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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 #51

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Bits of the Best – The Shorter Strachey, Lytton Strachey, ed. Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy (Oxford University Press 1980)

• Shaman On U! – Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock’n’Roll Underworld, Julian Cope (Faber and Faber 2012)

• Scorpions and Sea-Lords – Philip’s Guide to Seashells, A.P.H. Oliver, illustrated by James Nicholls (various)

• Spike-U-Like – The Cactus Handbook, Erik Haustein, translated by Pamela Marwood (Cathay Books 1988)

• Glasguitargang – Dog Eat Dog: A Story of Survival, Struggle and Triumph by the Man Who Put AC/DC on the World Stage, Michael Browning (Allen & Unwin 2014)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #44

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Lesser Letters – You’ve Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess (Heinemann 1990)

• The Light of Day – SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day (Castalia House 2015)

• Sextual Keeling – Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans, David Barrie (William Collins 2014)

• Twy Defy the Eye – The World of Visual Illusions: Optical Tricks That Defy Belief!, Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber (Arcturus 2012)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #33

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Wattir an Wirds – The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories, John Buchan (Penguin Books 2009)

• Caveat Lector – Will This Do? The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh, Auberon Waugh (Century 1991)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #22

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Plates from the Great – Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914-18, Richard Holmes (HarperPress 2008; paperback 2010)

• Math for the Mistress – A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy (1940)

• Sinister Sinema – Scalarama: A Celebration of Subterranean Cinema at Its Sleazy, Slimy and Sinister Best, ed. Norman Foreman, B.A. (TransVisceral Books 2015)

• Rick Pickings – Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature, Rick Gekoski (Profile Books 2013/2014)

• Slug is a Drug – Collins Complete Guide to British Coastal Wildlife, Paul Sterry and Andrew Cleave (HarperCollins 2012) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #21

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Poems and Parachutes – A Hell for Heroes: An SAS Hero’s Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Theo Knell (Coronet 2012)

• I Am A Kamera – Mezzogiallo: Ferality. Fetidity. Eastern Europe., David Kerekes (TransVisceral Books 2014)

• Where’s the Beef? – Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler (1925)

• No Plaice Like Olm – European Reptile and Amphibian Guide, Axel Kwet (New Holland 2009) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #10

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

Sea Here – Sea Charts of the British Isles: A Voyage of Discovery around Britain & Ireland’s Coastline, John Blake (Conway Maritime Press, 2005)

Art-Bandit – Outsider II: Always Almost, Never Quite, Brian Sewell (Quartet Books, 2012)

Clarke’s Arks – Imperial Earth (1976) and Rendezvous with Rama (1972), Arthur C. Clarke

The Joy of ’Leks – The Dalek Handbook, Steve Tribe and James Goss (BBC Books, 2011)

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He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #7

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“I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.” — The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1958).

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #6

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

Camus Up for Blair — George Orwell: A Life in Letters, selected and annotated by Peter Davison, (Penguin 2011)

God-Finger — The Satan Bug (1962) / The Way to Dusty Death (1973), Alistair MacLean

Mum, Bum and Caravaggio — Outsider: Always Almost, Never Quite: An Autobiography, Brian Sewell (2011)

Eyes Wide Opium — How to Read a Photograph: Understanding, Interpreting and Enjoying the Great Photographers, Ian Jeffrey (2008)

Beard Tales — The Devotee of Ennui #1: Hymn to Hermaphrodite, Alan Moore with Kegsey Keegan (Polypogonic Press, 2013)

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