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Casting Speculation: Response to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 219–226)

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TitleCasting Speculation
SubtitleResponse to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
ContributorBen Woodard(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.20
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightWoodard, Ben
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2013-01-17
Long abstractIn Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke, after the Joker has been ap-prehended for doing all sorts of awful things to Barbara Gor-don, he tells Batman the following joke: See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum . . . and one night, one night they decide they don’t like liv-ing in an asylum any more. They decide they’re going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight . . . stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend didn’t dare make the leap. Y’see . . . Y’see, he’s afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea . . . He says ‘Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I’ll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!’ B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says . . . He says ‘Wh-what do you think I am? Crazy? You’d turn it off when I was half way across! I will try and bring this kind of lunacy to Speculative Real-ism and develop a parallel kind of path to Jeffrey’s paper. I will do this through weird fiction. In addition to his massive col-lection of works the weird author Clark Ashton Smith wrote several synopses of tales he never produced. There are at least two of these tales which are of a lunar nature and which I will read in full.
Page rangepp. 219–226
Print length8 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)