Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Clive Alive – C.S. Lewis: A Life, Alister McGrath (Hodder & Staughton 2013)
• Ink Tune – Nick Drake: Dreaming England, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse (Reaktion Books 2013)
• Stan’s Fans – Awaydays, Kevin Sampson (Vintage 1998)
• Words at War – Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology, ed. Tim Kendall (Oxford University Press 2013) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Der Übergmensch – Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk, Jeff Connors (Canongate Books 2002)
• Book with Bite – Steve Backshall’s Most Poisonous Creatures, Steve Backshall (New Holland 2013)
• The Politics of Pretence – Mo Mowlam: The Biography, Julia Langdon (Little, Brown 2000)
• Guns’n’Gladioli – A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths, Tony Fletcher (Windmill Books 2013) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
• Think Ink – 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, Joanne Baker (Quercus 2013) (posted @ O.o.t.Ü.-F.)
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Numbered Days: Literature, Mathematics and the Deus Ex Machina
Think French. Think genius. Think rebellious, tormented, iconoclastic. Finally, think dead tragically young in the nineteenth century… And if you’re thinking of anyone at all, I think you’ll be thinking of Rimbaud.
And you’d be right to do so. But only half-right. Because there were in fact two rebellious, tormented, iconoclastic French geniuses who died tragically young in the nineteenth century. One was called Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) and the other Évariste Galois (1811-32). Rimbaud is still famous, Galois never has been. At least not to the general educated public, though on all objective criteria – but one – you might expect his fame to be greater. In every way – but one – Galois has the more powerful appeal.
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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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