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SCRIB. January 23 - __________. In progress. Cacoëthes Scribendi had a restless urge to write. Also, he realized that he was in show business. Like a clown. What genre is SCRIB. Jack Remick said Screed was, “…the first piece of American fiction that is not a novel.” It is not only not a novel, it is not fiction. It’s all true stories, Kerouac said, about his Duluoz Saga. John M. Bennett called a book of my poems fishing stories. SCRIB is stories about the writing game. People are interested in the mechanics of a craft. Remember The Violent World of Sam Huff? SCRIB is STORIES OF SCUFFLING AND MAKING DO. Who knows if it’s true. Who would know. Does it ring true to you? You will know. You have a built-in shock-proof shit-detector. Clown is an act. Making a spectacle of myself is an act. You see that, don’t you. The purpose of satire is to bring about change. That’s what makes it different from other forms of comedy. Satura means mixed plate, or medley. Everything under the sun. But its motivation is to improve society by ridiculing society’s vices and peccadilloes. Using obscenity, pratfalls, fart jokes, dogs humping the knee. Think of Lenny Bruce. You can’t say that. Think of George Carlin. That’s not allowed. Think of Brother Dave, Beloved. Of course, Brother Dave was crazy. He had a swastika in his dressing room. He thought nightclub owners were Jewish. Maybe I’m crazy. How would I know? Brother Dave satirized Earl Long, Governor of the Sovereign State of Louisiana, by saying. “I be damn if I’m crazy.” To the head of the state police, hauling him off to the mental hospital in Mandeville. Long ride with Uncle Earl in the back seat, dog-cussing you. I see that I am writing a trilogy called Man of Letters: A Summing Up. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: A POST-MASTERPIECE NOVEL, THE ABOVE-GROUND REVIEW, AN ONLINE JOURNAL (OLJ): WRITING THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB, and SCRIB ONLINE. SCRIB ONLINE contains the single title SCRIB. Like Screed was named for one of the pamphlets in it, Screed. SCRIB ONLINE shows SCRIB as it is being written, and discovers its form, and where it fits in Jack Saunders’ Stack. Dan Garber corrected me on the definition of satire. I thought satura meant full plate. It means medley, or mixed plate. Hodge-podge. How far to Hodge-Podge Lodge? Mr. McGoo. He was nearsighted, you see. Befuddled. Old.