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Matrix Presents

Issue 80: The Gallows Humour Issue

Matrix magazine is now accepting submissions for its Gallows Humour dossier.  We are looking for your darkest, most absurd and sardonic, witty, acerbic, ironic and sarcastic unpublished writing.  Edited by Mike Spry.  Poetry: (3-5 poems).  Fiction: (3500 words max.). 

Deadline: April 11th, 2008.

Electronic Submissions Preferred

spry@matrixmagazine.org

On Gallows Humour:

“The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
-- Sigmund Freud,  “Humour (Der Humor)”

“When Oscar Wilde allegedly gestured at the garish wallpaper in his cheap Parisian hotel room and announced with his dying breath, "Either it goes or I go," he was exhibiting something beyond an irrepressibly brilliant wit. Freud, you see, wasn't whistling "Edelweiss" when he wrote that gallows humour is indicative of "a greatness of soul." The quips of the condemned prisoner or dying patient tower dramatically above, say, sallies on TV sitcoms by reason of their gloriously inappropriate refusal, even at life's most acute moment, to surrender to despair.”
--Tom Robbins, “In Defiance of Gravity”

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