Two Stanzas from “Inanimism”

Inanimism 64: Mortuary Science / Last Days of Layne Staley

the... articulate informality in Proust and Roubaud... the [diffusive] and topographic prose in Simon, Lewinter's prose... is disconcerting and frequently disruptive to the [level] of incomprehension, of jettisoning any sense of burden on one moment producing the next... (Trefry, John. 2016. "Reading Two Novels by Roger Lewinter." Full Stop. http://www.full-stop.net/2016/11/09/reviews/john-trefry/the-attraction-of-things-story-of-love-in-solitude-roger-lewinter/) "Get Born Again" and "Died"... the last [recordings of] Layne... with Alice in Chains. (De Sola, David. Alice in Chains: The Untold Story. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015) Body parts... [are] not [decomposing] for years... are... wax corpses. (Hibbing, Martin. 2008. "Mortuary covering for use in holding of corpses to maintain the condition of the body has thick wire grid of U-shape with windows." German Patent DE20071019954, filed October 30, 2008.) the volume of liquid escaping the body is too large [for containment] by the undergarment resulting in overflowing. (Novak, Ronald J. 2009. "Mortuary Undergarment with Drainage System." US Patent 8,943,613, filed December 8, 2009, and issued February 3, 2015.) Larusta... [references]... John Larusta, the alias [of] Layne [Staley] (De Solas 2015) In addition to providing fuel, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), such as arachidonic acid, provide [substrates] for enzymatic reactions... [producing] eicosanoid signaling molecules. (Steinhauser, ML, BA Olenchock, J O'Keefe, M Lun, KA Pierce, H Lee , L Pantano, A Klibanski, GI Shulman, CB Clish, and PK Fazeli. 2018. "The Circulating Metabolome of Human Starvation." JCI Insight, (August).) [laminae] are solid eggshell black... [oleaginous staining on] the [laminae]... the [oiliness compiling] a patina and this patina is [definitive relative] to the [literature] and [relative to the secret visitors] and [their] unctuousness... Out of that contingent black veil [an emergent]... series of [hallucinations obscurant] in the grain... [censorial] over clarity in... trepidation... a bright white [luminance]... (Trefry, John. 2015. "Language in Place of the Body." Entropy. https://entropymag.org/language-in-place-of-the-body-a-reading-of-m-kitchells-apart-from/) preparation for draining its internal cavity of liquids (Novak 2009) a [lowtemperature] mortuary bed which is convenient for corpse preservation. (Zhao, Jinhui. 2005. "Low Temperature Mortuary Bed." Chinese Patent 20,042,092,009, filed December 14, 2005.) the cryptic mysticism of a myth... hermetically tangible [presence] (Trefry 2015) Staley... a scant 86 pounds. (Christopher, Michael. 2017. "Remembering Alice in Chains Layne Staley 15 Years Later." Daily Times. https://www.delcotimes.com/2017/04/06/rock-music-menu-remembering-alice-in-chains-layne-staley-15-years-later/) a recent study in rats demonstrating a role for fasting-mediated hypoleptinemia as a causal driver of the shift to lipid metabolism in a mechanism involving the HPA axis and corticosterone stimulation of adipocyte lipolysis. (Steinhauser 2018) The target is never without the ordnance. (Trefry 2015) "I've seen pictures of my sister and her husband Greg in the court. And it's with her best friend, and Greg's friend... I'm pretty darn sure that Layne wasn't there." (De Solas 2015) [retrospection of]... [datapoints]... [with the assignation of postfacto] coincidental significance. (2016) shroud at... bottom of... coffin... corpse on top... second shroud on top of... corpse...tissue [rotting]... corpse [lying] in... grate... flesh... [consumption]... no more waxy corpses. (Hibbing 2008) the monolithic block of Lewinter's prose... [indulging] a specific form of Mechanism, the [generally abandoned anisotomic constriction] of scientific philosophy that describes all systems in terms of simple collisions of matter... [indulging] deterministic fantasies of [temporality and spatiality]. (Trefry 2016)

