Dong, Peter Sotos and Sam Salatta (TransVisceral Books 2022) (with limited-edition CD and full-color instruction booklet)
It started with a tweet:
My dong is bigger than your dong!
– Sam Salatta (@PsychoSalatta)
No, my dong is bigger than YOURS.
– Peter Sotos (@PeterSotos)
And MINE frightens children.
– Peter Sotos (@PeterSotos)
So does mine.
– Sam Salatta (@PsychoSalatta)
Prove it!
– Peter Sotos (@PeterSotos)
The challenge was made: the contest was on. And so Sotos and Salatta set out to compare dongs, and frighten children, on an extensive tour of Europe and South America. But their head-to-head heresiarchomachy will have come as no surprise to those who were aware that the deviant duo are not just keyly committed core components of the counter-cultural community, but also corely committed key components of the campanological community.
Yes, that’s right: Sotos and Salatta are dedicated tuggers and tossers. They tug a rope – and high above a bell tosses, pealing forth the joyous dings-and-dongs of which they are both rightly proud. Bell-ringing is a tradition that has run in the Sotos and Salatta families for generations. It’s part craft, part sport, demanding both skill and strength, as you’ll see in the accompanying instruction-booklet and hear on the accompanying CD. You don’t get a big dong just by tugging and hoping. As in drumming, the loudest performers combine physicality with finesse.
Sotos and Salatta have both in spades, but I still can’t believe that (as reported here) they managed to deploy their dongs for eight hours straight in a country church in Bavaria. Were stimulants involved? The deviant duo aren’t saying and maybe they’re right not to respond to the accusations. If you want to discover for yourself quite how tricky the apparently simple task of pulling off a big dong can be, the accompanying booklet gives you full instructions on how to join the über-esoteric and ultra-exciting world of campanology.
And whatever the controversies, one thing is certain: with the release of Dong, TransVisceral Books have come up toxic trumps again, forging an incendiary benchmark that leaves all other extreme publishers coughing in their dust and scrambling to claw back mephitic market-share in the agora of abjection.
Previously pre-posted on Papyrocentric Performativity…
• Toxic Twosome – review of Doll by Peter Sotos
• K-9 Konundrum – review of Dog by Peter Sotos
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