"This sleepwalkers hallucinogenic dystopia of a place named 'Ilium' is based on my impressions and hallucinatory projections as an immigrant child walking down streets, playing in parks, observing humans turning into creatures and wildly imagining the rest in the Los Angeles of the 1950's. While this is not a biography it contains the imprints of one." (Al Razutis, 2021)
A sample 2022 layout proposal
Original
MANUSCRIPT PAGES FROM 'I. E.' ('Ilium: Express')
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SAMPLE (.JPG and .PDF) PAGES:
TABLE OF CONTENTS - 'SKELETAL CONTENTS' - JPEG -- 140K   - PDF File -- 123K
PAGE ONE - '.....12:01, SUN PASSED APEX in arid white-still sky...' (Rosebloom's Delicatessen) - JPEG -- 77K   - PDF File -- 209K
PAGE THREE - 'Hey, boy...Why don't you toss 'im up here!' - JPEG -- 92K   - PDF File -- 103K
PAGE SIX - 'From counter rails, reflections cast allabout for all to see. His.' - JPEG -- 96K   - PDF File -- 100K
PAGE TEN - '.....b'tween Ilium and suborb roost...' (Dragon Street) - JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 222K
PAGE FOURTEEN - 'Hey Joe, what were the score?...Yer out!' - JPEG -- 56K   - PDF File -- 61K
PAGE EIGHTEEN - 'Rowarow the boys all rearrive at Herman's rockin chair which creaks a bit.' - JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 96K
PAGE TWENTY TWO - '.....by happenschance, THE LIVING LEGEND OF MISS GENIE, RETOLD...' (St. John's Fraternal Reunion) - JPEG -- 100K   - PDF File -- 105K
PAGE THIRTY - '...as over Ilium, terrarium, mirage or TWO.' - JPEG -- 63K   - PDF File -- 70K
PAGE THIRTY TWO - '"Small Profits, Quick Returns," chuckled backseat Mister Rose.' (S.P.Q.R) - JPEG -- 108K   - PDF File -- 112K
PAGE FORTY - 'She snaked in a trembling wind, pirhouetted, then began to emboss his nose in viridian lace.' - JPEG -- 63K   - PDF File -- 96K
PAGE FORTY ONE - 'Liberty torch et by the Grace of God and Madam Psychosis...' - JPEG -- 90K   - PDF File -- 105K
PAGE FORTY FIVE - '.....1:10 in aeternam, theatered and paranthetical crowd gathers...' (Deus Ex Machina)- JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 86K
PAGE FIFTY-FIVE - 'Within his angle of the Westward sight...' (Quasimodo's Poem) - JPEG -- 53K   - PDF File -- 169K
PAGE FIFTY SIX - 'When suddenly the clock strikes: Opera! Erebus!' - JPEG -- 109K   - PDF File -- 113K
PAGE FIFTY SEVEN - 'LIBRETTO: Neoplat! Aglaop! The picturebook is opened, turned, the guests prepared.' - JPEG -- 87K   - PDF File -- 92K
PAGE SEVENTY SEVEN - 'Pagorsky, sitting numb, upon this day: nor breath nor eyes nor will have caused the lake a stir...' - JPEG -- 53K   - PDF File -- 58K
PAGE SEVENTY EIGHT - 'yet when the deed was done and the behemoth egg was balanced to erupt...' - JPEG -- 60K   - PDF File -- 105K
PAGE EIGHTY-THREE - '...shivers shakes hysterical tears...dragging clouds on...' - JPEG -- 104K   - PDF File -- 338K
PAGE EIGHTY FOUR - '...of this time-worn Medusan whoring sky...' - JPEG -- 45K   - PDF File -- 139K
PAGE EIGHTY FIVE - 'THE SONOFABITCH SHOT THE MAYOR TO BE!' (Walpurgisnacht)- JPEG -- 65K   - PDF File -- 70K
PAGE EIGHTY SIX - '"Ah, here's the Doc," sighs Murphy..."Sink or swim?" Hopkins matter-of-factly asks.' - JPEG -- 94K   - PDF File -- 98K
PAGE NINETY ONE - 'beaked bird moth wings flies over into waxen image of night jaws yawning claws...scream'- JPEG -- 105K     - PDF File -- 108K
PAGE NINETY TWO - 'Ane they touched Janus screaming lovdly ane bareyd theire breasts...' - JPEG -- 103K   - PDF File -- 107K
-- poems from 'Ilium: Express' prose-poem read at Intermedia Poetry Readings 1969 - 70
CONCRETE POETRY IN VRML FROM 'ILIUM: EXPRESS'
VRML WORLD - 1997 - 'Fly (i)ng) f (i)s h ...'
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Author (Razutis) reads from manuscript page 55 'QUASIMODO'S POEM'
90 sec. video clip on YouTube.
VRML 2.0 code and page from manuscript
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