“Triangulorum” is an illustrated, three-part (go figure) epistolary tale that weirdly weaves together the stories of a 16th-century Spanish nau stuck in the doldrums, an archaeological excavation in the Sargasso Sea, and detritus washed ashore in Bermuda following a hurricane. The short story is featured among works of speculative philosophy and speculative horror composing the philosophical post-Kantian anthology Diseases of the Head, edited by Matt Rosen, who writes:
In “Triangulorum,” Sara Rich weaves a tale of a tragic and ill-fated journey to Hispaniola. Written in an epistolary form, Rich’s inventive narrative asks, what if those Kant thought had succumbed to the diseases of the head were not “dreamers in waking” but rather, as she puts it, “those whose sensations become, through weird chance, inextricably bound to chimerical overlaps of spacetime that render chaos from perceptions of order?” In a style at once spare and original, evocative and experimental, theory and fiction, historical and contemporary, Rich tells us that perhaps “our era of life in the Rational Experiment gone haywire” is one in which “anything seems possible, except reversibility.”
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