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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #53

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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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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #52

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Reds in the Head – The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (1898)

• Canine the Barbarian – The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories, Jack London (Penguin American Library 1981)

• Star-Stuff – The Universe in 100 Key Discoveries, Giles Sparrow (Quercus 2012)

• An Island of Her Own – The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, Edward Brooke-Hitching (Simon & Schuster 2016)

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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 #50

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Life Locomotes – Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements, Matt Wilkinson (Icon 2016)

• Heart of the Mother – Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration into the Heart of Our Planet, David Whitehouse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2015)

• Lepidopterobibliophilia – British Butterflies: A History in Books, David Dunbar (The British Library 2012)

• Minimal Manual – Georgisch Wörterbuch, Michael Jelden (Buske 2016)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #49

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Clarke’s Sparks – The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke (Victor Gollancz 2000)

• Deeper and Down – Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth, James M. Tabor (Random House 2010)

• Manchester’s Mozzerabilist Messiah – Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart, Gavin Hopps (Continuum Books 2012)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #48

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Vois la Reine – Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide, Peter Grego (Philip’s 2015)

• Gods of Fire – Volcano Discoveries: A Photographic Journey around the World, Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet (New Holland 2015)

• Chemical Tales – Rocks and Minerals, Ronald Louis Bonewitz (Dorling Kindersley 2012)

• Knyghtes of the Royalme – Malory: Works, ed. Eugène Vinaver (Oxford University Press 1977)

• Alfredo to Zinedine – Football’s Great Heroes and Entertainers, Jimmy Greaves with Norman Giller (Hodder & Stoughton 2007)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #47

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• The Sting’s the Thing – A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2013)

• Two Heads, Two Tongues – Excuse my French! Fluent Français without the Faux Pas, Rachel Best and Jean-Christophe Van Waes (Kyle Books 2013)

• Marred Moon – Void Moon, Michael Connelly (2000)

• ’Vile Vibes – In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, Dan Davies (Quercus 2014)

• One-Stop Chop-Shop – Toxic Trannies from Kastration Kamp 23: A Sinister Symposium of Academic Assholes Shamelessly Shmoog the Filthiest Films in Cess-Cinema, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Samuel P. Salatta, et al (TransToxic Texts 2016)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)

• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)

• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)

• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)

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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 #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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