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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #78

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Moist and Marvellous – The Hidden World of Mosses, Neil Bell (Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, 2023)

• Mutton Ju: The Balls-Up in Brideshead

• Little Littérateur – Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Philip Eade (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2016)

• Vegetarian Villan – Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond, Geezer Butler (HarperCollins 2023)

• Blood Triangle – Blood Work, Michael Connelly (1998)

• Haute Coltour – The World According to Colour: A Cultural History, James Fox (Penguin 2021)

• Heil Halitosis! – Bad Breath, David Britton (Savoy Books 2022)

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #67

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Early Riser — Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh (1928)

• The Future is Fascist — Futurism, Richard Humphreys (1999 Tate Publishing)

• Mystery and Meaning — Dictionary of Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes (1985)

• Noshing on Noxiousness — Nekro-Noxious: Toxic Tales of True Transgression in Miami Municipal Mortuary, Norberto Fetidescu (TransVisceral Books 2018)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #65

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Fratele Gets You Nowhere – O mie nouă sute optzeci şi patru, George Orwell, translated by Mihnea Gafiţa (Biblioteca Polirom 2002)

• Whole Lotta Scott – Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott, Clinton Walker (Pan Books 1996)

• The Bella and the Boltonian – A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger, Shaun Greenhalgh (Allen & Unwin 2017)

• Clubbed to Deaf – The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2009)

• Dizh Izh Vizh Bizh – Vilest Visions: The Darkest, Despicablest, Disgustingest Decapitations vs The Nastiest, Noxiousest, Nauseatingest Necrophilia, Dr Samuel P. Salatta and Dr William K. Phipps (Visceral Visions 2018)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #62

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Queen and Not Heard – The African Queen, C.S. Forester (1935)

• Ley Ho, Let’s Go! – Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain’s Hidden Landscapes, Joanne Parker (Vintage 2014)

• Hymn Pickings – The Church Hymnary, Various (Oxford University Press 1927)

• Clock, Stock and Biswell – A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Edition, Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell (Heinemann 2012)

• Vid Kid – Violated by Video: The Eldritch Chills of an ’Eighties Childhood… from Video Nasties to Nazi Xploitation…, Paolo Nanderson (TransVisceral Books 2018)

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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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