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♫ Explaining Donkey Heaven ♫
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(The Korridorium was originally a blog with daily postings. The following “interview” references this and Cory’s plan to subsequently delete the entire website, a move the publishers were able to prevent.)
“I enter the corridor”: Do all 398 blog entries truly start with this sentence?
Yes. Almost. If you find any deviations, consider framing them as keepsakes.
Why will the blog be deleted on December 21, 2012? Does that have something to do with the end of the Mayan calendar?
The Mayan calendar doesn’t actually end; the so-called Long Count simply resets. Whether this cyclical nature extends to the end of the world remains to be seen.
But couldn’t the blog, in its entirety of 398 entries, simply remain as an archive?
One of the themes explored in the blog is transience, so a final deletion seems only consistent.
Is the author someone well-known, or why is such a secret being made of the identity of “Cory d’Or”?
Identity is another one of the themes illuminated here.
This secrecy is just a publicity stunt, right?
Among other things, it makes possible one of the blog’s serial stories, which begins with text No. 51.
Is what you write actually literature? And if so, what would you call it?
My friend Norbu once called it “fractal literature”—I assume he means a collage of texts that relate to each other associatively and thematically, exhibit a certain self-similarity on the thematic level, and are “fractured” in their dimensionality by including contradictions, alternative versions, and meta-perspectives. The mix of different genres could perhaps also be called postmodern or eclectic—though I try not to get stuck in a shell game of set pieces. And given the mode of publication, it is, of course, also web-based electronic literature.
Hmm. I quite like the fantasy stuff, but I can’t really get into the sci-fi stories.
The categories and tags for the individual texts under the menu item “What else to find?” are intended to allow my readers a more or less targeted selection among the various blog entries. My Twitter account might also help: there’s a small teaser tweet with a link for each text—if I’ve sparked your curiosity: just click and enter the corresponding corridor.
Speaking of “What else?”: What do tags like “K.”, “Nous,” “PluriDim” … mean?
True, that might have turned out a little cryptic. “K.” stands for the eponymous character in Kafka and thus for, uh, Kafkaesque situations. “Nous” is a Greek word I use to denote the intellectual dimension of the human being—the same root as “noosphere.” Everything relating to consciousness, the supernatural, and the metaphysical gets the label “Nous.” “PluriDim,” in turn, is an abbreviation for a pluridimensional, multidimensional perspective on existence and refers to parallel worlds and multiverses…
The stories are sometimes rather cute, but often just way too long. Can’t they be shorter?
I am aware that the attention span for reading on the web tends toward the length of tweets. However, I refuse to give up the chance to occasionally go deep. That brings to light treasures that cannot be unearthed at the surface…
Why are the informational links listed below instead of being linked directly in the text?
This reflects my personal reading habits: finish reading first, then research open questions and ambiguities—rather than letting myself be distracted in the middle and going down rabbit holes. That’s precisely the purpose of the links.
I’m a German teacher and would like to use one of your texts in class.
Please contact me at Cory@Korridorium.com—I will then get in touch with you.
**I’m a bookseller and would like to invite you for a reading of your texts.
I’m afraid I have to disappoint you there. Since entry 51, I have been wanted by the police and have had to stay in hiding.
Will the FAQ also have one of your notorious Dada punchlines?
But of course. This one, in fact.
End of the World 12/21/2012: 
Electronic literature:
Incidentally, among the fifty texts written on mechanical typewriters and seized in the Berlin bear pit “Bärenzwinger,” the following was originally listed under number 60 (which, in a way, summarizes the entire FAQ):
♫ Bummer ♫
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I enter the corridor.
Why, you may wonder?
It’s simple: Because it’s there!
(Mountains? Too strenuous for me.)