Dr. Identity (25 page)

[
1
]18,021 In a recent interview on channel 44,506’s
The Red Sky at Morning Show
, Birdwater explained how her intention in writing this sequence was literally to “induce a state of apelike psychosis in readers, if only on a marginal level.”

[
2
]118,022 Save the first citation, which I appropriated from Kingsley E. Fella’s
Cannibals, Tonka Trucks, and the Death of Abjection: A Study of Dialectic Indiscretions in East African Pigmy Haiku
, all citations in this sentence have their origins in scholarly articles on Birdwater’s fiction. These articles are, respectively, “Transcoded Meliorisms, The Ghost of Ike Turner and Fiona Birdwater’s
The Beaker Factor
” (3,004), “Schiz-Freuds of
The Gooseflesh Factor
” (2), and “‘My Name Is Birdwater’: Solipsism and Assholery in Mz. Birdwater’s
The Birdwater Factor
” (346).

[
3
]118,023 Many of the terms employed in this sentence were abstracted from Peter Bowler’s
The Superior Person’s Book of Words
(1979). See Bowler’s seminal text for extended definitions and illustrations.

[
4
]118,024 From the “Boomstick Translation” of
Ecce Homo
, pg. 4.

[
5
]118,025 For more on what constitutes protagonism, see Poindexter Rearguard’s
Protagonism, Constipation and Civilization: A Guide to Sentient Literature.