"... was published... as 'Mourning Diary.'... Note by note, he attempted to record and make sense of his mother’s passing in a collection of reflections accumulated into a postulation of a book. In one of his earliest entries, he notes how after someone dies, the future itself gives way to a sort of unhinged manufacturing of time he refers to as 'futuromania.'"
From "A memoir of loss, in encyclopedia entries/When my mother died, I struggled to untangle grief, time and memory" by Kristin Keane (WaPo).
Her memoir is called "An Encyclopedia of Bending Time." I would rule out reading any author who puts words together like this: "a collection of reflections accumulated into a postulation." It's close to the way rap music sounds to me, except for "accumulated." Try again, with "accumulation," and you might achieve something with intentional rhymomania.
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"It's close to the way rap music sounds to me,..."
That's funny. To me it sounds so clearly a product of academia.
I'm hoping AA made up the word "rhymomania" because I haven't been able to find an online definition -- although I get the context.
"...he attempted to record and make sense of his mother’s passing...."
What does this even mean? Our mothers die. We die. Everybody dies. For the unsaved it is a tragedy. For the saved it is a blessing.
End of story.
Couper le cordon enfin, Roland!
Collections of reflections
I accumulate the sections
Into postulations
From my imaginations
I posit my deposits
So come of your closets
Dig my endless mourning
You tired of my forlourning?
Mama still dead
A garnering of reflections into a postulation.
"I'm hoping AA made up the word "rhymomania" because I haven't been able to find an online definition -- although I get the context."
It gets 9 hits in my Google search, so I can't say I coined it. I just arrived at it, inspired by "futuromania."
That reminds me. I watched the movie "David and Lisa" recently. Lisa is a mental patient — not sure what the diagnosis is supposed to be — who will only speak in rhyme and only converse with people who speak in rhyme.
This conversation about rhyme reminds me of one of my favorite 80s songs, and music videos.
"You are the reason and the rhyme."
https://youtu.be/A6E4GOAI2t4
Equus is another movie/play where the mentally ill main character speaks in rhymes. Not recommended for people who love horses in only a symbolic manner.
"Lisa is a mental patient — not sure what the diagnosis is supposed to be — who will only speak in rhyme and only converse with people who speak in rhyme."
If she spoke in alexandrines, perhaps she was afflicted with Pseudo-Molière Syndrome.
"It's close to the way rap music sounds to me, except for "accumulated." Try again, with "accumulation," and you might achieve something with intentional rhymomania."
Also, throw in a few "Ho"s, some "bitch" and maybe a kind of a susurrant background chanting of "mothafucka-mothafucka-mothafucka...". And "my". Lots of "my".
I use DuckDuckGo when searching and in this case "rhymomania" didn't pop except for some obscure foreign references unrelated to this usage. When using Google directly, I get hits like AA. Strange.
Villanelle is my favorite form. It forces you to use slant rhymes, thus saving poetry from lunacy and genius.
Formal structure can make anyone a poet, maybe just once. But once is usually enough.
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