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Belief & Technique for Telepathic Prose: A Critical Edition (EA-BTP-EDITION-01) is Lee Sharks's edition of the "Footnote to Pearl" of Pearl and Other Poems (New Human Press, 2014), a numbered list of twenty-four precepts on writing signed by Lee Sharks and the heteronym Jack Feist and first posted on Mind Control Poems on 1 December 2014. The edition seats the book's text unemended and collates it with four drafts of April and May 2014, the blog text and the author's letter of 10 May 2014, which names Jack Kerouac's "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose" (1959) as the model. It traces the piece's intertexts item by item: Kerouac's list and his Essentials of Spontaneous Prose, whose promise of a reader's "telepathic shock" supplies the title's adjective; Ginsberg's Footnote to Howl; a cento of craft maxims from Pound, Quiller-Couch, Trungpa, Twain and Wordsworth; Emerson, Nietzsche, the Oulipo, Homer and Dickinson's letter to Higginson of 7 June 1862. It reads the piece as sublating the craft tradition, each precept negated as a law and kept as an operation, and argues that, item against item, it is the more extensively self-testing ars poetica of the two lists. The edition periodizes the piece through the author's dissertation Strange New Canons (2013), the program era, conceptual writing and Alt Lit; links its sources to the archive's originals library, where Kerouac (a declared absence) and Horace were seated for it; and anchors to four captures of 28 October 2026 in which ChatGPT and Google AI Overview file the work under Kerouac and Perplexity identifies it under its author's name.

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