Just wanted to create a place for the discussion of the contents of conceptual fish and other word-based images.
We've already taken a look at some conceptual fish and their contents in the
A Progressive Documentation of Everything with this:
Quote:iii. part three (page 373)
Just over an hour ago I found myself lying face up on a bed looking at badly painted blue words on a ceiling. The blue words said: I didn’t know who I was. “So, what can y_______ Now, one hour later, I’m sitting in a doctor’s surgery and the doctor is trying not to frown or sigh or rub her _________ of negative body language out at all. Instead, she’s sitting up straight and still and she’s got both hands- red, ruddy, outdoorsy- firmly clamped on either end of a silver parker pen. The doctor, who’s name is Dr. R_______ avy, strong set of features and cop______. She’s a large, bovine physical presenc______ cloud of dooming intelligence hanging around her. She s________ holds my eyes out for a second, maybe a second and a b____ evern try to shrug it, before she spe. “Shoot.” aks. “I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you, she says. I start nodding the slow nod which I’m hoping will make me look together and “Ok
As well as Skitch929's findings:
Quote:When the Ludovician first attacks Eric in his living room (pg 58), the first image we see of the shark is through the TV. This is the portion where all the "Storr" names appear, but the words at the far left of the bottom few lines (in bold) read: "___ged and whined and mechanically coughed up printed pages from my ___." When I first read the book I thought nothing of this, I figured it was all just jumbled nonsense words to help form the image of the shark. Even after I finished the story and had a much better understanding of what was going on, this didn't stick out to me. It wasn't until I was discussing the story with my girlfriend that I returned to page 58 and noticed that the bold text almost mirrors text from page 320:
"I sat cross-legged on the deck next to the printer, watching it chug and whine and mechanically cough up pages from my story..."
There are a lot of names and characters mentioned in conceptual fish, such as in the Ludo's first attack (again found in APDoE)
Quote:A. Storr
A.L. Storr
D. Storr
D. Storr
Dr. D. Storr
D.S. Storr
Daniel Storr
Ed Storr
F.M. Storr
G Storr
G.&H.J. Storr
H Storr
L.O. Storr
M.R. Storr
A.A. Storrer
and
Quote:f. Names appearing in conceptual fish
Paul
ii. Names in conceptual fish
Mr Olm
Mr Morris
Ronald Reagan (wiki)
There's a lot more to track down and find, so it can be collected here. (and then probably added to the Documentation of Everything)
