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Ciss Bliss

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Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil. – Cicero (106-43 BC), Epistulae ad Familiares, Liber IX, Epistula IV

• “If you have a garden and a library, you lack for nothing.” — Cicero, Letters to Friends, Book 9, Letter 4

Who Made Heu?

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Fractal leaves of Heuchera “Red Lightning”

Fractal river network in Shaanxi province, China

Post-Performative Post-Scriptum

Because “Heuchera” comes from the name of the German botanist J.H. Heucher (1677–1747), it should strictly speaking be pronounced something like “HOI-keh-ruh”. But people often say “HYOO-keh-ruh” or variations thereon.

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #34

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Roy des Fleurs – Scented Flora of the World: An Encyclopedia, Roy Genders (Robert Hale 1977)

• Art to Hart – Lives in Writing, David Lodge (Vintage Books 2015)

• Could Yew Kudzu? – Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants that Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend, Amy Stewart (Timber Press 2010)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #30

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Ai Luv Yew – The Bonsai Bible: The Definitive Guide to Choosing and Growing Bonsai, Peter Chan (Hamlyn 2014)

• Starway to Heaven – Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt, Alberto Siliotti, preface by Zahi Hawass (White Star Publishers 2000)

• Escape and Essence – The Wooden Horse, Eric Williams (Pen & Sword 2013)

• Aspects of the Annihilator – Sub-Machine Gun: The development of sub-machine guns and their ammunition from World War I to the present day, Maxim Popenker and Anthony G. Williams (Crowood Press 2011)

• Northanger Abyss – Jane in Blood: Castration, Clitoridolatry and Communal Cannibalism in the Novels of Jane Austen, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (University of Nebraska Press 2014)

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