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A character in a novel by this author is guided by a secret code found in the CIA’s library: “GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.” A novel by this author switches between the perspectives of the pirate Thivai and a half-robot, half-human named Abhor. This author wrote a novel in which an Italian filmmaker solves his own murder with the help of Romeo, Juliet, and the Brontë sisters. Black Tarantula is the pseudonym of this author of My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who rewrote Don Quixote as an American woman who searches for love alongside a dog named Saint Simeon. In a metafictional novel by this author, Janey Smith has an incestuous relationship with her father until she is sent to a school in New York City. For 10 points, name this Punk author of Blood and Guts in High School. ■END■

ANSWER: Kathy Acker [or Karen Lehman] (The first novel is Empire of the Senseless.)
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