The Madness of the Day

Jules Renard, translated by Richard Wilbur

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Up reading because of insomnia

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Pill Fire

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb anthology

Saint of the Hippies

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Julio Cortázar, Cronopios and Famas

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Maurice Scève, Emblems of Desire

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Index for Robert Walser's Robber

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Juergen von der Wense

(image by Herbert Pfostl and used on the cover to his book ) In a recent email, Herbert Pfostl brought up an author completely new to me, Ju...

Louis Aragon, A Wave of Dreams

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Hoffmann, Chicago Press edition, Landau illustrations

In trying to find the best translations of E.T.A. Hoffmann (any suggestions?), I stumbled upon a 2-volume set from the University of Chicago...

Mary Reynolds Collection

Images from the Mary Reynolds Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Above, Cocteau ( Maison de Sante or Opium ) Below, Hans Bellmer,...

Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Third Bank of the River, Flaps

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Alfred Jarry Collection at Princeton

This post is a reminder to myself to visit the collection of Alfred Jarry paraphernalia at Princeton University Library. "This collect...

Aleister Crowley and Fernando Pessoa

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Julio Cortázar, How to Wind a Watch

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Dino Buzzati's Wooden Door

"Here we are," whispered Gaspari. "Now I go forward with the plank."        Whereupon, holding the board in his hands, h...

Shadowchild by P.F. Thomese

First Chapter: Pruning the Buds Put up a fence today. Even though we live on the city's roof, high above the Valley of the Ants, there a...

Alfred Jarry's Mental Mechanism

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E. M. Cioran lives in another world

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Marcel Schwob, King in the Golden Mask

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Marcel Schwob, The Talking Machine

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Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives

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From the Life of the Doll by Tom Whalen

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She made me like the hazel trees

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'Pataphysics at By My Green Candle

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Four random covers

It's kind of a shame that I'm never going to top that last post . Once I crack Thalmann's code I'll be making those figure...