Sorry it's taken me a while to comment on this, but truly, the premise captivates me. If I knew how to make woodcuts, I would attempt to re-create this book...only in such a way that it wasn't a dull tale worthy of only two stars.
Instead, I go on searching for a novel told in woodcuts that I had the pleasure of seeing only once. It is notoriously hard to get hold of. It's called God's Man, and it's breathtaking..
I'm glad you like it. The idea was for it to be "adventure fodder" either for a story or a movie. Someone finds the book above and decides to go see the town, or what remains of it possibly. If I were to do it in "new media" I'd do it as a blog, complete with podcasts, mp3's of phone messages, a flickr stream, videos etc.
One of my favorite books in high school was a version of Frankenstein done as Victor's lab notes, complete with sketches of the monster as he built it. It was supposedly found years later by a German priest and translated into english etc etc. Maybe I should do something similar with this.
A First Edition, yet!doganheadMay 13 2005, 16:08:52 UTC
Okay, well. Second shelf from the bottom, in the third row of shelves from the left, third from the right.
Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed, Vol. 23
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Seriously, What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People?
by Patch Pacciariba, Hooligan Press, 1904.
A lewd, licentious, no-holds barred tour de force which proves beyond doubt that people will try anything, if they get bored enough. While it contains complete rules for the classic games contained in its title, Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed explains several other incredibly dangerous party tricks and feats of stupidity (Pass the Chainsaw and Hoop-It! stand out from the pack) which will leave you slack-jawed with disbelief and sore-sided from laughter. After reading this, it becomes easy to see how someone can plausibly wind up with a mason jar lodged in their colon.
Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed's greatest triumph is not as an instructional manual, or even as a work of comedy, but as a cautionary work and explaination as to how such people as the cast of Jackass came to be. The prose
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First book on the last shelf.drsmaxMay 14 2005, 11:56:35 UTC
The Tornado Sutra of the 69th patriarch of Klang
Translated into English from Yemmish by Baruch Spinoza and Benjamin FranklinThe Tornado Sutra contains 7,000 enumerated propositions each of which have exactly 21 words all of which are bi-syllabic (this was true of the Yemmish edition as well). The first 500 propositions of The Tornado Sutra contain instructions regarding how and when to read the remaining propositions (for example, propositions 6,500 to 6,700 may only be read while lying down and clothed in wool). Propositions 501 to 4,000 detail procedures for building an object of pure thought. The construction of the object is supposed to take several years and each piece of the object must be visualized for several days before it can be added to the structure. Propositions 4,001 to 6,999 detail procedures for destroying the object and forgetting it utterly one piece at a time. The final proposition hints at what effects the vacated thought-shape might have on the mind of he practitioner after the successful destruction of the
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Instead, I go on searching for a novel told in woodcuts that I had the pleasure of seeing only once. It is notoriously hard to get hold of. It's called God's Man, and it's breathtaking..
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One of my favorite books in high school was a version of Frankenstein done as Victor's lab notes, complete with sketches of the monster as he built it. It was supposedly found years later by a German priest and translated into english etc etc. Maybe I should do something similar with this.
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Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed, Vol. 23
or
Seriously, What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People?
by Patch Pacciariba, Hooligan Press, 1904.
A lewd, licentious, no-holds barred tour de force which proves beyond doubt that people will try anything, if they get bored enough. While it contains complete rules for the classic games contained in its title, Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed explains several other incredibly dangerous party tricks and feats of stupidity (Pass the Chainsaw and Hoop-It! stand out from the pack) which will leave you slack-jawed with disbelief and sore-sided from laughter. After reading this, it becomes easy to see how someone can plausibly wind up with a mason jar lodged in their colon.
Smash-Mouth, Red-Eye, and Bleed's greatest triumph is not as an instructional manual, or even as a work of comedy, but as a cautionary work and explaination as to how such people as the cast of Jackass came to be. The prose ( ... )
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Cordially,
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What are Budés?
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Cordially,
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I learned something new today. Thank you.
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Half the fun of reading is trying to figure out how to get yourself out of the demon dimension.
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Translated into English from Yemmish by Baruch Spinoza and Benjamin FranklinThe Tornado Sutra contains 7,000 enumerated propositions each of which have exactly 21 words all of which are bi-syllabic (this was true of the Yemmish edition as well). The first 500 propositions of The Tornado Sutra contain instructions regarding how and when to read the remaining propositions (for example, propositions 6,500 to 6,700 may only be read while lying down and clothed in wool). Propositions 501 to 4,000 detail procedures for building an object of pure thought. The construction of the object is supposed to take several years and each piece of the object must be visualized for several days before it can be added to the structure. Propositions 4,001 to 6,999 detail procedures for destroying the object and forgetting it utterly one piece at a time. The final proposition hints at what effects the vacated thought-shape might have on the mind of he practitioner after the successful destruction of the ( ... )
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I probably shouldn't attempt the thought-shape just at the moment...
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