In truth, alack, I, Gordon, am positively nuts for Knauff and nuts for Lock, in whatever guise the waggish Lock (not to mention, Knauff) decides to produce himself. In truth? In truth, Lock writes it, Lish reads it!—which is a damn sight more than Lish will say for Proust.

—Gordon Lish

After so many years of hearing about the great Machinery of Marco Knauff (and having long since come to suspect one labored within it), it is a great satisfaction to read Knauff's own writings at last. One can only stand in awed astonishment that these Notes, which in truth cannot be said to exist at all, are there in one's left hand.

—R. M. Berry, author of Leonardo's Horse and publisher, Fiction Collective Two

Using the epistomology of Norman Lock's Marco Knauff's Universe, the text is the first or second child, meaning, perfect. Once again, Mr. Lock presents the impossible in a way that makes splendor common. We are thankful for him and his efforts!

—Deron Bauman, editor of elimae and author of Mockingbird