Coined by Richard Dawkins, the word "meme" refers to a cultural item --- eg an idea, word, phrase, saying, artwork, sound etc --- that mimics biological evolution via processes analagous to natural selection, variation and reproduction. Below is a selection from MANIC MEMES & OTHER MINDSPACE INVADERS out now at Amazon
better than expected: "You've done better than expected, but not as well as hoped," said the old man with the long white beard. "You'll have to keep going back until you get it right."
living arrangements: Life is the embodiment of ordered complexity.
dead gods: Gods die but are never dead.
possible being: Existence, if not necessary, is at least possible.
your secret you: There’s part of you that’s mute but just as smart as you are and you don't know it exists.
isness is nice: The fact that existence exists is reassuring.
every which way: Reality is infinitely scalable in all directions and dimensions.
despairing disorder: A purpose of life is to oppose the second law of thermodynamics.
the word: The word "nothing" means something.
Many, many more memes as bizarre as these in MANIC MEMES, out now at Amazon.
NIGHTMERRIES: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS This so-called "book" will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you twitching and frothing on the carpet. More than 60 dark and feculent fictions (read ‘em and weep) copiously illustrated by over 20 grotesque images you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
AWAREWOLF & OTHER CRHYMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Vot could be Verse?) We all hate poetry, right? But we might make an exception for this sick and twisted stuff. This devil's banquet of adults-only offal features more than 50 satanic sonnets, vitriolic verses and odious odes.
MANIC MEMES & OTHER MINDSPACE INVADERS A disturbing repository of quotably quirky quotes, sayings, proverbs, maxims, ponderances, adages and aphorisms. This menagerie holds no fewer than 184 memes from eight meme-species perfectly adapted to their respective environments.
MASTRESS & OTHER TWISTED TAILS, ILLUSTRATED: an unholy corpus of oddities, strangelings, bizarritudes and peculiaritisms
FIENDS & FREAKS Adults-only Tales of Serpents, Dragons, Devils, Lobsters, Anguished Spirits, Gods, Anti-gods and Other Horse-thieves You Wouldn't Want to Meet in a Dark Kosmos: 4th Edition
HAGS TO HAGGIS Whiskey-soaked Tails of War-nags, Witches, Manticores and Escapegoats, Debottlenecking and Desilofication, Illustrated
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