Plato’s Screw

197 Pages·2014·1.1 MB·English

by  Linda Janakos

A Novel
by
L.D .JANAKOS

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An e-book edition of Plato’s Screw , published in 2013, is available from
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Janakos , L.D.
Plato’s Screw / L.D. Janakos Psychological—Fiction; Women’s—Fiction; Satire
—Fiction; Absurd—Fiction; Surreal—Fiction ISBN: 978-1-941137-00-0
Front and back cover photograph by Kansuke Yamamoto, copyright © Toshio
Yamamoto. Used with permission.
Drawing of screw in the interior of the book copyright © Linda Haim. Used with
permissio n.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dedicated to Doren along with other familial males who surround me: John,
Ziggy, Malik, Angel Julian, Angel, Ayden, Gary, Julian, Ben and Jack.
I’m deeply grateful to Toshio Yamamoto for permission to use the photograph
by his father, Kansuke Yamamoto, on the covers; to the Getty Museum
Trust Fund for providing a .tiff file of the untitled photo; and to John Solt and
Alexandria Sivak for arranging for the use of the photograph.
Additional special thanks to Linda Haim for her drawing of the screw used in the
interior of the book.
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Special thanks to Doren Robbins for his precise and insightful editorial
comments and suggestions on a late draft of the novel.
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Additional thanks for feedback on sections of the novel from Michael Neff and
from members of my Tuesday writing group. Thanks as well to Tovia Anderson
for her needed proofreading.
An excerpt from Plato’s Screw appeared in the online literary journal 5 Trope in
2013.
Del Sol
An early draft of the novel was partly serialized and first appeared at
Review in 2010-2011.

An excerpt from an even earlier draft appeared in Exquisite Corpse online in
2002 under the novel’s original title, Brancusi’s Back.
From Blank to Blank—
A Threadless Way
Emily Dickinson
photograph by
Kansuke Yamamoto
copyright ©Toshio Yamamoto
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Frame 1
(Near the Beginning)
Chapter One It Always Comes Down to the Architecture
Chapter Two Hypnotized Sick
Frame 2
Chapter Three Through the Window
(Postage Stamps)
Chapter Four Through the Window Square
Chapter Five What We Store in Our Vaults
(An Architectural Confession)
Chapter Six What Gets Stored in our Hearts
Frame 3
Chapter Seven So Much Relies on the Exhale
Chapter Eight What We Inhale
Frame 4
(Brancusi’s Pause)
Chapter Nine Lost horizons, Corroded Oxygen
Frame 4.5
(Near the End)
Chapter Ten Historically, all facts are placeholders
Frame 5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR