05 · Long-work
Malgré Tout
A Guide to Nothingness
Hybrid compendium — personal narrative, pessimistic philosophy, deconstructionism, experimental form, comedy, and mementos. The canonical reference text for WULD’s coined vocabulary and the umbrella’s pessimist-nihilist positions.
Excerpts
Selected passages — awaiting chat-side authorship. Surface as individual sub-sections under this heading.
Mementos
Visual material from the book — layout decision pending when first memento lands. Candidates: image strip, scroll-narrative gallery, or separate /book/mementos/ sub-route.
NothinGist
Section body — chat-side authorship + future Cowork micro-session for UI design.
Audio adaptation — Mara
Audiobook segments narrated by Mara (ElevenLabs persona) — land here as segments are released. R2 architecture provisioned at audio.wuld.ink/book/; per-segment .audio-block mounts use the established data-audio-key pattern.
Lacero
Experimental section of Malgré Tout in which the print form argues alongside the prose — the page-turn architecture enacts the voice-interruption the section is about. The argument is form-dependent; any adaptation must be medium-native, not a translation of the print mechanic.
Web surface to be determined. Until a medium-native adaptation is committed (audio, video, or some interplay), Lacero lives in the print edition; the web cross-references it.
Cross-references
Vocabulary coined in Malgré Tout lives in the umbrella’s Glossary — current entries scaffolded for Alogical Isness, Anfractuous Aporia, Contextus Claudit, with more forthcoming.
Video adaptations and readings — including The Architecture of Moral Disaster, Anfractuous Aporia, Taedium Vitae — live on Watch.
Full-length audio readings of individual essays drawn from the book’s register live on Essays — including Sanguinolentum Vestigium, Alogically Is, and The Architecture of Moral Disaster.
Other works by WULD — The Point, Forget the Plot, Hatred. View on Amazon →