[Replace paragraph nine with the above.]
477 / 4 / 6:
a purple plum, and shoved it in my mouth. Leaky stood behind
[Replace “ping-pong ball” with “plum”.]
478 / 12 / 1:
“It seemed like a good suggestion.”
[Drop “still” after “It”.]
479 / 13 / 1:
“Oh . . . !” I took his beer from him. (My own personal Hasler
[Omit “very”.]
481 / 3 / 11:
seat: Violators would inevitably be nosed—and put off the
bus [with
[Replace parenthesis with a square bracket.]
481 / 3 / 13:
Walkmen too loud]. Then I turned back to that most
informative of private
[Replace parenthesis with a square bracket.]
431/ 3 / 22:
tales of the donkey, the prostitute, and the Tijuana
theater he himself had never seen or mentioning to
[Insert “the donkey, the prostitute, and”.]
481 / 3 / 23:
them the size of the breasts of the last actress in the last
porn film he has seen.
[Replace “he’s” with “he has”.]
484 / 5 / 3:
tion of our return and the city’s October.
[Change “to” to “and” drop final word “night.”]
484 / 10 / 1:
One evening, after I’d read them out loud some sixty
consecutive of the
[Drop “to” and reverse “out loud” and “them”.]
BACK COVER:
[Last line of quotes:]
—John Dagion, Trash
[Correct spelling of “Dagon”.]
Last update to this page made on September 9, 2008.
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