Les Pyrénees, a tapestry by Edmond Yarz (1845-1920)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
The title of this incendiary intervention corely references the quondam Australian cultural attaché Sir Colin Lesley Patterson, who once boasted that “I chair the Cheese Board, I front the Yartz / You could term me a man of many parts.” For further details, please see:
• “In Terms of My Natural Life” — a pome by Les Patterson
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), “Sunrise on the Matterhorn” (>1875)
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.)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Men, Mountains and Mega-Therions – Himalaya: The Exploration and Conquest of the Greatest Mountains on Earth, general editor Philip Parker (Conway 2013)
• Shifting and Shaping – The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by Mary M. Innes (Penguin 1961)
• Warrior with Words – Conan the Indomitable, Robert E. Howard (Orion Books 2011)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
