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Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books

Reid Byers

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Description:Liminal: from the Latin limen, "a threshold."In story, theatre, and film, a liminal moment occurs when the border is crossed from one world to another, from the normal into the magical. It occurs at the instant when Alice notices the Rabbit's waistcoat, when Lucy breaks through the wardrobe, when the Creature's finger twitches.This exhibition brings us up to the liminal moment, showing us books that we know do not exist. We are left suspended in this strange space, for being magical, the books cannot be touched. They are being held in existence in the room only by a carefully balanced ontological tension, and for technical thaumaturgical reasons cannot be opened. They are here only to amuse: to prompt a gasp, a knowing chuckle, the briefest thought of "O, how I wish...."While the experience of the imaginary book is generally intended to amuse, it can also be caustically satiric or dramatically aesthetic. It always inspires reflection: what difference would it make if we could open these books?Would we laugh differently if we still knew what Aristotle though was funny? What if young Karl Marx had finished the comedy he started? What function does a fictive book serve in its fictional world, and what does that tell us of ours? These books raise serious questions for their would-be readers.Collectors have often asked where the books have come from. The books were assembled by following the tracks of great collectors like Beerbohm and Cabell, seeking out treasures from the bookshops and attics of Avalon and Phaeacia and sea-coast Bohemia, from the forests of Arden and Brocéliande, and from the west, of course, from the Hesperides. Their exhibition is intended solely to conjure the liminal moment.This is a real collection of imaginary books. It is entirely composed of parodies in the form of simulacra. They were scouted out over the years through the good offices of a small fellowship: a facsimile bookbinder, two letterpress printers, a specialty calligrapher, a photoshop expert, and a magician. To make things completely clear, all these books, the catalog, the exhibition at the Club Fortsas, the website, and the Club Fortsas itself, are completely imaginary.They do but jest . . . no offense in the world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books. To get started finding Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 342

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press

Release: 2024

ISBN: 1584563966

Description: Liminal: from the Latin limen, "a threshold."In story, theatre, and film, a liminal moment occurs when the border is crossed from one world to another, from the normal into the magical. It occurs at the instant when Alice notices the Rabbit's waistcoat, when Lucy breaks through the wardrobe, when the Creature's finger twitches.This exhibition brings us up to the liminal moment, showing us books that we know do not exist. We are left suspended in this strange space, for being magical, the books cannot be touched. They are being held in existence in the room only by a carefully balanced ontological tension, and for technical thaumaturgical reasons cannot be opened. They are here only to amuse: to prompt a gasp, a knowing chuckle, the briefest thought of "O, how I wish...."While the experience of the imaginary book is generally intended to amuse, it can also be caustically satiric or dramatically aesthetic. It always inspires reflection: what difference would it make if we could open these books?Would we laugh differently if we still knew what Aristotle though was funny? What if young Karl Marx had finished the comedy he started? What function does a fictive book serve in its fictional world, and what does that tell us of ours? These books raise serious questions for their would-be readers.Collectors have often asked where the books have come from. The books were assembled by following the tracks of great collectors like Beerbohm and Cabell, seeking out treasures from the bookshops and attics of Avalon and Phaeacia and sea-coast Bohemia, from the forests of Arden and Brocéliande, and from the west, of course, from the Hesperides. Their exhibition is intended solely to conjure the liminal moment.This is a real collection of imaginary books. It is entirely composed of parodies in the form of simulacra. They were scouted out over the years through the good offices of a small fellowship: a facsimile bookbinder, two letterpress printers, a specialty calligrapher, a photoshop expert, and a magician. To make things completely clear, all these books, the catalog, the exhibition at the Club Fortsas, the website, and the Club Fortsas itself, are completely imaginary.They do but jest . . . no offense in the world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books. To get started finding Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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