A place becomes haunted by being stained with a singular intense year

Evidence

Haunting is about a staining of place with particularly intense moments of time, and, like David Peace, with whom her work shares a number of affinities, Ford is alive to the poetry of dates. 1979, 1981, 2013: these years recur throughout Savage Messiah, moments of transition and threshold, moments when a whole alternative time-track opens. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 483

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact definition of hauntological place-staining: dates as threshold moments where alternate time-tracks open.
• XREF: connects to: A generation feels lost for having missed every militant moment by a phase — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 476; A counterculture scene visibly degraded within roughly one year. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1226; A story’s theme often emerges only after a year of drafting — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 653 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A counterculture scene visibly degraded within roughly one year. #exemplifies (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1226
• The unacknowledged lynching history of a place lies buried in its very soil #exemplifies (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 554
• A story’s theme often emerges only after a year of drafting #expands (0.75) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 653