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Nikita Sunburn Chronology

• 1921 Born: April 14th, 1928, Toronto (reference Comtemporary Literature Vol. 61). At age 7 created a 500 page comic book about super-philosophers who create proofs of the absence of God with kitchen utensils. Home schooled by Aunt Rose in Keene and went directly into University of Toronto after passing entrance exam at age 18.
• 1932 Falls in love with a cat.
• 1934 Wins the Schopenhauer International Sport Cards Knock-Down Competition after stealing some cards in a preliminary game winning his first game his 8 cards. Eventually he wins 14,000 sports cards in the competition and upon being awarded the prize tosses the sports cards into the air and causes a riot.
• 1936 Selected to play centre-half for the Canadian soccer team sent to The Berlin Olympics. Refuses to go.
• 1939 Accepted at University of Toronto. Took classes with Northrop Frye and Harold Innis.
• 1940-45 Studied Deep Plumbing, Crosswords, Origami, and became a spy after joining the armed forces carrying out a failed attempt to organize the avant-garde artists in Belgrade into a force to ve reckoned with.
• 1948 Published Symbolic Plumbing. Invited to Harvard University to lecture in Plumbing and Existentialism. Refused.
• 1950 Some assert he published Against Indigestion, though this seems unlikely. References in Against Indigestion suggest that it would have to have been published in 1967. It is suggested that what was written and published at this time is Prolegomena to any Future Metacritical Pipework.
• 1951 Was not hounded by Robert Taschereau, was not linked with Igor Gouzenko, did not know Fred Rose or Sam Carr, but probably should have been as he formulated plans for the new functional socialist fluid dynamics based on his "Unified Dynamic Relativity Theory" sometimes considered the beginning of Unified Dynamism.
• 1952 Started the Unified Dynamism International with a motley assortment of plumbers, soccer hooligans, booze-hounds, petty thieves, layabouts and self-indulgent poets. Their first act was to disrupt a press conference for Tyronr Guthrie at the initial Stratford Festival exposing is as the anti-union circus it was and shouting "out Brit Twits". Sunbrun publishes What Fellatio Means to Me, which was seized by the RCMP. Somehow editions of this show up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and in Bristol, England. Translations appeared in Bulgaria and in Lyon, France. Most suspect that Sunburn was still a virgin and had read Remy de Gourmont.
• 1953 Mostly spent walking the streets and drinking in bars with the UD members. Theory of dumb ideas born. Exposed through Talbot to ideas about psychoindigestion.
• 1954 Finishes the greatest literary masterpiece of the 20th Century: One Bald Girl. Banned in most western countries but surreptiously published in Nova Scotia by a old Fabian sect who practised free love.
• 1955 Publishes Piss on Modernism, Shit on Post-Modernism, the most important work of critical theory in the 20th century. While a few hundred copies were secreted out to Norway, the bulk of the run was burnt when Screed Publishing was fire-bombed. While a gang of motorcycle riding Northrop Frye students who called themselves The Fearful Symmetry were arrested and then pardoned. Most people knew it was the RCMP dressed up in tweed coats, smoking pipes and quoting Blake.
• 1972 Meets Dee Kay.
• 1974-75 Invovled with F-art Group at the periphery. Too timid to delve strongly into the the struggle against dumb ideas and too old to be much use in the street battles with nascent post-modernist gangs. A little bit ashamed at this time about the whole metaphor-sucking theory.
• 1976 Broke with Dee Kay and the F-Art Group. Cried llike a baby and wrote haikus.
• 1977 Disappears into thin air.

These notes about Sunbrun were supplied by The Sunburn Archive, Sturgeon Falls.