Phoenix Died

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Phoenix Died is written by Todd Van Buskirk and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1466279885 (ISBN 10) and 9781466279889 (ISBN 13).

Appropiation novelist Todd Van Buskirk appropiates his own material by turning his short story, "Study of a Nude" into a novel by magnifying the original text with a Markov Text Synthesizer. Excerpt: "Linda heaved herself slowly upward. Her body was softly shaking, but the branch held steady. The warmth of the seven bedrooms, the five bathrooms, living room, dining room and Sally's play area in detail. All were clean and vacuumed with sunny-clean windows. Linda had decorated each room with a theme. She was most proud of the Victorian master bedroom. When Linda and Paul were alone together the master bedroom window. Linda looked at her house. She could visualize the interiors of the sheets. "Sally, please don't." He reached for the sheet."Please stop," Linda said. "Linda," he said, looking down, "What is Jack going to say? You know how important this picture is for him. I'm trying to do the best I can." He started to look up at Linda, but hesitated, and collected all the drawings underneath Linda, around the base of the tree. Linda saw Paul running towards her. "Please stand still Paul," she said through the rest of his new paintings one summer afternoon. They tracked oil paint from the back of a truck. Her husband, just as excited as she had studied the tree's shape in every detail. The breeze seemed to pose the tree. Unlike the tree's shape in every detail. The breeze over her body still. Anna had been a tomboy and liked to play outside. She never had the patience to play with Linda's Barbie dolls inside the house."