Performativizing Papyrocentricity #59

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Mobile Metal – Battleground: The Greatest Tank Duels in History, ed. Steven J. Zaloga (Osprey Publishing 2011)

• Allum’s Album – The Collector’s Cabinet: Tales, Facts and Fictions from the World of Antiques, Marc Allum (Icon Books 2013)

• Aschen Passion – Death in Venice and Other Stories, Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (1988)


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Tott ist Rot

• Lautlos und fein rann der rostrot gefärbte Sand durch die gläserne Enge, und da er in der oberen Höhlung zur Neige ging, hatte sich dort ein kleiner, reißender Strudel gebildet. — Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig (1912)

• Silently, subtly, the rust-red sand trickled through the narrow glass aperture, dwindling away out of the upper vessel, in which a little whirling vortex had formed. — “Death in Venice” (translated by David Luke)

Noise from Nowhere

• Es war, als ob er irgendwohin horchte, auf irgend ein unheimliches Geräusch. — Thomas Mann, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1897)

• He seemed somehow to be listening, listening to some uncanny noise from nowhere. — “Little Herr Friedemann” (translated by David Luke)

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #57

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Do and Die — The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953) (posted at O.-o.-t.-Ü)

• Liddell im Wörterland – Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (1843)

• Lunar or Later – Moon: From 4.5 billion years ago to the present: Owners’ Workshop Manual, David M. Harland (Haynes 2016)

• Headlong into Nightmare – Headlong Hall (1816) / Nightmare Abbey (1818)

• Twisted Tales – Biggles’ Big Adventures: Four Classic Stories Starring the British Empire’s Most Fearless Pilot Adventurer, Captain W.E. Johns (Sevenoaks 2007)

• Stop the Brott – staying the serial slaying of a sanguinivorous psychoanalyst


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #56

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Sympathetic Sinner – The Light of Day, Eric Ambler (1962)

• Voy Polloi – The Voynich Manuscript: the unsolved riddle of an extraordinary book which has defied interpretation for centuries, Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill (Orion paperback 2005)

• Non Angeli, Sed Anglicani – That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People, Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead (Bloomsbury 2016)

• Geller Feller – The Magic of Uri Geller, as revealed by the Amazing Randi (1982)

• Voy Veh – The Voyeur’s Motel, Gay Talese (2016)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #55

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Arms and the Manager – Passage of Arms, Eric Ambler (1959)

• Tods and Toads – The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne 1989)

• La Guerre et la Gaule – Le Tour de Gaule d’Asterix, René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo (Hachette 1967)

• The Hurt Shocker – an exclusive extract from Titans of Transgression, ed. Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Samuel P. Salatta (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)

• Schlock Xpress – The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are So Bad They’re Good, Rob Hill (Art of Publishing 2017)

• Brott und der Tod – The Maximum Security Yoga Club, Mikita Brottman (TransVisceral Books 2017)


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He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #45

…ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν… — Πίνδαρου Ολυμπιόνικος ΙΙ, 98

   “…the sand escapes all numbering…” — Pindar, Second Olympian Ode, line 98

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #54

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Protean Prose – The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Charles Kingsley (1863)

• Schmetterlingsschmuck – Butterfly, Thomas Marent (Dorling Kindersley 2013)

• Criblia – ბიბლია / Biblia (Georgian Bible) (2013)

• Micro Macro – Super Bugs: The Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest Creepy Crawlies on the Planet, John Woodward with Dr George McGavin (Dorling Kindersley 2016)

• Chute: The Lot – The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group, Dave Simpson (Canongate paperback 2009)

• Twice Has Thrice the Vice – Pisces, Peter Sotos, with an introduction by Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2017)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #53

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Pocket to Laroussia – Larousse de Poche (Librarie Larousse 1954)

• Translated to Heaven – Les Hommes Volants, Valerie Moolman, trans. Madeleine Astorkia (Time-Life Books 1981)

• The Eyes of the Infinite Mind – Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges

• Caught by the Furze – Francis Walker’s Aphids, John P. Doncaster (British Museum 1961)

• Commit to Crunch – Maverick Munch: Selecting a Sinisterly Savory Snack to Reinforce Your Rhizomatically Radical Reading, Will Self (TransVisceral Books 2016)


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