Beggarly Imitation is best paired with Menteurism.
The cover photograph of Kitty Collins by Ally Schmaling is reproduced here with permission.
Interior photographs sourced from the Ah‑Sen, Lagacé, Bestvater and LCK archives, unless stated otherwise: Underside of Love: LCK archive; Sentiments and Directions: LCK archive; Defence of Misanthropy: Ah‑Sen archive; Mahebourg: Ah‑Sen archive; Ah‑Sen and I: Ah‑Sen archive; Sous Spectacle Cinema Research: Ah‑Sen archive; Triolet: LCK archive; The Slump: Lagacé archive; Swiddenworld: Lee Henderson; Baie-du-Tombeau: LCK archive; As to Birdlime: Bestvater archive; Triolet album cover: Ah‑Sen archive.
Lyrics to “Ambition” by Subway Sect used with permission from Vic Godard.
The hypomnemic paragraph structure used in this book is appropriated with esteem from the works and writing of Stephen Potter.
“Underside of Love” is loosely based on Austin Clarke’s “Give Us This Day: And Forgive Us” from When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks. An earlier version of this story appeared in a commemorative issue of The Puritan celebrating Austin Clarke’s legacy. Matt Lehner and Kilworthy Tanner contributed to some of the dialogue.
The palimpsest “Ah‑Sen and I” is based on the James E. Irby translation of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Borges and I” published in Labyrinths.
A longer version of “Sous Spectacle Cinema Research Consultation with Bart Testa” originally appeared in a 2010 edition of The Innis Herald.
The collage “Untitled 2019” attributed to Thusnelda Baltuch was made by Lee Henderson, and is reproduced here with his permission.
The concept of the “chansons des mouches” is borrowed from Osbert Sitwell’s poem of the same name published in Wrack at Tidesend.
The poem “X” from Behzad Molavi’s Exilian is reproduced with permission.
The Patrick Hughes and George Brecht quotation is taken from their book Vicious Circles and Infinity: An Anthology of Paradoxes.
Fripperies of thought, violations of form and ropey dialogue are all desired outcomes in this miscellany.