“We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break.“
Remembering Kathy Acker, one of the greats, on her birthday.
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“We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break.“
Remembering Kathy Acker, one of the greats, on her birthday.
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Many themes emerge, those of the nature of art, repurposing, love, death, illness, despair, bliss and many more. Philips has created intricate and important images on each page which reflect, mirror and encapsulate the chosen words on the page. It reads almost like a hybrid book; a poetic novel and is challenging but breath-taking.
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A Humument is the work of a decades long creative endeavour by Tom Philips which started as a simple challenge to himself in 1966: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page. From this came several different versions and from the pages of an old Victorian novel called A Human Document, a new story emerged. Philips‘ new book follows the story of a man called Bill Toge and his love Irma.
One Rainy Day in May is 1 of many chunksters currently sitting on my shelves waiting for me to be brave enough to attempt them. But if I‘d properly processed that the 1 on the cover was volume 1 of a 5 volume series of chunksters, I doubt this ever would have made it home from the bookstore with me in the first place 😂🤣😅 #rain #summerspecial @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“'Even freaks need homes, countries, language, communication.
“'The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. It is for you, freaks my loves, I am writing and it is about you. Since humans enjoy moralizing, over and over again they attack us.
“Language presupposes community. Therefore without you, nothing I say has any meaning. Without love or language, I do not exist.“
Remembering Kathy Acker on her b-day.
Since it's banned books week, I'm taking the opportunity to revisit a favourite banned book.
I used to read till 2 years back but then pandemic happened and it changed everything. I still bought books but was unable to concentrate because of studies and surroundings. I would always pick up books(audiobooks, ebooks), read for few pages and kept it aside.
This year in Jan I bought 8 new books and pledge to get out of this slump as soon as possible. (Pretty late) I started with the shortest book to get started and it's going pretty well😊
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