The Tedium Lies

"Existence takes punished precedence in a world ailing with the agonies of consequence and misfortune. Once something becomes aware of its existence, once something is born to nothing, it cannot compel itself to cease except by cruelly wishing with futility for deliverance."

The debut work of English author and musician Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies is a treatise of temperament formulated from fragmentary cahiers into aphoristic prose poems comprising four topical chapters: epistemological metaphysics, religious critique, existential pessimism, and literary as well as linguistic analysis. Now newly revised with the original foreword by Andre Solnikkar.

"An affecting poetic treatise of pessimistic reactivity to the exterior horrors of being, not without a thoroughly introspective melancholy. A must-read for admirers of Pessoa and Cioran, Jacob H. Kyle engraves a most prominent anti-writ in a disquieting voice of its own (upon and beyond the former authors' redolent corpses)."
- Elytron Frass, author of Moieties, VITIATORS, and Liber Exuvia

"'You and I have awoken into the very nightmare of Being.' Thus begins this beautiful collection of prose pieces lamenting the wretched fecundity of Life. There is a lucidity and a brutality to these pieces that readers of Cioran, Solnikkar, Gary J. Shipley, and other writers of that nature will greatly appreciate. It is a welcome addition to any rotted shelf of sorrowful tomes."
- Jacob McMillan, author of Eternism - Death and Individuation between Mainländer and Schopenhauer

"The greatest philosophers are always not such but moreso poets in their mastery of language merged with passion and feeling, then thought. Think Nietzsche, Cioran. Now Kyle. Amazingly penned and among the best of a long tradition."
- Andrew Cyril Macdonald, author of op. cit/urbes and curator at Version (9) Magazine