Posted on: May 24, 2008Posted by: JamesComments: 0
Starting off with some very psychological quotes from two incredibly famous yet not often read novels, The Bell Jar and Steppenwolf, Miranda turns her focus and her intense clinical eye on herself, and expresses herself intensely with a number of different thoughts, all differentiated by pages. A number of pictures intersperse the thoughts, making the stream-of-consciousness all the more realistic, and making it more like an actual train of thought – i.e. thought, thought, picture, etc. In the actual part of zine featuring her writing, one should pay attention to the time that she layers text on pictures, as both times she repeats a saying, once changing the line for the forth repetition. Towards the end of the zine she gains a stronger coherency with the piece, using a continued metaphor of her heart as a Dr. Frankenstein creation, and how comforting it is to find someone that is the same way. Before this longing, chaos is the order of the pen, and Miranda obliges, being as random as one would expect a mind able to write would be. If someone hasn’t heard about this zine, it should be assumed that they are living under a rock, as Miranda is really the up and coming darling of the perzine scene. From what I read in this issue, it is really easy to understand why she is well liked. This is a zine that probes the depths of Miranda’s mind, and in doing so, causes her reader’s mind to go in directions that it may not have went in the past, and this is why The Pleides is such an excellent magazine, issue after issue. Get this from any reputable distro or for a dollar or two from Miranda Celeste, n. 5818 Vista Ln, Spokane, WA 99212.
