Syntax
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- Syntax is a coming-of-age work that offers readers a path forward through a modern malaise: how our jobs and internet culture have cratered our ability to make meaningful relationships. These structures do not provide solutions to spiritual problems. Modern vulgarity and malaises have necessitated inner solutions. The climax of the book, a doubling-down on creativity, is one of the most readily accessible forms of grace available to the every-day person. This perspective however, is from that of an outsider, making observations...someone on the fringes so to speak. The form reflects this impulse. Syntax is a guided dream. The protagonist of SYNTAX, St. Paul, sits in the garden of St. Francis in Pittsburgh the evening before his movie debut. In the garden, St. Paul reflects on what brought him to that point in a letter to his brother, Demian, in the classic confessional style. St. Paul tells the story of his love affair with another artist, M—, that had a critical effect on St. Paul's journey. M— and St. Paul navigate their new relationship as they learn more about each other and their separate identities as artists. Ultimately, M— chooses to leave St. Paul for an opportunity at a residency in California. Devastated, St. Paul searches for meaning within his community, with his friends Cypher and Mr. Pleasure, as they roam Pittsburgh and parts of West Virginia. Still, St. Paul is not content with these relationships and struggles to understand the meaning behind the memories they've made. Eventually, St. Paul and Cypher are invited out to review an avant garde film, Film01 by Angelicism, premiering in New York City. Among younger artists, St. Paul still craves to find his community. He feels that there is a critical component missing from his life, and that perhaps the techniques and styles of the artists in New York will help him come into his own artistically and as an individual. However, St. Paul is dissatisfied and resists the artists surrounding the film, and the film itself. St. Paul is pushed to create a new work, his own film, that constructs meaning out of his experience. Syntax then, is a book that tries to understand how relationships, art, and the internet constellate our spirituality and creative impulses.
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