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Title: A chip off the old block

nuance and anti-nuance

through an unblocked lens

 

Abstract: I walked up to the podium

I talked up to the audience

I baulked the hard questions

 

Keywords: chunk, fragment, gobbet,

hunk, lump, microchip, paring, shard,

slab, smithereens, wedge   

 

Length: 50 minutes and questions

Musical version: 90 minutes

and standing ovation

 

Author: As/Pro Matt

(‘Shiver me’) Flinders

distantly related

 

Degrees in overthinking

missing linking double dinking

heavy late-night drinking

 

Institution: a personal chair

an essential organ a benchmark

part of the furniture

 

Publishers: Self First

Incremental Paperchase

University of Hard Looks Press

 

Monographs: The Chip : a Blockbuster

(2018) Chipping Away (2020)

Short Introduction to the Chip (2024)

 

Forthcoming: BIG BLOCK

Deconstructing the Chip (2026)

The Chip Encyclopaedia (2028)

 

Personal: lives in a leafy

with a just impediment

and their dogs Replica and Xerox

 

 Resemblances between this bio-line and anyone at all is purely coincidental or a product of your imagination. Image: Used blister packs, from ‘Winter Leaflets’ series No. 24, drawn during lockdown,  Winter 2021.