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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #74

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• A Big Book about Books – The Penguin Classics Book, Henry Eliot (Penguin 2018)

• Wrecks & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Bodies: Life and Death in Music, Ian Winwood (Faber 2022)

• In the Bland of the Blind – An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, Mikita Brottman (Canongate 2018)

• Hu Thru Mu – The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth, Michael Spitzer (Bloomsbury 2021)

• A Bit of EngLit – The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002, John Bayley (Duckworth 2005)

• Chrome Tome – The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair (John Murray 2018)

• Cannonball Corpse – AC/DC: The Story of the Original Monsters of Rock, Jerry Ewing (Carlton Books 2015)

• Chimpathy for the Devil? — Oasis: Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews, curated by Simon Halfon (Nemperor 2021)

• D for Deviant, K for Korpse… — Doktor Deviant’s Diary of Depravity: Kandid Konfessions of a Kompulsive Korpse-Kopulator, ed. Dr David Kerekes and Samuel P. Salatta (Visceral Visions 2022)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #70

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Fish, Not Frog – Dizionario Italiano: Dizionario della Lingua Contemporanea (Vallardi 2017)

• Headstrong, Heroic and Hellbent on Glory – The Brigadier Gerard stories of Arthur Conan Doyle

• Art of Darkness – Art-Bandit: Interrogating the Outlaw Aesthetics of Über-Maverick Gay Atelierista John Coulthart, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (Visceral Visions i.a.w. University of Salford Press 2022)

• Fuller Frontal – Deviant. Devious. Depraved.: The Sickening, Slimy and Sizzlingly Septic Story of Noxiously Nasty Necrophile Nonce David Fuller, David Kerekes, with an introduction by David Slater (Visceral Visions 2022)

• Submarine Skink – Underwater Adventure, Willard Price (1955)

• Pair’s Fair – The Dark Hours, Michael Connelly (2021)

• Front Row for the Axl Show – Nothin’ But a Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal, Justin Quirk (Unbound 2020)

• Posturing Proctoglossist – Humour, Terry Eagleton (Yale University Press 2019)

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Ted Said

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I thought I knew how depraved and despicable core serial-slayer Ted Bundy was when I began The Only Living Witness (1983) for the first time earlier this month.

I was wrong.

Keyly, corely wrong.

As I discovered when I reached this putrefactively performative passage:

I wanted to know how Lynda Healy had been taken from her bedroom. “I guess you would have had to dress her?” I ventured.

Ted ignored my use of “you”.

“In that kind of situation,” he replied mechanically, “a person who was alert enough to be able to dress would not be afraid in terms of struggling or crying out. So it would be unlikely that any attempt was made to clothe the girl.” — from chapter 5 of The Only Living Witness, Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth (revised edition 1989)

It’s always possible to go lower and get worse, it seems. Bundy trained as a lawyer. That’s bad. Bundy used “in terms of”. That’s worse. (dot dot dot)

Ted should of course have said: “afraid to struggle…” or “afraid about struggling…”

Elsewhere other-engageable:

• Ex-term-in-ate!
• All Posts interrogating issues around “in terms of”
• Don’t Do Dot… (also interrogates issues around “core” and “spike”)…
• Heresy, Homotextuality, Hive-Mind…

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #57

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Do and Die — The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953) (posted at O.-o.-t.-Ü)

• Liddell im Wörterland – Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (1843)

• Lunar or Later – Moon: From 4.5 billion years ago to the present: Owners’ Workshop Manual, David M. Harland (Haynes 2016)

• Headlong into Nightmare – Headlong Hall (1816) / Nightmare Abbey (1818)

• Twisted Tales – Biggles’ Big Adventures: Four Classic Stories Starring the British Empire’s Most Fearless Pilot Adventurer, Captain W.E. Johns (Sevenoaks 2007)

• Stop the Brott – staying the serial slaying of a sanguinivorous psychoanalyst

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #19

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Book in Black – Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe, Mick Wall (Orion Books 2013)

• Critical Math – A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos (Penguin 1996)

• Rude Boys – Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies, Geoff Small (Warner 1995)

• K-9 Konundrum – Dog, Peter Sotos (TransVisceral Books 2014)

• Ghosts in the Cathedral – The Neutrino Hunters: The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe, Ray Jayawardhana (Oneworld 2013) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)

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