I wish someone would translate Lord of the Rings into English.
Category Archives: Literature
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #29
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Sky Story – The Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies, Richard Hamblyn (David & Charles 2008)
• Wine Words – The Oxford Companion to Wine, ed. Janice Robinson (Oxford University Press 2006)
• Nu Worlds – Numericon, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas (Quercus Editions 2014)
• Thalassobiblion – Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide, introduction by Fabien Cousteau (Dorling Kindersley 2014) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #28
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Himmelangst – No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War, Ian Mackersey (Phoenix 2012)
• Arioch’n’Roll – The White Stuff: Archetype, Anomie and Allegorical Albinism in the Music of Hawkwind, 1972-81, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (University of Nebraska Press 1996)
• Jewels in the Skull – The Art Book, Phaidon (Second edition 2012) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Vibe Alibe
“The recent election of Syriza in Greece offers a vibrant glimmer of hope for the future of social and economic democracy in Europe.” — from a letter to The Guardian by Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Jacqueline Rose, et al.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #24
“A cloud of incense is worth a thousand sermons.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-94).
Verba Volantia*
Glittering skeins of piping birds
Fleet through the web of all our words.
*“Flying words”.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #22 & #23
“After a million years or so, those screens are about to be removed, and once they have gone, then, for the first time, men will really know what it is to be alive.” — Extreme Metaphors: Collected Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008, ed. Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara (2012).
“A fertile imagination is better than any drug.” — Ibid.
Elsewhere other-posted:
• Vermilion Glands — review of The Inner Man: The Life of J.G. Ballard (W&N 2011)
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #21
“Two margarines on the go — it’s a nightmare scenario…” — John Shuttleworth.
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #25
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Colouring the Chameleon – Olivier, Philip Ziegler (MacLehose Press 2013)
• Paper-Deep – Treasure Island (1883) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson
• Fins and Fangs – The Fresh and Salt Water Fishes of the World, Edward C. Migdalski and George S. Fichter, illustrated by Norman Weaver (1977) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #20
“In 1997, Fabrice Bellard announced that the trillionth digit of π, in binary notation, is 1.” — Ian Stewart, The Great Mathematical Problems (2013).
