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Awesome!

Where was my life before this book?

Written by Tom

September 28, 2009 at 11:26 am

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  1. It’s an amazing book, isn’t it? If you’re into Mr Q, I’d recommend, too, in no particular order:

    Matthew Madden, 99 Ways to Tell a Story (it’s an homage to Queneau in comic book form)

    The Oulipo Compendium (a Desert Island Discs choice, this one, absolutely indispensible)

    Spleen, by Nicholas Moore (the same Baudelaire poem, translated many many times. Deranged, and, what’s more, available in its entirety on ubuweb. Huzzah!)

    Alphabetical Africa, by Walter Abish. First chapter contains only words beginning with A, second with A and B, and so on, for a further 24 chapters, before Abish begins removing letters, ending once more on A.

    Simon Turner

    September 28, 2009 at 12:05 pm

  2. Thank you thank you htank oyu Simon!

    Tom

    September 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm


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