If Petronius Had Taken Ketamine with Guy Debord

‘If Petronius had taken ketamine with Guy Debord…’

Loren Ipsum is like a chemical (or celestial, or necro-feline) phenomenon the very observation of which causes it to radically mutate under your gaze. As you turn the pages, biting satire morphs into tender autobiography, literary theory into crime, and farce into a complex reflection of culture and its place in history’
Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and The Making of Incarnation

Tom MCarthy, 2007 © Andrew Gallix
Tom McCarthy, 2007 © Andrew Gallix
Tom McCarthy & Andrew Gallix, 2022

A Gleeful Opus of Literary Insurrection

“In Loren Ipsum language itself is up in arms, subverting syntax and blasting holes in meaning left, right, and centre. Gallix’s gleeful opus of literary insurrection is a rogue assemblage of styles and strategies that bristles with cunning stunts, skilful swordplay, and meta-tricksy in-your-endos, with a JPM — jokes per minute — count that’s right off the page”

Rob Doyle, author of Threshold, May 2025