The Lingering Longing For A Long Lost Love

an ontological mystery with photographs and other lies

The Lingering Longing for a Long Lost Love is an experimental mystery novel consisting of 60 found photographs, each followed by 1 to 3 pages of text. It purports to be the journal of Gerald Conway, recounting his investigation into the 1946 bombing of a train station. Both the target and the motive are uncertain. Was it attempted murder, sabotage, or simply spectacle? Rod Dubey provides editorial commentary on subjects suggested by the story, ranging from post-war America to the dubiousness of the narrative, ontological crisis, noir films about trains, the post-war proliferation of images, simulation, and the significance of trains to war, capitalism, and planetary destruction.