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September 07, 2003


	from the acme novelty date book "Overheard in rural Illinois rest.. "Mom asks 6 year old boy what he's going to be when he grows up. "boy:I'm going to kill myself. You're going to find my dead body."... Posted by xtop at 10:36 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

September 03, 2003


	fortress of solitude - english cover sure makes the american cover look like total crap... Posted by xtop at 11:34 PM \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack

August 07, 2003


	j.g. ballard v. alfred jarry Oswald was the starter. From his window above the track hed the race by firing the starting gun. It is believed that the first shot was not properly heard by all the drivers. In the following confusion, Oswald fired... Posted by xtop at 01:17 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 24, 2003


	the voynich manuscript When, in 1639, the Prague citizen Georg Baresch wrote to the famous Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher that he owned a mysterious book which was written in an unknown script and profusely illustrated with pictures of plants, stars and alchemical secrets,... Posted by xtop at 10:46 PM \| Comments (6) \| TrackBack


	N+7 excerpt from THE OULIPO COMPENDIUM: A notorious procedure invented by Jean Lescure that (in Queneau's terse definition) "consists in replacing each noun (N) with the seventh following it in a dictionary." Choose a text and a dictionary. Identify the nouns... Posted by xtop at 01:02 PM \| Comments (4) \| TrackBack

July 19, 2003


	bookglut: 7.18 what a gift certificate to amazon got me: Photobooth - Babbette Hines Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists - Peter Straub (Editor) Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages – Manuel... Posted by xtop at 12:24 AM \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack

July 06, 2003


	fortress of solitude Jonathan Lethem's forthcoming masterpiece (no, really) is being pushed by Random House as their big, important book of the high stakes fall season. With good reason. It somehow straddles youth and old age, nostalgia and disgust, punk and soul, comics... Posted by xtop at 04:35 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

May 21, 2003


	Shelley Jackson Shelley Jackson: author, illustrator, hypertext writer. View her bio, doll games and front page stories. Or start from square one.... Posted by xtop at 12:26 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

April 16, 2003


	who killed lingua franca? The "apparent demise," noted David. D. Kirkpatrick in a New York Times report on October 18, "elicited exclamations of dismay in the world of letters." ("Eggheads are anguished," began the lead in the Chicago Tribune's story four days later.) Adding... Posted by xtop at 11:35 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

March 13, 2003


	fakebook perseveration The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.... Posted by xtop at 08:55 AM \| Comments (1) \| TrackBack

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