Inanimism 166: Last Days of Layne Staley / Mortuary Science

property... [acquisition is] through this roundabout mechanism... [keeping Layne Staley's] name off any public records [in association] with the transaction. (De Sola, David. Alice in Chains: The Untold Story. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015) [in] stacks of Banffy, Mann, and Proust... William Gass's THE TUNNEL... had an aura of sorts. (Trefry, John. 2020. "Tunneling the Tunnel." John Trefry's Personal Website. https://www.jhtrefry.org/the-tunnel/) A six foot tall man of average to muscular build who weighs about 180 pounds will have about 25 pounds of bone. (retrieved November 10, 2020. https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-a-human-skeleton-weigh#:~:text=A%20six%20foot%20tall%20man,about%2025%20pounds%20of%20bone.) "He wasn't crying, but he looked like he was about to cry. He reverted to about a four-year-old boy," Jerden explained. (De Sola 2015) The em dash and the content it [is dividing] are not as jarringly discontinuous... is... highly contingent and masonry. (Trefry, John. 2016. "Reading Two Novels by Roger Lewinter." Full Stop. http://www.full-stop.net/2016/11/09/reviews/john-trefry/the-attraction-of-things-story-of-love-in-solitude-roger-lewinter/) The image of the door [inaugurating]... Think Tank is not... [directional]... It is simply a threshold. (Trefry, John. 2015. "Reading Julie Carr's Think Tank." Entropy. https://entropymag.org/think-tank/) [preparation of] a human corpse... for... viewing or funeral... is...by embalming. (Novak, Ronald J. 2009. "Mortuary Undergarment with Drainage System." US Patent 8,943,613, filed December 8, 2009, and issued February 3, 2015.) this [inanimate], this book... [is] capable of admitting us into [itself]. The book... has this effective permeability. (Trefry 2015) flea market discoveries are [demarcating] events in time... [electing] the physical form [of mnemonic embodiment] (Trefry 2016) [In accordance with] traditional funeral rites, [the family is retaining] the [corpse]... at home for several days. (Zhao, Jinhui. 2005. "Low Temperature Mortuary Bed." Chinese Patent 20,042,092,009, filed December 14, 2005.) Human starvation is marked by an early period of glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis. By 2-3 days... fatty acids released from lipid stores become the primary source of fuel; (Steinhauser, ML, BA Olenchock, J O'Keefe, M Lun, KA Pierce, H Lee , L Pantano, A Klibanski, GI Shulman, CB Clish, and PK Fazeli. 2018. "The Circulating Metabolome of Human Starvation." JCI Insight, (August).) [equipment of] a bed [fascia]... with refrigeration equipment and a transparent cover [forming] a [discrete lowtemperature] mortuary space... for corpse parking... for a long time... [preventing] the corpse from deteriorating, rotting and spreading odor and harmful germs outward. (Zhao 2005) In cemeteries with clayey soil... a lack of oxygen... [is preventing] complete decomposition of the corpses. (Hibbing, Martin. 2008. "Mortuary covering for use in holding of corpses to maintain the condition of the body has thick wire grid of U-shape with windows." German Patent DE20071019954, filed October 30, 2008.) The circulating metabolome... [reflecting] systemic metabolic processes... [is a misunderstood] aspect of starvation physiology... (Steinhauser 2018) large books... LA MEDUSA by Vanessa Place... MOBY DICK, (Trefry 2020) an amino acid surge... [driving] the shift to fatty acid and ketone utilization... [shifting] to ketone production by the liver... enabling [human survival for] prolonged periods of starvation. (Steinhauser 2018) Recording Layne's vocals was difficult because of the loss of his teeth, [resulting] in a lisp... [affecting] his speech and singing ability. (De Sola 2015) vessels [are not legible as] vessels, but [in colinearity with other things]... they [become] vessels that define contents and not contents. (Trefry 2015) coincidences... dog-ear the ceaseless events, (Trefry 2016)

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John Trefry is an architect in Kansas.