Nosirrah Is Not

Biography

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There are references to Nosirrah’s birth in God Is an Atheist which would be in the year 1923 or 1924 in Berlin, Germany or possibly Paris, France. However, it is not clear from the writing whether this is accurate or a passing reverie on the part of Nossirah who suggests that he may be the bastard son of Alice B. Toklas and Franz Kafka. It is clear from historic research that Toklas and Kafka were both in Berlin in 1923, that Toklas was at the end of her child bearing years, however there is no clear record of Toklas and Gertrude Stein raising a child as indicated in the book.

Nosirrah goes into great detail about his life in his autobiographical work of fiction, Practical Obsession however there is no direct reference to his date of birth. He does however indicate that he died shortly after birth, which is assumed to be either a near death experience or a clinical death with an extraordinary recovery, and not simply a metaphor as this event seems to have fundamentally altered his state of consciousness.

Interested readers are directed to Practical Obsession for more details on Nosirrah’s life, but we can summarize by saying that he lived in an altered state throughout his life and largely recounts his attempts to integrate that state of being, to communicate it, and to a large degree find his way to others who might share that energetic state. Nosirrah reveals himself to be a true master of mind and consciousness, a traveler through the inner and outer worlds undaunted by any obstacle, and it is for this reason that we find his work to be of such value.

In his book Chronic Eros Nosirrah portrays a world of love, romance and eros so convoluted and absent of normal sensitivity and social perception that the reader is left wondering whether he ever really had a relationship with anyone, other than perhaps his muse and the bain of his existence, Lydia, whose full name is thought to be Lydia Smith, or possibly Lydia Smyth (this may be her maiden name) age unknown although likely that she was younger than Nosirrah who made clear in his writings that his interests lie with younger women. It is thought that his editor stimulated Noisrrah’s greatest literary works, but may have also been the co-creator of them, perhaps to a larger degree then Nosirrah liked. There are some who suggest that Nosirrah was actually only semi-literate and Lydia was not just his beloved but his ghost-writer. Accounts of their tumultuous relationship suggest a romantic and possibly carnal relationship, and further indicate that it broke down in anger over another woman. Lydia apparently would never see or speak to Nosirrah again, but would continue to “edit” his work.

Nosirrah seems to have been simultaneously devastated and liberated by the loss of Lydia, producing his most difficult and obscure work, Nothing from Nothing in the ensuing melancholy over the loss of his muse. As he recounts in God is an Atheist Noisrrah tried to suppress the publication of Nothing from Nothing but apparently too late as Lydia already had the manuscript. It is clear from the events surrounding this book and its content that there was a second breakdown of Nosirrah’s altered mindstate, one that he may not have recovered from and which is in evidence in the text of God Is an Atheist as well as the fragments of the never finished book How to Profit from the Prophets, his doomsday novel.

Nosirrah apparently has some kind of following, although we have never directly met anyone who has directly met Nosirrah. What is collected here is largely anecdotal and heresay. Nosirrah himself has written: “Those who understand these writings have no need to meet me, those who do not understand have no reason to meet me, and those who need to meet me have no need to read my writings.”

It is not clear whether Nosirrah is alive or not. There is no record of his death just as there is no clear record of his life. He himself stated very clearly that he is not, and it is in the honor of these words that we so name this website. We do not know the extent of his writings, only what we have found by long searching and many adventures with collectors of rare books.

Few lives have been as fascinating as the life of Nosirrah, or could point to the essential truths of our existence, and more importantly, perhaps, to our non-existence.

If you have any further information on the life of Nosirrah or his work, please let us know so we can post it herein.