This month, Thornwillow Press is releasing a limited standalone edition of Klay’s short story, ‘Ten Kliks South,’ to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
In a literature classroom, I’d ask many of the same questions that the gun crew struggles with. Centrally, what does ‘feel’ mean in its precise context? How does it function as a ‘critical term?’ How does it reveal the presence of an intellectual problem in the text? In, these questions are debated in the mess hall at the descriptive level.
For Klay’s gun crew, settling on ‘people,’ however inadvertently, pivots the rapid-fire, unwieldy machine of their conversation on themselves. ‘How many did our gun, just our gun, kill?’ a crewman named Jewett asks. ‘Figure, six guns, so divide and you got, six, I don’t know, six point six people per gun,’ the narrator calculates. A Marine named Sanchez ‘takes out a notebook and starts doing the math,’ down to ‘maybe a torso and a leg.
155mm Howitzer canon 09 November 2004, 50 kms west of Baghdad. US troops with crack Iraqi soldiers surged into the heart of Fallujah today in a hail of explosions and gunfire on the second day of the largest operation in Iraq since last year's US-led war. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ , Colonel Dave Harper remarks that ‘the technology of artillery, like that of printing, has remained relatively stable since its invention.
At the same time, Thornwillow’s edition, which appears as part of its monthly ‘Dispatch’ series, ought to remind us of the delicate, calculated precision that often attends powerful, complex systems. The first fine-press edition of Klay’s work,appears in a variety of editions, some bound in letterpress paper wrappers, others with handmade paste paper bindings, others handbound in cloth. The Patrons’ and Centaur Patrons’ editions arrive numbered and signed by both Klay and the publisher.
German Empire Kingdom Prussia Berlin Berlin: Series Ullstein Publishing House : bookbinder's - women operating a rapid press - 1900 - Photographer: Zander & Labisch - Vintage property of ullstein bild In this potential elision of dangerous ‘speaking’ machines, the press and the artillery piece, I’m struck by the edition’s claim that ‘we must rethink problems like those found in Afghanistan and how we answer questions like the ones raised by the protagonist of, the British philosopher,...
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