A Piece of Thing: a novel

This is the tragic story of Albert.

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Two hours a disquieting sort Hell if I pair of trees matched her smile there was any. and went for needed to get he still had get any more kid decided to could pull the the slam of busi-ness. As it his bloodstream.

Conceptual novelization is the literature where the idea of the novel is the novel. The conception is at once the origin and the end result. As such, conceptual novelization exists at the exact point where writer and audience meet, making it the most transparent of genres. At its best it works the way telepathy does, creating instant and perfect communication between writer and reader (or “thinker”). Conceptual novelization is the only writing that expresses, through direct appropriation or other means, the pure and unadulterated idea of itself. Todd Van Buskirk is interested appropriation because he works two jobs. He has adapted to a way of making art that takes less time and less thought so he can balance his life between employment and personal existence. He had to put the “corporation first” over his artistic fulfillment. As composer Charles Ives wrote, “I can’t feed my family on dissonances.” Van Buskirk’s economic reality informs his art. Working over 60 hours a week dictates how he works on art. Out of necessity Van Buskirk’s work schedule turned him into a conceptual artist. Van Buskirk says, “Two jobs are so demanding that it’s easier to THINK about art than do art.”

A Piece of Thing