'SSES 'SSES SSEY'

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>SSES 'SSES </span><sup style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>SSEY'</sup><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a book object that is based/ extrapolates on an MFA thesis </span>Kevin White<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> wrote in 1990 entitled 'SSES 'SSES wherein he recapitulated Joyce's </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ulysses'</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> recapitulation of Homer's </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Odyssey</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> to a trip he took across Asia in search of his father (who committed suicide in 1982). 'SSES 'SSES </span><sup style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>SSEY'</sup><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> takes this recapitulation 1 step further folding in Kevin's journals unpublished stories + artwork he made before dying of a heroin overdose in 1997. The super-scripted SSEY' represents his brother Derek's editorial role in compiling the book-in belatedly finishing the Telemachean pursuit searching recursively for his brother searching in parallel for their father. Chaulky is the pen name given to their combined effort.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'SSES 'SSES </span><sup style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>SSEY'</sup><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is also a literary object that reflexively feeds back on the very transcription + curative processes used to produce it generating loops between original intent + editorial deterritorialization ... a gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy the structural rhythm-as Stephen Dedalus (Telemachus) says in </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ulysses</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.</span></p>