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Lädt ... (An Open Entrance To The Shut Palace Of) Wrong Numbers (2003. Auflage)von Franklin Rosemont (Autor)
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Cultural Writing. Like everyone else, you dial and receive wrong numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? Part treatise on umor (humor without the h), and part treasure-map to a utopia worth living in, this surrealist adventure reveals a whole kaleidescope of new worlds. Along the way we are introduced to many "Friends of Wrong Numbers" through the ages--Gnostics, heretics, alchemists, nonconformist thinkers, poets, outsiders, anarchists and jazz musicians. Franklin Rosemont, poet, editor and historian, and his wife Penelope founded the first indigenous Surrealist Group in the United States. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Yes, the book is actually about the “wrong numbers” of telephone misdialing. In addition to accounts of his personal experiences, the author sidles up to his topic from various angles: historical, cultural, psychological, and even magical. He champions the derided experience of the Wrong Number, not to rehabilitate it as an object, but rather to assail and transform the “miserablist” perspective of its detractors.
The text is complemented by a set of splendid drawings by Portuguese artist Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, a surrealist comrade of Rosemont’s. The drawings too demonstrate an alchemical sensibility, in which beings and substances appear transformed, sublimated, and precipitated.
The heterogeneous details of the book, which manage to include multiple references to such disparate topics as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Bugs Bunny, and the IWW, should not obscure the fact that it does indeed express a single, magically puissant will to achieve “Freedom and the Marvelous, Now and Forever!”
Insightful, sincere, funny, and artful, this book would inherently resist being called “important,” yet it addresses the most fundamental dilemmas of our society. Read and enjoy.