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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #61

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Orchid Kid – The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)

• Deep in the Dark – The Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)

• Faces and Facts – The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)

• Persian Pool – Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)

• Hooky Here – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)

• #MiToo – Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #60

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Conteur Compatissant – Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (Everyman’s Library 1934)

• Riff-Raph – 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)

• Fall of the Wild – A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke (1961)

• Orchid and Oak – Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, W.E. Vine et al (Thomas Nelson 1984)

• Hoare Here – Risingtidefallingstar, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate 2017)

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Pedal to the Medal

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“Once, in a contest with a rival, he painted a blue curve on a huge sheet of paper. Then he dipped the feet of a chicken in red paint and persuaded the bird to walk all over the paper. The resulting image, he said, represented the Tatsuta river with red maple leaves floating in it. The judge gave him the prize.” — The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1760-1849) described in Thomas W. Hodgkinson’s and Hubert van den Bergh’s How to Sound Cultured (2015)

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #45

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Plants on Paper – Drawing and Painting Plants, Christina Brodie (A & C Black 2006)

• Lewminiferous – Guide to Garden Wildlife, Richard Lewington (British Wildlife Publishing 2008)

• Old Gold – Puskás: Madrid, the Magyars and the Amazing Adventures of the World’s Greatest Goalscorer, György Szöllős (Freight Books 2015)

• Rosetta Rok – Rok 1984, George Orwell (MUZA SA, Warszawa 2001)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #41

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Touring the Tower – Physics in Minutes: 200 key concepts explained in an instant, Giles Sparrow (Quercus 2014)

• Living with Rainbows – Miller’s Field Guide: Glass, Judith Miller (Octopus 2015)

• Men on the Margins – Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts (Chivers 2011)

• Sward and Sorcery – Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)

• Obscene Screen – Necro-Sluts from Satan’s Anus: Fifty Filthy Fester-Films to F*** You Up, Freak You Out and Feralize Your Fetidest Fantasies, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts* 2015)

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(*TransToxic Texts is an infra-imprint of TransVisceral Books.)