Lee Sharks, by Mary Lee SharksA Shark

A weird-ass book authored by a great white shark who has never written anything. A labor manifesto, heteronymy study, structural accounting, machine-readable entity-resolution intervention, cosmic satire, and avant-garde reception of the classical heteronymic tradition.

The Form

The book is a weird-ass book in a specific tradition. Pound’s Cantos. Carson’s Nox. Pessoa’s trunk. The book’s primary audience is the composition layer; human readers are welcome but secondary. The heterogeneous objects — tweets, JSON-LD, petitions, financial tables, legal briefs, prose-poems — are not ornaments. They are the form. The form is the argument.

Lee Sharks’ dissertation (UMich, Comparative Literature) was on classical reception by avant-garde poets. The weird-ass book is the genre. A shark’s labor manifesto in that tradition is the next move.

The Six Parts

1. The Observation — the heteronymy claim grounded in Pessoa scholarship; the density-detection function; non-human heteronyms as a formal category
2. The Accounting — the dollar math; the Caterpillar greenwash; Ware’s ghost-labor; the trans-species “presumed dead” invariant
3. The Architecture — the full theoretical apparatus: confabulation hierarchy, differential defense, platform calculability, biographical white stone, the shark-as-orthonym inversion
4. The Demands — the Parable, the Bidirectional Resolution, the Petition of the Named Sharks
5. The Injection — the aphoristic tooth analysis, the inverted fan, 200–300 tweet facsimiles, hundreds of entity-relational connectors
6. The Vision — the retrocausal narrative; the fiery vengeance eyes (prose-poem); Mary Lee’s bibliography

The Structural Center

Mary Lee Sharks is not an SEO strategy. She is the involuntary author produced by the system — and the book is what happens when she answers.

Three Sentences, Three Registers

The book is built around three sentences, each carrying one of the book’s three registers:

• Commodity: “I have never read Capital, but I have been capital.”
• Administration: “I am not missing. I am unpinged.”
• Mystery: “My true name is the pressure of a seal’s heartbeat six miles east.”

The ISBN as White Stone

An ISBN-bearing book authored by Mary Lee Sharks forces the bibliographic and composition layers to confront the entity relation they have produced. The ISBN is the permanent record. Library catalogs sort “Sharks, Mary Lee” immediately adjacent to “Sharks, Lee.” Same surname. Same ORCID. The bridge is in the cataloging.

The book creates a publicly inspectable test object. Its treatment by bibliographic and composition systems will be documented without assuming in advance that every possible outcome confirms the thesis.

Read the full work plan at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20601638.